Project Katrina

Last night on his prime time CNN show, Glenn Beck, talking with former Cheney shill senior adviser Mary Matalin, he noted the possibility that Hurricane Gustav (now only a tropical storm) could hit New Orleans on “day one of the Republican convention.” Instead of concern for the residences and the fact the levees are still not up to pre-Katrina standards (which of course still lacking) Beck expressed his displeasure that tax money is being spent in New Orleans and offered the canned Republican response to residents, just freaking “move:”

BECK: Why are we spending all this money in New Orleans? We shouldn’t spend a single dime of taxpayers’ money in a place where—I don’t care where it is—where it is in a flood zone. Move out of the place that, you know, you’re below sea level.

But of course there is a serious problem with the shit all stupid mind-set. And that would be that the New Orleans area is not even close to the only flood zone in the United States that receives federal tax dollars. Not even close actually. Parts of Minnesota, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and numerous other states are now considered flood zones.

Would Beck offer the same advice to them, “move?”

I could make the argument that Katrina and its aftermath is the worse example of the Bush administration. Iraq is just terrible, but it is thousands and thousands of miles away. Not within our own borders. Estimates are Hurricane Gustav will reach New Orleans on Monday, the same day President Bush is scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention. Which of course is the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.