Bush** Katrina czar says recovery "better than I thought"!!

[KamaAina]

:wtf:

In case you forgot, like I had, we do indeed have a Katrina czar, and his name is mud Donald Powell.

http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl030807tppowell.3101075a.html

President Bush’s top man in charge of the Gulf Coast recovery said that 18 months after Katrina, conditions in New Orleans are ‘better than he thought’ they would be....

One thing that was addressed by area leaders during Bush’s visit last week was the issue of the 10 percent total the state is expected to pay for most of the work done by federal agencies.

When asked why the 10 percent total had been waived 32 separate times in recovery situations, but not in this one, Powell said that the 10 percent total was negotiated with state leaders prior to a second major allocation of Community Development Block Grant money. He said that there was money allotted to help the state pay their portion of the cost....

Powell insisted that insurance was a state issue and not a national issue and that he thought that the market would eventually work itself out, with prices peaking and then coming down.

"Eventually"? Like when? After everyone leaves and there's nothing left to insure? :grr:

"Better than he thought"? So what did he think it would be like? People still stranded on the overpasses?! :grr: :banghead:

But never mind me: for further commentary, we go to the incomparable Gentilly Girl, who wants Powell's head on a pike in her yard!

http://gentillygirl.com/2007/03/09/i-want-don-powells-head-on-a-pike-in-my-yard/

WTF exactly does Powell mean by this? Better? Dammit! Folks have no homes, no jobs, no healthcare, no Psych care… Freakin’ nothing after 18 months of living in Post-Federal Flood New Orleans. That cesspool called NYC got immediate relief after some Saudis decided to crash planes into the WTC. We here in New Orleans are still trying to rebuild our lives a year and a half later whilst wading through red tape and misery.

And then this walking penis states that, “Things are better than he thought they would be.”? Shit white boy… we have recovered much faster than this from natural disasters, but I just guess that it being a Federally mandated catastrophe makes stuff different. Wake up and smell the mold asshole: WE ARE NOT FREAKIN” OK! (Only a policy wonk could see things this way.)

Donnie boy? I want you to walk through Gentilly with me, through the Lower Ninth, Mid-City, Lakeview and NW Carrolton and then look me in the eye and explain how things are doing better than your guv’mit expected. I want you to face me and tell me what you jerks “expected” to happen. Then I’ll behead your sorry ass and place your pained expression on a pike in my front yard.

The excesses and material nature of your National Culture are slowly killing us down here in the swamps. You pay lip-service to helping us rebuild after a Federally created disaster to our lives. I want your damn lips to kiss my panty-clad ass, and then make things right.

Anyone got a pike in their garage I could borrow?

[liberal N proud]

1. Sooooo full of bu$h shit

[Cha]

9. And he's proud

of it.

[benddem]

2. didn't his eminence

put KKK Rover in charge of Katrina? I thought he was the Katrina czar.

[KamaAina]

4. He was, briefly, before the Fitzmas shopping season began

once he got mired in all that pesky legal trouble, that he managed to slither out of by the width of his tooth enamel, Bush** quietly announced that Powell had been appointed as Katrina czar.

If nothing else, the legal near-miss spared the Gulf Coast from a direct hit by Cat 5 Hurricane KKKarl. As nice as I think he'd look in an orange jumpsuit, that alone was worth the effort.

[hobbit709]

3. This guy inhabits

Planet Bozone, right? If you or I were that far out of contact with reality there would talk of a sanity hearing.

[youngdem]

5. Make no mistake...the 10% rule is a way for the government NOT pay for anything

We are flat broke here in New Orleans...NOT A PENNY...So, when FEMA or any other federal agency says we have to pay for 10% of some ten billion dollar package of projects and we are borrowing money to pay the meter maids and cops, we have to say no. It is their way of fucking us.

And to Joe Sixpack in Anywhere USA, paying 10% is something we should be able to do, and if I wasn't here, I might think the same thing...But please understand - an area the size of the entire UK went under water and was completely destroyed, and since only 300,000 people now live in the affected area, you can't ask them to pay for 10 Billion in repairs and capital outlay this year. That's $33,000 a person in a region that has an average annual income of $17,258. (That's double impossible if my math is correct.)

So please, spare us the guilt trip, Mr. Bush. We can't afford it, but we need your help and you need our port, oil, shrimp, fish, refineries, coffee, sugar, whores and tabasco sauce - and unless you can move that shit to Arkansas, it's gonna need to be here in NOLA, below sea level.

Whadda ya say?

[KamaAina]

7. Ouch. I hadn't even thought of that.

That could be the 'gotcha' that lets the fuckmooks just walk away from the whole thing. :grr: You might want to pass that tasty little morsel along to Gentilly, or (since I don't think her blog takes comments) another civic-minded soul such as American Zombie:

http://theamericanzombie.blogspot.com

Editor B (who starred at the City Hall rally on 1/11):

http://b.rox.com

or occasional DUer Wet Bank Guide:

http://www.wetbankguide.net

(yes, I do spend entirely too much time in the NOLA blogosphere, probably more than 99% of people actually living in the city, but dammit, like so much else in N.O., they're awesome!)

[kenny blankenship]

6. Proof that govt that governs least kills the most

[opihimoimoi]

8. I got a HUGH PIKE you could have for those Greedy Ole Pervies

high on ding ding enhancement shit....per my friend from WV ...Flottz San

Come, we go eat sashimi and smoked ribs...

[KamaAina]

10. Kick

:kick:

for the weekend.

[sutz12]

11. So, he expected it to be worse than it is?

:shrug: