Bush should have federalized the rescue effort in New Orleans long since. The anchors on WDSU are angry right now, calling for this, and they’re right. They show video from the convention center with thousands of people told to go there with no water and no food. Every available military resource should be scrambled to get to New Orleans now. There is no time to wait. No time at all.
Bush has shown outrageously poor leadership on this. Covey material he certainly is not.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think the President can federalize any situation until a governor asks for it.
And just out of curiousity–no matter who was President when this happened–what should have been done differently? Warnings were sent out as far ahead as possible. I vividly recall over the weekend the news stories saying that people had been told to report to the Superdome WITH FOOD, WATER, & NECESSITIES FOR MANY DAYS!!!
Maureen, I know one thing that should have been done differently: deferment of all presidential gifts (including guitars).
Why not go yell in all caps at the poor who were living at subsistence level that they should have been stocking up. Do you need some waders?
I agree with Maureen, we live in a Federal system and their has to be a formal request for assistance.
their=there
Think about this though. Yes it is “easy” to call up every unit in the U.S. and fling it at the disaster area. But first off, you gotta get them there when there is really no easy routes into the place. Then you gotta find shelter/food for them.
It is a nightmare scenerio. Doesn’t help no one is providing leadership.
What makes me angry is that tens of thousands of people foolishy decided not to evacuate before the hurricane struck. I can understand the sick, elderly, those without transport, etc. staying put, but many others simply decided not to evacuate. Not to mention the looters who are shooting at rescue workers and cops. It’s beyond belief. Next time it may be better to forcibly evacuate everyone in advance, at gunpoint if necessary.
Louis,
No one falults people for being poor, but as Maureen pointed out there was ample warning and a system in place, at no cost, for people to go to safer locations. The fact that they chose not to take advantage of those offers absolutely puts the responsibility for their situation directly on their own heads. I know the concept of Personal Responsibility sometimes escapes those who believe they are owed their life needs by society in general but it just isn’t the real world. Everyone is sympathetic to the plight of those in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast but if you do nothing to take command of your own situation you have very little right to berate those who are now trying to help you.
Where is the Mayor of NO?
Where is the Governor of LA?
Where is Rudy Guliani?
“Everyone is sympathetic to the plight of those in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast but if you do nothing to take command of your own situation you have very little right to berate those who are now trying to help you.”
Robert, that bears repeating.
Call me crazy, but I have always been partial to the idea of “ensuring domestic tranquility” and “promoting the general welfare”. I think I read that in a federal document somewhere. It didn’t seem to mention any prerequisite intelligence requirements.
We live in a give and take world.
The last 40 years or so, it’s gone topsy turvy.
The givers get slammed, the takers applauded and lauded.
Whichever behavior we encourage most, we will undoubtedly be getting more of.
Personal Responsibility vs. believing we are owed our life needs
Without the entitlement mentality, I doubt there would be the looting, and the shooting of rescuers.
Wow – based on the rapid lap dogs for Bush posting here, I can tell they are very very worried about how the right will look when all is said and done. Accept it now or stay in denial if you choose – Bush:Katrina = Putin:Kursk
Keep on playing that guitar George.
Dream on Dave.
Wow – based on the rapid lap dogs for Bush posting here, I can tell they are very very worried about how the right will look when all is said and done. Accept it now or stay in denial if you choose – Bush:Katrina = Putin:Kursk
What a load of immature rubbish. The only one who cares about “how it looks” is you, you POS.
Nero fiddled, Bush strummed.
That looks bad.
Maureen asks what could have been done differently. It’s a fair question, and there are answers.
Last week, they were concerned enough to talk to the refineries about response. At that time, when they were making the decision to release some of the petroleum reseves, they could have also have:
1. Ensured that emergency supplies and transport were airlifted, along with Guardsmen or regular forces and medical personnel, to the closest bases outside the danger area.
2. Tested their emergency communication systems, and ensured that local emergency personnel had interoperable communications devices.
3. Prepared the sandbags for emergency levee repair and airlifted via cargo transport to a staging area.
4. Sent ships for rescue operations in the direction for RAPID deployment.
We had warning. We had time. We blew it. That’s not political, folks, that’s facts.
MrPundit
Thanks for emphasizing my point.
Identifying my thoughts as “immature rubbish” and calling me a “POS” shows just how worried the Bushies are.
let’s add a few more:
5. Evacuated the hospitals on Monday.
6. Come up with as much transport as possible to evacuate the people WITHOUT cars or transportation, instead of leaving it to private vehicles only.
Where’s Cheney ?
Jeff
This is something that I beleved as well. Bush should have sent HLS Director down there and told state and local authoties to step aside now! However, is it constitutional to do so? and no doubt the unpredictable left (joke) would be FREAKING out if he had done so.
This is a corrupted city (wonderful city too) led by Democrats for how many decades now? Dem mayor, Dem City Council, Dem governor, Dem Senators, and yet somehow its the Republicans who need to worry about thier image?
Don’t you think that at least a moment of reflection on Democrat governing techniques needs to be taken? Even if the Left won’t, the American people will and have which is why your side is so powerless today.
Pray for Bush’s death Dave but all those evil Christians and corporations are going to save thousands of lives while you sulk. I have five friends that I still can’t get in touch with down there and my belief is the Mayor and the Governor (both Dems) will get the bulk of the blame.
Maybe the next disaster will work for you, Dave. Don’t give up.
Clinton federalized it. Under his FEMA admin Witt the feds were prepared to provide fast emergency measures. Bush did cripple FEMA for ideological reason – more responsibility to the states. He just forgot to give the states enough of the taxes back to finance this. And he put a total clown with no experience at FEMAs helm – this guy Brown was estate plan lawyer and leading a club for arabic race horses. His qualification is that he helped fundraising for Bush’s election. I am wondering if Blanco is the right woman for this crisis, but no way can she be worse than Dubya’s ole buddy.
Why don’t you investigate BEFORE you post unsubstantiated nonsense like this?
Identifying my thoughts as “immature rubbish†and calling me a “POS†shows just how worried the Bushies are.
No, I think it’s because Mr. Pundit merely said what he is actually seeing.
It’s liberals that need to worry. The taking out the trash in the last presidential election shows they should be. As far as how things look, the only time the guy in the Whitehouse before Bush didn’t worry how things looked, was when he unzipped, so I guess it’s understandable you think we on the right worry constantly about how things look too.
Only the evidence is to the contrary…Bush does what he thinks is the right thing, and if polls go down…so be it. That sort of behavior is beyond the comprehension of liberals who now have about the same credibility as MAJOR media….nada.
My favorite? Criticizing the FOREIGN affairs official for buying shoes at the mall. hahahahahaaha
If THAT didn’t reek with desperation!!!!!
Rates right up there with the pulled commercial blaming Roberts for the abortion bombing.
Your party Dave is in the last gasps, choking on its own lying bilge.
Sleep well.
How freakin difficult is it to drop some food and water in there? Reporters are going in and out of there and FEMA can’t send in some Expeditions filled with food and water? It’s disgraceful. I’ve never been so disappointed in my government in my entire life.
I am sick and tired of amateur discussion on this stuff.
1. It’s well established in emergency planning circles that municipalities (and states for that matter) are “on their own” for a minimum of 72 hours post-disaster. Example: Mr. Burton above says, among other things, that “hospitals should have been evacuated Monday.” How might one do that? How many ambulances would be needed? Where would they come from? Air evac won’t work- they don’t carry much fuel- where to refuel? Can’t put them on buses- Prob too sick; even if you could, where would the buses come from? Were the roads even open?
2. Continuing: Put the ships in the direction for rapid deployment: Where? Katrina came across the SE Coast and through the Gulf. Nearest Non-gulf port is Jacksonville, I think, but even so- Where are the supplies? The ships have to be where the supplies are.
3. “Test the emergency communications” Radios run on electricity and require towers for wide area coverage- lose a couple of repeaters or towers, and there’s no emergency comms.
4. It was only in the 48 hours prior that Katrina revved up to catastrophic proportions. How much prep can get done?
5. “Come up with as much transport as possible” to evacuate people- I am sure you can line up lots of $12/hour bus drivers to drive instead of looking after their own families. Don’t hold your breath.
6. “Put the Guardsmen and medical personnel at the closest bases” – How are you moving them on short notice? Does it make more sense to use those assets to evacuate people? If you move them close, and then move them to the scene, you’re loading and unloading twice, because all that transport will need to cycle multiple times, particularly if you are talking airlift. And loading and unloading usually takes as long as the trip. Same goes for sandbags, by the way….
7. Someone else said “Bush has shown outrageously poor leadership”. What ELSE do you want him to do? Load the trucks? Wade through the slop? Have you ever been involved with a Presidential visit? You don’t know the meaning of disruptive until the President comes around. Best he stays away.
My advice to people with such attitudes is send some money to the Red Cross and then shut the hell up. The grownups have work to do.
Well, Fester, – are you saying that we don’t have the logistics capablilities to move 10,00 troops, emergency food and supplies within 48 hours to a staging area ahead of time? (We knew FOR SURE there was a problem by Sunday morning, remember?) That we should just wait until it gets REALLY bad and then start trying to deal with it? I suppose that’s the way we should deal with a dirty bomb attack too, God forbid that we ever need to.
Give me a break, dude, there was no 72 hour rule in effect for NY, there is no 72 hour rule in effect for NO, either. We knew it was coming, and we did jack. No excuses accepted. I don’t care if it’s a Democrat, a Republican, of George Washington himself. This isn’t about politics – really.
Sorry, Fester, I tried to reply but apparently Jeff’s blog thought it was spam
Sorry but GR4Y has it right. The guy currently in charge of FEMA has only one qualification for the job. He raised lots of campaign cash for Bush. The people who make comments about staging areas are also correct. As soon as the storm had crossed Florida they were already saying that it would probably build into a Category 4 hurricane and that it would head for the area of New Orleans. There are preparations that could have been made.
[...] Jeff Jarvis: Bush should have federalized the rescue effort in New Orleans long since. [...]
I refuse to be schooled on the subject of amateur discussion from a man whose greatest feat is a lit bulb in his mouth. Would that it was not so dim.
BTW, should Christians even be qualifying or questioning any amount of help to these victims?
NP, Greg, I’ll do the reply. It’s only a bunch of mindless blabber after all.
1. Hmm, not here in Germany. You’re comparing the US to some third world countries?
2. Jacksonville would have been a whole lot better than NY, right? And the ships should have been supplied and sent en route after the warnings on friday, of course. This would have been a prez decision, of course, Blanco can’t command the fleet.
3. Emergency Coms – Long range? It would be sufficient to reach emergency management centers maybe 30 miles ‘behind the front’, don’t you agree. I’m surprised that the mobile units in Iraq can operate without long range communication. There is something like radio relay, too, you know, invented only about 100 years ago. And isn’t there a scifi gimmick called satelite phone???
4. 48 hours? A bus can drive about 2000 miles in 2 days, right? A chopper maybe 3600. Naval ships 1000. Should be enough time to alert national guard and summon them to strategic points near the expected dmg center with equippement. Call hospitals, nursery homes and prison and check if they have enough nourishment for several days plus diesel for generators. Organize needed supplies from local retailers where necessary. That’s just common sense, a qualified emergency manager with a good team could do much more.
5. Police stayed in NO, too, without food, water and connection to their families. You don’t seem to hold busdrivers in a high regard.
6. If you can’t raise national guard within 48 hours, the system isn’t worth a dime in case of emergency. You would submit the call thru MSM. I did serve during the cold war, being in the reserve after active duty. We had to be ready to reach our units in case of emergency in max 24 hours.
7. Only good idea, it’s better he stays away. If he would have called for information after the warning on friday, he could have pressed his FEMA clown to get prepared. Dunno if that would have helped much though. The important mistakes had been made much earlier.
Fester, let me know when there are grownups in the Whitehouse.
Ravo, wake up.
I don’t know, but if I was a prominent public official, even if “only” the Secretary of State, I’d be in DC, rolling up my sleeves, and figuring out what I could do to help. I guess I’m just that way. I don’t say, hey, not MY job. That could also be why my company is successful. I actually work, and I expect the people around me to work. What a concept.
So listen you SOB, the money I sent to the Red Cross, and the tens of thousands I send to the federal government every goddamned year for nothing in return, are beyond reproach from you.
I, and millions of others, are expecting some sort of leadership, some sort of strength, some sort of clue. And we haven’t gotten it this week, any more than we’ve gotten it in the past 5 years. I guess we’re hoping against hope. And we’re also hoping that when these 8 disastrous years are over, it doesn’t take 20 to recover from the poverty of leadership, poverty of spirit, and actualy poverty of the Treasury.
Friggin JAMAICA is prepared and offering to help us, along with Canada, but we’re not asking, so…
One of these days you people will realize that this isn’t partisanship. This is the FUCKING NEWS. Say it with me now – F.A.I.L.U.R.E.
Also:
This is the goddamed United States of America!!!!
THIS is the best we can do?
What a joke.
F.A.I.L.U.R.E.
The disaster zone is the size of Britain. The numbers keep changing, but we’re talking evacuations of in excess of 75,000 people from the NO area alone to Houston, Dallas and San Antonio via one passable highway, which is also shared by all other emergency vehicles, police, fire, etc.
The magnitude of this calamity is beyond belief.
Those here who keep blabbing about what wasn’t done when by Bush et al. are just too tiresome to respond to at this point. I guess they’ve been in on every meeting and telephone call since this was a category one storm crossing the state of FLA.
I am as anguished as the rest of you to witness the horrific suffering. But I doubt the crowd in NO would have been pleased if only 1,000 had been bused out on Tuesday followed by another 1,000 on Wednesday; i.e., in drips and drabs. Instead, by yesterday, Wednesday, they had mobilized sufficiently to begin continuous evacuations. That’s count em TWO DAYS after the storm stopped wreaking havoc, followed by Additional levee failure.
Given the enormity of this disaster, only God herself could have pulled off a more Herculean effort to save, transport, treat and feed so many in such short order.
Lessons WILL be learned about better ways to respond to the sheer scope of a disaster of this kind. Naysayers be damned. You’ll have plenty of time to bitch once you have all the facts. You’re not helping by criticizing when you don’t yet even have them. For example, anyone here have a reliable count on the number of people who, for whatever reason, remained in the city and now need EVERYTHING all at once? And don’t forget the the number of those who also Didn’t evacuate from the rest of the decimated Gulf Coast region.
Anyone? If you can’t even answer that basic question, guess you’re not God either.
Jeff, I guess you missed the 10th amendment. It’s a pretty big one.
Joel, I guess you missed the second great commandment. It’s a pretty big one.
Responding to GR4Y:
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. I’ve done that work, I know what it takes to mount that kind of effort, and what it takes, and it all comes down to logistics. I’ve been in those meetings with FEMA and state agencies- 3 days is for real. Sure, some stuff happens right away, but the real torrent of help takes three days.
Proof that you are talking out of your hat:
Where were you planning on fueling all of those helicopters?
There are no naval ships in NY.
They had the Guard instantly, except now they need thousands more.
“Radio Relay?” Using what, portables? Do you have any idea how much radio traffic exists in a natural disaster.
I said it before, and I will say it again- Shut up. The grownups have work to do.
The afteraction will show that the levees should have been reinforced, and that some waterproof bunkers should have been built in NO. After that, there will be nothing but praise.
1.
‘My favorite? Criticizing the FOREIGN affairs official for buying shoes at the mall. hahahahahaaha
If THAT didn’t reek with desperation!!!!!’
Ravo, desperation or not, it DID work:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/politics/02bush.html
And now don’t say it isn’t a good think that Condi was forced by public opinion to do her job instead of vacationing while people are dying.
Many other countries did offer to help, among them the much bullied french and us germans. It would be ridiculous to send more choppers (you’ve got lots of them, you just have to allocate them where they are needed), but Germany has specialized dog squads to find survivers and dead in broken down buildings. I guess they could be helpful in areas like Biloxi:
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTA5NzQmbnI9OQ_3_3,00.html
So far, Bush has sniffed at all offers, maybe Condi will have some influence.
Is America too proud to accept help, even in times like this?
Well, Bob, let’s see if I have at least some small ideas what I’m talking about.
I would check the resources of the regional AirBases first:
http://www.globemaster.de/cgi-bin/bases/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&view_records=1&so=ascend&keyword=louisiana&submit=Search
Secondly, it should also be checked if private and municipal fields may be helpful.
Sry, I thought I read NY in the MSM as the departing point of the hospital ships, but maybe I mixed things up. Actually, the ships are coming out of Baltimore. Alert 09/02, scheduled departure 09/04, eta 09/08. Compare this with a possible schedule in the case of early alert of 08/26, 08/28 and 09/01.
‘The Louisiana National Guard had called almost 3,500 of its members to state active duty as of 7 a.m. Monday to help with missions that ranged from aiding law enforcement agencies with traffic control and security to conducting searches and rescues and providing generator support.’
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050830/NEWS01/508300352/1002/NEWS
‘An additional 10,000 National Guard troops from throughout the nation headed to the Gulf region Wednesday to boost security, rescue and relief operations. This brings the total troop number to more than 28,000 in what may be the largest military response to a national disaster. Of these, about 21,000 are from the National Guard.’
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050901/NEWS01/509010351/1002/NEWS
Hey, I’m not a smartass qualified emergency manager like you pretend to be, but with my lil bit of common sense I think it would have been good to alert the troops on friday after the class 5 warnings and tell them to prepare for the worst casse. Especially regarding the troops from other states who had to get transported near the desaster area.
Coincidentially, I was in electronics warfare in the 80s, so I know it is possible to build up a radio network with military equippement quite fast. You only use portables to reach the next post with long range capabilities. Not every communication has to be relayed to the higher up command. Nowadays, even the afghan military is able to establish long distance communication: ‘The Afghan National Army can now talk freely from Kandahar to Kabul to Heart, thanks to communication equipment that replaced Soviet-era radios and systems.’
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jan2005/n01202005_2005012003.html
You want to tell us that the National Guard isn’t at least on the same lvl of technology? This would be scandalous, don’t you agree?
The problem for the NOPD seems to be that they lost the telephone lines of the precincts and don’t have medium and long range radio capabilities. It sure would have helped to deploy National Guard radio squads there asap.
‘The grownups have work to do.’ I don’t dispute that you’re a grownup. I’ve only got some doubts about your performance as an emergeny manager. Like Bush said: ‘The soft bigotry of low expectations’. You tell us this is the best the US can accomplish. That’s hard to believe.
‘The afteraction will show that the levees should have been reinforced,’ 100% ack
‘and that some waterproof bunkers should have been built in NO’ It’s a new idea. Afaik even the dutch don’t have waterproof bunkers. But it should be investigated.
‘After that, there will be nothing but praise.’ Hey, there’s always praise among repubs and the Bush admistration, no matter how abysmal the performance has been. They would never admit that they f***ed up badly. The buck stops nowhere.
Bush supports my view: “the results are not acceptable”
Good for him. But it’s a sad fact that his administration crippled FEMA and that this Brown clown at the helm was his choice.
Gray and others,
All your post mordems are well posted but don’t deal with the Original Responsibility issue. The Mayor of New Orleans had and still has the primary responsibility for the safety and emergency needs of his city. Others may not have performed at the level those posting feel adequate but the realities are:
The Mayor’s Emergency Plan – Failed
The Mayor’s Evacuation Plan – Failed
The Mayor’s Police Department – Failed
The Mayor’s Fire Department – Failed
The Mayor’s Communication – Failed
The Mayor’s Leadership – Failed
And now the Mayor goes on radio and television and extolls others to “Get off their Asses”. Mr. Mayor it is almost impossible to determine if others are getting off their asses when you clearly have your head planted squarely up your own ass.
As trucks roll and Gurdsmen bring law and order, the Mayor and others need to do some serious self evaluation and accept their own failures and stop berating those who are coming to help them.
You’ve nailed it Robert
Yes, Nagin bears a lot of responsibility. And I’m not sure if he really did everything possible in preparation for Katrina, for example seizing a fleet of busses for the evacuation efforts. As a german with only tourist experience of NO, I’m not that deep into the US system to know if he had the authority to public transport and school assets for that task. But I do know that by now his city is mostly underwater. NO’s assets are gone. Nagin has authority over thousands of refugees who either lost all or a shgot out from their businesses and personal belongings.
In a time when whole states are in a dramatic state of emergency, the feds have to step in. I don’t care about ideologic theories trying to reduce the power of the nation, emphasizing the responsibility of the states and encouraging privatisation. This catastrophe is too huge to be handled by cities and states and corporations, this is the time where the nation has to step in with all it’s resources. And, dang, you’re the US, the still most powerful nation in the world, with resources exceeding that of every other nation.
As a fan of NO I want to show solidarity with mayor Nagin and his troubled citizens and join the choir:
Get of your a**, America!
dang, corrections:
I’m not that deep into the US system to know if he has the authority to confiscate public transport and school assets for that task.
Nagin has authority over thousands of refugees who either lost all or are shut out of their businesses and personal belongings.
“…confiscate public transport and school assets for that task.”
Too late now…
Robert,
While your anger at mayor is understandable it is misplaced. Municipal and State emergency response forces are intended to deal with emergency situations up to a certain level. When we deal with a disaster of scale of Katrina it is the responsibility of FEMA to handle it. Such disasters (fortunately) are rare and happen in different locations. According to your idea each city should have a capacity to handle such catastrophes. Well this means that each city should have 30,000 – 100,000 troops prepared to respond immediately. This would be just stupid would not it? This is why we have a single agency (called FEMA) to respond to such events whenever and wherever they occur in our country. Pure economics. And FEMA did fail New Orleans people in this case. I hope you are not counting solely on your mayor and municipal police in case the disaster of such magnitude hit your city (God forbid).
Jim
The administration sought unified control over all local police and state National Guard units reporting to the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301680.html
They (administration) did try it… on Friday. Are not they a little bit slow?
1. The American gov’t dropped the ball. Perhaps if our money and resources weren’t currently misdirected toward a pointless war, things might have gone a bit more smoothly.
2. Look at the demographic.. and don’t get confused now, it’s not because they’re black, it’s because they’re poor.
3. Fidel Castro (yes, the militant, communistic, cuban son of the devil) offered to send 16,000 physicians. Kuwait has offered to send $5bil in aid. Sri Lanka (yes, one of the countries recently devastated by the tsunami) has offered $25k in aid. Bush refuses to accept or in some cases even respond to these offers. Real mature.
4. 2 YEARS earlier a request was made by NO to the gov’t to create a better artificial barrier. The gov’t replied it was too much money.
5. If I was forced to leave my pet behind, I wouldn’t leave either… That might be a difficult concept to grasp for those of you who think that living things such as animals don’t suffer or experience fear.
6. And finally I’d like us all to take a moment to reflect on the way things were when Clinton was in office: Gas prices were half the amount p/gal. that they are today; We weren’t involved in a 4 year war comparable to Vietnam; Nat’l disasters were responded to swiftly and adequately; Our nation wasn’t in debt; Our economy wasn’t falling apart from the inside out. America wasn’t the laughing stock of the world.
If you want to help, do a little research and send money to an organization that will give the largest amt. possible directly to NO. (Hint: It’s not the Red Cross)
And please, donate blood.
Why are people blaming President Bush? People are talking like he created the storm and used it to wipe out the poor and the black populations, which is utterly ridiculous.
The main responsibility and all of the blame falls directly on the shoulders of the Mayor of New Orleans. He is the one that DID NOT do everything within his power to save the lives of his town folk. Now he wants to blame everyone else for not doing enough and not doing it fast enough.
All states and municipalities are on there own for the first 72-hours after any disaster. Louisiana is no different. Lots of people have been saying that Florida gets Federal immediately after a disaster. I know for a fact that this is NOT TRUE. I also know that Florida (unlike Louisiana) has numerous disaster relief plans for hurricanes (and none of them kick in until AFTER the storm has passed). They have shelters, they have stockpiles of necessary supplies that the Floridian Volunteers start passing out as soon as they can. Florida does everything for itself until federal help can arrive.
And what gets me the most is that even the Governor of Louisiana is sitting there blaming others for what is going on in New Orleans, but she has still has not declared a state of emergency in New Orleans and she did not even ask for help until Wednesday (8/31). Yet she points the finger at the head of FEMA who waited for 5 hours after the storm hit the Gulf Coast before asking for federal aid to be sent to the area, the storm was still wreaking havoc on the gulf coast when he asked for assistance. At least Mr. Brown only waited 5-hours, Governor Blanco waited 3-DAYS and no one is criticizing her!
So my question is this…if the Mayor and the Governor have not done what needs to be done… why is it being made OUR problem?
Blanco Requests Federal State of Emergency
Saturday, August 27, 2005
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