NYT:
NEW ORLEANS — Senator John McCain took direct aim at the Bush administration on Thursday as he stood in the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, the area hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and declared that “never again will a disaster of this nature be handled in the terrible and disgraceful way that it was handled.’’Yeah, you know, I'd be more persuaded if (via the invaluable TP) McCain hadn't been sharing a birthday cake with the President...
-- after Blanco declared a state of emergency in Louisiana
-- after Barber declared a state of emergency in Mississippi
-- after Katrina was upgraded to a Category 3 hurricane
-- after federal emergency was declared and FEMA and DHS given authority to respond
-- after Katrina was upgraded to a Category 4 hurricane
-- after Katrina was upgraded to a Category 5 hurricane
-- after Mayor Nagin issued a mandatory evacuation order of New Orleans
-- after the National Weather Service issued a "special hurricane warning"
-- after reports of water toppling over a levee
-- after 30,000 evacuees had gathered at the Superdome
-- after Katrina made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane
It was not, to put it mildly, one of his finer moments.
...Why must Atrios be all-knowing? How can I compete?
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