Katrina Coverage

That WaPo article also contains this:
…Beyond these concrete impacts, some strategists expect Katrina to reshape the ideological premises of Washington debate in more subtle, but potentially more consequential, ways. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), in memos circulated among Republicans last week and in conversations with White House officials, argued that the party that offers […]

The "liberals" have been "looking out for" America's poor for the past four decades, and New Orleans exposes just how little good they've done.
Now, they want to continue their failed policies, the Toronto Star reports in "America's dark underbelly":
…Hurricane Katrina has exposed America's cursed underbelly, its multitudes of poverty-stricken and hopeless, forgotten by a government […]

From this:
…But this is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made disaster.
The man-made disaster is not an inadequate or incompetent response by federal relief agencies, and it was not directly caused by Hurricane Katrina. This is where just about every newspaper and television channel has gotten the story wrong.
The man-made disaster we are now […]