[Cincinatus' Wife]

What a bunch of horse hockey!!

This morning on Fox and Friends, Brian Kilmeade told the viewers that FEMA said they can't come out to assess his damage because THEY [FEMA trucks] DON'T HAVE any gas AND they asked if they can get out there, could Kilmeade find them a hotel room on Long Island!!!!!!!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Yesterday on “The Five” Bob Beckel said that Obama’s FEMA is run well, unlike Bush’s Katrina FEMA.

[pietraynor]

What happened to the thousands of urban assualt vehicles that FEMA has bought in past few years? Seems they would be perfect to drive through downed trees, sand and water. Or are they saving them for after the election to put the vast right wing conspiracy into the FEMA camps for reeducation? You know Valerie Jarrett said those that are against us will pay dearly. Splitting your fight forces up to save a few peons is not the thing to so I guess.

[Ann Archy]

OMG!!

[libertylover]

says Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut...[FEMA] was proactive, and it didn't used to be. It doesn't wait for the storm to hit, it pre-positions personnel, equipment, food supplies, water, etc.

As I recall, supplies WERE pre-positioned before Katrina, but an incompetent mayor and an incompetent governor refused to cooperate and thus the problem. Still, the major problem with Katrina and with Sandy is that there are thousands upon thousands of people who have no idea how to take care of themselves - they've become completly dependent on the government.

[LibLieSlayer]

Ok people here it is... FEMA is a bunch of fat cat bureaucrats that hire college kid temps when things get hot... and these are the people that go out and hand out MRE’s and make promises and deliver SBA loan applications. These higher ups will show up with a clip board and concerned looks... if you depend on FEMA... you are going to die. I KNOW! No one with a lick of sense depended on the government after Katrina. The Military is an entirely different story... GOD bless every one of our Military men and women... they were fantastic.

LLS

[ROCKLOBSTER]

FEMA is a very different organization than it was during Katrina

Yes, it has now been elevated to an unimaginable level of graft and corruption as only the RATs can do. It is totally unable to lift a finger, except the middle one.

says Sen. Joe Lieberman

Who cares what the whining hyena, Hardee Har Har, has to say? "Oh dear...Oh my..."

[TomGuy]

No worries, people. Obama is already at FEMA HQ this morning.

He will be kicking a** this morning, because, so far, the FEMA response has been kicking his.

And the election is Tuesday, so he needs some good photo-ops and adoring Media coverage.

[Right Wing Assault]

The problem with Katrina, of course, was not as much the hurricane but the flooding. I remember our local paper headline: "New Orleans dodges Katrina" or something like that.

Then the levees blew. Local, state, and federal people knew for years that day would come but didn't do near enough to prevent it. Lucky for most of them it was not on their watch. Bush had the bad luck to be there when it happened.

Most of their planning was done for typical hurricane scenarios such as housing, food, flooding in places, restoration of power but not for flooding of a Noah's ark proportions, which prevented movement of people and supples in the quantities needed.

Where they had buses and trucks to move people and supplies, they needed a navy. Toss the stupidity of state and local Chocolate City politicians in the mix and you've got a major disaster.

More than enough people to share the blame, but it was easier for politicians and the MSM to pass the buck to Bush rather than share the truth.

[PGalt]

GRRRREAT thread (posts & taglines) BUMP!

[mo]

FEMA, like the BATF and TSA..is another intrusive, expensive, un-Constitutional federal agency running around trying to justify to Congress and the American people its existence, mission, budget and salaries.

Maybe a Romney administration will in its mercy, put it out of existence? Spare us all the existential dram? /s

[AFPhys]

LOL

This is sure a different story than the articles that are featured on Drudge...

[kearnyirish2]

“Brian Kilmeade told the viewers that FEMA said they can’t come out to assess his damage because THEY [FEMA trucks] DON’T HAVE any gas AND they asked if they can get out there, could Kilmeade find them a hotel room on Long Island!”

When they said the fuel shipments had to be directed to utility and law enforcement vehicles, I felt it was worth waiting for hours to fill the tank (I had about four days’ worth of gas in the tank); today we’ll start rationing in much of NJ, but if the stations’ tanks are constantly drained I don’t know this will help.

[TomGuy]

Obama at FEMA this morning ‘... no bureaucracy, no red tape. Let’s get things done.’

==

Rush Limbaugh was classic yesterday — saying both Bloomberg and Obama were dissing big government, which both support, to get relief moving to those in need.

Both Bloomberg and Obama are advocating the suspension of bureaucratic and agency regulations which, in emergencies, are hindences and roadblocks.

[Lady Heron]

"[FEMA] was proactive, and it didn't used to be.

Bull!

FEMA was sitting on the border of Louisianan waiting before Katrina hit. A dem governor did not let them into her state.

[trebb]

FEMA is not suitable as a first responder. NOLA was in chaos after Katrina and Mississippi rolled up its sleeves and got to work while the Governor took the lead. The Northeast is like NOLA with all the Dims who will sit in their own dirty diapers and cry because someone from the government hasn’t stopped by to change their diapers. That said, Blooming Idiotberg and others up there are not impressing me with their talk and lack of leadership - they are the ones who need to take the initial lead and not get diverted by such oh-so-important things like a freaking foot race...

[Alice in Wonderland]

FEMA hasn't made it to Rockaway Beach but Occupy Wall Street and Greenpeace has.

[tomkat]

NPR

.. Boost FEMA's Sandy Response

F atuous
E lection
M anipulation
A gency

[GeronL]

What planet are they reporting from??