Katrina: Who knew what when?  

As Hurricane Katrina approached, who in the Bush Administration knew what, and when did they know it?  Getting to the bottom of that question is a world-class exercise in frustration. Take today’s hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee: The Committee released documents showing that the White House situation room received a report at 1:47 a.m. the day Katrina hit, predicting that Katrina would likely lead to severe flooding and/or levee breaching.  A couple days later, the president said no one anticipated [...]

There continue to be just SO many holes in the Administration arguments over how Katrina was handled.  Kudos to the Senate for going after the truth today.

Pre-Katrina Warnings Not Heeded (AP via Yahoo! News) 

Senators lambasted the Bush administration on Tuesday for failing to heed devastating predictions from a hurricane preparedness test that began a year before Hurricane Katrina slammed into [...]

Gallup Poll Shows Shift Towards Democrats  

Republicans love to claim that the corruption and incompetence seen under their rule doesn’t have political significance, but a Gallup Poll is showing they are wrong as more are identifying themselves as Democrats: An analysis of Gallup Poll data from 2005 shows that the Democratic Party made gains in party identification among the American public. The [...]