PJ O'Donovan wrote:
The vultures of the venomous left are attacking on two fronts, first
that the president didn't do what the incompetent mayor of New Orleans
and the pouty governor of Louisiana should have done, and didn't, in
the early hours after Katrina loosed the deluge on the city that care
and good judgment forgot.

I don't usually respond to x-posts in R.T.E, but seeing as I just
dragged out and reread the December 2001 issue of Scientific American,
the article "Drowning New Orleans", pg 68, I thought some quotes from
the last paragraph may be relevant:

"If Congress and President George W. Bush hear a unified call for
action, authorizing it would seem to be prudent. Restoring coastal
Louisiana would protect the country's seafood and shipping industries
and its oil and natural-gas supply. .. without action, the million
people outside New Orleans would have to locate. The other million
inside the bowl would live at the bottom of a sinking crater ,
surrounded by ever higher walls, trapped in a terminally ill city
dependent on nonstop pumping to keep it alive."

T.