42 people dead; communities iced in and without lifesaving power for heat and cooking; conditions worsening — and FEMA nowhere to be found.
This isn’t a lefty caricature of disaster-response under the Bush administration; it’s real-life unresponsiveness under the leadership of President Obama (whose accession was supposed to mark a “return to competence” in government).
“In some parts of rural Kentucky, they’re getting water the old-fashioned way — with pails from a creek,” writes Associated Press reporter Bruce Schreiner. “There’s not room for one more sleeping bag on the shelter floor. The creative are flushing their toilets with melted snow.”
Schreiner continues:
Local officials were growing angry with what they said was a lack of help from the state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In Grayson County, about 80 miles southwest of Louisville, Emergency Management Director Randell Smith said the 25 National Guardsmen who have responded have no chain saws to clear fallen trees.
“We’ve got people out in some areas we haven’t even visited yet,” Smith said. “We don’t even know that they’re alive.”
Smith said FEMA has been a no-show so far.
“We’re asking people to pack a suitcase and head south and find a motel if they have the means, because we can’t service everybody in our shelter,” said Crittenden County Judge-Executive Fred Brown, who oversees about 9,000 people, many of whom are sleeping in the town’s elementary school.
“I’m not saying we can’t handle it; we’ll hand it,” Smith said. “But it would have made life a lot easier” if FEMA had reached the county sooner, he said.
Marty Hudak, spokesman for Obama FEMA director Nancy Ward, said emergency personnel can’t get to the people living (and dying) in these dangerous disaster areas because it’s, well, too dangerous to do so.
“We have plenty of folks ready to go, but there are some limitations with roads closed and icy conditions,” she told the AP.
“35,000 Dead”
When 12 people died in Kansas in May 2007 as a result of tornadoes, then-candidate Obama blamed the Iraq war for depleting the National Guard of needed resources to help the remaining victims.
“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas,” Obama said. “Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed; turns out that the National Guard in Kansas only had 40 percent of its equipment and they are having to slow down the recovery process.”
This brings up an interesting question. If twelve dead in reality was 10,000 in Obama’s head, shouldn’t this emergency situation, which has left 42 dead (that’s 35,000 in Obamathematics), be deserving of the promptest, most competent response possible?
Regardless, with a state of emergency that severe, and a number of Americans dead or dying, why is Barack Obama’s newly-competent Federal Emergency Management Agency sitting on its hands and waiting for the ice to melt and snow to clear before it actually responds to (or “manages”) this emergency?
Regardless, this is a serious situation which demands serious analysis and response. Like all of America’s natural disasters, the crisis in (majority-white) Kentucky is certainly no place for either side to inject race into the discussion. After all, that’s just unseemly, and neither side would ever do that — right?
Update by Jeff: The Daily Telegraph’s Tim Blair is calling this — you guessed it — “a Katrina moment for President Obama.” He says:
According to the Katrina template, this is all Obama’s fault. Yet Kentucky’s Democrat governor Steve Beshear earlier praised Obama’s swift action … in making a phone call:
“I can’t tell you how appreciative we were,” the governor said. “He not only expressed his concern, but he obviously had the Kentuckians in his thoughts and prayers, and he communicated that to us.”
Heck of a job to you too, Barry.
Update 2 by Jeff: mbecker has an update on the situation in the comments.
Yeah, but its a <i>Red</i> state -
johnCV Saturday, January 31st at 1:09PM EST (link)apparently different rules apply in the media/government paradigm.
Our prayers go out to those struggling through this terrible situation.
The people of Kentucky are strong and self-reliant and will set things right as Mississippians did after Katrina.
Yep
Jeff Emanuel Saturday, January 31st at 1:10PM EST (link)There’s a very visible difference in old-fashioned, self-reliant populations, and those who think they’re entitled to everything from government-paid mortgages to quick, painless escape from disaster.
JE
Not only are Kentuckians self-reliant and tough, but they've got good neighbors.
janis Saturday, January 31st at 1:19PM EST (link)On the news last night from Nashville, there was a lot of video of utility trucks loading up and leaving from the middle Tn area to go help cut trees and branches off the power lines and to help get electricity up and running again.
In this part of the country, as in many other red states, people get off their butts and help themselves AND their neighbors. Any Feds in Arkansas or Oklahoma? I understand they were pretty hard hit by ice, too. There’s another system coming in Sunday/Monday with predictions of possible icing and accumulating snow.
If Obama only helps the blue states when there’s need, he’s going to really piss off the Dems and mods/ind. who voted for him but who live in predominantly red states. And many of those Dems have been learning how to rely on the government over the past 20 years or so, so they will REALLY be upset when the O-man doesn’t come through for them.
Make it so.
I wonder whether overlaying a map of the affected region...
Moe Lane Saturday, January 31st at 1:12PM EST (link)…with a map of how it voted in November would prove… illuminating.
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johnCV Saturday, January 31st at 3:53PM EST (link)http://psychohistory.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/picture-2.png
‘Nary a blue stain ot be found in KY.
She's surely in denial.
NightTwister Saturday, January 31st at 1:21PM EST (link)There can’t possibly be a problem with ice in our country, what with Global Warming being so profound that it is an urgent and unprecedented threat to the existence of civilization.”
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NT, if they want to stop "climate change" (as if they could), then
janis Saturday, January 31st at 1:28PM EST (link)it’s time to drag the Goracle out to a glacier somewhere and stake him down for the polar bears to consume. (There goes their allotment of trans-fats for a decade or so.)
Heh. The old-timers
Flagstaff Saturday, January 31st at 5:04PM EST (link)may have had something there. From Goracle to Goresicle in one easy move.
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Isn't it time that AlGore was identified
Flagstaff Saturday, January 31st at 1:46PM EST (link)as the outright looney that he is? The man’s brain has ceased all rational thought and is just running in a straight line on autopilot.
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All that ice - Gore must be in Kentucky or Arkansas
Elizabeth Christian Saturday, January 31st at 3:40PM EST (link)you know everywhere he goes with his global warming hoax it snows and ice appears and the temperature drops way below normal averages.
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It's past time, but apparently during the Big Al
Praying Saturday, January 31st at 6:28PM EST (link)dog and pony show in Washington earlier this week, our elected officials were all ga-ga-gooing all over him. Over 31,000 scientists in the USA alone have signed the petition saying they debunk “global warming” or “climate change” (Do you have a B.S, M.S., or Ph.D. in Biology, Geology, Physics, Engineering, or some other scientific field? Do you think Al Gore’s work is an inconvenient lie? Then go to http://www.petitionproject.org/ to sign the petition.)
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Al Gore isn't irrational...
Fred Maidment Saturday, January 31st at 8:56PM EST (link)…he’s raking in $$$ millions promoting this global warming farce. I’d call that pretty rational, though he’s a real jerk since his pushing of the GW agenda hurts everyone else…
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Flagstaff Sunday, February 1st at 12:09AM EST (link)to judge the level of AlGore’s sincerity.
If he’s insincere and mercenary, that’s even worse.
But it is more believable.
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Disagree - true believer zealot is worse
civil_truth Sunday, February 1st at 12:15AM EST (link)Insincere and mecenary can be bought out by a better deal.
True believer zealot who believes he’s been annointed to save the world will only redouble his efforts when the weight of evidence convincingly shift against him.
And Rightly So!
I was using a different scale.
Flagstaff Sunday, February 1st at 12:26AM EST (link)On a personal basis, the insincere mercenary is worse on multiple levels than the incorrect true believer.
But I get your point, too.
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Kind of Ironic
izoneguy Saturday, January 31st at 1:25PM EST (link)How did 2 million folks mobilize in one sub-zero freezing day to see the ONE ascend?
Yet 200,000 of them could not get out of the way of a hurricane in 85 degree weather when they had 4 days notice?
And now Obama and his crew are asking for ONE TRILLION of your dollars and they say things like:
Marty Hudak, spokesman for Obama FEMA director Nancy Ward, said emergency personnel can’t get to the people living (and dying) in these dangerous disaster areas because it’s, well, too dangerous to do so.
I think it is too dangerous to hand over ONE TRILLION dollars to a corrupt, inept democratic administration.
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A little ice
red4ever Saturday, January 31st at 1:35PM EST (link)is stopping them? Those FEMA folks need to toughen up.
Oh well, those folks freezing to death will have Hope to keep them warm while they wait for the seasons to Change.
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Sounds like the dems at FEMA need a little Chicago toughness. A little ice is too dangerous? nt
Vegas_Rick Saturday, January 31st at 1:38PM EST (link)“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
Thar be hills in Kentucky.
NightTwister Saturday, January 31st at 1:42PM EST (link)Ice in the hills is nothing like ice on flat land. It’s too skeeery for them…
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Oh, please....
USNJIMRET Saturday, January 31st at 1:41PM EST (link)No one actually expects that The One is going to do any more then trip along the HopiChange Highway, making phone calls, and being thoughtful, do they?
Or that the Drive by Media is going to make any effort at all to compare the Bush FEMA response to Katrina and the Obama FEMA response to a natural disaster?
BTW, where’s our racist white celebrity to declare that this proves Obama hates white people?
two things
I am a moral coward who will only criticize Republicans. Saturday, January 31st at 1:46PM EST (link)1. the ‘10,000′ comment is over-done in the post, as Obama clearly acknowledged his mistake at the conclusion of his remarks…must not be the “One” that folks like to refer to, as he’s clearly human and makes mistakes.
2. While the lack of reaction to this crisis is ridiculous, let’s not lose sight of the need for working in a pro-active manner to prevent such losses of power, particularly to water treatment plants, etc…after we help those in need as a result of this disaster, let’s focus on investing in important infrastructure that might prevent such paralysis in the future.
You mean, like the Democrats did with Katrina?
NightTwister Saturday, January 31st at 1:55PM EST (link)Because I’m sure that’s what you said to them at the time.
/snark
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well
I am a moral coward who will only criticize Republicans. Saturday, January 31st at 2:05PM EST (link)money was identified and directed toward infrastructure following Katrina, though it’s been largely insufficient to address the full scope of the problem with the levies…
such would be the case for just throwing a few hundred million dollars at any one problem…a larger amount of money and carefully constructed plan is needed to fix both the levies and the power grid in this country, and i think that’s an idea that most, if not all, folks support…such spending could largely prevent more than a million people being without power for over a week (and perhaps as long as a month)…or being stranded by floodwaters for more than a week.
As for the Democrats with Katrina, any immediate response for the next 16 months was largely directed by the Congress (both chambers held by Republicans) and the administration (Bush).
well
NightTwister Saturday, January 31st at 2:17PM EST (link)Remind me again why it’s my responsibility to give my money (taxes) to people that live below sea level after they get swamped by a natural weather occurance that anyone could see would eventually happn?
So it’s Bush’s fault because:
a) The Governor of Louisiana refused federal support at first.
b) People refused to leave when the opportunity existed before the storm.
The response to the hurricane that came later when Jindal (R) was Governor was swift and effective. I’m sure you didn’t hear about it because you don’t really care.
One last thing. In case you haven’t been paying attention, most folks are against increased taxes. Just look at the success (or should I say lack thereof) of tax increases in your local community & State. Unfortunately, most folks were too enamored with the latest American Idol to realize he’ll spend this country into the ground. Taxes will come later when there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
You get the government you deserve (that means the one you voted for).
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It was even worse than that
LJ "Beaglescout" Miller Saturday, January 31st at 5:44PM EST (link)For the 30 years before Katrina, the levee boards of Orleans Parish and other parishes around New Orleans spent their levee money on other stuff. The last time they had a grant from the feds to reinforce the levees for Cat3 impact the city of New Orleans spent the money on building a casino! Add to that the way that the various levee boards pointed fingers at each other instead of cooperating like everybody knows levee boards should do, the way that the city and parish refused to condemn and clear out parts of the city that were so far below sea level, and still sinking, that everybody knew there would be tragedies in them, and the way that the last resort for evacuation, the Superdome, was used as the shelter of first resort. Everybody knows about Mayor Nagin letting a hundred school buses flood rather than using them to evacuate people. But the facts on local and state Democrat Party incompetence were far more damning than is widely known.
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I'm with NT
JustLeaveMeAlone Saturday, January 31st at 2:31PM EST (link)While I believe in human compassion, and I agree a nationwide energy grid is something we need and should fund, I am not convinced that I should pay to rebuild New Orleans, or Galveston. (Nor should I pay to bail out California, but that’s another topic.)
If people chose to live in dangerous places, why should the rest of us have to cover their costs over and over again?
I’d be much happier in helping with the costs of relocating former NOLA and Galveston residents elsewhere.
BTW, where were your comments when Hurricane Ike struck Texas and much of Houston was without power for up to a month, while Galveston is still rubble? Probably the same place the FEMA trucks were, I’m guessing.
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Just one more point
johnCV Saturday, January 31st at 4:03PM EST (link)Hundreds of millions of dollars have been given to the corrupticrats in NO for building and maintaining the levies (built by US Army Corps of Engineers) for decades.
That money was spent on every damn thing BUTwhat it was inteded for. Sorry, they’ve taxed the compassion out of me for NO.
To "I am a moral" etc
johnt Saturday, January 31st at 4:55PM EST (link)I’m interested in only one part of your post, last paragraph” As for the Democrats—– - -”largely directed by the Congress”—- - -both chambers held by Congress
I’m only interested in one very revealing part of your post.
Last paragraph; “As for the Democrats”- — -”largely directed by Congress”- - - “both chambers held by Republicans”- - - “and the Administration {Bush}”
Very revealing and what happened to the Democratic Mayor and the Democratic Governor and the State Legislature, both at the time of the hurricane and the next 16 months? Abdication?
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I thought deflection was a campaign tactic
Vegas_Rick Saturday, January 31st at 1:59PM EST (link)but you sure seem to change the subject awfully quickly. Troll.
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Who here thinks that trackfun never said anything similar about Katrina?
Moe Lane Saturday, January 31st at 2:02PM EST (link)Related: why is it that Democratic governors suck so badly at disaster relief, anyway?
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“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views” William F Buckley Jr.
i'm not sure it needs to be partisan
I am a moral coward who will only criticize Republicans. Saturday, January 31st at 2:10PM EST (link)to support infrastructure spending, which Democrats generally support anyway. I think it’s important for the current Congress and administration to invest heavily in our failing infrastructure…and guess what…the current Congress and administration are Democrats, so I guess I’m saying that to Democrats (and Republicans)…namely, all members of Congress and the administration….now.
If anything, after Katrina, shouldn’t I have aimed any criticism on infrastructure spending at Republicans since they were totally in power at the time?
IOW, I called it, then.
Moe Lane Saturday, January 31st at 2:13PM EST (link)You didn’t.
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I am a moral coward who will only criticize Republicans. Saturday, January 31st at 2:15PM EST (link)so does that mean you’re for partisanship in terms of infrastructure spending? ’cause in the end, people affected by Katrina suffered (and some still are) and people in Kentucky are suffering now b/c of a lack of infrastructure spending over the last several decades. Just curious where you fall here…
Don't the rest of you just love moral cowards?
Moe Lane Saturday, January 31st at 2:19PM EST (link)Particularly when they get called on it.
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I definitely love it...
antisocial Saturday, January 31st at 3:09PM EST (link)Libs all the time talk about kaaaatreeenaaa and Bush. And when you ask them about state government responsibility there is the blank look.
I also love partisanship. Smells like democracy. Bi-partisanship is like mafia culture (monopoly). Smells like corruption.
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Republicans who lost the Crap-and-Raid fight in the House -
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So, trackfun, can you tell me exactly what kind of infrastructure would not be damaged by
janis Saturday, January 31st at 2:24PM EST (link)somewhere in the neighborhood of an inch of ice accumulation on lines, poles, trees, transformers, house lines, etc.? Because the only thing I can think of to prevent that is to make ALL lines underground and there’s no way in hell to do that in the next 4 years. So what are you suggesting?
Not without a Ouija board. NT
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I can live without his response. But I'd be interested in knowing
janis Saturday, January 31st at 2:34PM EST (link)how ANYONE thinks that infrastructure spending could prevent the damage from ice storms, volcanoes, tornadoes, etc. When Gaia gets her panties in a twist, even Obama has to step aside.
You're projecting rational thought onto someone
NightTwister Saturday, January 31st at 2:38PM EST (link)that obviously don’t possess any.
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Pardon me, NT, it's one of my personal failings.
janis Saturday, January 31st at 2:59PM EST (link)Can’t seem to shake the idea that words have meaning and actions have consequences. I am SO behind the times!
If the media's eyes are lifted to heaven
johnt Saturday, January 31st at 2:10PM EST (link)and behold The O walking on clouds do you expect them to lower their rapt gaze to the common earth and see scandal and inefficiency?
With the prospect of a monolithic, huge & more centralized government before their myopic eyes and stunted brains the media will hardly notice a few snow flakes and icicles. Besides, scandals only occur during Republican administrations.
Ah, those hundreds of millions to be spent on STD’s, which, as Igor Pelosi has eruditely pointed out, will save money because the fedralguvmint is spending it rather than the states.
Will somebody please pass the cyanide ?
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johnt, perhaps the funding for STD's is a comment
janis Saturday, January 31st at 2:31PM EST (link)upon the current ruling party’s lack of morals. They’re all for abortion whenever and for whatever reason, or none at all, so bedhopping must be one of their primary sporting events. I’d say STD’s funding is almost mandatory for them.
I swear I'm having flashbacks to the 60's.
Vegas_Rick Saturday, January 31st at 2:36PM EST (link)Peace, LOVE, dope. Tune in and turn on. And it all originates with Pelosi in San Francisco. Coincidence?
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Uncomfortable, isn't it? I'm a Boomer, but not
janis Saturday, January 31st at 2:42PM EST (link)the peace, love, dope, antiwar variety. Watching this group celebrating the total lack of any kind of personal responsibility is sickening to behold. The law of unintended consequences will dog their every footstep for as long as they hold power. It’s a really stupid kind of hubris that convinces itself it can circumvent nature and God by funding every kind of immorality it can imagine.
55555, except for the cyanide bit
LJ "Beaglescout" Miller Saturday, January 31st at 5:53PM EST (link)that’s all
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Amateur Hour in the White House
Flagstaff Saturday, January 31st at 2:16PM EST (link)strikes again!
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I'm waiting for a Paul Shanklin parody on this one
pilgrim Saturday, January 31st at 2:44PM EST (link)It is a great advantage to a president, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man.Calvin Coolidge
Barack dozed.....
c17wife Saturday, January 31st at 3:00PM EST (link)People froze.
Say it with me now-
Barack dozed…People froze.
Over and over and over. Make it the mantra!
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c17wife is BACK!
NightTwister Saturday, January 31st at 3:01PM EST (link)I thought you’d fallen off the face of the earth. Glad to see you back and raring to go
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I never really left.
c17wife Saturday, January 31st at 3:12PM EST (link)I’ve been reading almost everyday. Just not commenting. So much to say, but no time.
Life is crazy and is going to be for the next couple of months. Then it should settle.
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c17, you're probably better off being busy at this point.
janis Saturday, January 31st at 3:32PM EST (link)I have taken more time over the last few months to just work on stuff around the house and play with the grandkids outside at every opportunity. It’s a relief from reading about our country falling down around us on a daily basis since Jan. 2oth.
Welcome back, and clever poem!
David123 Saturday, January 31st at 3:33PM EST (link)nt
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You are right if it were Bush they would have used this poem
Elizabeth Christian Saturday, January 31st at 4:12PM EST (link)GREAT POEM - but being it is Barry Obama - they will hide it.
I agree 100000% Barack dozed…People froze.
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Barack Obama doesn't care about white people.
dirkbelig Saturday, January 31st at 3:05PM EST (link)Oh, yeah, I just went there!
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Obama does not care about anybody I don't think except Barry
Elizabeth Christian Saturday, January 31st at 3:09PM EST (link)n/t
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Yeah, you just went there.
c17wife Saturday, January 31st at 3:13PM EST (link)And seriously, given his 15+ year pew parked butt in that hate whitey church, why shoudl we think otherwise?
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My first thought
Judy T Sunday, February 1st at 9:38AM EST (link)nt
Judy T.
Hello NBC, ABC, CBS and even FOX - where are you???
Elizabeth Christian Saturday, January 31st at 3:17PM EST (link)We know they all were wading through the nasty waters in New Orleans and blaming Bush and his FEMA every 5 minutes…
When are they arriving to Kentucky to blame Barry and his FEMA???
Oh yeah - silly me - Kentucky is a REDstate and Barry is a liberal - silly me - those things don’t get reported!!!
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They can't admit it, because then they'd have to explain
Praying Saturday, January 31st at 6:35PM EST (link)how there is all that snow and ice when the earth is heating up and sea levels are rising… all because the republicans are driving their SUVs around. Which just made me think,,, maybe FEMA and the media can’t get there because their Priuses don ‘t travel well through snow and ice. Give me my 4WD SUV any day!
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Sauce for the goose, and all that.
Achance Saturday, January 31st at 3:22PM EST (link)Every one of us with a brain knows that FEMA is an ATM, not first responders. FEMA doesn’t have linemen and utility trucks. All they have is money and a few people on the Type One Management Team.
If nobody’s getting to those people, that is a local and state issue unless they’ve already effectively deployed their resources and still can’t meet the need.
Now, that’s what we were saying when it was GWB and Mike Brown. It’s fun to tweak The One with this stuff, but it’s pretty disingenuous.
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It's the double standard.
Steph C Saturday, January 31st at 3:50PM EST (link)Having to walk a mile in Bush’s shoes ain’t so fun when all the things that were done to him, now apply to Obama.
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Live by the harsh standard...
Moe Lane Saturday, January 31st at 4:04PM EST (link)…die by it. We got told for years that Katrina was Bush’s fault; if the people who did that don’t like the way that shoe fits on their own foot, by all means let them scream loudly while I use a hammer to make it fit.
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Or at the least...
Steph C Saturday, January 31st at 4:12PM EST (link)Make them scream loud enough to be a defacto apology to the Bush administration.
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Works for me - long as we know what we're doing.
Achance Saturday, January 31st at 4:22PM EST (link)I can lie as well as any liberal; only difference is I know when I’m lying.
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"Let them burn their bibles and guns to keep warm"
Erick Brockway Saturday, January 31st at 3:23PM EST (link)Air Force One dumps its septic holding tanks above “Flyover Country”.
Note to lefties;
“Don’t be afraid to see what you see.”
Ronald Reagan
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Wouldn't want those folks to die of thirst and hunger now, would you?
civil_truth Saturday, January 31st at 3:47PM EST (link)I’m definitely in a strange mood the last couple of days. But humor is one of my few defenses when the news gets too grim. And the news from Washington and Sacamento has been grim, perhaps even worse than I’d feared.
And Rightly So!
Brack Obama hates white people
RyanOHIO Saturday, January 31st at 3:41PM EST (link)n/t
Farmers and coal miners.
Steph C Saturday, January 31st at 4:07PM EST (link)He did say he wanted to bankrupt the coal mines, didn’t he? That’s the basic makeup of eastern Kentucky. I guess the tobacco and dairy farmers in the southwestern part of the state could be lumped in there, too. The cows contribute to global warming and the tobacco is bad for the health.
c17, the poem is priceless.
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the irony of that is that you couldn't find a more loayal bunch of
kyle8 Saturday, January 31st at 4:15PM EST (link)died in the wool yellow dog democrats than the miners.
Well screw em, serves em right for always voting for dems.
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So when is he going to KY?
Neil1030 Saturday, January 31st at 6:42PM EST (link)Is Obama going to go to Kentucky and supervise the relief efforts? After all, to his flunky supporters he is Superman. He can do no wrong and cure all evils. So when is he going to fly down there on his own power and start saving people?
The Irony is...
Fred Maidment Saturday, January 31st at 9:00PM EST (link)…that the media will give him a pass on this for the very reason that George Bush wasn’t responsible for Katrina: The Feds are supposed to be REACTIVE to an emergency, waiting for a call from the Governor before doing anything.
And of course, Obama campaigned on changing all that…
If someone manages to point out that Bush gave the same excuse, they’ll just say he hasn’t had time to make the changes necessary.
Of course, that means he’s not much of a leader: When he says “jump,” FEMA should be asking, “how high?”
Instead, half the country is under ice and Barry sits in the oval office chain smoking Marlboros hoping he can pull off the Great Deception…
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Sitting in the Oval Office...
mbecker908 Saturday, January 31st at 9:35PM EST (link)with the heat turned up.
Update on KY & FEMA...
mbecker908 Saturday, January 31st at 9:31PM EST (link)From the Washington Times…
Highlights are mine.
Oh, and FEMA? Well, it’s only been five days. And it’s only 400,000 people. And, it’s not like it won’t be Spring pretty soon. And heck, 42 dead out of 400,000 is only 0.0105% casualties. And most of them were probably old so they didn’t have long to live, much to lose or much to contribute anyway. And they’ll still be voting for Democrats anyway so what the heck.
I wonder if some enterprising reporter will have the balls to ask TheOne™ about this obvious administrative failure at his next press conference? Heh.
Don't forget,
Wayne Saturday, January 31st at 10:31PM EST (link)Bush was pilloried in the media for flying down there and not stopping to get in the way of the relief efforts. Maybe the Zero could stop by, have his chef cook up some $50-60 dollar steaks for the folks, serve some vodka martinis?
And Kentucky was definitely a red state, so who in D.C. cares?
“Hell, these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal, and took Iwo Jima, Baghdad ain’t s–t”. Maj. Gen. John F. Kelly, USMC, Deputy CG, First MEF
FEMA Sends Lots of Help, Delivers Nothing?
Ron Robinson Sunday, February 1st at 8:50PM EST (link)So what is FEMA actually doing???
Mostly writing press releases about how much they are helping: http://www.fema.gov/news/eventnews.fema?id=11049
From the bottom of their first press release on Kentucky:
FEMA leads and supports the nation in a risk-based, comprehensive emergency management system of preparedness, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation, to reduce the loss of life and property and protect the nation from all hazards including natural disasters, acts of terrorism and man-made disasters.
But the risk-based is misleading: according to the quote from Ward in the main story, they are stopped by closed roads or icy conditions - ie: they will not take risks and don’t have the equipment to mitigate those risks. So much for preparedness.
Kentucky only has a total of about 4,600 National Guard - not enough to help much in a situation like this.
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4,600 NG troops will help more than Obama's entire Federal Government.
mbecker908 Sunday, February 1st at 8:58PM EST (link)Unless he mobilizes the Pentagon to help. But they’re not really “his”.
Poor FEMA response to ice storm
oldgeezerguy Monday, February 2nd at 6:04AM EST (link)The poor excuse by the FEMA people that they just couldn’t get around is worthless.
With the situation FEMA could coordinate with the state NG or federal troops in the area to get vehicles to handle the conditions to reach the victims.
I don’t care if it had to be a Humvee , a Bradley or a Stryker.
Heck even an M1A1 if that is what it took.
Choppers, air drops…nada from all I read