Incompetence: Not a Bug but a Feature

Kevin Drum. has links and comments outlining how the Bush administration's deliberate gutting of the Federal Emergency Management Administration was inspired by conservative philosophy. This story predicted just the present type of disaster a year ago. By Contrast
In the 1990s, in planning for a New Orleans nightmare scenario, the federal government figured it would pre-deploy nearby ships with pumps to remove water from the below-sea-level city and have hospital ships nearby, said James Lee Witt, who was FEMA director under President Clinton.
President Bush this morning: "No could have imagined that the levees would be breached."

Condi, a year or so ago: "No one could have imagined that terrorists would fly planes into buildings."

Unfortunately, the world is full of things not dreamt of in their philosophy.

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