This article shows that Bush was in control and that Blanco would not seed authority to the Feds out of fear - and people died. Do they know this article exhonerates Bush?
Yep, and Friday is when things started getting a lot better. This proves she is a total incompetant.
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Excellent news from the White House. Bush knew, hell yes he knew. He never admitted the federal government was not reacting quickly enough, as the MSM has reported. He was talking about the locals
Bring back Reconstruction with Condi as the Federal Governor. LA gets leadership and stability. Condi gets local exec experience.
2008 - Rice/?
In spite of the Headline, this makes Bush look good.
This one is interesting. More grist for the blame game. But it is also more grist to just turn it over to the US miliary, and get the Blanco's of this earth out of the way, aeo instante. I've had it. Reading the whole thing is bad for my blood pressure.
A triple ding PING!!! The Governor screwed the pooch!!! The Supreme Court Chief Justice was on his death bed and the Mayor had to be threatened to get him to call for an evacuation... and they have the GALL to try to frame-up the President and try to make HIM look bad!!!
Treachery ABOUNDS in these sorta United States!!!
"Bush administration officials blame state and local authorities for what leaders at all levels have called a failure of the country's emergency management."
This first sentence is pure BS. Anyone who has been watching this tragedy unfold since last Monday can tell you that the failures occurred on the local and State level. The only people who have blamed the Fed are the news media, led by the New York Times. So what is there to shift? I'm utterly fed up with the news media, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, and can only hope that they go out of business.
"This proves the opposite of their freeking title of the article"
Huh? The "Bush should have sent in the National Guard sooner" refrain is untrue?
Case closed.
It was the fault of the NO Mayor for not being prepared for worst case scenario's in his city. It is not Washington's responsibility. It is the Governor's responsibility for Lousiana. They had plenty of notice to request any and all emergency help to be on standby prior to the storm hitting.
The President even declared it a disaster area PRIOR to the storm, by I believe 48 hours. Don't blame Washington for what is clearly the local and state authories ineptness.
Sounds like the Friday they mean is yesterday, 9/2. And it sounds like Gov. Blanco had an attitude all along, not just a CYA attitude either, but a psychological case of projection as well. She perceived that the federal govt wanted to cover itself and prepare to lay blame on her state govt, so she responded in kind and tried to do what she could to make the feds look bad. In other words:
"If they want authority, they just want it to blame me and my people. Therefore I'll withhold it so I can blame them."
Trouble is, she never bothered to consider that they might be trying to do the right thing for the welfare of the citizens in the path of Katrina.
Blanco's mindset is one that has been sedulously watered and nourished by the far left. If we didn't know it before, we have seen now: these ideas have consequences.
The far left is pouring poison in people's ears, and blood will result.
The truth will eventually come out, and the vile, sniveling liberals who tried to politicize this tragedy for their own gain will lose yet again. I can see the Democrat party disappearing as a national party in another three or four election cycles if the libs keep this insanity up.
You know, they don't tell you in the article whether it was this most recent Friday but Friday a week ago. The subsequent paragraph suggests they're talking about 2 Fridays ago....Or is it late and I'm missing something? If I'm not, I'd say this ommission of date is intentional.
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I have never been so thankful for Haley Barbour.
The Mayor of NO and the Governor of LA blew it bigtime.
I've dealt with SEMO (State Emergency Management Office) here in NY, through 9/11, floods, ice storms, blizzards, and blackouts. It gets a little chaotic sometimes, but NY get things done.
King George Pataki may be an arrogant ass, an incompetent, and a crook to boot- but on 9/11 things got done. And Rudy Giuliani was right there at Ground Zero.
In NO and LA, incident command was never established.
It seemed as if nobody was in charge.
In NY, one of our best sources of info on disasters is the media- we have a wall of TVs in the operations centers. If a reporter sees something, the folks in charge find out. Representatives from every department- National Guard, State Police, Transportation, Conservation, every state agency- are there at the command center. If something needs doing, the request goes straight to the agency best able to handle it, word gets passed to the "boots on the ground" and stuff gets done.
"Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly.
This line makes absolutely no sense. If you assume all responsibility, you get to blame the people you're taking responsibility away from? Is that what this nitwit is saying?