The 25 Stupidest Quotes About Hurricane Katrina

As we mark the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, no doubt the apologists and revisionists will be out in force, attempting to whitewash the government's catastrophic mismanagement of the tragedy.

With that in mind, we offer a reprise of our wildly popular, positively damning compilation of the 25 most mind-numbingly stupid quotes about Hurricane Katrina. Read memorable pronouncements by President Bush, Michael Brown, Barbara Bush, Tom DeLay, Ray Nagin, and a parade of other clowns whose idiocy and incompetence would be downright laughable if it also wasn't so tragic:

1) "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." --President Bush, on "Good Morning America," Sept. 1, 2005, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina

2) "What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them." --Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 5, 2005

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