Thanks for your input.....
Try getting your facts right next time..
“MARTY EVANS, RED CROSS PRESIDENT AND CEO: Well, Larry, when the storm came our goal was prior to landfall to support the evacuation. It was unsafe to be in the city. We were asked by the city not to be there and the Superdome was made a shelter of last resorts and, quite frankly in retrospect, it was a good idea because otherwise those people would have had no shelter at all.”
This is going to blow open tomorrow.
Just got done doing some cursory looking around.. I don't see it mentioned..
So much for "blow open" eh? Non-story..
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But what isn't a non-story is Bush's all time low of 41% approval rating, according to Zogby's latest..
Scotty said "blame-game" 10 times in the briefing today. I counted them.
If I had a 41% approval rating at work, I'd be fired. If I tried to explain away incompetence at work by telling my boss to stop playing the "blame-game", I'd be fired.
Or - if my boss hired somebody to do a job like mine, and say the guy's experience is in, oh I don't know, probing whether a breeder was performing liposuction on a horse's rear end, and say that guy screwed up a pharmacy dispensing routine for a hospital system that killed a bunch of senior citizens, saying "we aren't playing that blame-game" would get all involved fired, and possibly criminally charged.
In your world, that deserves "you're doing a heck of a job Brownie". I expect Brown will get the usual treatment afforded the incompetent in the administration; the medal of freedom.
Oh.. and before you do it, spare me the "they are worse" response.. *yawn*
By the way... would you support an independent investigation of the disaster response?
It seems to me that 4 years after 9/11, and if this is the best we can do, then we need a major change in how things work.
I hadn't seen that quote but it still doesn't change things.
The democrats are up in arms that there was no supplies being sent into NOLA, this is why. The city didn't want to keep people in the city and thought the best way to get people to leave was to deprive them of life sustaining supplies. Damn I hope JAX never stoops to that level.
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Next time I hear Senator Leahey say this;
"Why the hell couldn't a truckload of water, a truckload of medicine, a busload of physicians, people who could bring help and care and hope to the people, why couldn't they get through?"
I'll be sure tell him the city's plan all along was to starve the people out of the Superdome.
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By the way... would you support an independent investigation of the disaster response?
Sure as long as they have subpoena power and they bared anyone from LA from being on the panel.
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I hadn't seen that quote but it still doesn't change things.
Yes it changes everything. LOL It completely changes the context of the Red Crosses involvement. heh
I'll be sure tell him the city's plan all along was to starve the people out of the Superdome.
Well, remember, it's the Red Cross you're referencing here. They are not a governmental agency responsible for disaster preparedness and management.
Blaming the lack of food and water on the fact that the Red Cross didn't bring it is silly.
Sure as long as they have subpoena power and they bared anyone from LA from being on the panel.
I agree. State and local management are not squeeky clean in this, but the ultimate responsibility lays with the Feds. All should pay the price for the incompetence regardless of party. If that means the LA Governor and NOLA mayor, then that's fine.
dang.. keeps dropping my name.. ah well..
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