Rich, your history teach has answered my question.
So now a question for the MSM: Why have there not been stories on the “Byzantine structure of New Orleans politics, which requires separate governing boards for each levee that is built.”?
Some of those boards obviously failed to do their jobs and, more to the point, this was obviously a flawed system that the political elites of New Orleans and Louisiana should have fixed long ago.
Could it be that it’s so much more gratifying to blame Bush and “Global Warming” and other usual suspects than to fault local machines which — I assume – comprised almost exclusively of Democrats)?