More Katrina
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Now we have seen the full impact of this Katrina Story. Bush bad, Bush caused it.
At least according to 13% of a AP poll. Polls are wrong, I believe this is low, because there is a higher percentage of people who hate Bush that they want to pin everything on him. One person I know said that this delay is a plot by Bush to kill poor people. Show me the plans, so you can have credibility! Despite the fact that I think it was more a matter of loss of local control.
Today, a Washington State Senator, Dave Schmidt, gave an interview on the radio. He chairs a committee that works with disastor relief. He is also a Washington National Guardman. He said that the first 72 hours after a disaster, local officials are responsible, then Washington (DC) is responsible. Washington does not get involved because it creates serious problems by crossing over onto state turf.
And, although Bush declared this a disaster area on Sunday, he still would not have had time to move the necessary troops in place, by Tuesday, to control all the crowds.
And this story about the Louisana National Guard being in Iraq? Almost 80% were home, in Louisiana. Would another 20% have made a difference? And has the entire guard been called up? Maybe my rhetorical question is wrong...
Also, Israel is supposedly told to hold back it's Katrina contribution. Per the world Tribune. As anti-semitism is de-reguer (sorry I can't spell a French phrase) now, we can't let Isreal in the way...
Now that the finger-pointing has begun - actually, it began as the levies started to break - and people are willing to exploit this tragedy, based upon false premises, I will give my opinion as to who is bears the most responsibility for this mess, after reviewing oodles of news reports. It is not Bush, or FEMA, or Blanco, but Nagin. He is the person who was there at the time, who could have had those people on the school busses, who was in the best position to do the necessary coordinating. I believe it would have been very difficult to get FEMA down there, in force, within two days. Then again, maybe there was nothing in this instance that anyone could have done to prevent the huge mess that resulted.
In any case, I will give a link or three. Here is the first:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/07/AR2005090702462_pf.html
The ugliest figure in this thing may not be a thug, or a politician, but a coach. See this article:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=2155656
Finally, here is something that puts those whacky conspiracy theories about this storm in perspective:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0905/graham090705.php3
People have called him a jerk for doing this, but, as people were most than happy to point fingers at conservatives, we are naturally going to defend ourselves - especially when most of the accusuations are based upon falsehoods.
Focusing on all this Katrina stuff kinda drives me crazy - I will try to write something completely different next time.
Now we have seen the full impact of this Katrina Story. Bush bad, Bush caused it.
At least according to 13% of a AP poll. Polls are wrong, I believe this is low, because there is a higher percentage of people who hate Bush that they want to pin everything on him. One person I know said that this delay is a plot by Bush to kill poor people. Show me the plans, so you can have credibility! Despite the fact that I think it was more a matter of loss of local control.
Today, a Washington State Senator, Dave Schmidt, gave an interview on the radio. He chairs a committee that works with disastor relief. He is also a Washington National Guardman. He said that the first 72 hours after a disaster, local officials are responsible, then Washington (DC) is responsible. Washington does not get involved because it creates serious problems by crossing over onto state turf.
And, although Bush declared this a disaster area on Sunday, he still would not have had time to move the necessary troops in place, by Tuesday, to control all the crowds.
And this story about the Louisana National Guard being in Iraq? Almost 80% were home, in Louisiana. Would another 20% have made a difference? And has the entire guard been called up? Maybe my rhetorical question is wrong...
Also, Israel is supposedly told to hold back it's Katrina contribution. Per the world Tribune. As anti-semitism is de-reguer (sorry I can't spell a French phrase) now, we can't let Isreal in the way...
Now that the finger-pointing has begun - actually, it began as the levies started to break - and people are willing to exploit this tragedy, based upon false premises, I will give my opinion as to who is bears the most responsibility for this mess, after reviewing oodles of news reports. It is not Bush, or FEMA, or Blanco, but Nagin. He is the person who was there at the time, who could have had those people on the school busses, who was in the best position to do the necessary coordinating. I believe it would have been very difficult to get FEMA down there, in force, within two days. Then again, maybe there was nothing in this instance that anyone could have done to prevent the huge mess that resulted.
In any case, I will give a link or three. Here is the first:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/07/AR2005090702462_pf.html
The ugliest figure in this thing may not be a thug, or a politician, but a coach. See this article:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=2155656
Finally, here is something that puts those whacky conspiracy theories about this storm in perspective:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0905/graham090705.php3
People have called him a jerk for doing this, but, as people were most than happy to point fingers at conservatives, we are naturally going to defend ourselves - especially when most of the accusuations are based upon falsehoods.
Focusing on all this Katrina stuff kinda drives me crazy - I will try to write something completely different next time.
posted by EricMatthew at 2:23 PM
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