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Thursday, June 12, 2008

"Heck of a job" continues

Disaster relief is just not the Bush people's thing.

It's what happens when you put people like Chertoff and Bush in jobs they have no business holding.

Posted at 3:28 AM | Permalink

Comments (10)

Those supplies should be sent to the flood victims in the Midwest. Except those people are more self-sufficient.
I have heard no crying about where is the help,or I want this and I want that. Take care of yourself people.

Posted by meg | June 12, 2008 6:15 AM

The Federal Government is largely incompetent regardless of who the top guy is. Always has been. Blaming Bush is fun, but wait until Obama/Pelosi/Reid makes the government much larger. The part of this story I found interesting was "And even though the stocks were offered to state agencies after FEMA decided to get rid of them, one of the states that passed was Louisiana." Why did Louisiana pass? Isn't that where New Orleans is? Have you ever seen the calculated cost of Federal aid per New Orleans inhabitant? I wonder where the money went?

Posted by Greg | June 12, 2008 7:06 AM

Yeah....what a disaster. The supplied went to federal and state agencies that can actually use them rather than sitting uselessly in a warehouse. Seems to me this is a good thing that FEMA is doing.

Posted by butch | June 12, 2008 8:40 AM

The Federal Government is largely incompetent regardless of who the top guy is. Always has been. Blaming Bush is fun, but wait until Obama/Pelosi/Reid makes the government much larger.

Your insane (and I mean that literally) argument is completely undone by the success of FEMA under the Clinton administration. Back then, they actually knew how to pick up after a disaster--and they cared enough about their jobs to get it right. Our government now functions as a third-rate Chicago style patronage system. Pretty absurd; even more absurd that conservatives defend it.

Posted by Dave J. | June 12, 2008 8:50 AM

Dave,

Bush's FEMA operated just fine in the aftermath of the dozen or so hurricanes prior to Katrina. FEMA never faced anything close to a Katrina-like disaster under Clinton.

Posted by butch | June 12, 2008 9:27 AM

Apparently FEMA, under Homeland Security since 2003, knows how to spend money and warehouse supplies, it just failed to get them to those in need at the time of need. This is too much, much too late. Fortunately the future administration knows how to use the internet for something other than privacy intrusion. If those in need could have logged on and requested supplies from a database, the costly relief would have found the appropriate recipients during their time of need. Heckuva job.

Posted by genop | June 12, 2008 10:09 AM

I never discount any bureaucracies ability to move slowly, and to be reactive, instead of proactive.

That said, I don't believe any President or Homeland Security Czar is going to bask in the warm glow of natural disasters.

They are, by definition, unpredictable and messy. The name at the top of the masthead isn't going to make them less so.

Mistakes/delays/stories of incompetence are part and parcel of disaster response. That's why so much emphasis is placed on personal/family readiness and emergency response planning.

How many of us have 5 days worth of non-perishable food and water ready to go?

Posted by Oh my | June 12, 2008 10:47 AM

"If those in need could have logged on and requested supplies from a database...."

gee....no potential for fraud or abuse there....

Posted by butch | June 12, 2008 10:47 AM

The rap sheet of Chimp's injuries and harms and crimes, is not incompetence nor ineptness nor accidents nor monkeyshines -- GET THIS: Intentional, pre-meditated, antisocial hate, enemy awfully means to hurt us. Psychopath.

Posted by Tenskwatawa | June 12, 2008 11:02 AM

Their really more on the supply side of the disaster equation.

Posted by tom | June 12, 2008 11:52 AM

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Keith Richards - Life
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Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
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F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt

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In 2009: 67
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