Remember the press attributing Katrina to warming?
Remember them blaming the administration for not supporting kyoto? (therefore blaming the actual hurricane itself on the administration, lol).
Was pretty funny, actually. Up there with the earthquake machine.
This admin will not be as scrutinized, that's for sure. The moral of the story for presidents is that when something like this happens look like you're doing something, even if there is really nothing you can do. Presidents don't cause such disasters, and there is little they can actually do to fix them.
BTW, regarding katrina, just 1 year before the authorities in NOLA, plus the feds did an exercise that was eerily like what actually happened. They didn't do everything in the real event what they learned to do from the exercise, but regardless, everyone did do better. In the exercise, the estimated death toll was 50,000. Clearly they did far better than the practice run.
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