Umm, I don't know what you've been reading, but it obviously isn't the same thing as the rest of us.
The LA Times (of all things!) is reporting that there were serious problems with mismanagement of FEMA funds stretching back to 1998. How this report indicates a CYA or publicity blitz by the LEFT to obscure the truth is beyond me.
The point of the story is that the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security misappropriated $60 million that should have gone to emergency perparedness. Seeing as how that department (and the state of Louisiana) are run by democrats, I don't see how they can squirm out of this accusation.
be that as it may, it is not an example of left vs. right as much as it an example of elected officials having a field day with taxpayer money, with disasterous results two weeks ago.
Please see this in the light in which it is presented, as a crime, and not through the cynical lens of politics. This is not a political issue, it is an issue of accountability.
Um yourself, wombat. The screaming about how badly "the feds" responded is exactly a CYA operation. They don't want anyone following the money trail to the corruption that is abut to be exposed. The state of LA took FEMA money and dropped it into the black hole of Louisiana corruption.
My point is that they have been hollering all along about Bush not getting help there in time, and now it turns out that they had squandered funds earmarked for disaster preparedness. It is not so much as a shift the blame as it is an effort to go on offense so that no one sees that you have a crappy defense.
Can you give us the link to the actual article here, where we don't need a log in.
I do have a log in for the LA Times, but it's not accepting my password this morning.
Thanks.
It is very political, why else would the LA Times put this article in their Sat edition?
DO they ever give the names of the people indicted?
I agree. Thats the way I read it as well. I'm shocked this was in the LA Times...