Katrinagate? or FEMAgate?

[mopaul]

have to get just the right name for the latest bush scandal

[maine_raptor]

1. How about

"Yet another Bush Fuck-up"

Must be said while shaking your head in sadness.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

2. FEMAgate seems to absolve bush. Katrinagate in my book. n/t

[all.of.me]

3. fematrinagate?!

say it ten times fast.

[supernova]

4. FEMAgate

because you keep the emphasis on where it belongs.

Katrina was going to happen anyway, but it is the delayed response that was the problem.

[Pirate Smile]

5. It is Bush's scandal, not FEMAs. He put the incompetents in there.

All you had to do was watch TV to know people were unnecessarily dying from he Governments lack of response.

It is bigger then FEMA. I don't want it to be phrased in any way that limits how high the fault lies within the Federal Government. The fault lies with Bush.

[donsu]

6. this is bigger then a gate

nt

[stillcool]

7. Government-Gate....

the whole frigging thing is the problem. The removal of any single agency or person will do nothing to 'fix' our problems. It is those in government that made choices that favor money over mankind that need to go.

[Horse with no Name]

8. How ironic that this is the REAL "Water"gate

but my vote would be for "Slaughter-gate"

[chaulieu]

9. Bigger than Watergate

I think it is time to stop using the "-gate" suffix to frame scandals. I think there has been a desire to use it to put emphasis on the seriousness of the alleged wrong doing.

The scandal of federal action and inaction that allowed the post-Katrina destruction of New Orleans is bigger than Watergate. A better historical precedent would be the floods of 1927.

[all.of.me]

11. why was watergate called watergate?

any idea?

i agree, the '-gate' thing is redundant, but just by reading the name of whatever scandal it is, you immediately know what's up. i wonder if anyone would pay attention if scandals were named something else. then again, that new name may stick, the way -gate has.

[cmd]

10. Nerogate

With liberal use of the guitar pickin' moran

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

12. Not FEMAgate. That lays the disastrous failure on Browny. Murdergate?

[Tari]

13. Floodgate? eom

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Floodgate is best: Reminds of Watergate and has euphony.

Floodgate. After all, it was the flood that was the worst.

Floodgate is to Bush as Watergate is to Nixon.

Floodgate has nice visual imagery for cartoonists to play with.

Katrinagate is too contrived. FEMAgate is too limited since it lets Bush and Chertoff off the hook.