Not since Hurricane Andrew hit Florida in 1992 had Federal and state authorities failed so badly to

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A worker attaches plywood to the window cruise ship packages of his shop ahead of Tropical Storm Isaac on August 27, 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Tropical Storm Isaac is expected to strengthen into at least a Category 1 hurricane before making landfall near Louisiana. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
Seven years ago, Hurricane Katrina destroyed a large part of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. The death toll from a weather event that we knew was coming cruise ship packages was shocking. This was not a sudden tsunami, but rather a hurricane we knew was going to hit our coast.
It was a failure of government to prepare and act quickly on a massive level. The incompetence of the Bush Administration made a global spectacle and drove Bush s approval ratings in the tank long before the global financial crisis.
cruise ship packages Not since Hurricane Andrew hit Florida in 1992 had Federal and state authorities failed so badly to meet the needs of victims of a natural disaster in the United States. But the aftermath of Katrina was far worse and far more deadly. Shocked Americans watched helplessly as they witnessed death before their eyes on live television.
In the current Congress, the House of Representatives has broken cruise ship packages new ground in refusing cruise ship packages to fund disaster relief and in state after state public employees are targeted and trashed by legislators and governors who are in fact also public employees!
After upstate New York experienced massive flooding from two tropical storms, freshman Congressman Tom Reed (who has been elevated to leadership in the Tea Party House) cruise ship packages voted against disaster relief cruise ship packages for his constituents.
As Hurricane Isaac threatens the Gulf again, we will see if Katrina and Isaac serve as bookends of GOP hostility to federal disaster relief. An odd stance for a party that claims to choose cruise ship packages life while watching people die in natural disasters rather than provide an adequate cruise ship packages response.
Bill Buck is a Democratic strategist, President of the Buck Communications Group, a media relations and new media strategies consulting cruise ship packages business based in Washington, DC, and Managing Director of the online ad firm Influence DSP. He has over twenty years of international and national communications experience. The views and opinions expressed in this post are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of CBS Local.