The Blame Game
Bill O'Reilly and the blame game, it didn't take long. "If you're going to blame it on Bush it's just hollow, it's hollow." So tell us Bill, who shoulders the blame.
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Related: Funding Cuts
Bush administration funding cuts forced federal engineers to delay improvements on the levees, floodgates and pumping stations that failed to protect New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters, agency documents showed on Thursday.
The former head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the agency that handles the infrastructure of the nation's waterways, said the damage in New Orleans probably would have been much less extensive had flood-control efforts been fully funded over the years.
"Levees would have been higher, levees would have been bigger, there would have been other pumps put in," said Mike Parker, a former Mississippi congressman who headed the engineering agency from 2001 to 2002.
"I'm not saying it would have been totally alleviated but it would have been less than the damage that we have got now."
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What an asswipe.
Honestly, who gives a shit about what O'Reilly has to say?
I do. His bigoted rhetoric helps form the opinion of millions of Americans.
Actually, O'Reilly makes a good point. It is hollow to just blame Bush. Yes, it's his fault because he didn't reinforce the levies, but it is also the fault of every other president and congress that did not reinforce the levies or develop a better plan. Blame Bush for not taking charge and forming a quick emergency plan after we knew it would hit and knew what would happen when it hit, sure. There is a lot to blame him for, but his blame for the levies is weak at best.
As has been said though - if this is how his response is to federal emergencies than all the money and timeput into the new Department of Homeland Security has been wasted. We had a quicker and more thorough response here in NYC after 9/11 using the old system of emergency management. The affairs in New Orleans look closer to how he's "brought the peace" to Iraq than any sort of concerned homeland relief.
It is sickening proff that this guy and his people couldn't save a kitten from a tree without burning down the tree, it's surrounding neighborhood and killing innocent people.
Wow.
Bigot is right.
Keep posting these.
Astonishing; Clinton is still being identified as the problem.What shameless blamemongering.
whoa, hold up a sec, i thought the democrats DID do something- wasn't that what the establishment of the SELA urban flood control project in 1995 was all about? that whole thing that got them STARTED shoring up levees in the first place? to the republicans' credit though, congress WAS GOP led back then, wasn't it?
Here is a good overview of the "Who's to blame?" question. It's a non-partisan site (if you don't know it already) and ultimately lays a lot of blame on Bush.
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=344
Haha.
I love Bill O'Reilly.
Or rather, I love the fact that he's such a douche.
Entertaining, he is.
Congress? You mean the one that was tipped to the GOP two years after Clinton took office thanks to the "Contract with America"?
An ex-alcoholic and religious fanatic (Neo Democracy) can never be trusted to make rational deciisions. Bush is doing what he believes is right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!