Posted on 09/06/2005 10:15:17 AM PDT by Abigail Adams
Naggin has been suggesting this problem, while not overtly stating it, since Tuesday Aug 30th. The reasons behind Blanco's 24 hour stalling on Friday night/Saturday can now be reasonably discerned from what many sources are talking about. Nagin wanted out, didn't have the authority to commandeer buses from local and regional school boards to evacuate those willing to evaucate without Blanco's authority for both commandeering the necessary transport and fielding shelters to house the willing evacuees with a reasonable level of safety standards. Liability issues,
protection of capital assets,
recruitment of licensed CDL bus drivers,
insuring those drivers,
having pre prepared stocks of emergency equipment never actually having been prepared as stipulated by the state emergency plans,
reticence by school boards private transportation companies and public and private transit authorities outside the mandatory evacuation area to release their bus assets to the state,
the political fall out from the 2004 Ivan evacuation,
etc.,
etc.,
all led to Gov. Blanco crumbling under cascading failures that go back well over a decade.
In due time, the men and women responsible for emergency management in other hurricane areas of the country will come forward and describe the years of preplanning that has gone on within their states, and point out specific failures of the LA state government in comparison.
I saw it too. Is common sense finally starting to seep through?! Geez, half of the things they've figured out we have known here on FR for days.
Thank you- I'll pass that on to her:)
Friends with Oprah he took supplies from her Angel Network to a shelter in Dallas and served people there and let them film him talking to the people and hearing their horror stories.... I had heard he was raised by his grandmother, you could tell he has great empathy with older people.
Peach said:
>She just gave a press conference - showed a snippet on
>FNC. Wants FEMA taken out of Homeland Security. (Isn't
>that a flip flop?)
Txsleuth said:
>Wasn't Hitley part of the Congress that put FEMA in the
>Homeland Security Department to begin with???
Read this thread late but I suppose better a late reply than none at all.
FEMA was incorporated into the Department of Homeland security in 2002 as part of H.R. 5005. This act was named, "To establish the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes", or for short "the Homeland Security Act of 2002". The pertinant section in the act is section 502 for those interested in checking out the pdf.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:HR05005:
The act passed with strong bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate.
In the House the vote was 295 Ayes, 132 Nays (Nays included 10 Republicans, 1 Bernie Sanders, and the rest were Democrats).
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2002-367&sort=vote
In the Senate, the vote was even more lopsided. 90 Ayes, 9 Nays. The Nays were all Democrats (including Jeffords) but not a Clinton among them.
Akaka (D-HI)
Byrd (D-WV)
Feingold (D-WI)
Hollings (D-SC)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Levin (D-MI)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00249
What building is that?
For what it may be worth, I sent an email to the Whitehouse to tell them they should watch Oprah because her show is likely to create a public relations nightmare for the administration.
Not saying Oprah wouldn't contribute. Of course she would. Just that there would be an alterior motive in it for her as well. Collect those horror stories, find the worst of them, make sure they are Bush haters, and we'll put 'em on the show.
Someone needs to get her corrected...she's in Houston wonder if Elder Bush shouldn't approach her. Once Nagin met with W...his attitude did a real about face.
There were some photo shots of the President with some of the young black hurricane survivors. The children clung to him. Perhaps she can get pictures of these and show them to her class. Kids can relate to visuals.
Thanks a lot for that information...
NOW, I want to see Kennedy or Levin stand up on the Senate floor and tell Hillary "I told you so"....LOL
Exactly...
IHMO the President needs to make a SUPRISE visit to Houston ASAP.
Chrissy on Hairball has on that crying President...
Broussard...he has been on every night crying about not getting any help...
He is saying that he couldn't get help from "there" so he is getting it from the Gov. of Maryland??
This is the photo I linked to in my post 337. I couldn't paste the picture on the thread (blonde moment, I suppose!) Maybe some experienced FReeper could help me out!
Whattttttt?????? You know NOLA was sued by EPA in 1998 for polluting the water in the area. Have these public officials been drinking the water? I think their brains are fried.
Man oh man, for not having any working phones, I've heard him call into more radio and TV shows today, than any other local official. Broussard is the new media darling.
I have never been an Oprah fan...and I lost any respect when she turned down Pres Bush's request to go with a contingent of successful women entreprenuers to Afghanistan after the war, so she and others could show the women there,
that women CAN be business people and such..
She turned him down---said she didn't have time.
I am sure, he will be "impressed" with her effort to "help" her fellow women right now..../s
I doubt W will come to Houston...W feels its covered well by his Dad and Mom.
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