Winstonfield, when you're the head of an organization, any disaster is ultimately your fault.

Bush wasn't President of New Orleans. Local disaster preparedness is not the responsibility of the federal government. That falls primarily at the state and local level, with the federal government doing 'advise and consent' stuff (when requested).

But let's use your logic for a second. California. According to your logic, the current wildfires taking place are Obama's fault. All the property damage is Obama's fault... Any people that die were personally killed by Obama... Blah blah blah - it's a ridiculous way of thinking and I don't ascribe to it. The fact that New Orleans wasn't prepared for a hurricane of Katrina's scope wasn't Bush's 'fault' - and it isn't Obama's 'fault' that Los Angeles isn't prepared for a wildfire of the current scope.

The repair and maintainance of the levees was the responsibility Ray Nagin. It was also his job to evacuate the thousands and thousands who were still there when the storm hit (he was too busy commandeering rescue vehicles to clear out his personal belongings). The requests for federal relief and administration of said relief was the responsibility of governor Blanco. The only thing FEMA does is roll in with a big pile of trucks full of supplies and materiel. It was Bush's fault that the first initial relief was too small, but it was Nagin and Blanco who set the table and created the dynamic which made the initial supplies insufficient.

No other FEMA effort in a long time needed even a tenth of what New Orleans needed. How could FEMA have possibly projected the scope of the need until it was already happening? The relief order was signed on the 28th. Katrina hit on the 29th. The damage and scope of the need wasn't apparent until August 30 and the beginning of September. As I said... There's a lot of blame to go around, but to pretend this was all "Bush's" fault is nothing more than neolib quackery.

Say what you want about Ray Nagin. He was put in a really crappy predicament by Katrina. The city was just ripe for the picking by the "big one." Every mayor inherited the problem of poor infrastructure, crappy levees, and a corrupt government, but no one ever did anything about it. Katrina set Ray Nagin up the bomb.

FWIW, WWL took the liberty of removing a ton of personal info from the mayor's schedule that his own office left in before they published it.

I should mention some of the other targets featured in Krewe d’Etat: Army Corps of Engineers,: the Pop Tarts (i.e., Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, Britney Spears . . . ), Hillary Clinton, sitting ducks (Bush, Cheney . . .), melting polar caps, Louisiana Road Home program, golden boy Bobby Jindal, David Vitter’s side dish, Rosie O’Donnell vs. Donald Trump (and the other folks from “The View”), NASA’s martini hour, the New Orleans assessors vote and Mayor Ray Nagin.

Ray Nagin is not only racist, he's dumb as a post, but because he's black...