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In reply to the discussion: DUers post the thing about post Katrina that shocked you the most [View all]NanceGreggs
(27,813 posts)The sheer magnitude of ALL of it - the incompetence, the indifference, the excuse-making, the "heck-of-a-job" back-slapping - the fact that ALL of it happened at once, one outrage on top of the other, while Dubya was still being praised, Brownie was still being applauded, and the MSM was, for the most part, complicit in making an unprecedented national tragedy look like no big shit.
I remember thinking, as it all played out, that Dubya & The Repubs were politically doomed - that NO ONE could or would attempt to make excuses for the utter disaster that the aftermath turned into on their watch, and due to their own indifference.
But I was wrong. Bush & Co. sailed through the entire event without a political scratch - and THAT, to this day, still shocks me.
I am far from being politically naive, but I honestly believed that THIS would lead to at least some small awakening among BushCo supporters. But that awakening never happened.