Today marks the 5th anniversary of Katrina, the devastating hurricane that gutted New Orleans. The death tolls were high and the damage was overwhelming. The victims of this devastation needed help and they got it. Not one Senator voted against relief for these people, but one would have.
Daily Kos:
“Try not to act too surprised.
On today’s fifth anniversary of Katrina, a Democrat supplies a tape of Angle during her 2006 bid for Congress talking about how she would have opposed the $62 billion in relief that only 11 House members opposed (no one in the Senate voted no). The federal version of “41 to Angle,” perhaps.
So the vote in the Senate would’ve been 99 “yes”, Sharron Angle “no”, putting her to the Right of Jim DeMint, the King Teabagger himself. In the House, she’d have good company too — weirdo Ron Paul, racist Steve King, and racist Tom Tancredo.”
Meet some of the victims. The man in the lawn chair in this photo was dead for two days.
In this next photo, a body is floating in the floodwaters. 300,000 survivors of Katrina at this point may have still needed to be evacuated from disaster zones.
Next, a baby is passed above the people trying to leave the Superdome. “Rampant lawlessness prompt Louisiana state leaders to ask for up to 40,000 troops to help restore order and help from police in other states.”
Next: “Residents wait to be rescued from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans September 1, 2005. Chaos and lawlessness hampered the evacuation of New Orleans on Thursday, and a U.S. senator said thousands may have died in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast.”
This post contains only a few photos courtesy of National Geographic. These people needed help and Sharron Angle would not have voted to give them relief. Here’s just one more photo for the sake of a victim that will never need or get help again.
Happy anniversary New Orleans. You can get through anything if you found your way past this.
Vote for Harry Reid.
