Informed Speculation

Fully 1/3 of Americans say New Orleans SHOULD NOT be rebuilt, according to a SurveyUSA Poll; the same poll found 53% dissatisfied with President Bush’s handling of the crisis…

Our good friend bebere, who’s so cool that I’m willing to look past her recent registration as a Democrat, points to a particularly egregious Katrina-related polemic, from, where else, the Huffington Post…

Also from the Huffington Post, Danielle Crittenden takes a sharp look at the “it’s all Bush’s fault” meme before concluding:

Anyone who questions the plausibility—or decency—of making political hay out of a natural disaster before even the dead are counted and the victims rehoused is obviously blinded by Karl Rove’s political propaganda (link pending—give it 24 hours). And by the way—you know those 18th-century developers who unwisely decided to build a city in what amounts to a geographical soup bowl?

They were neo-cons.

Sadly, in the current climate, that could be a plausible assertion from many on the left. Case in point – Michael Moore:

Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It’s not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C’mon, they’re black! I mean, it’s not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don’t make me laugh! Race has nothing — NOTHING — to do with this!

You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.

Okay, Michael…while we’re at it, let’s pretend you’re coherent…

Jeff at the Bernoulli Effect has a more relevant (not to mention sane) criticism: with a single levee between New Orleans and catastrophe, why was there no plan for the breeching of said levee? Indeed, the mind boggles…