ABC News: Poll: Bush Not Taking Brunt of Katrina Criticism

[Autonomy]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/HurricaneKatrina/story?id=1094262&page=1

Federal government adequately prepared? Yes 31% No 67%

State/local government adequately prepared? Yes 24 No 75

Blame Bush? Yes 44 No 55

[blitzen]

1. au contraire.....read this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2063190

[Autonomy]

4. thanks, i am still not happy nor convinced

that Bush will get the well-deserved blame for this. They are slashing the price of Kool-Aid across the nation. Drink up, everybody!

[blitzen]

7. yeah, we can't assume that "the tide will turn"

we need to keep fighting him relentlessly

[Spazito]

14. More and more Kool-Aid drinkers are turning to water

they are now beginning to understand it is not the price that is important it is the effect.

[Teaser]

10. This is a newer poll

How many times panicking DUers are going to post old polls tonight I do not know.

[Melodybe]

13. Bull SHIT!!!

[Spazito]

2. LOL, that poll is a crock, they polled 501 people and they don't show

the % of repubs vs dems and independents or break down their methodology.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. We need to change that perception...

Now is the time to educate people. Finally, after this horrible tragedy, many of our friends and neighbors are ready to hear the truth about their "president." The man cheated twice, stealing two elections, and now we find that he is completely inept and can't handle the pressures of his job. He has delegated to his cronies tasks that they have no idea how to accomplish. The honorable thing for him to do would be to step aside -- or at least allow some voices from the good side (us) to be heard. This one-party government has got to go, and we need to stand up for our rights now.

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[WorseBeforeBetter]

5. Self-delete (n/t)

[NYC Liberal]

6. And other polls show that Bush gets an approval in the 30s

for his handling of the situation.

I call BS.

[Teaser]

8. STOP POSTING OLD POLLS

This poll was taken on the 1st and released on the 2nd.

This is the second time I've had to tell someone this.
It's tiresome.

[Autonomy]

12. No, the poll was taken on the second and released today...

err, yesterday now. The 4th. and the sample size is small, but the MoE is still only 4%.

[snot]

9. PLS, if you haven't already, help BLAST the media!

We MUST make sure the media is AWARE of how it was the FEDS who HELD UP HELP while trying to EXTORT total control from Blanco et al.

I know, some of them don't care. But some do; and at the minimum, it may make them think twice if they KNOW that we KNOW when they're not reporting the truth.

If you think this impt., pls kick and nominate.

Below is what I've sent the media, with links and other info.

Here's the link to the DU media blaster: http://www.democraticunderground.com/cu/cu.php

Gentlemen and Ladies:

First, thank you for the fantastic job you have been doing re- the Katrina aftermath.

I know you have more than you can handle right now, but I feel compelled to call your attention to the information below. I urge you to investigate it as thoroughly as possible and let us know what you find.

Thank you, and congratulations on your outstanding efforts.

(YOUR NAME, ADDRESS & PHONE)

Bush admin sought control over Nat’l Guard, normally under control of governor:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1750979
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301680.html
WP, A01: White House Shifts Blame
Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state's emergency operations center said Saturday.

The administration had sought control over National Guard units, normally under control of the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request, noting that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. State authorities suspected a political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who is an adviser and does not have the authority to speak publicly.

Links to posts to the effect that numerous states had offered their N.G. before Katrina hit and Blanco had accepted, but that no one could move until the feds had provided the required paperwork or order, which in at least some cases did not materialize until Thursday; see, e.g., http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1749337
See also http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2057771 ; http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/katrina_national_guard ; http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4610280 ; http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2058654 ; http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4605183&mesg_id=4605183

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4628409
FEMA crippling communications???

I was skeptical about the jamming of radio frequencies...

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16475033%255E2703,00.html

Inside Sheriff Lee, of Jefferson parish in New Orleans, is sitting at a table, fuming. He is doing his best to alleviate the biggest catastrophe he will ever witness, but lacks even the most basic of resources. He cannot communicate with his own officers -- his officers can barely communicate with each other -- because the overloaded radio frequency keeps jamming.

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m15382&l=i&size=1&hd=0

"We can now report that the jamming of New Orleans' communications is emanating from a pirate radio station in the Caribbean," explains Madsen. "The noise is continuous and it is jamming frequencies, including emergency high frequency (HF) radios, in the New Orleans area. The radio frequency jammers were heard last night, stopped for a while, and are active again today.... However, we now have a new unconfirmed report that the culprit may be the Pentagon itself. The emitter is an IF (Intermediate Frequency) jammer that is operating south southwest of New Orleans on board a U.S. Navy ship, according to an anonymous source. The jamming is cross-spectrum and interfering with superheterodyne receiver components, including the emergency radios being used in New Orleans relief efforts.... A Vancouver, British Columbia Urban Search & Rescue Team deployed to New Orleans reported that their satellite phones were not working and they had to obtain other satellite phones to keep in touch with their headquarters and other emergency agencies in British Columbia." There are also rumors spreading on forums and blogs that troops are confiscating and destroying civilian cameras. Graphic photos are however surfacing on the internet, once again trumping the corporate media, handmaiden to Bushian crimes and cover-ups.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9179790 /

The Coast Guard said, "Come get the fuel right away." When we got there with our trucks, they got a word. "FEMA says don't give you the fuel." Yesterday--yesterday--FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards on our line and says, "No one is getting near these lines." Sheriff Harry Lee said that if America--American government would have responded like Wal-Mart has responded, we wouldn't be in this crisis.

Suspension of posse comatatus: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4628627 ; see also info in thread at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4624810

[ThoughtCriminal]

11. Wonder why nobody is answering in the 504 Area Code?

Oh well... try Boise.