That just proves my point of being a useless politician. 54 percent of people think he did a good job which clearly he did not as can be demonstrated by the picture of the submerged school busses but his talen isn't organizing and addressing the public need it's lying to save himself which clearly he has done a fine job at doing. Just another professional liar at the public trough.
The city's residents WHO WERE THERE DURING KATRINA AND AFTER IT decided that Nagin did a relatively good job and Blanco performed better than Bush did, but of course Sput knows better than Katrina's victims. Once again you're on the wrong side of history and common sense. Will you ever learn?
If Nagin did a good job those busses would have been filled and the people wouldn't have been there. If Bush only had Katrina on his plate to address the people in a personal way like Nagin I'm sure his approval rating would be higher and let's not forget Nagin is black. Once again, you just can't grasp the big picture. Now that's not to say I think Bush did a good job because it's pretty obvious he did a terrible job.
If Nagin did a good job those busses would have been filled and the people wouldn't have been there. That's why his job approval is 52% and not 90%. He certainly made mistakes, probably quite a few of them but not nearly as many as Bush/Chertoff/Fema. As always you see everything in black and white. If Bush only had Katrina on his plate Hello, Bush was on vacation, in Crawford, TX. He was not leading the troops in the battle in Iraq. to address the people in a personal way like Nagin He can't. He just does not care.
Bush is probably the worst communicator on the planet- I don't know if it's arrogance or stupidity but the result is the same.
The residents of NO elected a moron like Nagin in the first place, so I don't think their opinions count for much. Why is it our responsibility to rebuild NO back into the crime-ridden welfare and drug slum it was before the hurricane? I am all for some sort of minimal rebuilding of the port infrastructure and salvaging what can be salvaged of the high ground in the city, but to try to rebuild a below ground city that was largely slums is crazy. I just read that the federal government is pissing away $100 mill or so to rebuild the Superdome. It is privately owned, and it's principal function is to host a professional football team which desperately wants to move to another city. And the White House wonderswhy conservatives are furious at them?
May 31 10:18 PM US/Eastern Everyone has known New Orleans is a sinking city. Now new research suggests parts of the city are sinking even faster than many scientists imagined _ more than an inch a year. That may explain some of the levee failures during Hurricane Katrina and it raises more worries about the future. The research, reported in the journal Nature, is based on new satellite radar data for the three years before Katrina struck in The data show that some areas are sinking four or five times faster than the rest of the city. And that, experts say, can be deadly. "My concern is the very low-lying areas," said lead author Tim Dixon, a University of Miami geophysicist. "I think those areas are death traps. I don't think those areas should be rebuilt." The blame for this phenomenon, called subsidence, includes overdevelopment, drainage and natural seismic shifts. For years, scientists figured the city on average was sinking about one-fifth of an inch a year based on 100 measurements of the region, Dixon said. The new data from 150,000 measurements taken from space finds that about 10 percent to 20 percent of the region had yearly subsidence in the inch-a-year range, he said. As the ground in those areas sinks, protection from levees also falls, scientists and engineers said. For example, the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, built more than three decades ago, has sunk by more than 3 feet since its construction, Dixon said, explaining why water poured over the levee and part of it failed. "The people in St. Bernard got wiped out because the levee was too low," said co-author Roy Dokka, director of the Louisiana Spatial Center at Louisiana State University. "It's as simple as that." The subsidence "is making the land more vulnerable; it's also screwed up our ability to figure out where the land is," Dokka said. And it means some evacuation roads, hospitals and shelters are further below sea level than emergency planners thought. So when government officials talk of rebuilding levees to pre-Katrina levels, it may really still be several feet below what's needed, Dokka and others say. "Levees that are subsiding at a high rate are prone to failure," Dixon said.