Report From Hell: It's Frozen Solid!
"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government and to the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility," Bush said
It's heavily qualified, but it's something.
Now, let the GOP attack on all non-federal levels of government continue!
It's heavily qualified, but it's something.
Now, let the GOP attack on all non-federal levels of government continue!
posted by Bill at 1:28 PM
5 Comments:
The way you just drop the responsibility for Katrina's damage at the Bush doorstep is obnoxious!
Nagin and the Governor are incompetent and continue in their idiocy! And yet you have let them off the hook.
Just look at the difference between the cities as Galveston begins preparation. It is the local and state government taking FIRST responsibility for the hurricane!! The current rhetoric has absolved Nagin and the LA's governor from their own dereliction of duty.
As time passes it is so clear that the LEFT wishes to politicize this. It's nasty and tacky and wrong. And not very funny!!
Go back and look at the timeline. *Four* days before Katrina hit Louisiana, the governor asked the president to declare a *federal* state of emergency for her state, and said in her letter to the president that state and local resources *would not be enough* to respond to the storm.
Meanwhile, the president strummed a guitar, ate some cake with John McCain, and gave a speech comparing himself to FDR.
That, my friend, is what's truly not funny.
What does it mean to "politicize" this? To demand accountability? If that's what you mean by politicizing, then we need more of it.
Sorry, but you have your facts on the LA Governor all wrong. I know. I have friends who live there. They tell a different story!
And you seem to forget, or neglect to mention, the long history of corruption in that state. And if you must politicize it, it is, and has been, Democrats exploiting the poor and undereducated in that state.
Accountability? You speak of accountablity like you know what the word means!!
Ahhh, let's confuse the issue, shall we? With the charge about corrupt politics in Louisiana? That's hardly relevant to the embarrassing federal response, which the president has -- shockingly -- confessed to.
Besides, I've written many times over the years about corrupt and dirty politics in Louisiana; it's no secret.
As for my facts on the actions of the governor of Louisiana, they are quite accurate. Just take a look at this well-documented timeline:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/katrina-timeline.php
Friday, 5:00 p.m.: The governor declares a state of emergency, asking for federal help. There's a handy link there to the official document on the State of Louisiana's Web site.
Ahh, facts. Pesky things, eh?
Hmmmmm...sorry, not buyin' ANYTHING the governor of Louisianna wants to say she said. I have watched her interviews and their evacuation "plan", including what they wanted their people to do and what they wanted the government to do, and when, is as clear as the mud coating the streets of New Orleans.
And I am not discounting the President's statements that more could have been done sooner. It was his call. I am still waiting for Nagin's apology to his people.
It's just that there are interviews and real people who live there - who aren't interviewed on TV - who tell a different version of the work of the LA governor. Louisianna didn't have a working plan to take care of the people of New Orleans. They mayor offered no help to his people, except to tell them to get out. They didn't.
Your narrow window of blame just leaves me incredulous. Year after year we have watched hurricanes batter all sides of Florida and other cities along the Gulf. Time after time, year after year, decade after decade, we have watched Mayors and Senators and Governors take to the airwaves to take care of their people. Never have we seen the people who had homes ruined and lost blame the President and FEMA like those in Katrina.
And now we have Rita. HELLO, are you watching the TV? Are you listening to the difference between how Texas is handling the pending storm? This is what Florida has been doing for YEARS, nay DECADES! Models for handling hurricanes abound!
NO WORKING PLAN...New Orleans and LA had NO WORKING PLAN!!
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