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Katrina Timeline: Don't Be Fooled

Next week's Katrina anniversary poses a huge vulnerability for Republicans as they head into the November elections. The White House has already started a massive PR campaign to spin the facts. Don't be fooled. Think Progress has published a timeline laying them all out.

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  • Re: Katrina Timeline: Don't Be Fooled (none / 0) (#1)
    by desertswine on Fri Aug 25, 2006 at 09:14:33 AM EST
    Katrina was devastating, but so was State Farm.

    Re: Katrina Timeline: Don't Be Fooled (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Aug 25, 2006 at 09:32:46 AM EST
    What has this disaster taught us? Neither political party is your best salvation. You are. Have supplies and food. Evacuation plans. Bush, Blanco, and Nagin can't help for the first few days. I have been through 3 major hurricanes in the past 2 years - I am amazed at how many people (young, old, poor, rich, educated, illeterate) don't prepare properly for events such as this. It's hard enough dealing with government and corporate beauracracy in a non-emergency situation.

    Re: Katrina Timeline: Don't Be Fooled (none / 0) (#3)
    by Sailor on Fri Aug 25, 2006 at 10:41:33 AM EST
    Bush, Blanco, and Nagin can't help for the first few days.
    bush apparently can't help for the first year. giving no-bid contracts to out of state cronies who hired out of state and illegal immigrants and still didn't do the job.

    Re: Katrina Timeline: Don't Be Fooled (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Aug 25, 2006 at 10:41:48 AM EST
    The most important thing to have will be gasoline. I think insurance still covers fires.

    Re: Katrina Timeline: Don't Be Fooled (none / 0) (#5)
    by Lww on Fri Aug 25, 2006 at 05:04:01 PM EST
    You really have to give the democrats credit for their swiftness in exploiting this tragedy before it even happened. I have it on tape, like 9-11 it makes for great watching...in hindsight it's disgraceful. The gears of the misinformation machine were moving throughout the weekend, long before the storm struck. The republicans got the jump on the democrats when 3000 died, the dems weren't gonna let this chance slip by.

    Re: Katrina Timeline: Don't Be Fooled (none / 0) (#6)
    by jimakaPPJ on Fri Aug 25, 2006 at 06:17:47 PM EST
    Sailor - Tell me why the rest of the country is supposed to empty their pockets to rebuild property that's just going to flood again?

    Re: Katrina Timeline: Don't Be Fooled (none / 0) (#7)
    by Sailor on Fri Aug 25, 2006 at 07:20:37 PM EST
    You really have to give the democrats credit for their swiftness in exploiting this tragedy before it even happened.
    got links? ppj, I've told you before (after you quoted other's writings and attributed them to me), ... talk to the hand. Next!

    Re: Katrina Timeline: Don't Be Fooled (none / 0) (#8)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Sat Aug 26, 2006 at 02:00:56 PM EST
    Tell me why the rest of the country is supposed to empty their pockets to rebuild property that's just going to flood again?
    Why don't you ask Rick Santorum?