The Bush Disasters Keep Coming

[lame54]

The Further Pillage of New Orleans: Shady Bush Cronies Sold Us Faulty Pumps
By Susie Madrak Tuesday Aug 25, 2009 7:00pm
This USAToday piece leaves out an important piece of the puzzle here. The company who sold the pumps was closely tied to the Bush family, at one time even employing Jeb Bush:

WASHINGTON — Huge flood-control pumps installed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina don't protect the city adequately and the Army Corps of Engineers could have saved $430 million in replacement costs by buying proven equipment, a federal investigation finds.

The investigation by the federal Office of Special Counsel finds there was "little logical justification" for the corps' decision to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the "untested" hydraulic pumps, which are meant to empty millions of gallons of water from the below-sea-level city during storm-related floods.

Nope, no "logical" justification. Just political! From March 2007:

Meanwhile, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., asked the Government Accountability Office on Thursday to investigate the Corps and the contract it entered into with Moving Water Industries Corp.

MWI is owned by J. David Eller and his sons. Eller was once a business partner of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in a venture called Bush-El that marketed MWI pumps.

But wait, it gets even worse:
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/rape-and-pillage-new-orleans-how-shad

[Jennicut]

1. We will never be free of Bush and his cronies...they left crap behind everywhere!

[madrchsod]

2. "untested" hydraulic pumps..that`s not quite correct

this blogger has the truth about these pumps. he`s right....not adequate to do the job.

this is from march of 2007-----

http://fixthepumps.blogspot.com/2007/03/background-on-mwi-pumps.html

[lonestarnot]

3. debriefing, delousing are easy, debushitting is going to be tough.

[intheflow]

4. Like this is a surprise.

I really hate slimey, greedy, racist, sadistic Republicans.

[seafan]

5. "You either trust me or you don't," Jeb Bush told the Miami Herald in 1998.

To reflect on the upcoming August 29, 2005 visit to New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina:


Faulty water pumps in New Orleans built by former Jeb Bush partner (Bush-El water pump co., '89-'94), March 13, 2007












Epic failure.