{"id":581611,"date":"2010-05-27T14:36:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=26160"},"modified":"2010-05-27T14:36:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:36:58","slug":"rove-finally-admits-bush-really-blew-it-during-katrina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581611","title":{"rendered":"Rove finally admits Bush really blew it during Katrina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today in the Wall Street Journal<\/em>, Karl Rove pens an op-ed titled: \u201cYes, the Gulf Spill is Obama\u2019s Katrina<\/a>.\u201d He predictably places blame on Obama for a supposedly inadequate response to the BP oil spill. But the real significance of the op-ed is not what conservative-strategist Rove has to say about Obama; rather, it\u2019s that Rove is implicitly acknowledging that Bush screwed up the response to Katrina. Rove is essentially trying to make the case that Obama mismanaged a disaster almost as terribly as he and Bush did.\u00a0 TP explains<\/a> why this op-ed is news, but not the way Rove thinks.<\/p>\n

<\/span>This is breaking news because, for years, despite all the evidence to the contrary<\/a>, Rove has defended<\/a> his administration\u2019s disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina. As recently as March, Rove told ABC News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The federal government\u2019s responsibilities were met under Katrina which were to provide the immediate assistance, to pluck people off of the roofs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And in his recently released memoir, Rove \u201cstaunchly defends<\/a>\u201d Bush\u2019s handling of the disaster, and praises former FEMA administrator Michael \u201cHeck of a job, Brownie\u201d Brown.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s refreshing to see Rove finally concede his own failures<\/a>, albeit in a roundabout way. After all, it was he who \u201cwas in charge<\/a>\u201d of the botched<\/a> reconstruction effort. In his book, Rove touted, \u201cI\u2019m one of the people responsible<\/a>\u201d for the administration\u2019s response to Katrina.<\/p>\n

Rove\u2019s analysis would be sharper if he noted that \u201cObama\u2019s Katrina\u201d actually highlights some very real Bush and Cheney<\/a> failures. By filling the Minerals Management Service \u2014 the government agency responsible for regulating off shore oil drilling \u2014 with industry shills<\/a> who took drugs and had sex with the officials they were supposed to be policing, the Bush administration dangerously eroded the regulatory regime, and missed warnings<\/a> that could have helped prevent the BP disaster.<\/p>\n

– Reposted<\/a> from Think Progress.<\/p>\n

JR:\u00a0 I would add that<\/em> in the case of Katrina, the Bush administration ignored its own administration\u2019s weather forecasts for days.\u00a0\u00a0 In the case of the spill, the reverse is true.\u00a0 BP basically misled everybody about the size of the spill \u2014 by a factor of 5 \u2014 and hence their ability to control it.\u00a0 It was NOAA<\/a> \u2014 which is to say the Obama administration \u2014 <\/span>that realized BP was lowballing the leak, that the problem was beyond the company\u2019s resources, and that much broader action was needed (see “<\/span>Looks like BP stands for Burning Petroleum; worst spill since ExxonValdez heads for LA coast<\/a>“).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today in the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove pens an op-ed titled: \u201cYes, the Gulf Spill is Obama\u2019s Katrina.\u201d He predictably places blame on Obama for a supposedly inadequate response to the BP oil spill. But the real significance of the op-ed is not what conservative-strategist Rove has to say about Obama; rather, it\u2019s that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}