What? Someone shoot at out beloved preznit?

1. Likelihood of occurance
2. Potential impact if it did occur

When FEMA says this is 1 of the 3 most damaging natural disasters that could possibly occur – you cut funding somewhere else, you don’t roll the dice.

The tax cuts prevented the building of adequate levies.

This not a natural disaster – this is a political failure

It gave me gas, and not the good kind.

What did I do? I spent the day working for a charity that funds $ directly to Red Cross Disater relief. And this weekend, I’m doing volunteer work at the another organization to help coordinate clothing donations.

And you? Oh yeah, you’re bitching about liberals and mouthing talking points. So why don’t you two turn off your computers, get off your fat hypocritical asses, and act like real Americans and pitch in, instead of just stroking Bush.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001051313

“When flooding from a massive rainstorm in May 1995 killed six people, Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, or SELA…

“Yet after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward SELA dropped to a trickle. The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security — coming at the same time as federal tax cuts — was the reason for the strain. At least nine articles in the Times-Picayune from 2004 and 2005 specifically cite the cost of Iraq as a reason for the lack of hurricane- and flood-control dollars.”

Also, from Anon: “In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.”

And then, there are the trolls:

Anon: “Libs are distorting reality again, asserting that human beings (Bush) can prevent hurricanes.”

Jeff: “So let me get this streight the environmental policies were just fine prior to 2001 and since then President Bush caused this hurricane…”

“This is just a Lib attempt to blame the President for a hurricane A HURRICANE you idiots.”

“This idiot is now blaming a levy breach on the President. Every one of those assertions are wrong.”

In case you knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing morons haven’t noticed, your pet chimp has been driving the f*cking bus for FIVE YEARS! He picked his priorities, and tending to the nation’s needs wasn’t one of them — too busy giving away tax cuts, clearing brush and invading THE WRONG F*CKING COUNTRY.

He didn’t cause the hurricane, half-wits, but it WASN’T THE F*CKING HURRICANE THAT CAUSED THE FLOODING, it was the failure of the unimproved levee.

Oh, and Jeff… we all really admire your mastery of the language.

DHinMI at the Next Hurrah points out that the White House site now has a “hurricane relief” title bar with a photo apparently representing Bush standing with a hurricane victim and an American flag. This would be unremarkable — excep…