katrina roundup

Everyone must listen to New Orleands mayor Ray Nagin's interview where he blasts the federal governments slow response and backwards priorities. Alternet has it.

Mark Fischetti tells us not to buy the stories in his own paper. NYT ran a front page story touting the claims that no one anticipated levee breaks. But an op-ed calls bullshit on the administration.

The Coop is mad. He Wants You to Go to Your Window, Open It, Stick Your Head Out, and Yell - Gawker

Salon.com Flushing out the ugly truth:

"As if to make sure we didn't miss the ironies, the same week as Katrina came news that the poverty rate has climbed again, the fourth straight year under President Bush. But let's be fair: John Kerry barely mentioned the poor last year. And while President Clinton's booming 1990s lifted some boats, and his welfare reform at least muted the ideological sniping about whether poor folks were victims or freeloaders, nobody's bothered lately to pay much attention to whether welfare reform made people's lives better, whether it paved a path out of poverty or just moved its subjects into the vast ranks of the working poor. "