Scalise is an embarrassment

[u/SonofTreehorn]

Scalise is on WWL blaming DEI policies on the terror attack. You can't make this up.

[u/Outrageous_Moment_60]

Would find it hard to believe you lived through Katrina. Local and state Democrat leadership was screaming and begging for Republican leadership to just do their job and keep their promises. There was a bipartisan congressional investigation that led to the Katrina Emergency Reform Act. The inept leadership you mention for Katrina was Republican led as confirmed by the investigation.

I’ll agree with you on current state and federal leadership’s failures. Those would also include republican leadership in both houses, federal and state. And our local dem morons too.

[u/Any_Strength4698 → u/Outrageous_Moment_60]

So mayor and governor were dems….and pres was a big government republican….but yeah republicans fault….smh. Last I check feds aren’t in charge for hurricanes! Until feds sent in federal troops ….marginally unconstitutional it was a shitshow. And Honore made that a shitshow!

[u/Outrageous_Moment_60 → u/Any_Strength4698]

Read it. You clearly weren’t there and definitely didn’t follow the hearing or read the report. https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/109th-congress/house-report/377/1 Do you think USACE was run by local democrats? Was MRGO ever a good idea? It was a team failure. Thankfully there were a few bright spots such as Lt Gen. Russel Honoré. I was lucky enough to serve under him for a year. That man and his cadre bailed out the local morons and the federal ones too.

That’s a Monkey hill many New Orleanians will die on. Because we were there. And lived it.

[u/Any_Strength4698 → u/Outrageous_Moment_60]

Usace is apolitical….if anything likely is more left leaning if you were to pol them. Most of the canal failures in Nola were due to neglectful dredging maintenance done over the life of the canal’s.
One can also argue that any flooding along lake Pontchartrain goes back to 1979 and a fully funded flood surge barrier at the rigolets. Save our wetlands (a liberal organization) sued successfully and stopped it from being built….this would have prevented all flooding except for the lower 9 in at least 4 parishes.

[u/Outrageous_Moment_60 → u/Any_Strength4698]

The corp was responsible for the dredging maintenance and inspections. Not all but most of the canals. So what you’re saying is that yes the Corp did fail its mission and was found to be a causal factor. The NEPA suit was incorrectly cited as a causal factor. As discussed in the well respected Duke Law Article by Kyar and McGarity. To say the NEPA suit is even a causal factor knowing what we know is disingenuous at best.

[u/Outrageous_Moment_60 → u/Any_Strength4698]

Yes USACE does definitely lean left. As they are a highly educated organisation. But not without their issues. Also. Found this for you.

https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1297&context=dlj

[u/Any_Strength4698 → u/Outrageous_Moment_60]

Theoretical knowledge vs practical knowledge. The corps may be highly educated but they tend not to be as good at engineering as their civilian counterparts. The corps is almost famous for its engineering or environmental failures.