jkumpire:
Wretchard wrote:

“But the Republicans didn’t put out the fire, or even give the alarm. Thus they bear responsibility, but not the only responsibility. Nobody really saw it coming.”
That is not correct. In 2005 this issue was seen and brought up in legislation, which did not pass the Senate because the Democrats obstructed it…

Oh yeah, the old argument that the Party in control of the White HOuse & Executive, the Senate, and Congress in 2005 is blameless because the minority is more powerful.

Because Republicans did not wish to be rude to “dear friends” and scream at them (when fatcats were making featherbeds and extending the Revolving Door to both Paty’s hacks, and it would make extremist right-wingers like Phil Gramm look bad.

Oh, and Bush was so concerned about Iraqi
“noble freedom lovers and his Special Israeli Friends” that the fate of Americans was secondary.
And only “evildoer attacks” mattered to Bush. It’s one thing to care about an Evildoer attack on NOLA that flooded the city and killed over a thousand. But a harmless hurricane? Not something important. Same with the economy.