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Knight Ridder on the new Senate report on Katrina:

In a scorching account of government failure, a bipartisan Senate committee on Thursday blamed the botched response to Hurricane Katrina on a failure of leadership that stretched from the White House to the mayor’s office in New Orleans.

Although the report’s call for disbanding the Federal Emergency Management Agency has garnered the most attention, the assessment also scolds President Bush, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and a host of other officials for failing to anticipate the devastation or provide adequate help to victims.

The bipartisan report by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee concluded that Bush “could have done more” to mobilize federal resources. It says the initial White House response “was halting and inadequate.”

The President is ignoring the report, of course. He’s saying bullshit like “we’ve learned lessons” and all that crap. But the report’s fucking title is “A Nation Still Unprepared.” Did he not even bother to read the goddamn title? What a fucking idiot. Full article.

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