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To paraphrase...
September 01, 2005 ( politics )
...my ever-eloquent friend JP, (who for wholly inadequate reasons refuses to get a blog of any sort, leaving us to paraphrase, quote, and plagarize), except without using quite as much profanity:
I am ever so glad we've sacrificed so many civil liberties and personal privacies, not to mention tax dollars, for disaster preparedness and relief in the post-9/11 world that the crisis in New Orleans is going so swimmingly (pardon the pun) well, with adequate evacuation procedures beforehand, functional shelters, and ample staffing and equipment to help in the search-and-rescue and rebuilding tasks.
Also, the UK Mirror reports:
Mr Bush was at Coronado Naval Base in Texas with entertainer Mark Wills as Hurricane Katrina's 145mph winds killed hundreds on the the Gulf Coast when he committed the PR blunder.Mr Bush finally cut short his holiday in Texas by two days to fly to Washington when the scale of the disaster became clear. He was spurred into action after Veteran CNN anchorman Jack Cafferty asked: "Where's President Bush? Is he still on vacation?"
"Based on the latest polls my guess is getting back to work might not be a terrible idea."
Those ratings show that support for Mr Bush has slipped to a career low of 45 per cent on concerns over the Iraq war and spiralling US fuel prices.
I hear that his first choice in musical instruments to play while New Orleans got flooded, the violin, was not available on base.
Oh, and we also have BushCo to thank for disassembling FEMA into Homeland Security and stripping it of its disaster-relief capabilities. Because one terrorist attack that is the first ...ever... in our country's existance, is a much higher disaster-preparedness priority than, oh... hurricanes, 10-20 of which happen EVERY SUMMER, and at least one big and damaging one every 5-10 years or so.
Posted by griffjon at September 1, 2005 03:43 PM
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