Where is FEMA? - Page 2

Bion · Mon, 5th Sep '05, 8:27pm

Way to plug White House Talking Points (or at this stage, Damage Control). The strategy is:

Blame State and Local governments. Show Gov Blanco, Senator Landreau, and Mayor Nagin on TV all the time to make people think that LA is run by Democrats. Hope that people forget that LA is a red state, with one out of two Senators and five out of seven Representatives being Republican. Switch attention over to Gov Barbour of MS, a Republican busy atm kissing Bush admin @ss, and try to say how much better prepared MS (with its Repub gov) is than LA (with its Demo gov), say they were hit more directly by the hurricane, but don't bring up the relative sizes of say Biloxi and NO, and don't point out that in general MS, also a red state, is in even worse shape that LA in terms of education, poverty, etc. Again, try to make it purely a Demo governor vs a Repub governor, avoiding mentioning that it's an own goal anyways as both states are red states. Think about arguing that all the looters are Democrats, but decide that would be even too far for you.

Avoid avoid avoid mentioning deals with developers that destroyed wetlands, *federal* budget cuts to levee repairs (yes, I'm afraid that money for the levees does come from the fed), and especially that some of this money in the past year went to Iraq. Pretending that the gov't had nothing to do with pulling money from programs monitoring int'l terrorism right before 9/11 worked; the American people have a short enough attention span it should work again.

Also, pretend that the Port of New Orleans, and the vast refinery network in the gulf, were completely state interests.

Argue that the fed takes a week to act, even tho its budget, with $41 billion for the DHS alone, dwarfes state budgets. Make sure people don't ask the obvious question: imagine the uproar if it had taken a week for the feds to react to 9/11.

This is not to say the state and local gov'ts don't share the blame. It just seems absurd and grasping to me to argue that the feds are blameless here, and that federal budgeting and organizational issues have nothing to do with the depth of this tragedy.

Cernak · Fri, 16th Sep '05, 5:59am

Where was FEMA? The Hattiesburg (Mississippi) American has an answer,of sorts:

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/a...04/1002/NEWS01

Nakia · Fri, 16th Sep '05, 6:25am

I am disgusted. That is really all I can say since anything else is unprintable.

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Mon, 5th Sep '05, 8:27pm	#26
Bion Servant of the Pink Sorcerer Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Rehab Posts: 1,356 Like: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 3,342 Level: 18 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 59.51% Daily Activity 2.43% Weekly Activity 2.43% Monthly Activity 2.04% Achievements	Way to plug White House Talking Points (or at this stage, Damage Control). The strategy is: Blame State and Local governments. Show Gov Blanco, Senator Landreau, and Mayor Nagin on TV all the time to make people think that LA is run by Democrats. Hope that people forget that LA is a red state, with one out of two Senators and five out of seven Representatives being Republican. Switch attention over to Gov Barbour of MS, a Republican busy atm kissing Bush admin @ss, and try to say how much better prepared MS (with its Repub gov) is than LA (with its Demo gov), say they were hit more directly by the hurricane, but don't bring up the relative sizes of say Biloxi and NO, and don't point out that in general MS, also a red state, is in even worse shape that LA in terms of education, poverty, etc. Again, try to make it purely a Demo governor vs a Repub governor, avoiding mentioning that it's an own goal anyways as both states are red states. Think about arguing that all the looters are Democrats, but decide that would be even too far for you. Avoid avoid avoid mentioning deals with developers that destroyed wetlands, federal budget cuts to levee repairs (yes, I'm afraid that money for the levees does come from the fed), and especially that some of this money in the past year went to Iraq. Pretending that the gov't had nothing to do with pulling money from programs monitoring int'l terrorism right before 9/11 worked; the American people have a short enough attention span it should work again. Also, pretend that the Port of New Orleans, and the vast refinery network in the gulf, were completely state interests. Argue that the fed takes a week to act, even tho its budget, with $41 billion for the DHS alone, dwarfes state budgets. Make sure people don't ask the obvious question: imagine the uproar if it had taken a week for the feds to react to 9/11. This is not to say the state and local gov'ts don't share the blame. It just seems absurd and grasping to me to argue that the feds are blameless here, and that federal budgeting and organizational issues have nothing to do with the depth of this tragedy.

Fri, 16th Sep '05, 5:59am	#27
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