Will The Katrina Stories Never End?

More government screw-up and waste on Bush’s watch.

From FEMA director defends giving away hurricane supplies:

The director of Federal Emergency Management Agency on Sunday defended giving away an estimated $85 million in hurricane relief supplies, blaming Louisiana officials for turning down the stockpiles.

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Heck Of A Job Bushie

Do we really need more proof that George W. Bush is the most incompetent human being on the face of the planet? Every day it seems we have more proof. After all this time, could there be any more heartbreaking news about the aftermath of Katrina? Unfortunately, yes. Again I ask the question, can we impeach him now? What more will it take? Can’t we stop him before he does more harm? PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!! I’m down on my knees and begging! If there ever was a president that deserved to be impeached, it is George W. Bush!!!

From Children in Katrina trailers may face lifelong ailments by John Moreno Gonzales:

The anguish of Hurricane Katrina should have ended for Gina Bouffanie and her daughter when they left their FEMA trailer. But with each hospital visit and each labored breath her child takes, the young mother fears it has just begun.

"It's just the sickness. I can't get rid of it. It just keeps coming back," said Bouffanie, 27, who was pregnant with her now 15-month-old daughter, Lexi, while living in the trailer. "I'm just like, `Oh God, I wish like this would stop.' If I had known it would get her sick, I wouldn't have stayed in the trailer for so long."

The girl, diagnosed with severe asthma, must inhale medicine from a breathing device.

Doctors cannot conclusively link her asthma to the trailer. But they fear she is among tens of thousands of youngsters who may face lifelong health problems because the temporary housing supplied by the Federal Emergency Management Agency contained formaldehyde fumes up to five times the safe level.

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One Of The Bush Administration's Biggest Debacles

From Lack of Katrina talk in election worries Louisiana: Democrats don't use hurricane debacle as fodder; issue on back burner? by Russ Britt:

"They've all ignored us, really," said Jeff Crouere, a political talk-show host in New Orleans. "There's a statement here and there. They fly by."

What surprises Crouere more than anything is that neither Clinton nor Obama seem to be paying much attention to Katrina response, widely acknowledged to be one of the Bush administration's worst blunders.

"I would have thought Democrats would be pouncing on this issue," he said. "I'm shocked they're not."

It's quickly becoming apparent to New Orleanians that 2 1/2 years after Katrina deluged three-fourths of their city, a slew of problems with slow-footed bureaucracies, patchwork hurricane protection, exorbitant insurance costs and skittish residents afraid to rebuild may not be resolved with the next presidency - regardless of who wins.

V-Day Is Next Month

From V-Day Spotlights Katrina's Forgotten Misery By Jeanine Plant:

For its 10th anniversary this year, V-Day is bringing its fundraising focus to the New Orleans Arena and Louisiana Superdome, where 24,000 evacuees--the sick, disabled and poor among them--were penned in after Hurricane Katrina for five days in 2005, an event that horrified a nation watching the crisis unfold on TV.

Since then attention has drifted, Eve Ensler, the activist playwright who founded the group, told Women's eNews in a recent interview. "New Orleans is pretty much forgotten now by the media. There is a level of misery and abandonment that is immoral for an American city," she said of a city once called the Big Easy, but now still missing half its former population. "The 10th anniversary is to bring support and to be reminded of what happened and is still happening there."