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See, it's fun to call people names, just don't ask Yoni to prove his allegations (He might dissappear again).
They should call her Governor Delay or Governor Indecisive.
Made up the timeline on the abandoned nursing home...
If he'd of done his job there wouldn't have been anyone to evacuate on Tuesday.
See, it's fun to call people names, just don't ask Yoni to prove his allegations (He might dissappear again).
We should be so lucky...
We should all aspire to be men of virtue, such as Yonivore.
Bush lied.. he said "Good job brownie".... (yea i'll freakin admit 1 lie there... enjoy it and don't get used to it)..
Yes you should.
Still haven't heard any legitimate criticism of the job done by FEMA.
What do you mean by that? He didn't activate all his teams with a recall he stalled 2 days... there where several mistakes FEMA made.
FEMA was pre-positioned in Denton, Texas and Jackson, Mississippi days before the Hurricane made landfall...and, they were prepared to move in after landfall. The delay occurred in New Orleans because they erroneously thought they'd dodged a bullet when the levees "held." Well, Tuesday morning that all changed and by nightfall, the Mayor, Parish President, and Governor were covering their asses and crying on national T.V. because they knew they'd ed up...
NOAA told them the previous Thursday to get everyone out of New Orleans...
The President pleaded with the Mayor on Saturday to do the same...
But, no, the Louisiana officials were too smart to be pushed around by the federal government. I distinctly remember the Monday press conferences and all the back-slapping over what a great job everyone did...including high prais for Mike Brown and FEMA -- FROM THE GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA.
Once the levees broke it was quite a logistical feat just to make it to the thousands of stranded. It wouldn't have mattered if you'd had an entire Army Division sweeping the city, people would have drowned...it only takes a minute.
And, those people held up in training? What was their expertise? And, who was going to move them into the affected areas... The truth is, once the levees broke, the only capable respondent was the military. They're the only ones that had the equipment, the personnel, the logistical coordination, and the skill to pull it off...and, folks, it takes a couple of days to pull that many resources into Mississippi River Delta -- especially when most of the egress routes are impassable.
You people can keep trying to pin this on the government and, to be sure, they made some mistakes...but, nothing out of the ordinary for an operation of this magnitude. Ask youself this question; if nearly half of the New Orleans Police Department walked off and God knows how many of their other emergency services personnel, what makes you think a trainee, just learning the trade in Atlanta, can step in and do better?
Louisiana officials failed to empty New Orleans when they had the chance and the means. When it became too late...it became a job for the military; and, frankly, the Governor resisted that option for a long ing time.
And, another thing...who created the cluster at the Superdome and Convention Center? Who turned the Red Cross away because they didn't want to entice people to stay in the city?
I was listening to Air America again today...apparently they were replaying a "Best of" show from some chick named Randy Rhoades...from the week after the Hurricane from what I gather.
This woman was going on and on about the thousand and thousands of people dying on the asphalt waiting for rescue. So, with the death count for the entire storm below 1,000 and a good portion of those from Mississippi and Alabama, just how many died between the Tuesday the levees broke and, say, the following Saturday? How many of those were already mortally ill or injured and wouldn't have survived had they been found on Tuesday?
If it's double digits or less, that's phenomenal for a disaster response of this magnitude. Particularly when you take into account how hamstrung the response was by the Louisiana screw ups. And, yes, any unnecessary death is too much but, it happens. And, more importantly, if New Orleans had evacuated when they'd been warned to, and when they had the resources to, none of them would have had to die.
Oh, yeah, how many of the dead are refusees? Those that refused to leave?
And, another thing. I think we all get a good sense of the nature of Louisiana government leadership with the ongoing cluster being created by the Mayor of New Orleans. "Okay, y'all c'mon back! Rita who?"
All over the objections and against the counsel of the federal government. Any reason to doubt this was how it went during the disaster? A more or less, " you Uncle Sam, I'm the goddamn Mayor!"
Settle down Francis. A Non-Partisan House Judiciary Commitee Report just exonorated Governor Blanco of any wrong-doing...
Press Release
Congressman John Conyers, Jr.
Michigan, 14th District
Ranking Member,U.S. House Judiciary Committee
Dean, Congressional Black Caucus
www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/index.html
For Immediate Release: Contact: Dena Graziano
September 13, 2005 (202)226-6888
Conyers Releases Non-Partisan
Congressional Research Service Report on Federal Response to
Hurricane Katrina:
Report Confirms that Louisiana Took Necessary and Timely Steps
Pursuant to a September 7 request by Representative John Conyers to review the law and legal accountability relating to Federal action in response to Hurricane Katrina, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a report today about whether the Governor of Louisiana took the necessary and timely steps needed to secure disaster relief from the federal government. The report unequivocally concludes that she did.
Congressman Conyers issued the following statement:
“This report closes the book on the Bush Administration’s attempts to evade accountability by shifting the blame to the Governor of Louisiana for the Administration’s tragically sluggish response to Katrina. It confirms that the Governor did everything she could to secure relief for the people of Louisiana and the Bush Administration was caught napping at a critical time.”
In addition to finding that “...it would appear that the Governor did take the steps necessary to request emergency and major disaster declarations for the State of Louisiana in anticipation of Hurricane Katrina. (p.11)” The report found that:
• All necessary conditions for federal relief were met on August 28. Pursuant to Section 502 of the Stafford Act, “he declaration of an emergency by the President makes Federal emergency assistance available,” and the President made such a declaration on August 28. The public record indicates that several additional days passed before such assistance was actually made available to the
State;
• The Governor must make a timely request for such assistance, which meets the requirements of federal law. The report states that “xcept to the extent that an emergency involves primarily Federal interests, both declarations of major disaster and declarations of emergency must be triggered by a request to the President from the Governor of the affected state”;
• The Governor did indeed make such a request, which was both timely and in compliance with federal law. The report finds that “Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco requested by letter dated August 27, 2005...that the President declare an emergency for the State of Louisiana due to Hurricane Katrina for the time period from August 26, 2005 and continuing pursuant to ” and “Governor Blanco’s August 27, 2005 request for an emergency declaration also included her determination...that ‘the incident is of such severity and magnitude that effective response is beyond the capabilities of the State and affected local governments and that supplementary Federal assistance is necessary to save lives, protect property, public health, and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of disaster.”
House.gov
No, Dan, I'm still not interested in your mindless rants...
You missed the boat.. we already hashed this over a few times ..
Well, it appears y'all settled nothing then.
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