Michelle Malkin

I suppose this should have been anticipated... Some people take no personal responsibility for their lives at all.

Michelle Malkin: "THE SHEEHAN-IZING OF KATRINA
By Michelle Malkin · September 08, 2005 06:22 AM

MoveOn.org steps into the Bush-deranged circus, via e-mailer Andy Bryant and U.S. Newswire (check out the advice to the MSM at the end of the release about 'excellent visuals;' the NYTimes has already set aside space on its Friday front page):

To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor

Contact: Trevor Fitzgibbon, Kawana Lloyd or Alex Howe, 202-822-5200, all for Moveon.Org Political Action

News Advisory:

-- Katrina Evacuees to Tell President Bush His Administration Let Them Down
-- Request Meeting with President to Demand Accountability
-- Why Was Federal Funding Cut For Levee Maintenance?

Hurricane Katrina evacuees flew into the nation's capital to tell President Bush to stop blaming local officials for his mistakes and acknowledge that budget cuts and indifference by his administration led to the disaster in New Orleans and along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

They intend to ask him why he diverted over 40 percent of federal funding between 2001-2005 away from New Orleans. Hundreds are expected to rally in front of the White House at 1 p.m. EDT on Thursday.

'The President of the United States and his appointees let us down,' said Christine Mayfield, a New Orleans public school teacher and mother of three who was dislocated and now is staying in North Carolina.

The evacuees are also seeking a meeting with Rep. Henry Waxman, the ranking Democrat on the Government Oversight Committee.

According to Rep. Waxman, 'the budget of the Corps of Engineers for construction projects in New Orleans district was cut by over 40 percent between 2001 and 2005, apparently to free up funds for the war in Iraq and homeland security projects. In 2004, for the first time in 37 years, the Corps halted all work on the New Orleans levee system.'

New Orleans native Michelle Augillard, one of the evacuees, was working toward her Masters degree at"

South Louisiana

Well now - quite a week in the Gulf so far. I won't comment on the incompetence of the governor and mayor, or the knee-jerk blaming of Bush, or the race baiting of the race-pimps. But something has been sticking in my craw about something that doesn't seem to add up - the poverty class in south LA in spite of the riches flowing through the region. Now, I don't know The Big Easy as well as I'd like to - just love the food, music, and booze - but how can a region that has its fingers on so much value coming in, out going out of the country be so poor? Is the government corruption the reason, or union dock workers? There is no way that there is a lack of tax money to have adequate schooling, or services unless people don't want them or the money goes into someone else's pockets? I've seen life at 'Nawlins' pace, and realize that a good percentage of the lower class are possibly just fine with their life in low gear (or they would get out). But to have inadequate police ( the place is always dangerous, even for locals), no planning that works, and sense of urgency before the storm, just is real difficult for me to understand.