[Republican Red]

Democratic critics said the preparations for Rita seemed to exceed those for Katrina, and called anew for an independent panel to investigate why.

"It's nice to have the Bush administration recognize the importance of a federal response to Rita, but why weren't they proactively mobilizing and organizing like this for Katrina?" said Rebecca Kirszner, a spokeswoman for Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

"These are the questions that need to be asked by an independent commission," Kirszner said.

Galveston


New Orleans

Nuff Said

[El Laton Caliente]

Reid Questions Why TX so Ready? It isn't run by dem-wits...

[cubreporter]

Reid...you are a bigger jackass than I ever imagined. You should shut your mouth becuase your ignorance and envy is showing. What a disgrace you are....you are truly a vile individual to even THINK about asking that question.

[Numbers Guy]

why weren't they proactively mobilizing and organizing like this for Katrina?" said Rebecca Kirszner, a spokeswoman for Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

Because the "they" with the primary responsibility of organizing evacuations are state and local officials. Texas is lucky to have state and local officials who are not corrupt and are not lazy Democrats looking to blame the Feds.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Obviously there are no poor, black people in Texas.

[carlr]

perfect

[JennysCool]

Let's see ... Could it be we're just maybe more prepared for this one because we just had another killer monster that emphatically indicated we ought to be prepared for this one?

My Lord, these Libs are just cretinous!

[Steve_Seattle]

Rita is still three days from landfall, and already the Dems are politicizing it. What Reid ignores is that Bush and FEMA WERE being proactive about Katrina, WERE making preparations, WERE prepositioning supplies.

[js1138]

I think it's because NOLA has never had to think about this scenerio. They've never been faced with the prospect of a big storm.

Unless you count Ivan, but that was ages ago. No one alive in NO could remember that.

[RetiredArmy]

Dear Harry: It is because Texas is not run by socialist democrats and seem not to have their heads firmly up their @$$e$$!!!

[VRWCmember]

Democratic critics said the preparations for Rita seemed to exceed those for Katrina, and called anew for an independent panel to investigate why.

I can save you the cost of an independent panel.

Louisiana - democrat governor
Texas - republican governor

For democrat critics to raise questions on why preparations by Texas seem to exceed those by Louisiana is downright comical.

[joesnuffy]

Why is Texas ready compared to NO&LA?....

Bwahahahaha Governor of TX vs LA Mayor of Houston vs what's his face of NO...

Texas also has young men and rescue/disaster preparedness training camps like

ALERT Training Academy

[CommieCutter]

Ok dem-wits! Let's say we can snap are fingers and make it turn out exactly like the Katrina aftermath. What would you say then? You'd say, "see look at how incompetent the President is!"
It doesn't matter what he does here. He's either too ready or he wasn't ready enough. Please.
You people are pathetic!

[stylin_geek]

Umm, Reid, Texas is ready because the Governor of Texax probably gave the go ahead for the Federal Government to step in before the hurricane hit.

Also, the governor probably didn't need 24 hours to "think" about it.

What a disgusting vomitus mass Reid is.

Line courtesy of "The Princess Bride."

[Texas Eagle]

"It's nice to have the Bush administration recognize the importance of a federal response to Rita, but why weren't they proactively mobilizing and organizing like this for Katrina?" said Rebecca Kirszner, a spokeswoman for Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

This is a perfect illustration as to why RATS should not be trusted with power. They are incapable of learning from mistakes.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Do we really need a panel to investigate this.....REID needs to take his head out of rear end. I am convinced these politicians truly live on a different planet....of NO COMMON SENSE.

[Political Junkie Too]

"It's nice to have the Bush administration recognize the importance of a federal response to Rita, but why weren't they proactively mobilizing and organizing like this for Katrina?" said Rebecca Kirszner, a spokeswoman for Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

Look at it this way: it's like when the receiver in football bobbles the catch, and the teammate near him tries to grab the ball before it hits the ground. The teammate expected the receiver to catch the ball, and so was prepared to block for the receiver and not prepared to catch the receiver's bobble.

The Feds were prepared to back up Louisiana and New Orleans during Katrina. They didn't expect Blanco and Nagin to so fumble the emergency so badly, and were not in position to step in to do the state's and city's jobs, as well as their own.

With Rita, Texas is better prepared for the emergency, freeing the Feds to focus on their own job this time. Also notice how Mississippi had things covered, and so the Feds weren't an issue there, either.

-PJ

[frankjr]

"Democratic critics said the preparations for Rita seemed to exceed those for Katrina, and called anew for an independent panel to investigate why."

Did Rove somehow get the Dims to tee up this stupid f'n question? As has already be said...the magic answer...LA & N.O. is run by Dims!!! MS, AL, TX run by GOP. Just saved you morons an independent panel. Next question!!!

[crazyhorse691]

The article reads as if it were written by some Rat party hack. Business as usual for the AP.

[siunevada]

Does the sun have to rise in the East?

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck....?

Can we, in fact, get any dumber?

"These are the questions that need to be asked by an independent commission," Kirszner said.

[Tarpon]

Hurricanes hit six states around the gulf, five are prepared and have no big problems. The sixth is a basket case ... hmmm I wonder why.