How long did it take Bushy to get to New York?

[bac511]

On 9-11...but we can't get him anywhere near the gulf...even for a photo op.

WTF is up with him???? Is he scared of floating bodies, disease and hunger??? No wonder he never served in a war.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. The Less He Does The Better

He's only liable to screw things up and make it worse. He should stay on vacation. Done enough damage with his budget cuts, so he could fund his oil war.

[rkc3]

6. And the less we push him, the longer it will take him to get moving.

The longer it takes for him to get there - the louder the people of Louisiana and Mississippi will scream for help.

The louder they scream for help - the faster this brain dead pukefuck gets impeached.

Someone on a previous thread commented - They gave Terri Schiavo a special session of Congress, nothing to this point for NOLA.

That's a pretty good fucking testimony for what our government thinks of its people.

[Stephanie]

2. It took him four days - 9/11 was on Tuesday

He came to NY on Friday, with an entourage of every NY rep, many many big black SUVs, fighter jets, etc. I know because I was standing by the side of the West Side Highway at a volunteer site watching the parade go by. His visit was a disruption - not helpful at all. Just more self-aggrandizement by the Narcissist in Chief. The LA & MS governors did not sound too enthused about his visit.

[MADem]

3. Actually, it took him awhile

Remember, he ran away in AF1. Then he hid under his desk. Hizzoner the May-Yah was actually looking presidential. It was only when people started snarling 'Where the fuck IS that ASSHOLE?' that he finally crawled out, put on his little jacket, grabbed his bullhorn, and a nation of desperate, stunned people acquiesced, and bought his line of horseshit.

[Cassandra]

4. 4 days

Clinton got here faster all the way from Australia.

[egadsbrain]

5. Booed in NYC

I was volunteering too for the ASPCA on West Street. There were hundreds of people waiting to be escorted to their apartments to try to retrieve their animals. King George's arrival delayed the whole process and when they finally announced with a bullhorn that he was on his way out of town everyone cheered! I love New Yorkers!

[Coastie for Truth]

7. Bush is afraid to show his face

He is dismantling FEMA, viz--

In the days to come, as the nation and the people along the Gulf Coast work to cope with the disastrous aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we will be reminded anew how important it is to have a federal agency capable of dealing with natural catastrophes of this sort. This is an immense human tragedy, one that will work hardship on millions of people. It is beyond the capabilities of state and local government to deal with. It requires a national response.

Which makes it all the more difficult to understand why, at this moment, the country's premier agency for dealing with such events -- FEMA -- is being, in effect, systematically downgraded and all but dismantled by the Department of Homeland Security.


...<edit>...

The advent of the Bush administration in January 2001 signaled the beginning of the end for FEMA. The newly appointed leadership of the agency showed little interest in its work or in the missions pursued by the departed Witt. Then came the Sept. 11 attacks and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Soon FEMA was being absorbed into the "homeland security borg."

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.

FEMA will be survived by state and local emergency-management offices, which are confused about how they fit into the national picture. That's because the focus of the national effort remains terrorism, even if the Department of Homeland Security still talks about "all-hazards preparedness." Those of us in the business of dealing with emergencies find ourselves with no national leadership and no mentors. We are being forced to fend for ourselves, making do with the "homeland security" mission. Our "all hazard"' approaches have been decimated by the administration's preoccupation with terrorism.

ERIC HOLDEMAN is director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management. He wrote this article for the Washington Post.

I am a Red Cross Disaster Assistance Team Captain and Mass Shelter Supervisor, a Community Emergency Response Team Leader, and a Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (Ham Radio) Operator; I am a former United States Coast Officer (Hazardous Materials Specialist, served at Coast Guard Captain of the Port New Orleans, LA.) -- In my opinion this is CRIMINAL

[abluelady]

8. He' Not Running for Re-election--he doesn't have to show up.

[abluelady]

9. He' s Not Running for Re-election--he doesn't have to show up.