Posted on 05/10/2007 11:53:51 AM PDT by coffee260
Dear Freepers,
Get a load of this:
I was listening to the Quinn & Rose show this morning on XM radio when Host, Jim Quinn told his audience that Howard Dean called Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius early, around 5 am, one morning after the tornado had destroyed the town of Greensburg, Kansas and discussed with her what to say about the tornado and how to blame the war in Iraq and the Bush administration on a slow response to the aftermath.
He also said that she, Gov. Sebelius, called Senator Sam Brownback's office only to learn he wasn't there but then called him on his cell phone and reached him while he was in his car were she confessed to him that she had been instructed by her party leadership, (more specifically, Howard Dean) on how to politicize the tornado's destruction of Greensburg and attack the White House and the Iraq war for a seemingly slow response. She reassured the Senator that her allegations didn't blame him or Pat Roberts, also a Kansas Senator, for the lack of immediate response.
That would explain her public statements to the press that proved later to be untrue. She made statements to the effect that the Iraq war and the deployment of the national guard units to Iraq from her state has left Kansas without the equipment and man power needed to respond more quickly to the tornado's aftermath. This all turns out to be false and the governor herself has back tracked on her own claims.
Mr. Quinn also revealed that she confessed to Brownback that she couldn't pass up such an opportunity like this to attack the President whose approval ratings, in this hostile political climate, is so low.
These revelations are startling and if true should call into question the governors competence and her judgment. Quinn adamantly stressed that his source, who he didn't name because he was sure it would jeopardize his job, was extremely reliable and in a position that would give him direct knowledge of these revelations.
What is so ridiculous about her statement is that they have two active Army Post in Kansas,
Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth.
So even if her statement were true it would have taken one telephone call to each post commander and her National Guard would have been lent the necessary equipment.
Repeat!!!
This is her second and last term. She is one of the few if a man is the democrat presidential candidate who will be considered as a running-mate for him, if she repeated what was said it is to protect her own future in the DNC and politics.
With Katrina, there was at least a problem, the issue being who messed up. This is just totally made up by the Dims and MSM.
What I am hearing-
Sebelius was actually on site in Greensburg Saturday, but, kept a low media profile.
Only activated small parts of the KSARNG and KSANG originally.
Did not ask the WH to activate the majority until late on Sunday-the majority did not arrive until late Monday-after her press conferences and media blitz.
They have plenty of men and equipment on site.
The media must get a timeline from the WH as to when Sebelius requested NG activation and a timeline from the Governor’s office as to when she first came to Greensburg.
If this is true, she should be impeached.
Hannity just talked to Quinn and Rose. I’m going to save this link on my links page here, as well as blog about it.
Well can anybody update us on what was said on the Hannity show?
So did Obama go to the Ray Nagin (spelling?) School of Counting Math for Politicians?
Or is 10,000 just a nice round number that Democrats like to use when they’re talking about tragedies? Even if the number is way over the top wrong!!!
Between Obama and Durbin, I think our Illinois senators are without any great moral compasses. Either one of them.
Please don’t send them to Illinois. We have way too many just like them.
Hopefully she won’t have to “worry” about re-election. Maybe her biggest concern will be about lying and how to save herself from being impeached.
Or repealed or whatever they do to lying governors. But then, politicians never lie, do they?
Ain't that the truth!!!
One thing it shows me is how flippant Democrats are with human life. 10000 is, by his definition, a tragedy. But it doesn’t really mean anything to him. The actual dead people are just statistics.
You're also forgetting McConnel Air Force Base in Wichita.
I was stationed at Ft. Riley in '93 when the entire midwest flooded, and they wasted no time deploying us to fill sandbags for some of the hardest hit areas. I further was assigned to a readiness group in the late '90s. Readiness Groups (since renamed Training Support Brigades or TSBs) are small units of active duty officers and NCOs scattered throughout the states with the primary mission of training, evaluating and providing technical assistance to reserve and national guard units. Because they are located all over, they also have a secondary mission of coordinating Department of Defense assetts in response to a federal disaster declaration in their area. Personnel from our group were trained as part of what was called a "defense coordinating element" (DCE), and in the event of a federal disaster we would form the DoD cell in the FEMA command post. Part of this mission was to maintain a database of DoD and State National Guard assetts so that we could locate the nearest resources available, i.e., bulldozers, trucks, MREs, etc. to be deployed to the area. Although I'm not certain, I would only imagine this function has been refined and improved upon in the post 9/11 and post Katrina era.
In other words, everything the governor has claimed from the outset has been a lie with regards to the availability of National Guard assetts and personnel once the area had been designated a federal disaster area. If they requested 2000 red mechanical pencils and the nearest ones were at a National Guard base in Montana, provisions would have been made to get those pencils to Greensburg, posthaste.
SHe doesn’t have to worry about any re-election. She is term limited and on her last term.
He should have broke it. Now he has no incentive of confirming these claims.
Basically what the OP said. I had to step away and find someone to yell at about it.
Discussed also on Vanity’s show. He had Quinn and Rose on.
I think you pegged it.
ping.
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