[Dane]

Huh nothing about the inept mayor nagin and governor blanco.

FEMA got hit with a double whammy, a catrostrophic hurricane and an inept and almost criminally incompetant state and local govt.

Time for michelle to put down her poison pen and poitn fingers at the true incompetants, nagin and blanco.

[wildwood]

poison pen? i guess you didn't go to the source, did you? hmm. she has commentary and links on such.

poison pen? yeah, i guess telling the truth is called that nowadays.

[COEXERJ145]

Time for michelle to put down her poison pen and poitn fingers at the true incompetants, nagin and blanco.

Yeah right. Malkin is nothing but a shrill for the anti-Bush crowd.

[takbodan]

"Huh nothing about the inept mayor nagin and governor blanco."

She's been slamming the mayor and Blanco all week. She makes a valid point about Brown. I wasn't impressed with his tv persona.

[MizSterious]

Yes. As a past resident of New Orleans, I can safely say the best and most damning story would be to follow the money that was intended for the planning (why not hurricane shelters? not even a bank of porta-potties for the superdome or convention center for when the electricity failed? why no buses for those they KNEW could not drive out of town?) and the upkeep of the levee and pump system? Congressman Billy Bob did a nice article on the graft surrounding the pumps (alone).

The one thing that needs to be investigated won't be investigated--and that's the influence of the generations of welfare families never taught to fend for themselves--unless it's to rob, mug, or use dope. THAT I lay squarely at the foot the 'Rats.

[Bob]

...and almost criminally incompetant state and local govt.

Almost?? I'd say that the term "clearly criminally incompetent" would be more accurate.

[Hildy]

There's enough blame from the top to the bottom. Everybody sucked on this one.

[JustAnotherOkie]

Yea,

Michelle needs to quit getting the 'Bee Sting' treatment in her lips and check this out a little further.

[mass55th]

"FEMA got hit with a double whammy, a catrostrophic hurricane and an inept and almost criminally incompetant state and local govt."

Aren't there FEMA officials at the state and local level? If so, how good a job did they do in assessing the disaster and getting that info to Brown. A lot of info can get lost or eliminated, being passed up through the chain of command. Maybe Brown was guilty of trusting the evaluations of the locals too much.

[WOSG]

Dittos on that.

[Cautor]

"Time for michelle to put down her poison pen and poitn fingers at the true incompetants, nagin and blanco."

Exactly. I'm finding Malkin very tiresome in this finger pointing. The entire fault rests with the Dummycrats whose gross incompetence has greatly exacerbated this situation.

[af_vet_rr]

Most of the blame should lie with those in Louisiana, but to be fair, it was pretty idiotic of FEMA to be pretending that everything was okay and efforts were well underway.

I think the biggest thing this whole catastrophe has proven, is that when push comes to shove, don't rely on the government.

Even as the government has expanded FEMA, has grown "Homeland Security" by leaps and bounds, over the past five years, when it comes down to it, you can only count on yourself and the person beside you.

Witness the young man who took the school bus, went around picking up total strangers, and drove them to Houston. He and those with him saved more lives directly than the Mayor and Governor of Louisiana combined.

I think that if people relied less on the government, and more on themselves, we would be in much better shape.

We also need a government that is more flexible, and willing to let people do what's right - witness the government in New Orleans forcing people to stop fleeing the city and instead make their way to the Convention Center or Superdome - how many had to die because of that decision?

[Milligan]

I think it was a power struggle going on with the democrats and republicans. Maybe the Governor was being a snot and didn't let Brown know what is going on? Don't call him to tell him about the Superdome problems? Maybe he couldn't contact her...no emergency phone system. Funds were used to build a new casino.

Was Brown multitasking? Could he be taking care of New Orleans, Alabama and Mississippi.

But once the military reached the Superdome everything started to move! What happen?