Emergency response today and on 9/11. What a difference four years

[Democrat 4 Ever]

can make. Anybody notice the differences? Major terrorist attack four years ago and the police, fire departments, the citizens were on top of it within minutes of the first plane hitting the towers. I personally believe it was due to the actions of eight years of Clinton and his administration being on top of the game, had plans in place, had police and firemen locked and loaded ready to go. (And they did not need a week's notice to alert the responders.) The knew their jobs and they did them. Wonder how many people these brave people saved that day? If 9/11 had occurred four years after Commander Bunny Pants took office what would we have seen on our TVs those next few weeks?

Fast forward four years of the Bushinistas. Planes into buildings is not the same as a category 4/5 hurricane - in either scope or devastation but our response could have been. After four, long, torturous years of this inept administration we are left with looting of the treasury, decimating the military, cutting funding for our police, fireman, emergency funding (while growing the largest "security" bureaucracy in history), re-directing funds to a war for corporate profits, dividing a country in epic proportions and generally sleeping on the job.

These differences need to be pointed out every chance we get. The dumb ass Chimpy has made us much less safer - no matter what the situation is. What is the next situation looming on the horizon that will bring us to our knees again due to the failures of the administration? Their incompetency is without a doubt the greatest example of the Republican Party of today.

End of rant.

[tinrobot]

1. But the Chimp's response was exactly the same

Deer in the headlights.

New York was a rich city and could afford to help itself.

New Orleans does not have those kind of resources.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

2. True. But would they have the same resources today? After four

years of budget cuts?

Bush got off "easy" on 9/11 - the country could absorb his "deer in headlights" demeanor and go about the job of rebuilding and healing itself. After four years of this "moran" the situation is much worse no matter who got hit. Today it was the Gulf Coast, tomorrow it could be a California earthquake, another terrorist attack. Do you honestly think we could respond with the same efficiency that was displayed in 2001? Just asking.

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Actually, Bush screwed NYC over, too

But you are right about the response to the disaster. New York City, FEMA in NYC/Pennsylvania/DC, and the airlines all responded quickly.

Bush dithered. Others had to do the quick thinking and decisive acting for him.

While rebuilding, Team Bush shorted the survivors and the city of all the aid he had promised in his many photo-ops.

This time, others were NOT able to step in for Li'l Boots. History will show that when the time came for Bush to show leadership, he made excuses.

--p!

[Democrat 4 Ever]

4. 9/11 was blamed on Clinton by the BushBots because he didn't get Bin Laden

before Chimpy took office. They would never admit their own incompetency in the whole affair. ("Bin Laden Determined to Attack US" would have been a dead give away for Clinton - but then he can read and surrounded himself with intellectuals and not sycophants.) With four years of history to base today's opinions we now know that the incompetency is this administrations and their's alone.