{"id":1681,"date":"2006-03-08T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T16:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-dim-wits-defense\/"},"modified":"2006-03-08T07:41:33","modified_gmt":"2006-03-08T14:41:33","slug":"the-dim-wits-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-dim-wits-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dim-wit&#8217;s Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/t-p\/frontpage\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-4\/1138086166226440.xml\">Federal report predicted cataclysm<\/a> By Bill Walsh<\/p>\n<p>Bush&#8217;s front-line disaster agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was predicting the worst. In a Power Point slide show dated Aug. 27 and obtained by The Times-Picayune, the agency spelled out the death and destruction anticipated by Hurricane Pam and warned that Katrina was likely to be worse. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overall the impacts described herein are conservative,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The report focuses on the disastrous results of levee failure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The potential for severe storm surge to overwhelm Lake Pontchartrain levees is the greatest concern for New Orleans,&#8221; it said. &#8220;Any storm rated Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson (hurricane) scale will likely lead to severe flooding and\/or levee breaching. This could leave the New Orleans metro area submerged for weeks or months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Four days later, President Bush said on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Good Morning America,&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>It&#8217;s not a lie if he can&#8217;t remember the truth. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal report predicted cataclysm By Bill Walsh Bush&#8217;s front-line disaster agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was predicting the worst. In a Power Point slide show dated Aug. 27 and obtained by The Times-Picayune, the agency spelled out the death and destruction anticipated by Hurricane Pam and warned that Katrina was likely to be worse. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-dim-wits-defense\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Dim-wit&#8217;s Defense<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}