Pre/post Bush address to nation, will media remember all they found on

[papau]

the many ways the GOP and Bush are responsible for the greater than required extent of the damage?

? :toast: :-)

http://www.factcheck.org/printerfriendly344.html

October 13, 2001: The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported that “federal officials are postponing new projects of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Control Program, or SELA, fearing that federal budget constraints and the cost of the war on terrorism may create a financial pinch for the program.” The paper went on to report that “President Bush’s budget proposed $52 million” for SELA in the 2002 fiscal year. The House approved $57 million and the Senate approved $62 million. Still, “the $62 million would be well below the $80 million that corps officials estimate is needed to pay for the next 12 months of construction, as well as design expenses for future projects.”
April 24, 2004: The Times-Picayune reported that “less money is available to the Army Corps of Engineers to build levees and water projects in the Missisippi River valley this year and next year.” Meanwhile, an engineer who had direct the Louisiana Coastal Area Ecosystem Restoration Study – a study of how to restore coastal wetlands areas in order to provide a bugger from hurricane storm surges – was sent to Iraq "to oversee the restoration of the ‘Garden of Eden’ wetlands at the mouth of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers,” for which President Bush’s 2005 gave $100 million.
June 8, 2004: Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, told the Times-Picayune:
Walter Maestri: It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq , and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us.

September 22, 2004: The Times-Picayune reported that a pilot study on raising the height of the levees surrounding New Orleans had been completed and generated enough information for a second study necessary to estimate the cost of doing so. The Bush administration “ordered the New Orleans district office” of the Army Corps of Engineers “not to begin any new studies, and the 2005 budget no longer includes the needed money.”
June 6, 2005: The New Orleans CityBusiness newspaper reported that the New Orleans district of the Corps was preparing for a $71.2 million reduction in overall funding for the fiscal year beginning in October. That would have been the largest single-year funding loss ever. They noted that money “was so tight" that "the New Orleans district, which employs 1,300 people, instituted a hiring freeze last month on all positions,” which was “the first of its kind in about 10 years.”
http://www.factcheck.org/printerfriendly344.html
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/08/31/disaster_preparation/index.html
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/is_20050207/ai_n10176537/print
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/is_20050606/ai_n14657367/print
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001051313
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/01/AR2005090102261.html?sub=AR
http://www.pbs.org/now/printable/transcript_neworleans_print.html
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2004-09-28/cover_story.html
http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/national/nationalspecial/02response.html&OP=40637da5Q2FQ25)@EQ25O_NQ3AQ3D__Q7DHQ25HMMFQ25MQ27Q25MHQ25LQ5EQ7De_LQ5E1Q25LQ5EQ7De_LQ5E1Q3AQ5D@NeQ5E1Q25MHQ3D@Q3AQ5D_LQ3A@Q2BnQ7DD1
http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/opinion/02krugman.html&OP=2587b2a3Q2FHlqoHQ20gQ5E)Q26ggf1H1NNJHN8HN1HgV@t@gtHN1Q7DQ263Q2Fh9tQ2AQ3Afhp
http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/pao/response/HURPROJ.asp?prj=lkpon1
http://www.usace.army.mil/civilworks/cecwb/budget/budget.pdf
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050901-2.html

[kenny blankenship]

1. Will they remember?

you surely meant will they even bother to read for the first time?

For the national media, particularly electronic news like cable channels, broadcast networks, etc., details like the gutting of the flood control budget and the paper trail of requests for flood control assistance from state and local gov't to the Bush Administration are picayune details.

They never read them. They like to focus on the big picture, as provided by White House and RNC press releases.

[papau]

2. At some point they will find "guilt" and "shame" and "do the right thing"

I hope it is in my grandchildren's lifetime - I've given up on it happening during my own lifetime.

:-(