If I remember corecctly, and at my age that is always suspect, The NO newspaper ran an article about the potential impending levee disaster if a hurricane of this or greater magnitude struck the lower LA area in about 1982-1984(Give or take). If you count back, that was appx. 20 years ago. I now see why the disaster relief was and is Bush's fault. He was a recently married man with young children. He was naturally worrying about family and education, etc. and not focusing on New Orleans and a potential hurricane disaster relief plan .I can see how he could come up with this plan and use it as a basis for his political campaigns in Texas. I also see how beneficial this plan would have been to his state during his governorship.
All in all I find no remote way that Bush is any more at fault than is Gov. Riley of Ala. The NO politcal machine all knew of this concern, but were far more interested in the continual lining of their respective pockets in the course of normal crooked NO dealings.
Do you wonder why 1600 people died. I don't because "The Big Sleezy" has a crime rate about 8 times the national average. The typical urbanite Orleanser was out with his Glock on nighly patrol taking from the rich and keeping in his pocket. Death and mayhem are a way of life in NO. They wouldn't leave because the upside of free TV's, stereos, computers, etc. was too much too withstand.
Nagin can scream at the top of his lungs about how this is racially motivated, but the truth is that if he weren't getting his, he could care less about his chocolate constituents. Imagine the field day that would still be going on if FEMA, Bush, or any other government person had said that aid was coming to the vanilla sections of New Orleans. No retraction necessary that idiot would be brandished from life. But Ray-Ray gets away with a little slap on the wrist a forced public retraction. I do not want to hear from this clown again. I almost hope that a giant huricane comes and sits on the Louisianna coast for 2 weeks, and then dies without going inland, totally flooding New Orleans. I then think of the great number of good people who live in the metro area and nned to be there for income, family, etc. and hope we never see a disaster of this type again.
Maybe now we can start preparing and renovating this area to allow it a fighting chance if this happens again. The levees need to be fixed - correctly. The local people need to understand and heed warnings, not ignore them. Or maybe that brand new 72" flat plasma monitor with surround soud looks great in that shotgun house with power and cable. LOGIC !!
[Image]This is so typical of disgraced, former bureaucrats that I hesitate to even comment on it but here it is...
'Brownie' Blames Bush, Chertoff for Katrina Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, who lost his job because of Hurricane Katrina, said Tuesday his biggest regret a year later is that he wasn't candid enough about the lack of a coherent federal response plan. "There was no plan. ... Three years ago, we should have done catastrophic planning," Brown said, charging that the Bush administration and his department head, Michael Chertoff, "would not give me the money to do that kind of planning." As levees broke down at Katrina's strike against New Orleans and people were forced from their homes, Brown said he sought futilely to get the 82nd Airborne Division into the city quickly. Appearing on NBC's "Today" show, he was asked about positive statements he had made at the time about how Washington would come through for the storm victims, rather than leveling with the country about how bad the situation actually was. "Those were White House talking points," Brown replied. "And to this day, I think that was my biggest mistake."
Seriously, did anybody expect anything more honorable from "Brownie"? Anybody in government who gets canned because of incompetence and failure, automatically runs to the fawning, agreeable press (this rule applies only when Republicans hold the reins of power) and blames the bosses for their own ineptitude.
I have never understood the logic of the President of the U.S. micromanaging local disaster relief. It was never Bush's job to call in the Guard, order buses to La., have supplies flown in, get the people out of the disaster, or any of it. It was squarely the responsibility of, in order or priority: Mayor Ray Nagin, Governor Kathleen Blanco, FEMA head Michael Brown, Homeland Security Secretary, President Bush. When the first three people in the chain of command fall completely and utterly on their faces, how can anybody expect the National Command Authority to take charge, within hours, of a local weather disaster? But that's what everybody expected down there...here's three reasons why: 1. Ray Nagin crying racism before the storm even hit because it's what all race pimps do to cover their own failures. 2. The people of NO expecting the goverment to save them rather than save themselves because leaders like Ray Nagin had fostered the notion of dependence and entitlement. And 3. the Bush-hating media seizing the opportunity to tag Bush, and by extension all conservatives, as racists, by gleefully stoking the fires of racial division and resentment among the survivors when there was none.
It'll be interesting when the next hurricane hits that town to see how the same leaders handle the situation on their second try.
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Close this window Jump to comment formIf I remember corecctly, and at my age that is always suspect, The NO newspaper ran an article about the potential impending levee disaster if a hurricane of this or greater magnitude struck the lower LA area in about 1982-1984(Give or take). If you count back, that was appx. 20 years ago. I now see why the disaster relief was and is Bush's fault. He was a recently married man with young children. He was naturally worrying about family and education, etc. and not focusing on New Orleans and a potential hurricane disaster relief plan .I can see how he could come up with this plan and use it as a basis for his political campaigns in Texas. I also see how beneficial this plan would have been to his state during his governorship.
All in all I find no remote way that Bush is any more at fault than is Gov. Riley of Ala. The NO politcal machine all knew of this concern, but were far more interested in the continual lining of their respective pockets in the course of normal crooked NO dealings.
Do you wonder why 1600 people died. I don't because "The Big Sleezy" has a crime rate about 8 times the national average. The typical urbanite Orleanser was out with his Glock on nighly patrol taking from the rich and keeping in his pocket. Death and mayhem are a way of life in NO. They wouldn't leave because the upside of free TV's, stereos, computers, etc. was too much too withstand.
Nagin can scream at the top of his lungs about how this is racially motivated, but the truth is that if he weren't getting his, he could care less about his chocolate constituents. Imagine the field day that would still be going on if FEMA, Bush, or any other government person had said that aid was coming to the vanilla sections of New Orleans. No retraction necessary that idiot would be brandished from life. But Ray-Ray gets away with a little slap on the wrist a forced public retraction. I do not want to hear from this clown again. I almost hope that a giant huricane comes and sits on the Louisianna coast for 2 weeks, and then dies without going inland, totally flooding New Orleans. I then think of the great number of good people who live in the metro area and nned to be there for income, family, etc. and hope we never see a disaster of this type again.
Maybe now we can start preparing and renovating this area to allow it a fighting chance if this happens again. The levees need to be fixed - correctly. The local people need to understand and heed warnings, not ignore them. Or maybe that brand new 72" flat plasma monitor with surround soud looks great in that shotgun house with power and cable. LOGIC !!
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