Patrick Rhode (deputy director of FEMA).."Little bumps in the road"

[Webster Green]

Describing the delay in providing assistance.

Words fail! :mad:

[charlie]

1. Be patient

There are FEMA "assets" and "boots" on the ground coming for you.

Do these guys get a cheap frisson out of using paramilitary jargon?

[Justitia]

2. All they are doing is defensively covering their asses!

They are doing NOTHING TO HELP NEW ORLEANS.

NO is DOOMED.

Chertoff: 'There are a lot of conditions on what we can do'

[Blue_Roses]

3. he's incompetent and only got that position because

he was a campaign manager for Bush.

http://www.fema.gov/about/bios/rhode.shtm

[MisterP]

5. that's the director, this is the assistant director--which probably

means he has less competence

[charlie]

6. This guy is a patronage appointment as well

And like his boss, was a Presidential Campaign point man for Dubya.

http://www.fema.gov/pdf/about/bios/biorhode.pdf

[MisterP]

7. just wait until you find out the director's qualifications:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4552397
my head exploded when I read that, I think

[belladonna]

4. Yeah, and unfortunately

Some of those bumps are the dead people this administration abandoned