Fed. Govt sent emergency supplies to Louisiana as early as Tuesday [From AP]

AP | August 30, 2005

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"Having watched them for years, this is exactly what I expected from the two of them."

Are you in Nebraska? I was there when Ben was Governor. Of the two, Ben might be the better.

[Travis McGee]

The mayor of New Orleans is responsible. Study these photos and ask: why didn't Mayor Nagin apply his own mandated hurricane evacuation plan????

[FreedomCalls]

Don't forget that on Tuesday morning Katrina was still at tropical storm strength and had just crossed the Mississippi/Tennessee border. A lot of stuff that was prepositioned on the periphery of the hardest hit areas was still being delayed by tropical storm-strength winds and rain where they were.

[longtermmemmory]

Where is the outrage?

Is Tim Russert going to demand the Gov's or Mayor's resignation?

Is jessie jackson going to scream murder to democrats?

Will 60 minutes expose this?

No, it is only for FR to spread the truth.

[FreedomCalls]

FWIW, LA formally requested FEMA assistance on 8/28.

I went through that document and it appears to be a request for after-the-fact clean up and funding. Standard FEMA stuff. Nothing about command and control of evacuation and carrying out search and rescue operations. In fact, I went through it line by line and it appears that every single request in that document was fulfilled early on.

What specific request that Gov Blanco made in that document do you think did not get fulfilled?

[Darksheare]

"Now, a nation at war as we are, should have been up and running Tuesday at the latest."

How do you think that would be physically possible?
And, even if it could be done by tasking crews around the clock to do, there are people stranded that need rescuing.
And tasking people to restore oil production would make the moonbats go bonkers.
They'd scream that oil was more important than people.

[1035rep]

Still looking for a loophole so you can blame Bush?

It's not going to work this time.

[va4me]

The mayor of New Orleans is responsible. Study these photos and ask: why didn't Mayor Nagin apply his own mandated hurricane evacuation plan????M

Because he royaly screwed up. But his mistakes, however awful they were, don't excuse the mistakes made by FEMA.

It wasn't Nagin's fault that a search and rescue team from Virginia had to go home because they couldn't be cleared into LA. It wasn't Nagin's fault that resources haven't been released because FEMA can't get the paperwork done. It wasn't Nagin's fault that emergency vehicles from Florida couldn't be brought into the impacted areas because FEMA and the GSA couldn't agree on how to handle it.

I'll keep saying it, government across the board, city, state, federal, was completely unprepared for this sort of event. That's inexcusible. At all levels.

Read the tag line.

[George W. Bush]

Are you in Nebraska? I was there when Ben was Governor. Of the two, Ben might be the better.

Yeah, Nebraska. Well, Hagel generally scores about as conservative as anyone by ACU ratings, about twice as high as Nelson. Simply because Nelson is the next closest thing to Zell Miller left in the Dim party, he's often thought of well here at FR. That's a little deceptive if you know Nelson.

Generally the two of them work together. Neither one actually gives a flying crap about either of their parties. Really. What did the party ever do for them? And what can the parties do to hurt them (except if Hagel wants to run in '08)?

Anyway, you probably know Nebraska has that hopelessly bipartisan thing that is engendered by the nonpartisan Unicameral. It does eliminate some pointless grandstanding but it's also hard to be politically ideological in a very strong way. Flaming political moderation is Nebraska's vice.

They'll both be raising a lot of questions about NG deployed in Iraq. Safe enough to do. I don't know anyone who likes using NG as regular Army troops. They each have their place. And the place for the National Guards is in their home states. Personally, I don't like nationalizing the Guard any more than nationalizing education. I think that we're going to see a move toward bringing the Guard home and limiting their deployments overseas after this.

[1035rep]

"I am not looking to cast blame"

You already did, do you even read what you post?

"Look, I am not saying that Blanco and Nagin were competent. In fact they were incompetent as was Bush."

[Grampa Dave]

The pictures of the buses, the fact that these buses were 1.2 miles from the dome, and the data that Travis and others have found re the evacuation plan show massive $crewups by du Mayor.

[Tax-chick]

The evidence won't matter to the willfully blind.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"...limiting their deployments overseas..."

Yes. The concept for the National Guard, as I have generallly seen it, is not for use in multiple overseas skermishes. WWII was a different matter. If one wants to volunteer for any and all military actions around the world, let it be in the Army, Navy, Marine Corp, Air Force. Let volunteers for the guard know that they are not volunteering for everything that comes along. For those who want to volunteer 'part time' for anything, let them do so through the Reserves.

[George W. Bush]

The concept for the National Guard, as I have generallly seen it, is not for use in multiple overseas skermishes. WWII was a different matter.

That's how most people see it. National Guard can be sent for the short term. But long-term deployments like rotation into the occupation of Iraq are something for the regular Army.