OT: Federal response not slow

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Lots of pictures. Scroll down.

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Dan J.S.
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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

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site for Time-Picayune and looked in the archives section. Interesting on Tuesday, the Governor was calling out the National Guard. Never did find where she asked for federal assistance.

(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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ron

Homeland security and FEMA failed miserably.

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I think that the entire system of homeland security failed. And I want to draw a distinction, which you drew in your "Talking Points". This is not about the brand new secretary of homeland security. It's not about any individual person. The process by which we try to solve these problems is so bureaucratic, so slow, and so cumbersome, you just had this amazing quote that you showed there, where a very, very smart man, and the secretary's a very smart man, is explaining that he's listening to all these meetings and having all of these conference calls while the television on his desk is telling him about a reality that is totally different.

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.

Reply to
ToMh

What's your point?

Reply to
Dbu,.

That everybody including Republicans know that the federal response was slow and inadequate, and that homeland security is a bureaucratic joke.

Reply to
ToMh

What about the local government?

Reply to
Dan J.S.

Duhbya himself called the federal response "unacceptable."

Reply to
Truckdude

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 .

Reply to
Dbu,.

The subject line was about the federal response, but it's pretty obvious the local response was woefully inept also.

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ToMh

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