Katrina Response Mismanagement

[Ghoulish Delight]

Brown basically said he was doing it to get the focus of him so people could focus on the continued relief effort. Word is even before Katrina he was planning on moving on in a couple months, so it was not a difficult decission for him to bail.

In other news, Bush is a lying ass.

Q Did they misinform you when you said that no one anticipated the breach of the levees?

THE PRESIDENT: No, what I was referring to is this. When that storm came by, a lot of people said we dodged a bullet. When that storm came through at first, people said, whew. There was a sense of relaxation, and that's what I was referring to. And I, myself, thought we had dodged a bullet. You know why? Because I was listening to people, probably over the airways, say, the bullet has been dodged. And that was what I was referring to.

Umm, what? Some more intrepid researches than I have been unable to find any media with any reference to "dodging a bullet". I myself listened to the radio constantly between the time Katrina veered east of the city and the time the levees were breeched. During that time, there was one consistent theme...that no one would know for hours whether the city was safe, that once the western edge of the system got over Lake Ponchatrain was when the real danger was. NO ONE was saying the city dodged a bulltet, EVERYONE was saying that the worst may yet come.

So at best, Bush was completely ignorant of what was going on and wasn't paying the least bit of attention. At worst, he's flattly lying to cover his ass.

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

So at best, Bush was completely ignorant of what was going on and wasn't paying the least bit of attention. At worst, he's flattly lying to cover his ass.

Not Georgie!

Too bad he's not up for re-election. I'd love to see him handed a can of whoop ass.

[wendybeth]

Am I mistaken, or is he actually trying to blame the media for this one? He gets his information from FoxNews, and not scientific-type experts?

I eagerly await the sure-to-be-forthcoming blaming of Clinton by his sorry ass.

[scaeagles]

I already tried that. Didn't work for me.

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I already tried that. Didn't work for me.

Lol!

At least you have enough class to admit when you are wrong about something.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I already tried that. Didn't work for me.

Weren't you just repeating something you heard on the airwaves?

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Weren't you just repeating something you heard on the airwaves?

Ummm...no. I wish I could blame the radio, but I haven't heard anything about FEMA under Clinton discussed. When ISM mentioned FEMA being "fantastic" under Clinton, I recalled hearing of mismanagement during Hugo and Andrew, so I did a google search on "hugo hurricane fema south carolina", and a similar one for Andrew. Just a bit off on the time line. Just a bit. A wee bit. OK, it was cranial rectumitis.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Ummm...no. I wish I could blame the radio, but I haven't heard anything about FEMA under Clinton discussed.

That doesn't stop Bush.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Be on the look out for suspicious horsemen. Bush has taken responsibility!

[innerSpaceman]

While I don't mean to diss him on this, it was the only avenue left open to him. His poll numbers crumbled and his wise advisers have told him to verbally mia culpa and throw (borrowed, national-debt-increasing) money at the recovery effort; to stage big hoopla recovery benefit agenda items that he can tout (while burying stingy recovery agenda detriment items like suspending minimum wage requirements).

The cost is now looking like $200 billion. That's twice as much as last week's estimate, so look for that to go up again. Protection from the hurricane would have cost a tenth of that. But what the hell, just add it to the national credit card that will never be paid off in our Empire's lifetime.