[sickoflibs]

RE :”Perhaps most damaging were the policies of the governments of New York and New Jersey forbidding “price gouging” on gasoline. As Russ Roberts of the Hoover Institution noted drily, “There was no gouging, and there was no gas.” Had stations been able to raise prices even temporarily, it would have been cost-effective to lease generators to pump the gas out of in-ground tanks, where it sat, untapped, for more than a week. Instead, people could not stir from their frozen homes even to pick up supplies at the supermarkets, far less to reach medical care or help stranded elderly relatives. Lack of gasoline significantly prolonged the suffering caused by the storm. “

I was making the same point here. Price controls even when they are made to sound ‘compassionate’ like these deter the laws of supply and demand correcting the problem.

But I bet most in NY+NJ would tell a poll that they would rather have nothing than allow prices to price.

[randita]

Blanco and Nagel (both Democrats, of course) were utterly incompetent in taking decisive action prior to Katrina and responding decisively afterward. To wit - the famous photo of the multitude of stranded buses which could have been used to transport people out of danger. In contrast, Christie, Cuomo, and Bloomberg comported themselves well.

Blanco was the white equivalent of Prissy in GWTW.

Bush should have told Blanco and Nagel to shove it and taken over the emergency preparedness. That was his primary mistake. Normally, conservatives should leave this to the states, but the utter incompetency of Blanco and Nagel was so apparent, they needed to be relieved of duty.

Bush received all the the blame for Blanco and Nagel’s ineptness.

[Rummyfan]

Katrina: all Bush's fault!

Sandy: all the Republican-controlled Congress' fault!

It's simple really.....

[Richard from IL]

Good article

[popdonnelly]

Krugman is wrong. The federal government spent billions on disaster relief after Katrina. Katrina was a propaganda victory for the Democrats, who succeeded on blaming the whole thing on Bush.

[Kickass Conservative]

Don’t forget, “Map Points” on a Democrat Map turn into “Crosshairs” on a Republican Map.

I think it’s a Physics question on the SAT.