All I’m gonna say about Katrina
While FEMA may be the worlds largest pooch-screw, and Bush’s PR firm needs to get more pictures of him crying to placate the lefties, the Federal Government is not to blame for the deaths in Louisiana.
Nonthing can erase the fact that the mayor of New Orleans failed in his primary duty to get people out of the city in a timely fashion. If the feds were supposed to be clairvoyant enough to predict a levee break, then they guy that lived inside the walls should have been as well. Hell, he had the plan right there on paper in front of him. It said “will use all available buses, trains, and other methods of transport to evacuate the city”. Which is why we now have the Ray Nagin Memorial Motor Pool.
Many of the things I’ve been reading say that the feds and the military were actually there before the levee broke, but they couldn’t get anything done because state and local officials were obstructing. A factoid that slipped out in an interview with Nagin on CNN.
Which is pointing more and more to FEMA not having screwed the pooch, but FEMA not getting the cooperation that is required from the locals. Which makes them look far worse than they already did. (note after I originally wrote this, but before I posted it here, a story broke about FEMA sending firefighters to ’sensitivity training’ in preparation to be PR flacks. In which case, FEMA should burn too.)
Nagin and Blanco choked. They choked and people got stranded and died. That so many are buying into their blame deflection tells me that
- nobody wants to believe that this long after 9/11 there are still localities that have no clue what they are doing in an emergency situation
- many people desperately want to believe that the federal government is better equipped to handle local disasters
- Bush must be blamed for everything.
and