Posted on 09/03/2005 7:19:37 AM PDT by Truthsayer20
Oh yes, let's start a civilian airlift before the airports have been inspected for storm damage. What kind of morons are the J schools producing these days.
The governor and the mayor both stood by wringing their hands and waiting for Bush to do it. Well, Bush declared a national emergency on the 27th and made funds available for use, but still the governor and the mayor took a what the hell attitude.
No one to blame here but Democrats and the MSM knows it, so they are going all out to shift the blame onto Bush. The time for blame games is after the relief effort has been sucessfully completed not during and it also helps to get the facts straight. Rest assured, Bush is not to blame for this but rather, once again, the savior of these dip sh** Dems.
Even in an emergency, Bush must follow the LAW.
It seems what you want Bush to be is an law unto himself.
In other words, a DICTATOR!
Florida is down with hurricane preparedness. Louisiana was not. New Orleans, especially should have been prepared because of it's unique situation of being under sea level and holding back an enormous amount of water with levees.
Sheer stupidity and incompetence all around. I'm just shocked at how many alleged conservatives are jumping on the Bush-bashing bandwagon. I guess we just have alot more experience with hurricanes!
Paperwork of that importancee usually gets faxed to speed things along.
Wonder when Blanco faxed the paperwork.
Or does she even know how to use a fax machine?
It's a lie wrapped within a truth. As I said in an earlier post, this is a particularly dishonest and repulsive sophistry on the part of the reporter.
No doubt the Governor of New Mexico called Blanco on Sunday and offered NG assistance, and no doubt Blanco "accepted" the offer. The problem is that her acceptance is meaningless without an understanding and acknowledgement of the laws and regulations which govern the implementation of ANY such agreement, between ANY two state governors.
The Governor of New Mexico commands the New Mexico National Guard, unless they are federalized, and only within New Mexico. The Governor of Louisiana commands the Louisiana National Guard unless they are federalized, and only within Louisiana. Neither can deploy NG troops to another state until, let's all say it together now, they are federalized.
Until Blanco officially requested the federalization necessary to deploy NG troops from one state to another, which she did not do until Thursday, they can't legally deploy. That is the so-called "red tape" the disingenuous AP reporter was trying to lay at the feet of the feds. The truth is, that "red tape" is simply the law, and the feds and the governors of the other states were holding it out for her and urging her to cut it so they could go into action.
This is mind-numbing incompetence and criminal negligence on the part of the Louisiana governor, and probably other state and local officials. I am no fan of the federal government; they are demonstrating their own incompetence and negligence on other matters, most notably our dangerously vulnerable uncontrolled borders. This debacle, however, is NOT the fault of the feds, but of the corrupt Louisiana political establishment and state government.
Negative.
As a former National Guard soldier, I will tell you:
The president could not order troops into Louisiana over the heads of Blanco or any other states troops would be pulled from.
National Guard has both a state and federal mission.
When not activated for war, the governor acts as the commander of troops in his or her state.
BLANCO had the impetus to call them out, and FAILED TO DO SO.
It was not on the President to do her job.
And this isn't a matter of activating one single unit, you must activate supply and support units, transport, and other units as if you WERE going to war just to get supplies in and out of the area.
Again, it was on BLANCO to activate troops in her state.
Instead, she did a good job of being inept and incompetent.
If you saw Bernard Kerik on FOX this morning, he was careful to not directly criticize. But, when asked probing questions, he explained how NYC had drilled/practiced for all sorts of disasters. They had their protocol in place. NO obviously didn't do any of that. Inexperienced is no excuse.
Did you see this?
"The state hurricane control center runs the entire operation. The LA governor delayed until Monday setting up her control center and did not hand out satellite phones to all the parrish control centers . so no communication to the key parrish in the south part of LA.
I should know I am involved in the hurricane operations in Brevard county FL. The marching orders come from the state capital not the feds!
We evacuated nursing home patients for katrina and the storm was 200 miles away !
The scoop I heard from FL officials was LA
governor's office was in inexperienced and in over there heads.
52 posted on 09/03/2005 8:40:30 AM PDT by BurtTpa"
" This debacle, however, is NOT the fault of the feds, but of the corrupt Louisiana political establishment and state government."
Indeed!
Thanks for the clarification.
Liberals lie like rugs and have NO shame.
Why don't they probe Blanco's and Naggin's (my mispelling) delay in evacuating people from New Orleans before Katrina hit FIRST!!!!!?????
He can. That's all I was saying. And this was a national emergency with national security at risk, not just a mere natural disaster.
When national security is involved like it was in NO, yes, that is a federal role.
Some of the governors had their units ready to go on Monday but she never asked!
Among many things in your posts that are wrong is the fact that this storm did not hit as a CAT 5.
I think the federal government would get even more criticism if they rushed in to take over before the governor asked. They can't just assume the local leaders are incompetent simply because they are Democrats.
I was wondering when Hagel would crawl out of his slime pit.
BS is correct.
Fully 60 percent of the NG in LA and MS was available for this disaster.
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