I'm curious if this is also your response to the many fingers here on FR that are being pointed at the state and city governments.
See post #67 for the REAL STORY.
#67 doesn't address the points that Malkin raised. It's interesting how everyone likes to talk around that for some reason.
New Orleans got chaotic not because the Federal Govt was slow, but because state and local govt was lax about security and law and order.
I guess that answers the question I asked at the top of the post.
"I dont care who it is, now's not the time nor place, when we have a disaster to confront, to go about canning people. Let's deal with the situation and fix it.
"I'm curious if this is also your response to the many fingers here on FR that are being pointed at the state and city governments."
I'm not agreeing that we should fire or can *anyone* at this time, is my point. This is true even of the state and local officials who've performed much more poorly than FEMA has. Even if some people have screwed up, now is not the time nor place - mid-crisis - to make it worse. The suggestions to fire the FEMA head now are absurd and wrong-headed.
Bush's approach has been 100% correct. He didnt point fingers he simply called the disaster response as of Friday "unacceptable" and said and did what was needed to FIX it.
"See post #67 for the REAL STORY."
"#67 doesn't address the points that Malkin raised."
It puts in perspective. Malkin whines about some inaccurate comments (whereas facts shows FEMA responding appropriately overall), yet ignores who is doing the *work* of providing relief and who *did* and *didnt* do their part in recovering. The nitpicks of FEMA head's comments should be classed under 'fog of war' as no more inaccurate than the majority of statements made in crisis environments when communication is incomplete.
The 'weakest link' is not at the Federal level.
case in point: Malkin links to a New Orleans State rep begging for busses ...
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09.html#076163
Just great ... we now know the city of New Orleans on Sunday and Monday cluelessly let *300 busses* get waterlogged, even though they had *plenty of time* to get them to higher ground a mere mile away.
It gets even better ... as another poster noted, the
New Orleans disaster recovery plan directed that municipal buses would be available for those without private transportation.
That was the plan. It wasnt FEMA that screwed up, but the state and local Governments, failing to live up to the plan and do obvious things to be prepared.. Malkin knows this and so do you. Had NO and LA done *their* job, there wouldnt have been as many starving people traumatized for days in New Orleans, trapped, and there wouldn't be the scalp hunt over FEMA. The disaster is overwhelming enough as it is, but fingerpointing makes it even more so.