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In reply to the discussion: DUers post the thing about post Katrina that shocked you the most [View all]Hekate
(90,627 posts)BushCheney and their GOP ilk do not believe in government, and they set about destroying it. Brownie had no experience in the area -- he was someone's old college buddy. Other key professionals were also let go.
When someone came along later and interviewed old-time FEMA employees for a report, some of them actually wept at the damage done to their agency and the catastrophe that was the drowning of New Orleans.
Whatever the Obama administration has managed to accomplish in the way of rebuilding key governmental agencies since then (and mind you, the the face of implacable GOP resistance), his name should be praised forever.
But it will all be undone again by the next GOP president unless that party manages to finally collapse under its own perfidy. Which is why I hope The Donald decides to run on a third party ticket.