Katrina Coverage

From Some Democrats Touting New Orleans For 2008:
A Maryland congressman is urging his fellow Democrats to hold the party's 2008 presidential nominating convention in New Orleans as a signal of national support for the city after its devastating losses from Hurricane Katrina.
Representative Elijah Cummings made the suggestion after party officials announced that their 2008 convention […]

Just when you'd forgotten all about the Gretna Crescent City Connection incident, it comes roaring back in this:
A March to Gretna in protest of the actions of the Gretna police in the aftermath of Katrina and in support of displaced African-Americans from New Orleans, who continue to be denied access to participation and opportunity in […]

From this:
The national Republican Party chairman on Tuesday defended the GOP's outreach to black voters, days after his Democratic counterpart questioned how he could make such an appeal in view of the Bush administration's tepid response to Hurricane Katrina.
Ken Mehlman told the Waterbury chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that […]

Vermont's gift to the world presents this press release:
As the people of the Gulf Coast begin the long road to recovery after the worst natural disaster in American history, President Bush is choosing to use this tragedy to push his conservative political agenda on the region. At this pivotal moment in American history, the residents […]

If Howard Dean didn't exist Karl Rove would need to invent him:
"The Bush administration just went back to turning [FEMA] into a dumping ground for people who evidently didn't have anything else to do," Dean told the Fox News Channel's Alan Colmes on Tuesday.
"And it's really too bad because now people have paid for that […]

Losing Congressman Martin Frost (formerly D-TX) has a public "memo" to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Howard Dean entitled "Let's Get Ready to Run":
Why do I think big Democratic gains loom? The public is rapidly coming around to the view that Republicans lack the ability to handle the big issues facing our country. It’s […]

Drudge played an excerpt from a Howard Dean appearance on Wolf Blitzer's show, during which Dean blamed FEMA for not knowing that the Convention Center was used as a shelter.
However, Drudge then played a tape of Ray Nagin in which he said that only the Superdome was being used as a shelter, and he had […]

MIAMI — Race was a factor in the death toll from Hurricane Katrina, Howard Dean told members of the National Baptist Convention of America on Wednesday at the group's annual meeting.
Dean, chairman of the Democratic party, made the comments to the Baptists' Political and Social Justice Commission. The Baptist Convention, with an estimated 3.5 million […]

FPM has a link-rich rundown of the left's attempts to politicize the disaster:
IT'S OFFICIAL: THE AMERICAN LEFT NOW BELIEVES GEORGE W. BUSH IS GOD. Bellowing leftists such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cindy Sheehan have blamed Hurricane Katrina – something insurance companies classify as an act of God – on President Bush’s "killing policies" […]