Josh Marshall posts the entire Times-Picayune piece about Bush administration cuts to protecting New Orleans’ levees last year. Money quote:
“I guess people look around and think there’s a complete system in place, that we’re just out here trying to put icing on the cake,” said Mervin Morehiser, who manages the “Lake Pontchartrain and vicinity” levee project for the Army Corps of Engineers. “And we aren’t saying that the sky is falling, but people should know that this is a work in progress, and there’s more important work yet to do before there is a complete system in place.”
I agree with a commenter on Josh’s site: “There’s of course no way to know whether this would have made any difference.” But it’s not a plus for the president right now.
The Dish 