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In the last post about Katrina, I pointed out a few things about this president’s leadership failures.
It was worse than I thought. “The difficulties of coordination seem to indicate we’ve returned to the bad old days where the FEMA administrator position is given away on the basis of political favor, rather than hard experience. The whole story of FEMA’s response to Katrina has yet to be written, but it has always troubled me that Bush has appointed, in succession, his 2000 campaign manager and an Oklahoma lawyer whose only emergency management experience prior to joining FEMA was as an assistant city manager.”
Just go read. [Kevin Drum via Atrios]
Oh, and let me add another quote: “This year it was announced that FEMA is to “officially” lose the disaster preparedness function that it has had since its creation. The move is a death blow to an agency that was already on life support. In fact, FEMA employees have been directed not to become involved in disaster preparedness functions, since a new directorate (yet to be established) will have that mission.”
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September 1st, 2005 at 9:41 am
I was reading earlier about how the Canadian government tried to send a disaster response team to help out, but the US federal government refused them permission to enter the United States. The incompetence and leadership vacuum right now is staggeringly huge…. this is a nightmare given form.
September 1st, 2005 at 11:44 am
And I hate this - I would MUCH rather have seen Bush take leadership, seen the government work property in responding, seen as many people being saved and fed and clothed as possible. I don’t SAVOR this moment, which I know a lot on the right would say we liberals are doing.
I hate it, and I hate him - yes, him - for politicizing something that is so IMPORTANT to the basic needs of victims of this horrible disaster. I’m hopping, hopping mad.
December 8th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
She was tocheck in the spitting hot nfl cheerleaders image of her backside as.