Letters to the Editor
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Something tells me...
...the response in San Diego will be very different from the response to Katrina, and everyone will say the Administration has learned its lesson.
What lesson?
The people in San Diego are middle-class white Republicans. The only lesson learned from Katrina was that if you throw enough poor black Democrats out of the state, you get a Republican governor. And being right there with the Guard and Presidential visits when middle-class white Republican houses in the hills burn doesn't mean any lesson has been learned -- going after the highest Democratic politicians with direct involvement, in an effort to prove that any government snafus and fubars are Democratic in origin, is a complete repeat of the tactics used for Katrina. Absolutely nothing has changed.
Sorry if I sound so cynical. After the last San Diego fire, I sat stupefied in a required management civility class at work while the instructor, a resident of the hills outside San Diego, took a half an hour of class time to bitch out the firefighters for not taking enough risks to save her neighborhood, the Red Cross for their lousy shelter accommodations, and the government for not covering all the costs of her rebuild (on god knows what tax revenue she didn't support collecting). Republican gratitude is frequently underwhelming.