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Congressional Investigators Blame Bush For Katrina Disaster
AP

Posted on 02/01/2006 6:44:27 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

Congressional investigators have faulted the Bush administration for failing to set up a clear chain of command in the government's response to Hurricane Katrina.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: 109th; blamegame; bush; fema; katrina
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1 posted on 02/01/2006 6:44:28 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

More:

The Bush administration failed to set up a clear chain of command to respond to Hurricane Katrina, slowing coordination and communication within the federal government, congressional investigators reported Wednesday.


2 posted on 02/01/2006 6:45:10 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

How interesting this was released after a splendid SOTU. The 'rats and MSM are in full force to destroy the President today. Scumballs.


3 posted on 02/01/2006 6:45:49 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
I imagine these sorts of things are already set up, have been set up for years, and are in a play book somewhere.
All they had to do was follow it (starting in LA - not DC).
4 posted on 02/01/2006 6:47:00 AM PST by grobdriver (Let the embeds check the bodies!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The first BLACK hurricane makes landfall - again. Yawn-a-mundo.


5 posted on 02/01/2006 6:49:12 AM PST by RexBeach ("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
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To: grobdriver
I imagine these sorts of things are already set up, have been set up for years,

I was thinking the same thing. Apparently these morons think this was the first disaster to hit the USA and previous presidents were never expected to do anything.
6 posted on 02/01/2006 6:49:24 AM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The Bush administration failed to set up a clear chain of command.

As I recall, the Bush administration offered to assist the state and the state refused. Given the refusal, what were they to do?? Set up a chain JUST IN CASE the state changed their mind?

Note, this is not news. FEMA already took the heat for it. It is repeating an old story with FEMA taken out and Bush administration inserted to undermine the SOU bump in the polls.


7 posted on 02/01/2006 6:49:52 AM PST by Paloma_55 (Which part of "Common Sense" do you not understand???)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Wow, so Bush hates Black people? Again?

These guys really need some new talking points.


8 posted on 02/01/2006 6:52:02 AM PST by roses of sharon ("I would rather men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one". ) (Cato the Elder)
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Wow, so Bush hates Black people? Again?

Wow, so Bush hates Black Chocolate people? Again?

9 posted on 02/01/2006 6:53:44 AM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Congressional investigators? Do you mean Democratic staffers?


10 posted on 02/01/2006 6:54:55 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
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And yet today in the paper it's reported that the LA. official TASKED with creating an evac plan totally ignored the request and never made one.

Must be Bush's fault, yeah that's the ticket...


11 posted on 02/01/2006 6:55:01 AM PST by funkywbr
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To: SoFloFreeper

Welp, least they can't blame him for not upholding the constitution since the constitution gave neither the executive or legislative branch any delegated powers over diaster relief or assistance within the states.


12 posted on 02/01/2006 6:56:19 AM PST by AZRepublican ("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
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To: Paloma_55
As I recall, the Bush administration offered to assist the state and the state refused. Given the refusal, what were they to do?? Set up a chain JUST IN CASE the state changed their mind?

This is a classic no-win situation, If Bush had stepped in, he would have been accused with equal or greater volume of meddling in state affairs, messing with the emergency procedures "already put in place by the state and local authorities" and essentially making the aftermath worse.

It's best that it played out the way it did - the charges ring hollow, and Blanco and Nagin have been exposed to the world as incompetent fools.

13 posted on 02/01/2006 6:56:38 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: Mr. Brightside

Bush should've had himself cloned so he could drive all those school buses.


14 posted on 02/01/2006 6:56:58 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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The media sure made it all about Blacks and racism and the American people aren't responding. Do you know anyone who isn't politically active who gives NO a thought? I don't. They just don't care.

I honestly believe that if the media coverage hadn't been so hysterical and if they had shown much more heroism instead of reporting on hearsay depravity more people would care today. They seem to have written it off.

15 posted on 02/01/2006 7:01:14 AM PST by tiki
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To: SoFloFreeper

The DU crowd will believe this but most of the rest of us can recognize the incompetence of the State of Louisiana officials.

But if the dims want to propose changing the Constitution to clarify the procedures for the President to federalize command and control over state resources in a natural disaster, let's roll.


16 posted on 02/01/2006 7:03:54 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, was
asked his views on Roe vs. Wade.

He said he didn't care how people got
back to their houses.


17 posted on 02/01/2006 7:05:58 AM PST by PolishProud (A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Yes, yes, Bush to blame for Katrina. Karl Rove to be indicted. Abu Grhahib-a-dooo!! Bush authorized torture. Bush lied about Iraq/Iraq is a disaster. Bush is not doing enough for homeland security, i.e. not implementing the 9/11 commission's recommendations (uhhh, like acting quickly to, well, wiretap suspects by getting around FISA). Bush is authorizing "illegal" wiretaps.

Repeat same, over and over, regardless of how old and illogical the arguments are. Oh yes, also include a nice push poll oversampling dems to show just how much the public agrees with you. Hmmm, now why are those circulation numbers going down?
18 posted on 02/01/2006 7:06:10 AM PST by FlipWilson
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"BUSH FAULT"...What else is new under the sun?! If they spill boiling water on themselves it's bush's fault, if they slip on a banana peel, it's Bush's fault, ...this is getting REALLY tiresome and ridiculous! Frankly, it's so outrageous W being blamed for everything that the majority of folk, just shrug it off, of course with the exception of the lonney rats,!
19 posted on 02/01/2006 7:14:22 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: Mr. Brightside

That was my question: WHO is doing the "investigating"?


20 posted on 02/01/2006 7:16:21 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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