Clueless
Scout of First Draft is more than slightly annoyed when, in defense of the Shrubbery, Jonah Goldberg writes:
And then there’s Hurricane Katrina. Yes, the federal government could have responded better. And of course there were real tragedies involved in that disaster. But you know what? Bad stuff happens during disasters, which is why we don’t call them tickle-parties.
I would have thought by now that everyone understood that the major problem with the Katrina response was not what they did, but what they didn’t do, as in they didn’t do anything for days, and they prevented others from doing anything.
Hurricane John just made its way up the Baja peninsula and the Mexican government made food and water drops by helicopter within hours, not days. Why is the Mexican government able to react more quickly than the US government?
