So the initial polls seem to indicate that people agree that the locality and the state hold the most blame for the unfolding outcome in New Orleans:
http://us.cnn.com/2005/US/09/07/katrina.poll/index.html
(Scroll down to the sixth paragraph. You’ll notice that the article tries to focus on Bush but the numbers don’t support it...)
What’s most interesting, and frankly heartening, is that the greatest plurality in the poll feels that no one is to blame. This is true. The question is, who helped, and what could have been done better.
Even the use of the word “blame” tells me that someone is trying to get out of responsibility. Notice that Bush and Republicans aren’t using that word...ask yourself, who is?
The “blame” goes to Mother Nature and hundreds of years of building a city in harm’s way...the credit goes to those that are saving lives.
Related: Wesley Pruden’s ”Not much traction with the abuse”
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