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Commentary: Bush can't see failure of Katrina response ("No Bias, No Bull" full of Bull)
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| 1/13/2009
| Campbell Brown
Posted on 01/13/2009 4:21:51 AM PST by tobyhill
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:21:51 AM PST
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
Sadly, nobody ever points out that the Federal government has no constitutional authority, much less responsibility, to provide for hurricane (or earthquake or ice-storm, etc) relief.
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:24:59 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring
Campbell Brown doesn't think saving 30,000 people was enough. She seems to think the Government should have stopped saving lives and worry about the alive thugs running rampant in the Convention Center.
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:28:13 AM PST
by
tobyhill
(No Honeymoon For Obama.)
To: tobyhill
Federal aid waited, ready to go, for the request of the Governor of the State of Louisiana. There lies the failure, not on President Bush's desk.
I may not agree with all the President has done, especially of late, but blaming him for this crap is nonsense.
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:30:57 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: tobyhill
The figure by Time magazine in the 25 Oct. 2005 issue was 33,500 rescues by the Coast Guard and our Armed Forces.
I have never heard that jaw-dropping figure metioned again in the MSM. Glad Bush reminded them.
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:38:01 AM PST
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
To: tobyhill
Brown and others fail to note that there are other levels of govt besides federal. Local and state govts are expected to be the first responders not the feds. The fact that the failure to provide aid was the fault of RATS is one reason the media atack Bush. Assigning blame always bypasses the Rats to fall on the first available Republican. The failure of Bush was to ACCEPT the blame when others were actually at fault. Idiot.
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:39:33 AM PST
by
Hacklehead
(Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
To: Smokin' Joe
There is not one issue Big Media will give Bush credit for, not one.
Bottom line:
They were bent on destroying him from day 1 in retaliation for Republicans impeaching Slick Willy and 'stealing' the Presidency from Algore.
To: Smokin' Joe
The mayor and governor were responsible for activating the emergency plan. A teenager had the common sense to get a bus and load it with people and drive away to safety. Buses and government vehicles were supposed to be used. This is the fault of the president? The people were told to leave and many did not. Other than the infirmed and elderly people that stayed, the people staying made a choice to stay. That risked the lives of military people that had to
pull them off roof tops. What happened to responsiblity?
To: tobyhill
The state and local Governments always get a pass with the MSM as long as they are Democrat Held. Had Katrina happened in say 2008 instead of 2005 you know that tune would change with a Republican now being Governor of that state.
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:44:09 AM PST
by
spikeytx86
(Pray for Democrats for they have been brainwashed by their fruity little club.)
To: tobyhill
Nuff said here
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:44:28 AM PST
by
doodad
To: tobyhill
Cambell you media whore. NOLA was and is a shithole run by incompetent DEMOCRAT crooks. Black laziness killed the ability to respond. It is purely a negro problem.
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:44:48 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . The original point of America was not to be Europe)
To: Smokin' Joe
The failure also lies at the local level. Local resources in NOLA that could have evacuated 15,000-25,000 residents went unused, thereby greatly increasing the need for aid into the area. How much better would the Federal response have looked, if there were that many fewer people in the disaster zone?
Could the Federal response have been better? Sure. But State and Local actions directly caused much avoidable suffering in NOLA.
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:44:49 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Obama: Carter's only chance to avoid going down in history as the worst U.S. president ever.)
To: tobyhill
Wondering what is going to happen to the haters on CNN and MSNBC after inauguration day.
Will they go on sabbatical for the next couple of years?
Oh, I forgot they’ll be concentrating on the dog search, the clothes worn by the mrs.
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:45:28 AM PST
by
Carley
To: tobyhill
Could Michael Brown and FEMA have done better? Yeah, most likely. But it’s not Brownie’s fault, for example, that Ray Nagin’s approach to hurricane preparedness amounted to “Later, dawlin’.”
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:46:36 AM PST
by
RichInOC
(New Orleans has survived just about every disaster thrown at it, except possibly bad government.)
To: doodad
And here was the local response to the emergency
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:46:42 AM PST
by
doodad
To: Smokin' Joe
As always, Bush just does not have the ability to explain himself. We get it, but he is very poor at speaking. Just makes me crazy. THAT, I will not miss.
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:46:52 AM PST
by
GoCards
To: oldironsides
The Government resources would not have had to be used to save lives had the morons evacuated when they were told to.
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:47:35 AM PST
by
tobyhill
(No Honeymoon For Obama.)
To: tobyhill
It is tiring to have to listen to the bleeding hearts bitch about the lack of help during Katrina. What about Rita? It was a more devastating storm that did more damage. And where was FEMA after Ike hit the Texas coast?
You didn't hear about that because the people affected by those storms helped themselves with additional help from local and state government. Our National Guard chipped in with resources and manpower.
Houston still has Katrina "Refugees" in hotels paid for by the Feds. How long should the welfare go on?
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:50:11 AM PST
by
River_Wrangler
(Nothing difficult is ever easy!)
To: Carley
Obama will get a free pass even if 1900 die. The MSM will claim that the speed in which he acted saved 30,000 lives.
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:50:49 AM PST
by
tobyhill
(No Honeymoon For Obama.)
To: tobyhill
Never do they mention that lack of leadership by Ray ‘chocolate city’ Nagin or that clueless Governor Bianco. How about those busses floating in the parking lot Mr. Nagin?
Never do they mention personal responsibility for paying attention to the weather (it wasn’t like there was 5 minutes warning that a hurricane was coming) and taking steps to GTFO.
I doubt the leadership in N.O./LA has an effective strategy for the next hurricane. I doubt they have the ability to effect a plan.
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posted on
01/13/2009 4:55:13 AM PST
by
Made In The USA
(Liberalism is a sign of stupidity.)
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