Bush does nothing while black people suffer powerless in DC

[no gnu taxes]

Oh,wait. Obama is President now. Sorry, my bad.

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/complete-disaster-non-preparedness-dc-grocery-stores-out-of-food-gas-unavailable-grid-down-as-summer-heat-rages_07022012

After a short but unusually severe thunderstorm that roared through the D.C. area on Friday night, the entire Washington Metropolitan Area was thrown into chaos.
Three days later, countless traffic lights are still out, hundreds of thousands of residents are without power, including myself, grocery stores and gas station are closed for lack of power, and the federal government is encouraging employees to telework.

[ChalkyDog]

Are you using your dead dog as a flotation device?

Do white people have power while black people do not? Or **** versa?

Are you mentally challenged?

[frizzelli]

This is not a political forum dumb fuk, get the fuk off sbr you are annoying as fuk.

[Carseller4]

Obama is on vacation.

Check back next week.

[MC PICKS]

Obama will try to blame this on bush somehow too.

[Carseller4]

[Shaudius]

During Hurricane Katrina tens of thousands of people were actually in need of rescue, the President can call in the national guard(at the governor's request) and mobilize FEMA(which Bush did, the argument is he didn't do it fast enough).

During a storm in which a few hundred thousand people are without power, what exactly do you propose the President does? Hire more people to restore power lines?

Rare is the person who actually needs rescue from a thunderstorm that knocks out a bunch of people's power. What is instead needed is shelters where people can go to get out of the heat, which have been set up throughout the DC area both in DC itself, as well as Maryland and Virginia, you don't need the President to do anything in this case.

I saw the aftermath of Katrina first hand, I volunteered in New Orleans afterwards, I'm currently in Maryland right outside of DC, to compare the two situation is laughable at best and downright disrespectful to the hundreds of people who died in Katrina at worse.

[opie1988]

Yes, Bush was to blame for all the problems during Katrina.

Those animals looting their own neighborhoods and floating stolen big screen tv's & cases of Heineken away on fukkin inner tubes were simply victims.

Poor bastards.

[Shaudius]

Yes, Bush was to blame for all the problems during Katrina.

Those animals looting their own neighborhoods and floating stolen big screen tv's & cases of Heineken away on fukkin inner tubes were simply victims.

Poor bastards.

Almost 2,000 people died in Katrina and all you can do is make racist comments and joke about looting, classy.

[no gnu taxes]

During Hurricane Katrina tens of thousands of people were actually in need of rescue, the President can call in the national guard(at the governor's request) and mobilize FEMA(which Bush did, the argument is he didn't do it fast enough).

During a storm in which a few hundred thousand people are without power, what exactly do you propose the President does? Hire more people to restore power lines?

Rare is the person who actually needs rescue from a thunderstorm that knocks out a bunch of people's power. What is instead needed is shelters where people can go to get out of the heat, which have been set up throughout the DC area both in DC itself, as well as Maryland and Virginia, you don't need the President to do anything in this case.

I saw the aftermath of Katrina first hand, I volunteered in New Orleans afterwards, I'm currently in Maryland right outside of DC, to compare the two situation is laughable at best and downright disrespectful to the hundreds of people who died in Katrina at worse.

http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2010/06/bushs-katrina-wasnt-bushs-katrina

From what can be gleamed from the news, the working definition of a “Katrina” scandal is a government oblivious to the suffering of its fellow citizens; a federal under-reaction to a disaster and/or ignoring the warning signs; recklessly dragging ones feet on decision making; and an absentee president providing little leadership or authority to calm a nation’s collective nerves. But when you put aside the hysterics of those who would blame Bush for the rain if he carried an umbrella, Bush’s “Katrina” never met any of these thresholds.


On the morning of Friday, Aug. 26, 2005, Hurricane Katrina (Category 1) seemed certain to make landfall in the Florida panhandle, but by the afternoon, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) used new information to revise the watch area to include southern Louisiana. A watch was issued and on Saturday, two days before the storm hit, President Bush declared a state of emergency for Louisiana allowing federal resources to begin staging immediately. Nine hundred-thirty National Guardsmen were deployed to Louisiana that day. That evening the NHC issued a hurricane warning for New Orleans.


The federal government was participating in multiple conference calls with state and local leaders who would be the sole authorities for evacuations and preparation. On Sunday, Aug. 27, at the urging of President Bush, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin finally called for a mandatory evacuation, a delay caused by his concern for the city’s hotel industry. Even with local government delays, and school buses sitting unused, 80 percent of New Orleans’ residents evacuated which was an improvement over the city’s preparations for Hurricane Ivan.

On Monday, Aug. 28, Katrina made landfall in Louisiana. By the evening, as we all now know, levees were breaching and the city was flooding. But New Orleans had experienced devastating floods before, and Governor Blanco told federal authorities they could “handle it.” On Tuesday, Aug. 29, it was clear that New Orleans could not handle what was occurring. Levees could not be plugged, and water levels continued to rise, including in city and state-deemed evacuation shelters.


On Wednesday, Aug. 30, President Bush left the command centers located at his ranch in Crawford, TX to assume leadership in Washington. He flew over the crisis, because he thought landing would pre-occupy recovery workers, divert resources and clog up air space. Little did he know that this rational decision would be the impetus for his “Katrina.”


In hindsight, everyone admits he should have landed in Baton Rouge to affirm on the ground support. In Washington, Bush established the “White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response.” Bush immediately relaxed federal fuel and emissions standards to speed along the recovery and diverted several Navy ships to the region to assist.


Things did not get better for New Orleans. By Thursday, crime was rampant despite thousands of National Guardsmen, as local authorities abandoned their posts. The tragic situation at the Convention Center and the Superdome grew catastrophic. In this area, it is clear, that a situational awareness of these locations was not being communicated effectively at the federal, state or local level.
Wednesday and Thursday were certainly not anyone’s finest hours. There were mistakes made at all levels, and there was a crisis of confidence that the distressed people waiting for food, water, medical attention and shelter were being overlooked, or worse, ignored. On Thursday, President Bush asked Governor Blanco for the legal authority to have federal authorities take over the evacuation of the city. The request was rejected out of fear of “martial law.”


That evening, rapper Kanye West told America that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” and then protested the unrelated Iraq War. Leftist pundits stepped over themselves to agree with the rapper. In the context of this debate, nowhere was mentioned the billions in aid the president was already sending to the Gulf, which would eventually add up to over $110 billion for housing and school reconstruction and other civic and rescue aid and welfare.


To be clear, the federal government acted far from perfect. FEMA was already a troubled agency when a near-unanimous Congress authorized to place it in the new Department of Homeland Security. A debate continues on whether FEMA should regionalize its response efforts or be reformed otherwise.


It is certainly reasonable to disagree with some of the decisions of the president or the federal authorities doing their appropriate duties on the ground. Federal bureaucracies make mistakes and when they do, they’re often big. But this was not the case of an absentee president.


From the week prior to landfall to the days, weeks and months after, President Bush was engaged. Bush wasn’t building commissions to study future hurricane effects, but was establishing working task forces for the current crisis. A joint congressional committee later reviewed the response.


In the first 40 days of the oil spill, President Obama visited the region once, 12 days in, and then again 30 days later after public pressure grew. Bush visited New Orleans four days after landfall and then often thereafter, establishing a constant, almost weekly, presence in the region.
Bush wasn’t looking for the first scapegoat available but addressed the nation accepting “full responsibility” for any failures of the federal government. After FEMA Director Michael Brown’s resignation on Sept. 2, the president relied on a familiar face to manage FEMA response in the region: Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, who worked with the new interim director, David Paulison.


This also comes down to expectations. In Katrina’s aftermath, when suffering reached a peak level, an expectation existed that beyond disaster recovery, financing and loosened regulations, that the federal government could improve lives at a micro level, and immediately. Unfortunately, this simply isn’t possible in a nation as large as ours. State and local authorities have to pull their collective weight.

[opie1988]

Almost 2,000 people died in Katrina and all you can do is make racist comments and joke about looting, classy.

No, actually I could go on & on about how the people of Mississippi & other areas up and down the coast went through every bit as much devastation as New Orleans did, but somehow managed to avoid all the looting, murder, and violence that plagued the lower wards. They also miraculously rebuilt their areas without near the drama and insistence on government handouts that those in New Orleans did.

But I have no doubt you have a good excuse for them on all that as well.

[PAULYPOKER]

Fema was to blame,by design,get your facts straight...............

[Shaudius]

no gnu taxes, I fail to see how any of that information contradicts anything that I said to make it worthy of response to me. All I said was the argument was that he didn't do enough, which is what the Heritage Foundation story confirms is the argument.

Furthermore the only one comparing this to Katrina in the first place in a realistic manner is the OP, these are two completely different situations and to compare what is going on to DC to Katrina is as I have said previously in this thread, offensive.

[Shaudius]

No, actually I could go on & on about how the people of Mississippi & other areas up and down the coast went through every bit as much devastation as New Orleans did, but somehow managed to avoid all the looting, murder, and violence that plagued the lower wards. They also miraculously rebuilt their areas without near the drama and insistence on government handouts that those in New Orleans did.

But I have no doubt you have a good excuse for them on all that as well.

This is kind of like saying a massive fire destroys the housing projects in Chicago(pretend they weren't torn down) and also destroys the rich north suburbs, and then saying look at all those people who used to be in the projects looting, murdering and acting in a violent manner, you don't see that from all the suburban people.

As for the insistent on government handouts, I'm not really sure you understand what kind of government assistance those areas all got, but I assure you it was massive.

[no gnu taxes]

Bush was not Superman. No matter what, the leftards would Claim it wasn't enough. To have Federal authorities fully in place in New orleans 72 hours after storm the cleared with no local support was actually impressive, leftard rhetoric aside.

OTOH, President Tarball is always absent, be it a heatwave, blizzard, or gulf oil spill. Unless it is an NAACP event, or illegal alien support fundraiser, or some other self serving reason.

[tatommack]

Almost 2,000 people died in Katrina and all you can do is make racist comments and joke about looting, classy.

2000 less sucking up tax dollars!

[no gnu taxes]

People who live in MS on the gulf coast are by large far from rich. But then again, they haven't been told all their lives that they are owed a living, either, and they handled their needs themselves.

[Shaudius]

People who live in MS on the gulf coast are by large far from rich. But then again, they haven't been told all their lives that they are owed a living, either, and they handled their needs themselves.

Then why did they get $423 million in 2006 from HUD to aid in recovery? If they were capable of handling their needs themselves as you put it, why not take 0 federal aid?

[no gnu taxes]

We are talking about the difference between long and short term relief. The gulf coast folks didn't wait and around and blame Bush for their being stupid enough to not stock up on food and water when you are in the path of a hurricane, especially when give a week's notice.

[SteelRain]

lol @ you losers obsessing over blacks.

They are 12% of the population so if you make a half decent wage you should able to avoid them pretty much all your life.

Yet you dumb hicks obsess over them almost to a sexual level. Americans are too into niggers and it's not healthy.

[frizzelli]

We are talking about the difference between long and short term relief. The gulf coast folks didn't wait and around and blame Bush for their being stupid enough to not stock up on food and water when you are in the path of a hurricane, especially when give a week's notice.

Shut the fuk up idiot, you are such a piece of trash bitch.

[Shaudius]

We are talking about the difference between long and short term relief.

What kind of long term relief is New Orleans and that area getting that the rest of the gulf coast not getting if you're talking about the difference between long term and short term relief?

The gulf coast folks didn't wait and around and blame Bush for their being stupid enough to not stock up on food and water when you are in the path of a hurricane, especially when give a week's notice.

A week's notice? The hurricane was a category one and headed for Florida two days before the levees broke and flooded New Orleans according to the article you yourself posted.

[MC PICKS]

Americans are too into niggers and it's not healthy.

[Tully Mars 63]

What kind of long term relief is New Orleans and that area getting that the rest of the gulf coast not getting if you're talking about the difference between long term and short term relief?



A week's notice? The hurricane was a category one and headed for Florida two days before the levees broke and flooded New Orleans according to the article you yourself posted.

Stop trying to insert facts.. you're just confusing the dittoheads here.