Posted on 09/15/2005 4:28:18 AM PDT by billorites
IN HIS BEST leadership move since Hurricane Katrina hit, President Bush on Tuesday accepted responsibility for the federal government's inadequate response to the disaster. The people of Louisiana are still waiting for their state and local officials to stop passing the buck.
On the same day President Bush shouldered the blame for the federal government's actions, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco continued to accuse FEMA of botching the recovery process. As far as we can find, Blanco has yet to take any responsibility for the state's failures in the days immediately before and after Katrina hit.
Blanco refused the President's request for a mandatory evacuation, refused the federal government's request to direct operations, and generally acted like a deer in the headlights during the entire ordeal. Though FEMA's guidelines clearly state that state and local officials are in charge for the first three to four days of an emergency, Blanco in that time failed to act quickly and fingered Washington for the blame. State police in those days were turning away volunteers who had come to help, and Blanco has yet to explain that or take responsibility for it.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who did take some steps to evacuate the city before the storm, apparently failed to follow the city's emergency plan, left school buses stranded in parking lots, and reportedly refused Amtrak's offer of evacuation aid before the storm. He also let looters get control of the city when he ordered police to ignore them.
Louisiana residents also are waiting for their U.S. senators to take responsibility for directing federal appropriations to pork projects instead of the levees.
Blaming the federal government is easy, particularly when the big media are so eager to pin anything negative on President Bush. But the facts are that state and local officials in Louisiana bear a great deal of the responsibility for the botched hurricane response, and they have yet to claim it.
Blanco is an emoting moron.
At least there is some common sense being spoke in the press... :)
Blanco is an emoting moron.Blanco Cried - People Died.
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| Posted by fidelio On News/Activism 09/14/2005 7:45:22 PM CDT · 183 replies · 3,895+ views AP ^ | 14 Sep 05 | Fidelio BATON ROUGE (AP) — Echoing the words of President Bush a day earlier, Gov. Kathleen took responsibility Wednesday for failures and missteps in the immediate response to Hurricane Katrina and pledged a united effort to rebuild New Orleans and the surrounding parishes ravaged by the storm. “We all know that there were failures at every level of government: state, federal and local. At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility,” Blanco told lawmakers in a... |
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Anyone else notice how the press is all over Nagin. He's their new golden child. Presser here, photo op there.
President Bush took blame – but there isn’t much blame for him to take. Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin are an entirely different case.
Taking the blame is not the same as taking responsibility. The ability and willingess to respond accordingly is what makes a leader.
I'm sure Blanco wants to run for Governor again so of course everything she does is with that in mind. So an apology here and admission there...means nothing.
When I lived there, three years ago, the morons would come up to get away from the taxes and immediately demand the same Government Give Away Services up there.
Dipwads!
I'm sure Blanco wants to run for Governor again so of course everything she does is with that in mind. So an apology here and admission there...means nothing.
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Blanco also knows that the MSM media won't cover her statements about taking the blame...our local paper, as I predicted, did not cover her statements but it was plastered across the front page that President Bush took responsibility...
Jeez we really have to break these nanny state mentalities....
Maybe this was written before they heard it. I just heard this morning on the radio that Blanco admitted anything . (My first thought was that Bush's apology -- as far as it went -- must have polled well LOL!).
All you have to ask them is the following question:
What's more critical, the 3 days 'before' a Hurricane approaches, or the 3 days 'after'? That usually shuts the critics up.
The Union Leader finally pulled it's corporate 'head' out of it's.....well.....after a week or so of editorials that mindlessly parrotted Boston's Globe and the NY Slimes as well as every idiotic AP story - the editors apparently have sobered up enough to face reality.
Old Nacky Loeb and her husband must be spinning in their graves over what has become of their paper. These days it's hard to tell the Nashua Telegraph and the Union Leader apart.
Q: When will the NYT, Boston Globe, and LA Times will run something like this.
A: Your answer here...
My A: When Bill goes celibate.
we can only home that this is the first of many awakenings of editorial staffs and news directors.
What's the difference. Nagin was looting NO long before the storm. So allowing his bretheren looters full access was only par for the course!
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