Reply #18: KEITH OLBERMANN dared to mention the Bush cuts to the funding

[Nothing Without Hope]

in his Monday night, August 29 show on MSNBC. Here's an excerpt from the transcript, which is here:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9133459

(snip)

It is too ironic for words. The expected height of the storm surge was cut in half, meaning Gulfport, Louisiana, was only under 12 feet of water, not 24 or 25, and the windows flying off the skyscrapers of New Orleans like confetti, and the tiles rattling from the roof of the Super Dome, are thus only flying perils, and not signs the buildings might be collapsing.

And Katrina, the category 5 hurricane, was downgraded to category 4. Good news, especially in light of the fact that three months ago, the federal government cut the budget of the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project by 70 percent, and eliminated the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study to determine how to protect the New Orleans area from a category 5.

(snip)