Just watched Kitty Pigeon (is that her real name) trot out the Bush talking points on Lou Dobbs' CNN show. That is, it's the fault of the local and state authorities for not completely evacuating the city of New Orleans.
I am left with these questions:
(1) What percentage of the citizens of Mississippi and Alabama in the storm's way evacuated? Why aren't Haley Barbour (R) and Bob Riley (R) included in the scouraging of local officials? Because they are Republican? Because we don't have their death tolls yet? Because their portion of the levee system didn't breach?
(2) Who cares what the local officials did in evaluating the performance of FEMA? FEMA is part of the Department of Homeland Security. We are evaluating the performance of the agency which would have to clean up after a terrorist attack made without warning. If FEMA was in charge of the evacuation of the Twin Towers on 9/11, all those people evacuated by the FDNY and NYPD would have died. FEMA couldn't get water and food to people they were standing right next to for 5 days. How could they have evacuated a building in less than 2 hours?
Besides which, this was a national emergency. FEMA has TAKEN primary responsibility for all such incidents. The buck stops on George W. Bush's desk. He should be impeached for causing the deaths of so many innocent Americans through his criminal negligence.
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