Posted on 09/09/2005 4:33:28 PM PDT by stan_25
No one anticipated that the aftermath of Katrina would include a false and ignorant tidal wave of calumny against President Bush. Conservatives beware, because the goal here is to politically disable the President, and the conservative agenda along with him.
A few basic facts will help to detox the political environment. First, FEMA is not an agency of first responders. It is not the agency responsible for bringing people bottles of water and trays of fresh food, or transporting them out of harm’s way. It also has zero law enforcement authority, or personnel.
These first responder jobs are the responsibility of local and state government -- city police and firemen, city transportation and emergency services personnel, state police, and ultimately the state National Guard.
FEMA has always been primarily a Federal financing agency, providing funding to the locals after the crisis hits to help them respond and rebuild. That is why FEMA’s website baldly states don’t expect them to show up with their aid until 3 or 4 days after the disaster strikes.
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Makes ya wonder sometimes...why Democrats,
and the other assorted lefties, just don't
go ahead and kill themselves allready.
Many did anticipate it, it was inevitable.
1. What could you have done better at the local level?
2. What could you have done better at the state level?
3. What could you have done better at the federal level?
Have an idea, who is the most qualified to oversee all the freebies doled out by the govt, and oversee the rebuilding projects in all states affected by the hurricane?
I vote for VP Cheney!!
He was CEO of the most powerful company in our country and did a phenominal job. I would bet he wouldn't mix emotion with logic in what the evacuees would receive in aid. Things would run perfectly, along with Pete Wilson and other private sector executives.
Don't worry, they're get getting ready. All this screaming and whining is the death rattle of the Dem party.
Worse of all, is that we have to depend on everbody else but the President to tell us the truth. Why is he such a wimp when it comes to these false charges? He thinks its honrable to be made a fool of and not defend himself? This is supporting your base?
While the liberal establishment and their propaganda machine in the MSM will do anything to undermining this Presidency, its a fallacy to say that PresBush has been conservative as most of us conservatives thought he would in the long run.
I think a more appropriate statement would be:
Republicans beware, because the goal here is to politically disable the President, and the Republican agenda along with him.
Of course the left has no chance of disabling this President or his on-again, off-again, so-called conservative agenda. The rest of the article I agree with.
FEMA = 2,400 full time employees.
There's is no way they can respond to every need and whim of the locals.
Do you realize how many heart attacks you produced at DU?
Love it! :)
Wrong. We knew. Perhaps some pundits and Republicans in Washington we're caught unaware but WE knew.
Otherwise good article worth reading.
This was the case with the earthquake in LA in 1994 also. Nobody expected FEMA guys to come around and dig them out of the rubble. You filled out a form documenting your damage, and a few weeks or months later they spit out a check. Beginning and end of FEMA story.
The liberals know this. It's what they created FEMA for in the first place. They're just applying their usual bad faith and opportunistic spin to the latest target, facts be damned.
Here we have a situation where, for years, there have been predictions of what would likely happen to NO if hit by a major hurricane. No one questioned the predictions. It finally happened thanks to a hurricane whose track was well, and very accurately, predicted days in advance of landfall. The two figures who were supposed to implement plans to protect the inhabitants failed completely to meet their leadership roles. Almost nothing was done right by Blanco and Nagin, two utterly incompetent Democrap hacks. They not only failed to do their affirmative duty, but their actions stood in the way of others who were ready, able, and willing to pitch in the relief effort almost from the moment the storm cleared the city. Both Blanco and Nagin are almost entirely at fault here. But what do you know? Between the MSM, the talking heads in Washington, and the sorry politicians in Washington (including too many Republicans), they managed to obfuscate this picture and turn it into a "blame Bush and Brown game." No one seems to care that the job of FEMA is exactly as you describe it, or that they were not supposed to carry out the first-responder role that was legally up to the two LA jerks (the mayor and governor) to orchestrate. So now we have the press digging into Brown's 20 year old resume to find something to help skewer him and the President. Nothing Brown did or didn't do impacted the relief effort in a negative way. IMO, FEMA did exactly what it was supposed to do as soon as it was able to do so. Only in the screwy world of Washington's gotcha politics could a simple and clear situation be turned upside down the way it has. It is shameful and it disgusts me.
But, to address your first point. he isn't saying the President is a conservative. He's saying if the president falls, Conservatism suffers an enormous blow. And he's correct.
The President to the American people, NOT conservatives btw, and to the left has become a symbol. he's become a symbol of the Republican ascendency. He's become associated with the dominating rise of nuMedia. he's become associated with those giving rise to conservative policies. he's become associated with a strong pro-active defense. Strong faith. Contitutionalism. Apple Pie. America. You name it. Some of these more valid than others.
The President is not a man to these people. He represents all they hate, because those they hate are responsible for him being there. Defeat him, and we're defeated.
This is what some people do not understand in Washington and in the punditry, and they are making a big mistake in not rising to his defense.
*Bump*
Well and truly put.
I do think, however, that perhaps this time the libs have gone a bridge too far. Their *enthusiasm* for their hatred of President Bush let them get their momentum way out in front of the facts. It appears to be showing up in the polls that most ordinary people really aren't buying it this time.
This means there's gonna be some blowback. Here's to hoping... :-)
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