No. The reality is they didn’t give a damn. Never attribute to malice what can be properly attributed to neglect.

Granted, the response was piss poor, but do you really think Cheney and Bush are sitting there saying “Let them poor niggaz get washed into the sea ’cause they ain’t gonna vote for me no how’?

Funny how that happened just before an election in a Republican state where the governor is the president’s brother, and it was SO efficient that they gave a lot of money to people who had not even been harmed.

In Florida that year, all you had to do was look sad, and Jeb could get you a FEMA grant.

Jeb. The president’s brother. Election year. Handing out federal money like candy on Halloween, no questions asked.

New Orleans. Black. Votes overwhelmingly Democratic. No important elections in 2005. Do. The. Math.

OK, maybe that doesn’t explain why the response was so good. But I bet it does explain why George Bush was there personally to hand out the ice.

I don’t live in Louisiana. I may, however, someday rely on federal disaster preparedness which Katrina showed to be sadly fucked up after 4 years and tens of billions of dollars supposedly spent to upgrade and fix.

Incidently, where does this guy get off rolling around in an “honorary” FEMA trailer? Is it his only form of housing or is it his Recreational Camper that he is camping in for a week while going to brownnose the president? He better live in the goddam thing or he gets Barbara Bush’s “Katrina’s most insensitve public asswipe” award.

Liberals willing to heap scorn on everyone? Not if they have a D by their name.

The subject of this post is that the Bush Administration is staging fake events to boost public approval of Bush’s Katrina failure. What’s incredible is that you, Jay, are still so conspicuously avoiding the subject. It’s rather sad, and I don’t know why you’re so afraid to even touch the subject — anonymously — on a blog comment page. Is the subject simply that radioactive, that indefensible? What other conclusion can reasonable people draw from your timidity?

More Crazy Jay: “The worst they got from Oliver? That the state and local performance ‘wasn’t perfect’”

The Punch Line: “Until those on the left can start dealing with that using a little intelletual honesty….”

High-larious!!!!

Where’s the intellectual honesty?

Please explain in detail exactly how Bush “wrecked” FEMA?

It’s funny, but because the state of Florida was so well prepared for the hurricanes that hit us in 2004, FEMA was able to do their job without much of a hitch.

Of course in the warped mind of conspiracy minded dumb-ass leftists, the response in Florida was good ONLY because Bush wanted to secure a win in that state in the November election.

It’s amazing how FEMA was able to act accordingly, and get what they needed to the locals without too many problems. Why was that? Because the STATE WAS PREPARED. People who were told to evacuate, got out. Cities and localities used resources available to get people out who couldn’t get out on their own.

Because of the way our state and local officials prepared, those four hurricanes caused only 107 unfortunate deaths.

I don’t absolve the Bush administration of anything. Pink Pig Boy Anatole is yanking that out of his butt. The federal response could have been better. There was a communication breakdown after the storm cleared and everybody thought the worst was over when it was just beginning.

However, that doesn’t take from the fact that not a single liberal I have seen posting comments here, nor Oliver have EVER seen fit direct any criticism at Blanco and Nagin. The worst they got from Oliver? That the state and local performance “wasn’t perfect.” That stings.

Until those on the left can start dealing with that using a little intelletual honesty, then I’m going to call them out every time.

Well…. Not exactly.

http://www.snopes.com/katrina/politics/blanco.asp

http://www.thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/04/blanco.papers/

On another issue, arguing that troops are mis-deployed and therefore aren’t available is a moot point. Nobody can predict the future and it sucks they’re gone. Mobilize whomever you can from wherever you can.

My point against bureaucracy is, on a government level, its very nature of chain of command and procedure makes it hard to circumvent it..there is blame to spread around on all levels of leadership on this one.

Chirp.

Chirp.

Not too long after the hurricane, Bush dropped in for a photo op with a nice old lady in the Ninth Ward.

George put his arm around the old lady and told her a whole bunch of people were going to show up and fix up her house. He put his arm around her and made her promise to make him some gumbo in the new house.

NPR went back to see the woman a year later.

Do I need to tell you the rest?