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.
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.
Wrong. We knew. Perhaps some pundits and Republicans in Washington we're caught unaware but WE knew.
Otherwise good article worth reading.
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.
*Bump*
Another thread is well worth looking through -- a long photo essay of the actual events of the storm. It shows how dry the center of town was two days after the hurricane, and how everyone was becoming complacent in the center of town. Then gradually the water level began to rise from the breaking levees:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1481450/posts
When did Govenor Blanco officially request FEMA assistance and National Guard assistance. I suspect the Federal Government responded faster to her request than to any such request in history.