There’s Ultimately No One to Blame but the President

[kerrygoddess]

There’s Ultimately No One to Blame but the President

Eugene Robinson asks “Now what?” in today’s WaPo.

After a tragically incompetent beginning, the effort to give urgent care to the multitudes from New Orleans whose homes and livelihoods have been obliterated is finally in high gear. The problem now is that nobody knows where it’s headed.

At the top, things are still hopeless…


Across the Gulf region, cities not blasted by Katrina, are filled with evacuees. Texas and other neighboring states are looking others to help. Evacuees are being airlifted to every corner of the country. Robinson says, “Their host communities have the best of intentions, but many won’t be able to stand the added drain on resources indefinitely. Where will these people go? Why wasn’t there a plan?”

That’s when I start my finger-pointing, because a few days in and around this ground zero have convinced me that there are two things the federal government failed to do, and that for these failures there’s ultimately no one to blame but the president.

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[CWebster]

1. And in another Gulf--it ain't no different

It is the identical denial of reality, meanwhile we hear messages from some major Democrats how we have to stay the course and succeed at our mission, which only serves to bolster up this shameful pretense that we are fixing something instead of aggravating a unspeakable disaster. And people die...would you ask the last man to die for a mistake...

[jody]

2. IMO there was failure at three levels; mayor, governor, and president.

The president alone must bear the greatest blame because he did not respond promptly to a disaster that quickly overwhelmed both city and state resources.