Eleanor Clift's Take on Bush's Post Katrina Recovery Disaster

Eleanor Clift has a must read column on the Newsweek site that outlines President Bush's colossal leadership failure in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Here's a snip:

Bush’s comment that nobody thought the levees in New Orleans would break is false, and he will regret those words just as Condoleezza Rice did her comment that nobody could imagine a plane flying into a building like a missile. Local authorities and the Corps of Engineers had war-gamed hurricane scenarios and issued repeated warnings about the vulnerability of the levees. Their pleas were turned down and funding cut instead. Now the money will flow. Congressional leaders rushed back to Washington early to pass legislation to free up $10 billion for hurricane relief, a mere down payment on what it will cost to rebuild the stricken areas.