Katrina

After reading Robert Tracinski's assessment - in TIA Daily - of the situation in New Orleans, plus the posts on various aspects of the disaster response and recovery effort on the Harry Binswanger List, the only conclusion left for me to draw is that whoever decides to return to New Orleans and Louisiana to rebuild should make it one of their very first and crucial priorities to circulate recall petitions for both Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco. Both of them are obviously incompetent political hacks who were not the least bit interested in preparing for Hurrican Katrina, despite the fact that they both had at least 2 days to do so. In this, I see no difference between their response and the response of those welfare dependents who saw no reason to flee New Orleans or prepare for the aftermath.

As I see it, Hurrican Katrina as an atrocity is not so unspeakable as the characters of Nagin and Blanco.