[repubpub]

What timing, I was just having a discussion with a co-worker about who did or didn’t do what and when. She insisted that the Governor couldn’t declare areas as disaster areas or do anything with Federal aid because of some Homeland Security red tape by W. She seems to be pretty sad about my finding.

[driftless]

From what my wife and I have ascertained, FEMA may be blamed for slowness in some situations (however let's wait for the whole story to unfold), but the primary responsibility for the disaster we concluded has to be the gov and the mayor accounting for about eighty percent of the problems after the levees broke.

Any storm of this magnitude will cause problems that cannot be handled as well as desired by any person or any agency no matter how well planned. However Blanco and Nagin HAD!!!!! the authority and resources to sufficiently mitigate the terrible effects of the flood. If they had used the resources they had with just a modicum of competence, the suffering of the people affected by the flood would have been a lot less. In our minds, the feds only get about ten percent blame for the problems after the flood.

[A Citizen Reporter]

This is today's smokescreen by the media. Prepare to hear "FEMA red tape" and bureaucracy hammered home all day.

The Fox and Friends crew has already begun this. Usually, Steve and Brian are better than this, but they've seem to have jumped on the "stupid" bandwagon this morning. '

[CyberAnt]

Last night, our own Wolfstar posted a PICTORIAL thread about who did what and when.

You should print it out - it's stunning in it's revelations:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478997/posts