I've got a post up at the national political blog to which I contribute, Red State. It's called "The Imperative Of Moral Governance In New Orleans."

Related Rosenblog post: "When Is Looting OK?"

TECHNORATI TAGS: KATRINA, NEW ORLEANS, CORRUPTION

TO COMMENT: The regular "comment" feature is not in operation. E-mail comments to address under "Contact" on main page masthead, and I'll add them, here.

Tom Rekdal: If the citizens of New Orleans choose to live below sea level, protect themselves by levees that will only withstand category 3 hurricanes, and rely upon local evacuation plans that consist of little more than the admonition to run like Hell, that is their problem.

But if the federal government creates a separate cabinet department to streamline crisis management, and still cannot get rescue teams or troops into New Orleans before the Canadian government does, that is our problem. I would say we have a problem. Nothing I have read about the corruption in New Orleans puts my mind at ease about the incompetence so recently displayed at the national level.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at September 8, 2005 01:04 PM