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09-10-2005, 01:42 PM
And a challenge to those who think it was the Governor's fault
48% now see the President as a strong leader vs. 68% in '03. His approval is at 40% with substantial drops among Republicans. Could it be that he's seen as a weak leader because of his actions with respect to Hurricane Katrina?
Consider that he hired Brown to FEMA when Brown had no experience in emergency management and even lied on his resume multiple times. Bush cut funding to the levies, which was under the sole responsibility of the army corps of engineers, the former head of which said the damage would have been much less substantial if they were fully funded.
But the clincher, what really makes him look bad, is this from Air America (see below why you should believe Randi Rhodes on Air America):
Please read entire segment
Sept. 9 Unofficial transcript of part of the Randi Rhodes show.
If there's just one thing that you read, if there's just one piece of paper you can handle, I mean and if you're like a, "Just give it to me in a one sheet" kind of a person, I want you to get FEMA's First Release. Aug 29, 2005. 'Coz this is the one entitled, "First responders urged not to respond to hurricane impact areas unless dispatched by State and Local authorities. Michael D. Browne, undersecretary of homeland security for emergency preparedness and response and head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency today urged all fire and emergency preparedness responders not to respond to counties and states affected by Hurricane Katrina without being requested and dispatched by local authorities under mutual aid agreements and the Emergency Management Assistance Compact. Uh, you know, it's really sick because if you look at what they're invoking there, and it's on the white house's own website it obviously says that if a Governor requests, and she did, 3 days before the storm the Federal Emergency Management the Department of Homeland Security and the President of the United States, uh if she can if she says this is going to be a state of emergency I'm declaring it now and the President agreed with her, saying "OK. We got it" he said. "Don't worry about it." And then it hits and it happens and they urge the first responders not to respond until and unless there is some sort of a written compact some sort of a written agreement some sort of additional request in addition to what she'd already requested and what she'd requested was, that the entire state of Louisiana be a declared state in emergency of emergency and that the full force of the United States government, she asked for 40,000 troops she asked for everything they had that's her quote "Everything you have" "I need everything: helicopters, highwater vehicles, firefighters, national guardsmen everything everything that you di di and the only thing that the President wanted from her, come to find out much much later after all these people died, after all these people were swimming in their own urine, after all these people were just decomposing in the streets he wanted her to release the Lousiana National Guard to his authority and because she wouldn't do it, he withheld everything. [Insult to President]. [Insult to these people- "that's how they punish people"]. It's insane. Alright.
Why should you listen to Randi Rhodes on Air America? Because she's never lied over a material fact. Nobody on any message boards I've been to when I've asked has shown her to get a material fact wrong and if you google, 'Randi Rhodes lied', you get one attempt at placing a lie on her in the first 10 pages. So can anyone who read the whole segment tell me this was the Governor's fault?
I posted this at hannity.com too.
48% now see the President as a strong leader vs. 68% in '03. His approval is at 40% with substantial drops among Republicans. Could it be that he's seen as a weak leader because of his actions with respect to Hurricane Katrina?
Consider that he hired Brown to FEMA when Brown had no experience in emergency management and even lied on his resume multiple times. Bush cut funding to the levies, which was under the sole responsibility of the army corps of engineers, the former head of which said the damage would have been much less substantial if they were fully funded.
But the clincher, what really makes him look bad, is this from Air America (see below why you should believe Randi Rhodes on Air America):
Please read entire segment
Sept. 9 Unofficial transcript of part of the Randi Rhodes show.
If there's just one thing that you read, if there's just one piece of paper you can handle, I mean and if you're like a, "Just give it to me in a one sheet" kind of a person, I want you to get FEMA's First Release. Aug 29, 2005. 'Coz this is the one entitled, "First responders urged not to respond to hurricane impact areas unless dispatched by State and Local authorities. Michael D. Browne, undersecretary of homeland security for emergency preparedness and response and head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency today urged all fire and emergency preparedness responders not to respond to counties and states affected by Hurricane Katrina without being requested and dispatched by local authorities under mutual aid agreements and the Emergency Management Assistance Compact. Uh, you know, it's really sick because if you look at what they're invoking there, and it's on the white house's own website it obviously says that if a Governor requests, and she did, 3 days before the storm the Federal Emergency Management the Department of Homeland Security and the President of the United States, uh if she can if she says this is going to be a state of emergency I'm declaring it now and the President agreed with her, saying "OK. We got it" he said. "Don't worry about it." And then it hits and it happens and they urge the first responders not to respond until and unless there is some sort of a written compact some sort of a written agreement some sort of additional request in addition to what she'd already requested and what she'd requested was, that the entire state of Louisiana be a declared state in emergency of emergency and that the full force of the United States government, she asked for 40,000 troops she asked for everything they had that's her quote "Everything you have" "I need everything: helicopters, highwater vehicles, firefighters, national guardsmen everything everything that you di di and the only thing that the President wanted from her, come to find out much much later after all these people died, after all these people were swimming in their own urine, after all these people were just decomposing in the streets he wanted her to release the Lousiana National Guard to his authority and because she wouldn't do it, he withheld everything. [Insult to President]. [Insult to these people- "that's how they punish people"]. It's insane. Alright.
Why should you listen to Randi Rhodes on Air America? Because she's never lied over a material fact. Nobody on any message boards I've been to when I've asked has shown her to get a material fact wrong and if you google, 'Randi Rhodes lied', you get one attempt at placing a lie on her in the first 10 pages. So can anyone who read the whole segment tell me this was the Governor's fault?
I posted this at hannity.com too.