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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (701474)	9/11/2005 11:03:08 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"December 2004 National Response Plan \|43 The NRP establishes policies,procedures,and mechanisms for proactive Federal response to catastrophic events. A catastrophic event is any natural or manmade incident,including terrorism,that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties,damage,or disruption severely affecting the population, infrastructure,environment,economy,national morale, and/or government functions. A catastrophic event could result in sustained national impacts over a prolonged period of time;almost immediately exceeds resources normally available to State,local,tribal,and private-sector authorities in the impacted area;and significantly interrupts governmental operations and emergency services to such an extent that national security could be threatened. All catastrophic events are Incidents of National Significance." "Notification and full coordination with States will occur, but the coordination process must not delay or impede the rapid deployment and use of critical resources. States are urged to notify and coordinate with local governments regarding a proactive Federal response."

To: sandintoes who wrote (701474)	9/11/2005 11:18:13 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

>>The feds were not allowed in by order of the Governor of Louisiana.<< Can you imagine how Truman, LBJ or Reagain (or any other President this century except GW) would have reacted if his aides told him that he was prevented from going in with the full assets of the federal government to save American lives because some bureaucratic box hadn't been checked? GW hesitated in his deer-in-the-headlights style and we know the result.

To: sandintoes who wrote (701474)	9/11/2005 11:25:50 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"The reality, say several aides who did not wish to be quoted because it might displease the president, did not really sink in until Thursday night. Some White House staffers were watching the evening news and thought the president needed to see the horrific reports coming out of New Orleans. Counselor Bartlett made up a DVD of the newscasts so Bush could see them in their entirety as he flew down to the Gulf Coast the next morning on Air Force One. How this could be--how the president of the United States could have even less "situational awareness," as they say in the military, than the average American about the worst natural disaster in a century--is one of the more perplexing and troubling chapters in a story that, despite moments of heroism and acts of great generosity, ranks as a national disgrace. President George W. Bush has always trusted his gut. He prides himself in ignoring the distracting chatter, the caterwauling of the media elites, the Washington political buzz machine. He has boasted that he doesn't read the papers. His doggedness is often admirable. It is easy for presidents to overreact to the noise around them. But it is not clear what President Bush does read or watch, aside from the occasional biography and an hour or two of ESPN here and there. Bush can be petulant about dissent; he equates disagreement with disloyalty. After five years in office, he is surrounded largely by people who agree with him. ... When Hurricane Katrina struck, it appears there was no one to tell President Bush the plain truth: that the state and local governments had been overwhelmed, that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was not up to the job and that the military, the only institution with the resources to cope, couldn't act without a declaration from the president overriding all other authority."