President Bush and the Katrina Response
By Paul on Hurricane Katrina
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The Looney Left has been on fire trying to pin all the problems with Hurricane Katrina on Bush. Remember all the "Bush Stayed on Vacation" nonsense?
From Reuters (also see pic at link)
U.S. President George W. Bush is handed a map by Deputy
Chief of Staff Joe Hagin (R) during a video
teleconference with federal and state emergency
management organizations on hurricane Katrina from his
Crawford, Texas ranch on August 28, 2005.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/pictures/WAS26D.htm
The Looney Tunes know he is never "on vacation" but it sells well to the gullible... Maybe the power of the picture can refute the idiocy.
More...
Bush declares La. emergency
8/27/2005
CRAWFORD, Texas -- President Bush declared a state of
emergency in Louisiana on Saturday because of the
approach of Hurricane Katrina and his spokesman urged
residents along the coast to heed authorities' advice to
evacuate.
Bush, vacationing at his ranch, was being regularly
updated about the storm, which is expected to hit land
early Monday, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency
continue to coordinate with state authorities in Florida,
Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, and have prepositioned
supplies in areas expected to be affected, he said.
The president's emergency declaration authorizes the FEMA
to coordinate all disaster relief efforts and to provide
assistance in a number of Louisiana parishes, or counties.
http://2theadvocate.com/stories/082805/new_bushla001.shtml
For the first time in (I heard) 34 years the President actually declared a state of emergency before the storm even hit. Then he went a step further...
Bush urges safety from Katrina
8/28/05
CRAWFORD, Texas -- President Bush, as he readied the
federal government for a massive relief effort, on Sunday
urged people in the path of Hurricane Katrina to forget
anything but their safety and move to higher ground as
instructed.
"We cannot stress enough the danger this hurricane poses
to Gulf Coast communities," Bush said as the storm roared
across the gulf toward New Orleans and other communities.
"I urge all citizens to put their own safety and the
safety of their families first by moving to safe ground."
With forecasters warning of a category five storm, the
president made sure the federal response would not be
delayed by already declaring emergencies in Mississippi
and Florida just hours after a similar declaration for
Louisiana. Such declarations make federal aid available
to assist with disaster relief, but they are rarely made
before a storm even hits.
http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=3775536
Sorta weird to read that the way history unfolded huh?
Lastly, as has been widely reported, Bush even called Blanco personally and urged her and Nagin to declare a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans. Anyone who says Bush was not on top of this is either lying or delusional.... Bush was far more on top of it than the mayor of New Orleans who had to be reminded by the National Weather Service that hurricanes were dangerous.
Of course FEMA, and the idiot who runs it, are a different matter.
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