Jan 24 2006
Can We Start Playing the ‘Blame Game’ Now?
You might remember months ago after the fiasco that was the governmental response to the hurricane Katrina disaster when everyone in D.C. was urging citizens and the media to not ‘play the blame game’ and focus instead on rebuilding and cleaning up.
So here we are months and months later. The money still hasn’t arrived, the temporary trailer homes from FEMA are sitting idle in Arkansas, and the area remains vulnerable as the next hurricane season approaches.
When can we start playing the ‘blame game’ for the disasterous governmental response to the worst natural tragedy in recent American history? Will it take another hurricane and a similar screw up to really get something done this time?
Then there’s this piece of news coming from the half hearted attempts at congressional oversight from our elected represenatives:
The US government was warned about the risk Hurricane Katrina posed to New Orleans before the storm hit, but the warning was ignored, a senator says.
Democrat Joseph Lieberman, on a Senate panel studying the response to Katrina, said emergency agency Fema had warned on 27 August the city could be flooded. - BBC
Granted, it’s Joe Lieberman.. But when even he’s attacking his pals in the White House, you know something is going on.
It turns out that while the President said, “I don’t think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees” there is documentation that proves the exact opposite, which makes the terrible relief response to Katrina all the more in-excusable.
Of course, that lie is brought to you by the same people who came up with the “We couldn’t predict that they’d turn airplanes into flying missles” whopper and the “We couldn’t have known the insurgency would react the way it has…” doozy.
Regardless of Katrina, when will anyone in the administration be held accountable for the years of misrepresentations, unabashed lies, and just plain screw ups that have cost our country thousands of lives, untold billions of dollars, and embarrassment in the eyes of the world?
…Oh, and it’s good to be back!
