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18 years ago
OT: Federal response not slow
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18 years ago
Dan, Dan, Dan..
There you go, confusing some of them with pictures and facts. We all know Bush was at least 3 weeks late getting in there, or was it four?
I went of the
(I'll bet that you can find people that post here blame Bush for the embassy bombing in Kenya, he had the Texas Air Guard do it!)
I shouldn't have said that but too late..
Ron
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Homeland security and FEMA failed miserably.
O'REILLY: Which he ignored...
GINGRICH: Which he ignored.
O'REILLY: Which he ignored. So...
GINGRICH: But that's not...
O'REILLY: But that's on him. See, look, leadership is what is necessary here.
GINGRICH: OK.
O'REILLY: And the government only works well when there's strong, effective leadership. I think you'd agree with that. You've written a book on that.
GINGRICH: I do agree with that.
O'REILLY: OK.
GINGRICH: I do agree with that.
O'REILLY: All right. So I'm going to submit to you that Michael Chertoff (search) isn't a strong leader. And neither was governor, the first homeland security...
GINGRICH: Tom Ridge.
O'REILLY: Ridge. They're bureaucrats first, not strong leaders. They don't have a vision.
GINGRICH: OK.
O'REILLY: We know Chertoff doesn't have a vision by his border situation. By that ? and that's another disaster just waiting to happen down there.
GINGRICH: OK, but I don't ? OK, I think if tomorrow morning you put in the third secretary of homeland security, even if it was you, and even with all your drive and all your energy, you would be stunned within 24 hours, between the Office of Management and Budget, the White House staff, the congressional oversight, the federal regulations, the inspector-general of your department, how crippled you were at being able to lead.
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What's your point?
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That everybody including Republicans know that the federal response was slow and inadequate, and that homeland security is a bureaucratic joke.
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What about the local government?
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Duhbya himself called the federal response "unacceptable."
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That's not fact yet. The investigation due to complete in Feb 06 will have fact. Also included in the investigation will be the state and local response .
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18 years ago
The subject line was about the federal response, but it's pretty obvious the local response was woefully inept also.