Disaster Response Improvements Lacking to politics hurricane 2006 via:jorn ... on may 1 dlsc/kasei

rw: W expects prayer to fill FEMA-gaps (WaPo-passim via eAard) 8 days ago -technorati

also well-linked (cervant-of-hypertxt) here- blog of Gideon Starorzewski: post titled GOP Fails to Secure America from the NextKatrina --Given the human, economic, and political toll that Hurricane Katrina took on this country, you'd think the GOP, the party in power, would be eager if not damn-near obsessed with trying to minimize the impact of the next natural disaster. You'd be wrong.

passim - - throughout... :
"The lessons of Katrina are important," Bush said. "We've learned a lot here at the federal level. We're much more ready this time than we were the last time."
"Let's, first of all, pray there's no hurricanes," Bush said. "That would be, like, step one."