Posted on 09/06/2005 5:56:44 PM PDT by bobsunshine
Good advice, which I shall now take.
You're confused. He didn't wait until Monday to start moving his people. He waited until Monday to call for back-up, i.e., extra people from outside his department. (Assuming this article has the facts correct, of course.)
Probably will be the only place you'll see it. He's having wet dreams about turning FR into DU lite. I smell troll from a long ways off.
Another comprehension challenged Freeper.
But he interviews well
The guy bawling on national TV about that lady's desparate situation didn't do anything to help her, that's for certain. He had some personal connection with or responsibility for her, and his remorse came out in dramatic fashion.
Seemed obvious to me when I saw it. He kept mentioning the calls indicating that somebody was coming, but he never came.
The governor of LA gave the order. If FEMA was involved, they were just following the fool's order.
That's NOT FEMA's job you ignorant troll.
FEMA moves in to manage Federally funded cleanup and relief efforts that being 72 hours after the disaster. There is no reason for them to move in any sooner because usually they'll just get in the way of local police, fire, and emergency medical staffs. In this New Orleans flood, unfortunately the local police and fire departments essentially disintegrated and did not fulfill their usual role in the first 72 hours after the hurricane and flood. To make matters much worse, New Orleans and the state of Lousiana did not follow their own emergency evacuation plan for the city and failed to use thousands of city buses to evacuate those who do not own cars.
OK, now is everything cleared up? Good, so now you know that it was the city and state (Nagin and Blanco) who screwed up big-time in this hurricane and are responsible for a large number of unnecessary casualties.
Well said girl! This one is neither clueless or blameless. His style and language mark him as a troll. Care to bet?
No real Republican keeps spouting the Horsedoodoo that you have for days on end. Real Republicans care about peoples lives and doing the right thing and not mentioning winning politically ever other sentence during crisis situations. Most freepers are also thinking clearly and analyzing facts instead of going off half cocked and behaving in a hysterical reactionary way. You are a troll, and that hole you have been digging is deep enough. JUMP IN, and have a nice DU day.
I'm disappointed in President Bush for giving the MSM a fairly easy target for criticism. Brown is a good man with adequate credentials, and may wind up with a B+ when the final grades for this test are assigned. But is he the BEST administrator Bush could find at the time? Is he A level?
Another Oklahoman, former Gov. Frank Keating, might have been better.
Reality is a wonderful experience; try it some time.
I believe we are cognizant of the answer on the local level as well as the federal - far better.
I don't think anyone was asleep at the wheel. Everybody in DHS and FEMA is doing their jobs. The problems have been caused by inadequate and incomplete emergency plans at the local level and the failure to implement the plans that do exist. Unquestionably, the city of New Orleans should have stockpiled much more food and water in secure areas of high-rise buildings that cannot be flooded, and then deployed police and fire crews to guard and distribute the food and water. An equally huge mistake was the incomplete evacuation plan in which the legal analysis had apparently not been completed, thus delaying declaration of a mandatory evacuation by the mayor. With a good plan and implementation of the plan, the city could have evacuated most of those who don't own cars using city and school buses. That would have greatly reduced the casualties in this flood.
Which is why it doesn't entirely compute for me. If not an act, then why the hell didn't he do something?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.