It's an insult

[whosinpower]

The spin the white house it trying to accomplish - the one that President bush was fully engaged in the Katrina crisis.

At the end of it all - if THAT was the best we can expect - because Bush was FULLY engaged - then it is broadly apparent that he is totally incompetant for the job.

My god - canadians arrived at the critical areas before FEMA.....days before. And we all know they had much further to travel - but they made the trip and tried to make a difference.
The RED CROSS was not allowed in. We could go on and on about the horrific job the feds did - we all saw it painfully point by point.

No - if this is Bush being fully engaged - then I shake my head in wonder - how could someone be so bad at something so critical to the well being of a nation? It's his job - HIS JOB - and you are his employer. Demand a resignation. It isn't good enough that he had an internal investigation that stated the feds had not good enough "situational intelligence." THAT IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH! Over 1300 people are dead. A major city drowned while he ate cake and strummed a guitar.

I get angry all over again when I read what the white house is spinning.
Sorry for the rant......

[katty]

1. beyond insult..we're into full scale neglect/injury&death

[cornermouse]

2. Follow up on elderly Katrina survivors on NPR the other day.

It seems the elderly aren't faring very well post-Katrina either. One of the interviewees said she usually went to 2 funerals for friends a month. Last month she attended 35 of her friends funerals.

Dementia has also increase sharply.

[Fleshdancer]

5. wow.

A sharp increase in dementia? I wonder why...stress related I would assume. Or maybe an odd self defense mechanism? It's odd to say this (much less think it) but part of me wonders if I would rather suffer from dementia than to suffer the unbearable pain of burying so many of my friends and loved ones.

I still can't believe all of this is happening in America. I'm still in shock.

:cry:

[cornermouse]

6. Yep.

they indicated they thought the stress of everything they had lost and trying to start over at their advanced age was more that a lot of them could handle. Very sad piece.

[adigal]

3. Hannity spin - Bush was never told the levees would be breached

he was just told they would be overrun. Breached, you see, is bad. Overrun is not so bad. According to Hannity and BushWorld.

[Tommy_J]

4. Kicked and recommended

Good point! Since he was briefed then he can no longer plead ignorance - he must be judged as incompetent

[TahitiNut]

7. Well, they were "fully engaged" ... in making it worse.

They impeded, blocked, diverted, and short-circuited assistance for over four days. It's NOT that they did nothing - it's that they actively made it worse.