Bush said nobody could have predicted this would happen. Either he took his hyperbole pills again or somebody in his administration did predict it would happen and he responded by cutting FEMA funding by forty percent.

Speaking of hyperbole pills, does anybody got some?

http://www.fema.gov/kids/hurr.htm

This is where all the funding left for FEMA went after Bush got done with it.

"'I'm not saying it wouldn't still be flooded, but I do feel that if it had been totally funded, there would be less flooding than you have,' said Michael Parker, a former Republican Mississippi congressman who headed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from October 2001 until March 2002, when he was ousted after publicly criticizing a Bush administration proposal to cut the corps' budget." - from the Chicago Tribune, noted by Josh Marshall"