What a surprise
Republicans don't want an independent investigation of what happened in the aftermath of Katrina.
Every single Republican in the Senate voted against it today, killing the proposal.
There will be other attempts, but the GOP and Bush White House have everything to lose and nothing to gain from a real investigation looking for facts.
They are disciplined. And they are shameless.
Can't wait to hear Bush start the finger-pointing Thursday night. Story.
DID BUSH FIRE THE WRONG GUY?
Actually, it was technically Homeland Security Honcho Michael Chertoff who fired FEMA's Michael Brown. This Knight Ridder story suggests that Chertoff, not Brown, was the one who had the authority to order a massive federal response and delayed it.
posted by xoff @ 5:25 PM
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He can let Chertoff go too – like Brown, he is another mediocre appointment. My question is, when are you going to start calling for the heads of Louisiana people to go? The Governor’s hands actually do have blood on them. The biggest federal problem is becoming clearer every day. The fed’s lacked the proper authority to ignore the incompetence of state and local officials – as the 9/11 Commission’s return performance indicated today.
I am a bit uncertain about how I feel about the fed’s having such power, but my internal federalism debate is quite irrelevant when people’s lives are at stake and competent, able assistance is needed.
The picture is becoming very clear as the facts present themselves. Had the President the authority, there would be very little to blame the fed’s for.
Let's get off of this diversion of "the local/state governments were incompetent" assertion in order to save Bush's incompetent bacon.
The fact is a simulation of "Hurricane Pam" a few years ago revealed that local bodies of government would be overwhelmed. They are in the thick of it and the feds are high and dry and should have come in way sooner than they did.
Then GOP lies about the 2000 school buses when only 297 existed only add to the BS.
Fact of the matter is the hurricane is that Bush's hallmark claim of being able to protect us against terrorism has been blown out of the water -- literally. And you know it.
I haven't called for the President, the governor, or te mayor to go because they are elected. The mayor and gov will have to face the voters, and I don't think we can get Bush recalled or impeached, unfortunately.
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