A code name for Katrina disaster....We need a name for this Bush mess

[Rowdyboy]

A name for this scandal that will ring in the ears of the American people....

So, what should we call this nightmare? Chertoff's Folly? Brownies Revenge?

Earlier threads on DU have touched on this and I've stolen various suggestions (please feel welcome to offer others).



on edit: To give proper credit, I got the idea for this thread from NancyG's thread earlier....(full discloure, you know...)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4776313

[NancyG]

1. Or just plain Watergate. nt

[oldtime dfl_er]

2. NOLAgate?

Or is that dissing New Orleans a little too much to even associate it with this crappy administration?

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/837226

[Rowdyboy]

6. I don't like anything limiting the negligence to New Orleans

The Mississippi gulf coast was hit even worse and is getting just as pathetic a response from FEMA. Even Trent Lott is starting to bitch. My friends on the coast say its still a nightmare and FEMA/Red Cross are RARELY seen. If local communities didn't work together, they wouldn't make it.

Never fear though, our Rethug puppet governor, Haley Barbour, is still holding press conferences sucking up to Bush and praising FEMA, MEMA (Mississippi Emerg Mgmt AGY) and every other Republican else in the area.

[applegrove]

3. Katrina Response? Works for me. n/t

[ThumperDumper]

4. Standing Watergate is pretty freakin' funny! n/t

[NancyG]

5. FEMAgate can make FEMA people take the blame...

whereas Watergate takes it right to the top.

[Cleita]

7. I'm almost certain The Daily Show will come up with something.

They already coined Iraq, Mess O'Potamia. Maybe this is Big Bad Mess of Katrina.

[Stephanie]

8. It's not a -gate

It's a human catastrophe, an enormous tragedy. To make it a -gate diminishes what happened. The bombing of the WTC was not a -gate. You know?

[Rowdyboy]

9. Point well taken....And I certainly had no intention to trivialize

this catastrophe. I'm a lifelong Mississippian with plenty of relatives on the coast and a deep seated love of New Orleans.

The bombing of WTC was totally unexpected. The White House handled the press brilliantly (you'd almost think they planned for it, wouldn't you?) and the public was angry, frightened, and supportive of their president

Katrina is different. They knew the storm was coming; they knew it would be horrendous and that the loss of life would be devastating. Yet they sat and did nothing. A week later FEMA was on the ground but STILL, to this day (two weeks later), is a negligible presence on the Mississippi gulf coast. The federal response to this catastrophe is a scandal, pure and simple. There are probably thousands dead because of Bush's government's incompetence and deliberate negligence. I think they deserve to pay a very stiff price and using this to expose their unconcern for the poor is perfectly appropriate.

Just one man's opinion.

[oldtime dfl_er]

10. I agree but the coverup should have a name

It's not the tragedy itself, the hurricane. It is unquestionable that that was an enormous and horrible horrible tragedy. The political disaster and coverup that followed is what is being sought to be named, if Im understanding this thread correctly.

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/837226

[Rowdyboy]

11. You are understanding this thread 100% correctly, my friend....

The hurricane is a tragedy of epic proportions. The response/coverup is a scandal at least the equal of Watergate. We owe it to the victims not to let this insult to humanity be forgotten or downplayed.