Tim Russert on the Don Imus Show:
We’ve talked to the head of the Hurricane Center at Louisiana State University, who, one year ago, did a simulated computer model — table top exercise — called “Hurricane Pam,” in which they predicted this almost to the letter. And he called FEMA and said, on Saturday or Sunday, “You have to have tent cities set up outside of New Orleans, outside the state. You’re gonna have hundreds of thousands of evacuees. You have to be able to absorb them, or they’re gonna die in the streets.”
And the FEMA said to them, “Americans don’t sleep in tents.”
That is what went wrong, and that’s what we have to find out. Who’s accountable? This notion that we’re all too busy now to look forward, we can’t look back — we can do both. Because to ignore what happened in New Orleans is to guarantee it will happen again.
Bill Maher, last Friday, on his HBO show:
This is what I call unintentional racism. Because that’s the whole thing with the Bush people — they just can’t imagine. “Why don’t you just pack up your Range Rover, grab a case of Poland Spring water out of the garage, and go to your summer home? What is the problem?”
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