Posted on 09/06/2005 7:36:17 AM PDT by AliVeritas
The inevitable happens:
With many blaming the growing scope of Katrina's devastation on the Bush administration, Sen. Hillary Clinton called yesterday for a 9/11-style probe into how the federal government responded to the crisis.
"It has become increasingly evident that our nation was not prepared," Clinton (D-N.Y.) said in a letter to Bush asking him to set up a "Katrina Commission." After the water is pumped out and the mud hosed out, there will be plenty of blame to go around, between all three levels of government and over the last few decades. The "Katrina Commission", should it actually eventuate, promises to be however merely like another exercise in Bush-bashing, this time officially sanctioned.
This is at the same time that it's becoming clear that major breakdowns have occurred on the state and local levels, whether it was the reluctance to surrender some of the authority to the federal government, the botched evacuation with hundreds of school and municipal buses remaining unutilized, or the law and order and manpower problems.
(Excerpt) Read more at chrenkoff.blogspot.com ...
I nominate Jamie Gorelick to chair the commission. She has proved herself to be a great real bi-partisan while serving on the 9/11 Commission. /sarcasm off/
Look for the Dems to put Governor Blanco on the commission so she can't be questioned about her role in the disaster.
The big upfront mistake the way I see it is not using Jerry Lewis' head (or Ted Kennedy's if you prefer) to plug up the first levee that gave way. Someone will pay for that clusterfoxtrot, no doubt. I hope Hillary takes care of this asap
It just occurred to me that if Blanco could have built a wall like Gorelick can New Orleans would never have been flooded.
This is a good keeper
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478445/posts
US Army Corps of Engineers News Release (Levee failure, repair & background)
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