Posted on 02/02/2009 4:00:15 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
EDDYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — In the first real test of the Obama administration's ability to respond to a disaster, Kentucky officials are giving the federal government good marks for its response to a deadly ice storm.
Yet more than 300,000 residents remained without power Monday and some areas had yet to see aid workers nearly a week after the storm, a fact not lost on some local authorities.
"We haven't seen FEMA. They haven't been here," said Jaime Green, a spokeswoman for the emergency operations center in Lyon County, about 95 miles northwest of Nashville, Tenn.
Federal authorities insisted they responded as soon as the state asked for help and promised to keep providing whatever aid was necessary.
FEMA has been under the microscope since the Bush administration's botched response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which Barack Obama and other Democrats made a favorite topic on the presidential campaign trail. FEMA was reorganized and strengthened after that, and it has avoided the onslaught of negative feedback Katrina generated.
The agency hasn't been tested the same way it was after the hurricane, however.
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The truth is no longer available folks. Get used to it.
That’s because the people there do not EXPECT the government to take care of them. They take care of themselves.
Now, on the other hand, if you ask a bunch of ghetto trash the same question: They would be upset without anything but the finest treatment.
Can’t people see through the BS?
The goodness FEMA was with us from the time of Columbus or we’d never have been able to settle this here land.
For Gods sake, which is it? This article states two sides.
Probably just some Democrat officials sucking up. The people who need it haven’t seen any help.
You forgot the / sarc tag. It is satire right? Really now, don’t tell me that I’m supposed to read that straight.
“We haven’t seen FEMA. They haven’t been here,”
if W was still President, the left would be SCREAMING over this..instead, “the one” is in office, and it’s only poor white people, so, “it’s ok”..
Just a thought. Can anybody determine if the communities that did get FEMA help are predominately black or white?
You decide, it's from the Associated Press...
This WAS Obama’s Katrina. And in my judgment, he failed. Too many people died from the freezing temperatures.
Obama’s fault.
Your effing kidding me, right?
Hey, come one MSM. At least try to make it look like you aren't full-fledged communist propagandists.
Assholes.
Sounds like the democrats in Kentucky(the governor is dem) are covering for Obama and their own hides too!
My in-laws drove through the aftermath on their way to Alabama. MIL called yesterday...they had to keep driving (from WI) all the way to MS before the could find a place to stay that had power.
She said it was spooky driving through KY.
There is literally NO news on this disaster. I’ve done search after search; NO ONE is covering it!
What happens when one of our major cities gets nuked on 0bama’s watch? *SHUDDER*
Any know the death toll for just the city of NO because of Katrina?
Zero froze _________ Kentuckians last week.
Obamassiah: Federal authorities insisted they responded as soon as the state asked for help and promised to keep providing whatever aid was necessary. GOOD GOOD GOOD
The man is totally unresponsive ~ and FEMA isn't far behind him.
“Gov. Steve Beshear raised Kentucky’s death toll to 24 on Monday, meaning the storm has been blamed in at least 55 deaths nationwide”
This is found in the 7th paragraph. A year ago it would have been the lead paragraph or title.
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