| I want to be more cheerful, but... |
[Sep. 5th, 2005|03:48 pm] |
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Surprisingly, this is from the Washington Whore Post, who is always loathe to say anything negative about Dear Leader.Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state's emergency operations center said Saturday.
The administration sought unified control over all local police and state National Guard units reporting to the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request after talks throughout the night, concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. Some officials in the state suspected a political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly. I note that there was no such negotiation with Governors Barbour (R-Mississippi) or Riley (R-Alabama). He didn't pull this shit with Pataki on 9/11, and when Ivan kissed Florida, he was there personally handing out water to those affected. And, there was a National Guard presence within 24 hours.
Oh, and here are a few more gems from this group of Keystone Kops.
FEMA director Michael Brown, in an interview with Paula Zahn on 9/1, told her he didn't not know about the Superdome refugees until that day. They had been there since 8/28. If CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC had access to the Superdome, what was stopping FEMA?
This was an interview with Aaron Broussard, Jefferson Parish President.
MR. BROUSSARD: Sir, they were told like me, every single day, "The cavalry's coming," on a federal level, "The cavalry's coming, the cavalry's coming, the cavalry's coming." I have just begun to hear the hoofs of the cavalry. The cavalry's still not here yet, but I've begun to hear the hoofs, and we're almost a week out.
Let me give you just three quick examples. We had Wal-Mart deliver three trucks of water, trailer trucks of water. FEMA turned them back. They said we didn't need them. This was a week ago. FEMA--we had 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel on a Coast Guard vessel docked in my parish. The Coast Guard said, "Come get the fuel right away." When we got there with our trucks, they got a word. "FEMA says don't give you the fuel." Yesterday--yesterday--FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards on our line and says, "No one is getting near these lines." Sheriff Harry Lee said that if America--American government would have responded like Wal-Mart has responded, we wouldn't be in this crisis. So, apparently if you didn't vote for Dear Leader this is the sort of emergency response you can expect.
In 2003 Bush cut funding for operations and maintenance of New Orleans' Levee system to 1/6 of its previous level. He kept braying that he just couldn't imagine what would happen if the levee system failed...even though there are reams of documentation predicting a disaster just like the one that occurred. He also keeps blaming the levee system maintaince lapses on local officials. That system is maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers, NOT THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.
There is a rally on 9/24 calling for Bush's impeachment. I will be there. Between now and then I am going to look for more effective ways to express my disgust for this piece of pond scum. "At long last, sir, have you no shame?"
I have to go plaster a smile on my face and pretend to be social now. A more coherent rant is forthcoming. |
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