"Katrina comparisons are a different class of wrong"

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"So much is different, and so many people want to overlook the differences."

Steve Lopez, Los Angeles, Times 10/26/2007

"...Republicans are better at evacuations than Democrats. This seems to be particularly true when the Republicans in question can flee down the highway in Yukons while Democrats wait for buses trapped under water...."

"...one might argue the evacuations in the San Diego area were made necessary by a lack of firefighting personnel and equipment in a region that shuns taxes and happily sticks outside agencies with the tab when the bill comes due..."

Article at: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez26oct26,0,6570862.column?coll=la-home-center