There's a comprehensive timeline of all of the events leading up to and through Hurricane Katrina here.
Really all you need to know is presented, including the fact that Louisiana Governor Blanco requested Bush to declare a Federal State of Emergency on Friday, August 26th, before Katrina had even struck land, and Bush DID declare it that same day, thereby authorizing FEMA to give all the assistance they had, IMMEDIATELY.
This cannot be blamed on the State government as Bush and his cronies are trying so desperately to do. No one performed their best, including the Local and State authorities, but from the 26th on the entire operation was FEMA's to run, and they DID NOT have a clue what they were doing.
Also, right around the time the levees were giving in, Bush and John McCain posed with a cake.
On Wednesday, after there are reports of little girls in the Superdome sleeping in puddles of urine and being raped, Bush decides to cut his vacation a wee bit short and fly to Washington and oh, DISCUSS plans for maybe making this more of a priority.
But you can be sure that by Friday the campaign to get the literal shit and death stench off of Bush's reputation was in full swing, with his Parade of Photo Ops in full swing. They might not be able to save black people's lives, but they can sure get working on saving their own asses awful quick!
And by Saturday, the Bush administration was lying to newspapers that Gov. Blanco never did get around to declaring that State of Emergency, even though there's mounds of proof, including the President's own signature, that she did.
The mind reels.
Really all you need to know is presented, including the fact that Louisiana Governor Blanco requested Bush to declare a Federal State of Emergency on Friday, August 26th, before Katrina had even struck land, and Bush DID declare it that same day, thereby authorizing FEMA to give all the assistance they had, IMMEDIATELY.
This cannot be blamed on the State government as Bush and his cronies are trying so desperately to do. No one performed their best, including the Local and State authorities, but from the 26th on the entire operation was FEMA's to run, and they DID NOT have a clue what they were doing.
Also, right around the time the levees were giving in, Bush and John McCain posed with a cake.
On Wednesday, after there are reports of little girls in the Superdome sleeping in puddles of urine and being raped, Bush decides to cut his vacation a wee bit short and fly to Washington and oh, DISCUSS plans for maybe making this more of a priority.
But you can be sure that by Friday the campaign to get the literal shit and death stench off of Bush's reputation was in full swing, with his Parade of Photo Ops in full swing. They might not be able to save black people's lives, but they can sure get working on saving their own asses awful quick!
And by Saturday, the Bush administration was lying to newspapers that Gov. Blanco never did get around to declaring that State of Emergency, even though there's mounds of proof, including the President's own signature, that she did.
The mind reels.
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You know, of course, that NOLA is not the only place that was hit by Katrina? Duh! FEMA was out in force all over the gulf coast.
If the freaking IDIOTS who stayed in NOLA despite a MANDATORY evacuation had actually used the sense God gave them, we'd all be singing a different tune, now wouldn't we?
In the same breath, these people curse the Bush administration and then hold out their hand demanding free stuff because of their own stupidity and total arrogance.
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