Posted on 05/07/2007 5:13:53 PM PDT by aft_lizard
Anybody watching CNN? Am I imagining things or did CNN actually dispel the Gov. Kat Katty Sebelius myth that they didnt have enough equipment? Also the AG of Kansas seemed to have backtracked on earlier statements that they didnt have enough for the cleanup and reconstruction. Now the story is they meant for future disasters they would be strained.
excellent
An Inconvenient Lie.
“Now the story is they meant for future disasters they would be strained.’
But if the story were on excess military spending they would be saying how all this equipment was sitting there doing nothing.
It was nice to see Moran(the good one from KS) and Brownback slap her down too today, didn’t hear Tiarht, he might slapped her down too.
The Gov was questioned about the remark by Foxnews’ John Gibson. As I recall, she said a lot of the equipment needed for the cleanup was deployed to Iraq with the Ks. National Guard units. Gibson accused her of making a blatant political statement in the time of a tragedy. She danced a bit, but never addressed it.
I am deeply saddened at these revalations.
I saw that too. CNN actually contacted the Army and National Guard Bureaus and learned that they actually had more than enough for the size of the disaster, and they also said that other states are on call if the help is needed. When the KS AG was asked he said that yeah we do have enough for the current emergencies and that they had actually meant that in the future they may be short.
Let me guess, the governor is a Democrat.
Afterwards, she probably chewed out her press secretary for getting her on that awful Fox News. :0)
Born and bred, an old Kansas political family.
You’d have thought she was from N’awlins.
The Gov was questioned about the remark by Foxnews’ John Gibson. As I recall, she said a lot of the equipment needed for the cleanup was deployed to Iraq with the Ks. National Guard units.
Democrats: we lie because we don’t know how to tell the truth.
And you think that, in the event such a thing were true, that private industry and all us neighboring states wouldn’t pitch in? Don’t try to play Ray Nagen and Kathleen Blanco in the midwest. It just doesn’t work out here.
Basically, that's exactly what I was thinking when I heard it. Even if private companies engage in the cleanup, I'm sure the state or federal government will be sure they're paid.
Well everyone should have just known what she meant, ugghhh, how she felt, ugghhh, that she’s a governor too, ugghhh that there was a bad tornado, so on and so on.
In the case of disasters, states have mutual aid agreements, power companies and all this equipment they need can come in from other parts of Kansas, Nebraska or whereever.The gov just wanted to politicize a disaster. Perhaps the gov took lessons from Blanco and Nagin?
I suspect the more she opens her mouth the less sympathy Kansas will received. I look at her comments as a prelude to requests for large amounts of Federal Aid. So far the only thing I have heard the people of the town complain about is not being able to get back to their destroyed homes.
Reed recalls son-in-law J. Wynn Fleener having just finished a remodeling of her kitchen Friday afternoon.“He really did a nice job,” Reed said Saturday from the shelter set up at Haviland High School. “At least I got to enjoy it for a few hours Friday afternoon. It would have been nice to have gotten to use it, though.”
Reed remembers going to the basement and taking shelter under a craft table while pulling a quilt over her head. She also remembers a twist she gave to a quick prayer uttered as the winds began to tear at the house above her.
“I said, ‘Lord, I don’t need you to hold me in the palm of your hands,’” Reed said. ‘I need you to turn those hands of yours over and cover me. And he did. It became just the most peaceful thing I’ve ever felt. I just knew that I was covered and I felt safe, even as I watched my house go right over the top of me and blow away to who knows where.”
(snip)
Wynn Fleener, Judy Reed’s son-in-law, runs the local funeral home with his wife, Amy. Other than some windows and a deck awning, Fleener’s home retained most of its hardware.
(snip)
His house, of course, was far from the only building in town with which Fleener was concerned. While it was hard to make a thorough assessment in the pitch black following the tornado’s jaunt through town, Fleener was heartened by the “east part of the building looking structurally sound.” The damage, however, is extensive enough to forego funeral arrangements for some time, a fact that seemed to gnaw at his wife.
“With the fatalities we’ve had from this, it’s just really eating at me that we can’t help their families,” Amy said. “That our job. That’s what we do. And now we can’t do it.”
http://www.cantondailyledger.com/articles/2007/05/07/news/news08.txt
The residents don’t sound like they are whining, only their silly governor.
There is even a reservoir in western kansas named after her husbands father. One of the few I havent fished at.
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