On VP Cheney visit to New Orleans
Vice President Dick Cheney came to town to collect campaign cash at a Republican National Committee fundraiser. But he first he attended a meeting with Recovery Czar Donald Powell, US Sen. David Vitter, R-Metairie, and Brig. Gen. Robert Crear, commander of the MS Valley division of the Corps of Engineers. The briefing was to discuss […]
Blaming Katrina survivors, Still
In a recent editorial by a Baton Rouge newspaper, The Advocate blamed New Orleanians and “their dysfunctional civic culture” as the reason for the slow pace of recovery in New Orleans. Simply put, The Advocate is blaming the victims. If a skyscraper fell to the ground full of people, you would not blame the victims […]
Be it the Corps or Congress; they were federal levees
To deflect criticism of the Corps of Engineers’ pre-Katrina workmanship, Lt Gen Carl Strock issued a news release the Thursday before Labor Day weekend with statements that either hide behind terminology or deflect blame. Earthen levees. Strock claimed that “Earthen levees are designed to withstand still water against their face or water flowing past, but […]
