Posted on 10/24/2007 5:28:41 AM PDT by SkyPilot
By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 2 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Hurricane Katrina has many legacies for the Bush White House, none pleasant. One is the guarantee that as soon as disaster strikes in the United States, President Bush's every move is closely scrutinized to gauge the speed and tone of his response to the suffering.
This became clear yet again on Tuesday, as the enormity of the wildfires sweeping across Southern California became apparent.
The White House reacted with what has become a familiar pattern: Bush dropped a few lines of sympathy and promised assistance into an already scheduled speech. Across the administration, aides volunteered as many facts and figures as possible about the federal contribution to the disaster response, a federal emergency to speed relief funding was declared in the middle of the night, and a presidential visit to the affected area was quickly arranged.
The White House's handling of Katrina in the days before it hit the U.S. Gulf Coast in late August 2005 seemed set to follow this model. Bush and his aides issued repeated warnings to worried locals, conferred with officials in the region and promised Washington would do all it could to help.
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Her trail of bias is longer than most criminal's rap sheets.
AP's Jennifer Loven: Reporter or Editorialist?
By the way, guess who her husband is?
Pet peeve, misuse of the word enormity. Legacy rules encourage that enormousness is the word to use when one is describing size. Enormity refers to wickedness and heinousness.
The Drive Bys continue to blame Bush- yet Louisianians just elected a 36 year nonwhite GOP Governor over the disaster formally know as Blanco.
But let's make this about Bush.
So, Louisiana now has a Conservative Republican Governor too.
Still, this could be an organized terrorist attack. The fact that San Francisco and other Liberal bastions have not been burned out rather points the fingers at the identity of the attackers.
Inbred Press’s Missteps Still Haunting Me.
Local and State leadership has made all the difference.
“a familiar pattern: Bush dropped a few lines of sympathy and promised assistance into an already scheduled speech.”
Because as we all know, Bush is supposed to reach into his closet, slip into his super hero outfit, fly out West (faster than a speeding bullet, of course) and then with one icey blow from his super lungs, extinguish the fires out west.
You have to keep pushing those lies until people believe them.
Great observation.
Things in California’s evacuations are running alot smoother than Katrina debacle. Why? ...because the local government, council, mayors, governor etc are right there and have not fled like Nagin and the idiot gov. The only thing Bush has done so far is to declare it a disaster area which is how the chain of command proceeds.
Heard last night in a report of the evacuees at the stadium in California that at one point they thought they had more volunteers than evacuees because the evacuees themselves were volunteering to help and wanted to work while there. Thats a big difference to Katrina where people were more likely to ask “what are you doing for me?”
The outcome of the debacle called Katrina lies with the local government and the mindset of the people themselves.
That is really evident with the response from the people in California.
Bush and his aides issued repeated warnings to worried locals...and that was appropriate and sufficient up to that point.
“Bush and his aides issued repeated warnings to worried locals, conferred with officials in the region and promised Washington would do all it could to help.”
Yep, Bush’s fatal flaw with Katrina was that he presumed a level of competency in N.O. and Louisiana governance that was not there. Nagin is an incompetent crook and Blanco is an incompetent idiot. So, the first responders and their leadership assumed to be in place, local/city/state was not in place and thereby did absolutely nothing - except go TV and start blaming Bush, even before the hurricane had passed....
How many women work in each newsroom, broadcast and print?
How many women work as producers in newsrooms, broadcast and print?
How many gay men work as producers and reporters in broadcast and print?
What are each of their political affiliations?
What reporters are related to DNC hacks?
How many women and gay men graduate from journalism schools?
How are they hired?
Excellent questions. I have been wondering that for a long time.
“...as soon as disaster strikes in the United States...”
These “disasters” are largely localized and are the primary responsibility of state and local personnel.
It’s sad that The President is expected to become involved in every thing that happens in a few, disaster-prone states.
Hmmmmm ...?? Guess the success of CA in organizing and helping evacuated people is beginning to grate on the libs. I was very proud to be a San Diegan when I saw how the people were treating the Qualcom center - no piles of trash, etc.
It also shows that when you have a leader who organizes and coordinates all the city, county, state and fed organizations, a really good thing happens. Arnold only requested FEMA a couple of days ago .. because WE DIDN’T NEED THEM AT THE TIME.
It also shows the total lack of leadership in New Orleans .. when people were so dependent on the FEDERAL GOVT that they were paralyzed. Bush offered FEMA - the LA Gov didn’t make the call.
I’m sick and tired of the media’s constant blame-Bush for everything .. especially when it was their lib buddies who bungled the job so badly.
Wasn’t it a black councilman who argued with Nagin about using the school busses - because they didn’t have toilets - so his people (9th ward I think) refused to take the busses .. and thousands of them died as a result.
Should be haunting the rotten mayor and goofball governor at the time Katrina hit. Everybody now knows it was the fault of the rotten Democratic political graft down in NO that didn’t fix the dike but feathered their own nests with the money allocated for fixing the dike.
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