Heard the best name for the Katrina scandal...

[NancyG]

WaterGate

Think I heard it on Air America.

[libertypirate]

1. Full circle, wouldn't that be ironic /nt

[NancyG]

3. The irony is delicious. nt

[jean]

2. I've seen 'Standing Watergate' and 'High Watergate' ... there

doesn't seem to be a name appropriate for the scale of death, destruction and devsatation.

[NancyG]

4. I like just plain WaterGate.

Raises it to the level of the scandal that brought down Nixon.

Simple. Un-elegant.

[whistle]

5. Also heard "Floodgate"

[longship]

6. Floodgates

nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. DU's own Tari coined "Floodgate". Better than Watergate, just as potent.

[NancyG]

8. Watergate seems more potent to me.

Since Nixon's Watergate, there have been so many xxxgates.

I agree with libertypirate that renaming this scandal Watergate brings it full circle. Powerful. Makes people stop and think.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Watergate is not bad, but would only lead to confusion with 1972-74.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. (not bad as a tag)

Watergate was bad juju scandal, of course. Led to the rampant distrust of government throughout American society today.

[Zen Democrat]

9. I thought the same thing yesterday in an epiphany ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4762306

[NancyG]

10. Yup

Great minds and all that.