Posted on 05/20/2009 1:59:15 PM PDT by balch3
Funny how Dems dont talk about the ice storms Obama ignred while eating $100 Kobe beef and doing the Conga Line.
My l’il fact sheet says the response time to Katrina was 3x faster than Hurricane Andrew.
*How can two million blacks get into Washington D.C. in sub zero temps in one day when 200,000 couldn’t get out of New Orleans at 85 degrees with four days notice.
A councilman in Jersey sent an e-mail with that joke after 0’s inauguration. He got in trouble for it. I think it’s funny...funny ‘cause it’s true. *
Amusing, but of course, DC is 95 percent black and many more blacks live in DC metro. As for the remainder, they did have FOUR months to make travel plans, not four days.
The reason for Blanco and friends delaying the request for federal help is they were hassling with Washington over who would control the billions of dollars sure to be involved. The local Democrats wanted to divide the spoils as they saw fit and Washington would not agree. For several days no one was in charge because of this.
The Democrats finally gave in but then turned the tables and blamed Bush for everything imaginable, including causing the hurricane..
I believe you.
But the Constitutionally illiterate LameStream Media doesn’t know enough to look into such things.
I really think there is a bit of political retardation in the field known as “journalism” today.
Re#62 Good morning and you are so right. The MSM are liars beyond belief. May there be karma...
I tried to make that point way back when this "joke" started making the rounds. No one seemed to understand that the two situations cannot be compared. I'm glad that you saw it too.
In doing so they reduced the Active Duty End Troop Strength Numbers in 1996 to a level still used today give or take a few thousand. This in turn put more of the burden for active duty call up for foreign deployment on reserves including State National Guards which technically are U.S. Army. Many National Guard Units are also key elements in state emergency management. By tradition the guards covered most disasters including flooding and even search and rescue in some cases.
This should have never happened. The National Guard role in Iraq should have been measured in months and for the most part not deployed there.
Now Rummy was by no means a great Sec of Defense either time. His first time many forget about and like to blame Jimmy Carter solely for a mess Rummy also helped create under Ford. IOW Rummy was not a good choice for Sec of Defense. He left a mess in 1977 and he left one again later. The Ford and Carter years were more or less the same. Gerald Ford had more in common with Carter policy wise than any Republican including Nixon.
On another interesting note Ford not Carter fist gave state sponsored terrorism the green light. Ford signed an EO prohibiting covert Ops from taking out foreign leaders. Fear of retribution was lost by M.E. leaders who sponsi\ored terrorist acts. Carter signed such as well as did Reagan. The difference being Reagan sent in a military strike to deal with such problems.
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