FEMA Chief Waited Until After Storm Hit

NewsMax ^ | September 7, 2005 | NewsMax Wires

[danamco]

How is anyone justifying denying food and water for 5 days while all the Hollywood icons got thru for their photo ops.



Sure, they also came in with 500 trucks of ice and 500 trucks of water and 350 trucks with food plus hollywood's "girly-men" came in with their command centers and an Armando of helicopters, right? Like what they do in their play movies!??!

[ForGod'sSake]

You know, it almost makes me sick to watch the cowardly media and Dims attack in the middle of a disaster of monumental proportions. These people are absolute guttersnipes of the lowest order. Pond scum is head and shoulders above this bunch.

Just as a matter of curiousity, would we be knocking our brains out if it weren't for the MSM/Dim machine running interference for a couple of incompetents of the protected classes. A woman governor and a black mayor CANNOT be exposed as negligent or derelict in this disaster. Only Pubbie WASP's are allowed to be criticized. Barf!

[1035rep]

If we are going to ask for resignations we should start with the governor and the mayor they are the real idiots here.

[ForGod'sSake]

I ask you. Isn't the genius that came up with this worthy of having a boot slammed into his worthless posterior?

Truth be known, you can probably thank your compatriots within the Dimocrat party for this monstrosity. Did you not follow the PC line of thought in my post. Do you think for a minute FEMA created this lunacy out of thin air? Get a grip.

[ForGod'sSake]

You need to get out more.

[Tempest]

FEMA is not a 1sr response agency.

[ForGod'sSake]

You aint' nothin' but a one trick pony are you?

[danamco]

To help keep them fed and hydrated, the Louisiana National Guard delivered three truckloads of water and seven truckloads of MREs —


Was that in Toyota pick-ups???

[1035rep]

"Escapees from the asylum perhaps."

Posters from Du perhaps?

[spunkets]

Re:or that he's anything more than a PR man

"You mean he has no power over FEMA? None whatsoever? Who does run FEMA, then?

He's the FEMA chief. That doesn't mean he knows what he's doing, or that he's collected folks that do, to run ops.

Re: "Bush and the others I mentioned were probably upset. After all, Bush declared the disaster early, because they saw what was coming.

"And you, believing the media spin, are part of the mob stirred up by them that is angry at Brown. Let me guess, you saw him on TV and yelled at him. Am I right?

No. I happen to be one of those folks that knows about these things from all aspects. I made my own evaluation. He's a PR man, that's it. There's nothing to his ability to percieve, understand and handle disasterous events. The only reason folks are led to believe he might be competent is, because of the work and efforts of others. He is incapable of leading others, or influencing hteir behavior to avert their own inevitable failure. That's, because he doesn't grasp the situation.

"Just because recreational television viewers across the country want Brown's head doesn't mean he's doing a bad job or should be fired.

He failed to grasp what was happening and consequently failed to minimize it's effects. His emergency management skills suck and it looks like his staffing suffered, because of that. He is incompetent and let both the folks hit by the 'cane and the Administration down.

[ALASKA]

I have not heard of one instance where fema was there before the hurricane.

I used to work for FEMA and I have been on site within 12-18 hours, but I was NEVER pre-positioned.

[buckleyfan]

Do you really want to toe dance with the dems on whether it was 4 or 5 days?

Great point. Good posts.. these are troubled times indeed.

[spunkets]

"What should they do? Show a Unpositive image. Are you always this stupid?"

LOL! This is a letter from the FEMA director to the HS director during an ongoing catastrophe involving significant loss of life and property and this fool's mind is on image and the propaganda effort. Yeah, I'm stupid. LOL!

[danamco]

Heck, FEMA was (and is) still responding to the first Katrina strike in South Florida just days before. This doesn't include the other 90,000 square miles they are also dealing with.



And I believe there is still over 10,000 down there without electricity for more than two weeks, which is NOT FEMA's fault. Not only are they working in Miami Dade county, but I believe they are still working in the 4 areas that was hit here last year!??!

[buckleyfan]

I for one think the entire post-Katrina response totally rocked. And that's coming from someone who rarely, if ever, thinks the government does anything right.

Wow.. I wonder what a less-rockin' response would be in your judgement.. No response at all?

[M. Espinola]

Here we go again?

New storm threatens eastern Florida

The view

[buckleyfan]

That's NOT FEMA's job you ignorant troll.

Get over yourself, people have a right to disagree with you. Or do you own this message board?

[danamco]

and on Saturday they cut the parish's emergency communications line, leading the sheriff to restore it and post armed guards to protect it from FEMA, Broussard said on "Meet the Press" on NBC.



Which Saturday???

[tophat9000]

These are the that help people fill out forms for money and aid, not rescue and relief workers

[BigSkyFreeper]

Brown needs to be fired IMMEDIATELY. I can't belive Bush ever gave such responsibility to this imbecile.

Fired for what? For doing his job? FEMA is not a "first responder". FEMA does not supercede local and state officials, who weren't doing their job to begin with.