I saw Eleanor Clift on Fox this morning saying that the Katrina Hurricane was going to defeat the Republicans in 2008. It amazes me how the Democrats and the MSM managed to vilify the Republicans over this. There were hundreds of thousands of people foolishly living below sea level in a city by the sea in a hurricane prone area, and who didn't leave when told they should go. The US military and government pulled 50,000 of those people out of the flooded area in a few days, ignoring some folks experiencing mild discomfort on high ground. The MSM and the Democrats turned it into a race issue, distorted what was happening, and blamed the government for not keeping foolish people from discomfort, even though the federal government responded faster than they had in similar events in the past. (I lived through two severe hurricanes and never saw anyone from the federal government.) I think history will show that the recovery effort was an unprecedented success; if the event had happened in any other country tens of thousands of people would have perished.