When all the post-mortems over the incredible FUBAR called local, state and federal response to the Hurricane Katrina tragedy publish their last word, one sad fact will remain: You can’t protect people with giant federal bureaucracies.
President Bush insists that now is not the time for finger-pointing and blame, but it certainly is and most of the finger-pointing and blame for the slow-motion federal response to Hurricane Katrina is being directed at Michael Brown, the hapless head of FEMA whose only apparent qualification for the job was a wise choice of college roommate.
The eye of Hurricane Katrina apparently is still swirling 1,088 miles north-northeast of New Orleans. According to the latest Rove Radar Report warning, it is stalled ominously above 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
As rescuers bring the last of thousands stranded by Hurricane Katrina to safety, officials in Louisiana and Mississippi face different challenges in recovering the dead.
Rescue workers are resorting to shoe leather and lots of old-fashioned detective work to reunite some of the hundreds of families blown apart by Hurricane Katrina.
The Rehnquist Court will become the Roberts Court, if the Senate accepts the nomination of John Roberts as chief justice. How much that matters will ultimately depend on Roberts himself.
President Bush and congressional leaders on Tuesday pledged separate investigations into the much-criticized shortcomings of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.
Gasoline prices should shortly return to pre-Katrina levels, but will continue to range around $2.50 a gallon, predict federal officials.