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Posted on 09/04/2005 6:14:35 PM PDT by NautiNurse
They evacuated to Florida for the duration of the storm, so they didn't actually experience Katrina (for which they are thankful)
I'm really not tune into the discussion, but there is a difference between a terrorist attack and a natural disaster.
Federalization of troops during a terrorist attack is a given, it is not usually the case during a natural disaster.
But under the "Insurrection Act" the President if she is/was not willing to ask, the President could have declared the state and local governments "unable or unwilling" to care for their citizens, thus invoking the act.
Of course, if Bush had sent in Federal troops early, we'd be hearing the MSM bash Bush. Only this time it would be bashing him because troops were sent in too soon and he usurped the state's authority.
The man can't win with the MSM, never has, but he always comes out fine, and their bashing usually backfires on them.
is it untrue, then prove it.
I could tell horror stories.
Everyone down there will pile on the gravy train. Large sums of money will be spent without any documentation. Leadership jobs will be handed out to family members and friends. People with zero skills will be in charge of major projects and huge sums of money. The waste will be enormous.
Right now, they're poisoning the well to provide themselves cover for all of this. The Louisiana political machine needs to be unseated NOW.
For goodness sakes, why is it that I keep seeing you posting critical comments and asking for others to defend the President. Evacuating the city, getting people to secure shelters where they would be provided food and water and employing every resource to get them there should not have overwhelmed this city. This isn't a week long event...its months and months and months of managing both the displaced and the rebuilding.
please take your speculations off this thread.
They may have been reporting, but I suspect they were reporting that they had everything under control. Do you think Nagin reported early that he didn't have a clue what was going on (I gather their communications network was out of commission and that various agencies had incompatible equipment)? Maybe not, but didn't Nagin and/or Blanco deny early reports of shootings?
Dear Dolphy,
Please go back and reread my post. Those were NOT my comments.
Thank you.
Did anyone else hear the official from Houston who spoke on FOX earlier? He talked about the change in the state's earlier approximation of the number of survivors they could take care of.
He stumbled a bit and explained that the survivors were individuals with needs not previously anticipated. He even spoke of the policing needed.
Sad. So many of the survivors are good people who suffered a tragedy which could have happened to anyone of us. They deserve our kindest, most generous "hand up."
The criminal element destroys so much.
That statement is not correct. The NG is under the Governor's command. Not the President's. The Guard does not fall under the President's command until it has been federalized...with the approval of the state. 9/11 does not apply here because that was a matter of National Security, and Guard assets used immediately after the initial strikes were Guard assets already assigned the role. No Guard troops were deployed without the direct coordination and approval of the Governors in command of those Guard units.
I'm inclined to go with those FReepers who think the left would have claimed it as grounds for impeachment, overstepping his constitutional authority. (Not that some of those moonbats need actual grounds!)
Sean Hannity has him (Gingrich) on his radio show all the time. I've started listenting to CDs on the way home from work.
Sean was too tabloid for my tastes.
I hope somebody has had the foresight to keep all these terric links filed so that we can easily get to them later. They are going to be a fount of information later.
Well, you apparently know more of them personally than I do.
the left has been successful, in part, of making alot of americans believe that the federal government is their "nanny" - from cradle to grave.
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