Man, Aaron Broussard, the President of Jefferson Parish just spoke on Meet the Press. He actually broke down and it's no wonder after you hear what he has been through....he was on after Michael Chertoff who STILL maintains he was surprised by the levee breaking.
Think Progress already has the transcript of Broussard's remarks:
We have been abandoned by our own country. Hurricane Katrina will go down in history as one of the worst storms ever to hit an American coast. But the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will go down as one of the worst abandonments of Americans on American soil ever in U.S. history. … Whoever is at the top of this totem pole, that totem pole needs to be chainsawed off and we’ve got to start with some new leadership. It’s not just Katrina that caused all these deaths in New Orleans here. Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.It was intense to watch, especially after the obfuscating by Chertoff. Wait til you read about his battles with FEMA.
Broussard and his colleagues are some of the local officials that Bush and the White House are blaming for their own failures. Karl Rove will start smearing him soon now.
