Yeah, well, I wouldn't believe too much of the hate Bush media spiel. I think the rescue operations went pretty well under the circumstances.
Just caught a C-SPAN Replay with all of the House and Senate
leadership and dear Nancy has decided that the FEMA head ..Brown is totally responsible for all of the suffering.....what a fruitcake she is....
I don't buy that at all.
I simply do not think Chertoff was on top of this at all.
I take this as representative of what could happen in a major terrorist act.
FEMA and our people are great and the greatest on Earth. The decisiveness and leadership and attention and focus of the leadership of these great professionals is what fell short.
This is not partisan and should not be made partisan. The political looters are sickening. Nagin and Blanco in my mind bear more responsibilty for what went wrong. The other side is playing the blame game against Bush hysterically and insanely. They of course blame only anyone associated with the administration, absolving anyone with a D- after their name.
I do not, though, see legitimate criticism of Chertoff and Brown as attacks on Bush. Libs do, but just because the libs want to use this for partisan purposes we can't simply take an opposite side for political purposes.
The problem with the shrill dem attacks is that they make us defensive. Everyone becomes defensive in such circumstances which means we will not be able to objectively address the shortcomings. This is a matter of national security and political gain playing is counter productive. There is no way on Earth the libs will do anything other than play this way. It is up to us to address what happened because the dems won't.