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Geeze.
photo-op says hi!
The "Nero-fiddling-while-Rome-burns" meme almost writes itself.
Hurricane Makes Campaigning `Tricky' for Obama
That was Wednesday and, so far, it hasn't changed.The White House hasn’t announced whether Obama will travel to the region.
“At this time, the president’s schedule has not changed,” Carney told reporters this morning.
Meanwhile, the next President went from accepting the nomination to accepting the role of comforter.
Romney to Visit Areas Damaged By Hurricane Isaac
Geeze.
photo-op says hi!
And do you know how disruptive it is to have a presidential visit right in the middle of a disaster recovery?
Obama sucks in a million ways but this is some weak sauce you are slinging.
cue Yoni's soul sister, boutons, with a reminder of Katrina...
GOP Budget Cuts Would Devastate Hurricane And Weather Forecasting
Republicans seem determined to underfund, undermanage, and understaff the government agencies that respond to hurricanes, putting lives and property at risk, as well as their political careers.
When Republicans retook the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010, they made deep cuts in the President Barack Obama’s 2011 request for the Polar Joint Satellite System, a system of new satellites needed to replace the old ones, which currently provide 85 percent of the data used in hurricane forecasting. House Republicans proposed further deep cuts in the program in fiscal year 2012.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Director Jane Lubchenco called the cuts “insanity.” She said that failure to fund the satellites would create a significant gap between the time the existing satellites failed and the new system became serviceable. Lubchenco said that the gap would be like “going backwards in 20 years’ time” in hurricane forecasting.
Marion Blakey, who served as head of the Federal Aviation Administration under President George W. Bush and is now chief executive officer of the Aerospace Industries Association, explained the problem this way: “In one test last year, NOAA ran models forecasting the 2010 Snowmaggedon blizzard using 1960s-era sea buoys and weather balloons. Without satellite data, models misjudged the storm track by 200 to 300 miles and underestimated snowfall ac ulations by 10 inches.”
Guest Blogger on Aug 29, 2012 at 12:31 pm
by Scott Lilly
It’s late August. The Republicans are having their national convention. A huge tropical storm is bearing down on the U.S. Gulf Coast. So what’s new? We have had major hurricanes bearing down on the United States during four of the past six Republican conventions: Andrew in 1992, Frances in 2004, Gustav in 2008, and this year, Isaac.
But the Republican problem with hurricanes seems to go well beyond convention timing. A number of hurricanes have erupted into huge political issues, and it has almost always been at the expense of Republican candidates. This is not a coincidence: Republicans seem determined to underfund, undermanage, and understaff the government agencies that respond to hurricanes, putting lives and property at risk, as well as their political careers.
Hurricane Andrew became a major factor in former President George H.W. Bush’s re-election effort. After leaving numerous vacancies at the Federal Emergency Management Agency unfilled during his term as president, President Bush was slow to react when Andrew, the most expensive hurricane in American history (at that time), crashed ashore a few days after the 1992 Republican convention concluded in Houston. Agencies that had prepared for the storm were not called into action, and within a week angry victims were ranting about the failed government response on every network news program, underscoring the impression that the president was “detached from domestic problems.”
President George W. Bush was a good deal luckier than his father on the question of timing. While Hurricane Frances marred his New York renomination convention, the meteorological event of his presidency would not come until August 2005, 10 months after his re-election in 2004. Hurricane Katrina and the hapless effort of his administration to respond to it redefined his entire presidency and contributed importantly to the Democrats gaining control of the Senate and picking up 31 House seats in off-year elections 14 months later.
The final two years of George W. Bush’s presidency were marked by a major controversy over budget cuts at the National Hurricane Center, a dispute that eventually cost the center’s director his job. But those controversies did not end with the conclusion of the Bush administration. When Republicans retook the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010, they made deep cuts in the President Barack Obama’s 2011 request for the Polar Joint Satellite System, a system of new satellites needed to replace the old ones, which currently provide 85 percent of the data used in hurricane forecasting. House Republicans proposed further deep cuts in the program in fiscal year 2012.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Director Jane Lubchenco called the cuts “insanity.” She said that failure to fund the satellites would create a significant gap between the time the existing satellites failed and the new system became serviceable. Lubchenco said that the gap would be like “going backwards in 20 years’ time” in hurricane forecasting.
Marion Blakey, who served as head of the Federal Aviation Administration under President George W. Bush and is now chief executive officer of the Aerospace Industries Association, explained the problem this way: “In one test last year, NOAA ran models forecasting the 2010 Snowmaggedon blizzard using 1960s-era sea buoys and weather balloons. Without satellite data, models misjudged the storm track by 200 to 300 miles and underestimated snowfall ac ulations by 10 inches.”
Blakey also pointed out, “Imagine the damages we will suffer in the future if weather forecasting capabilities are degraded and communities are not given timely and accurate warnings of major storms coming their way.”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...r-forecasting/
Gecko/Ryan comforts!
n/m
Last edited by FromWayDowntown; 08-31-2012 at 11:16 AM.
President's don't do disaster work, FEMA does.
dubya was actually partying when Katrina hit
dubya's FEMA, handed to dubya by Clinton and Clinton's well-respected FEMA director, was in great shape.
dubya, the MBA Exec, rolled FEMA into DHS and ed it up. Katrina was a demonstration of how Repugs do governance.
We'll see how Obama's FEMA manages Isaac.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 08-31-2012 at 11:21 AM.
as if on cue.
Obama going Monday.
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2...ay-133976.html
And? Plus, he has a lifetime of similar acts -- it's not like he started caring when he became a candidate.
I just think it's telling the President has been campaigning all this week and, still, can't find the time to check in with the disaster area.
Well, no offense to those affected but the disaster doesn't look all that disasterous. All the areas that flooded are in known flood zones...duh.
Kind of like that east coast earthquake
I don't know, how disruptive is it?
A compassionate Bush was absent right after Katrina
And that was because Bush waited four days; (two days after the levees broke and caused the true disaster.)
I've looked at the USA Today website...nothing.
Besides, what disruption does a flyover cause?
Yoni, you really are embarrassing to red team at times.
Are you a red team member?
I am certainly accused of it frequently.
Let's see your card, tbh...
I accidentally washed it.
You're going soft, CC...
No way
They're blue! OMG!
You're not really that clueless are you?
Apparently.
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