Hurricane Katrina, historian Douglas Brinkley wrote for Vanity Fair on the 10th anniversary of the 2005 storm, was the “Flood That Sank George W. Bush.” Ten years from now, the American people might look back at the current natural disaster and say that Hurricane Helene was the flood that sank Vice President Kamala Harris.
Although 19 years apart, the failures that plagued the Bush-Cheney administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina and the Biden-Harris administration’s response to Hurricane Helene are strikingly similar.
When Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29, 2005, Bush was on his 1,600-acre ranch in Crawford, Texas. The president had been away from the White House for more than three weeks, working with a reduced staff and reduced resources from his Crawford property. Bush received his daily intelligence briefings from a secure trailer parked across the…
