What the Fuck is Tierney talking about?

...why are urbanites so much better prepared to cope with fire than with flooding? Mostly because they learned to fight fire without any help from the Army Corps of Engineers or the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Seriously... what the fuck is he talking about? Is he blaming New Orleans for relying too much on the federal government? Sound like the typical conservative response to everything.

How can anyone witnessing this extraordinary event sit down and write such a scrambled mess?

Here's the bargain I'd offer New Orleans: the feds will spend the billions for your new levees, but then you're on your own. You and others along the coast have to buy flood insurance the same way we all buy fire insurance - from private companies that have more at stake than do Washington bureaucrats.

Asshole!