Why are you making all these excuses for the leaders of Louisiana?
It’s not Bush’s responsibility to be like a parent to remind his kids to close the door when they go out. For cry’n out loud. That’s why this people were elected.
Barber & Riley did what they were responsible for, take care of their own states. That’s called LEADERSHIP!
Do you know what the purpose of FEMA is?
FEMA is an executive department and the acronym stands for Federal Emergency Management Agency. The head of the executive branch is the president. Therefore, the response of FEMA in any disaster is the president’s ball court.
And I’m not even talking about Louisiana. I live in Alabama. We’re often forgotten about when talking about Katrina but we still had our worst storm surge in 90 years.
And the governors do not have FEMA at their disposal. They can’t order FEMA to do anything. That comes from the president.
And it would not have taken much effort as you think to have had several million MRES stockpiled in cities across the region that weekend so that they could be deployed into the disaster area as soon as the all clear was given.