Katrina Response Mismanagement

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Originally Posted by SacTown Chronic

I'm curious as to how you would define 'answering for what he did'. Should he lose his job? His freedom?

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What does America, and Congress, do about it? That's what I'm waiting to see.

Unfortunately, I don't think any political official can be tried on charges for any of this. Incompetence - or appointing incompetent people - isn't a crime. If so, 99% of politicians would be in prison. I mean answering for what he did in terms of someone asking him "Why did you appoint this loser to FEMA" and Bush explaining why. There is no political toll to pay, as he's in his second term.

What does American and Congress do about it? Well, i find it funny that the same officials who were screaming for the creation of the homeland security department and putting FEMA under the jurisdiction of it are now screaming to have it removed from the department of homeland security. So what does congress do? What they should do, I don't know. What they will do is reshuffle the existing bureaucracy and call the problem fixed. Appoint some commission to examine the problem to insulate themselves from political fallout should their ideas fail. Find the easiest person to assign blame to and move on. Lecture on pork barrell spending on things such as the transportation bill without changing their habits.

Americans? The usual - be outraged for a short period of time, figure it isn't their problem after a while, listen to feel good politicians who tell them the problem is fixed, and blindly move on with their lives until the next tragedy befalls with poor planning beforehand and horrid management afterwards. Then the cycle will repeat the next time.

Sad, but I'm fairly certain it's accurate.