Louisiana Officials Could Lose the Katrina Blame Game

CNSNews ^ | 9/7/05 | Jeff Johnson

[rhombus]

Democrats will just change the subject... time for some "stunning new revelations" about John Roberts.

[nutmeg]

BTTT

[smith288]

Waxman is one ugly man.

[ncountylee]

U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) - no picture please this close to lunch.

[Elyse]

Excellent article. I'd heard someone talking about this. It's good to have a source now. Thanks!

[tje]

bttt

[MplsSteve]

On a side note, I'm waiting as to what those revelations are gonna be.

I'm thinking that he may have had a few unpaid parking tickets from his days at Harvard...or maybe that he was once seen ripping a tag off a mattress when he was an undergrad.

There's always the possibility that he doesn't separate his recycling on trash day either. He leaves it all co-mingled. That obviously means that he'd be no friend of the environment on the Court.

[hophead]

"Waxman's questions about issues such as the lack of federal plans for evacuating residents without access to vehicles"


Has Waxman EVER read the US Constitution?? Since when is the Federal Government responsible for having evacuation plans for every f**king city in the US?? That is the responsibility of LOCAL government Waxman. Oh yea, Waxman thinks the Feds are omnipotent. What an ass.

[Stultis]

Bump

[Les_Miserables]

Good post. Thanks.

[Logical me]

I'm from Los Angeles and Waxman was a nut then and he has digressed to a babbling idiot now.

[george wythe]

But research into more than ten years of reporting on hurricane and flood damage mitigation efforts in and around New Orleans indicates that local and state officials did not use federal money that was available for levee improvements or coastal reinforcement and often did not secure local matching funds that would have generated even more federal funding.

I haven't talked to anyone who thinks that the local corrupt politicians behaved competently. Even the people blaming the federal government for its share of incompetency will concede that the local and state officials did the worst job possible.

Days before the full scope of the disaster was known, the local and state officials were running like chickens with their heads cut off.

If you read the Monday-after-the-hurricane discussion threads, it was already obvious that the local and state officials were dropping the ball.

[Chi-townChief]

How about "The Blame Game" to Shirley Ellis' "The Name Game" ??

[Shazbot29]

How about "The Blame Game" to Shirley Ellis' "The Name Game" ??

CHUCK!

[martinidon]

Give this fiasco time, the tide will start turning on these dims when all of the details start turning up. I think this is going to be fun to watch. The dims are in a lather and can't wait to start pontificating in the hearings. And then when the real information comes out they will be scurrying for cover like the cock roaches they are.
I don't think even Rove the magnificent could have set them up better :)

[McGavin999]

In 2002 FEMA made available grants to upgrade emergency procedures which include secure communications systems. Did Louisiana apply for the grants, and if they did, what did they spend the money on? If they didn't, why not?

[Republican Red]

My kids were singing family names to the Name Game. When we got to our cat named Tuck it dawned on us what we had set the eight year up to sing. lol

[Conservababe]

I don't think that Louisiana state and local officials are going to get away with trying to place blame fully on the feds in the PR game.

Even folks unfamiliar that response to a crisis begins on the state and local level, understood that a crying Gov was telling people to go to the superdome and pretend they were camping, was incompetent. And any one understood that a babbling Mayor telling people to evacuate and bring along a neighbor was incompetent.

[highlymotivated]

His nostrils look like the jet intakes on an A-6.