Everyone is trying to shift the blame to the highest person possible, Bush.
In an interview the other night, LA democrat senator (I forgot her name) was made to look like a jackass when she blindly was blaming Bush for everything although the interviewer (Mike Wallace) busted her each time. For example:
She was going on and on about how the FEDERAL gov't should've done this and that, but Mike Wallace pointed out how hundreds of CITY buses were left parked WAITING on the Hurricane that could've been used to evacuate all those people that DIDN'T have transportation. They had 2 whole days to do it and did nothing. Now they want to blame the FEDS, who are 1000 miles away, that THEY didn't get the people out in time.
She also got busted by him when he told her that her Senator friends diverted money that the FEDERAL gov't had assigned for Levee upgrades to other things THEY thought were MORE important at the time. Yet that too is Bush's fault.
Personally, even though its a tragic event and people lost their lives there, it's easy for everybody to FIND a reason to Bush hate just because they were Bush haters BEFORE this all happened in the first place. It's even come out now that LOUISIANA'S FEMA director and Gov. told the Feds to HOLD ON for like 2 days when the FEDS offered to help, while they "accessed" the damage first. The whole damn city is flooded, someone is asking if you need help, and you say "HOLD ON, let me check"???????? :jerkit:
Funny how people are quick to point the finger at Bush, yet looters were looting shoe stores and jewelry stores for their own gain, evacuees are now being found trading/selling/and misusing those $2k debit cards that were given out to help them, Local gov't in LA KNEW for decades their levees weren't going to hold a Cat 5 yet did nothing, etc, etc, etc.
Not one single person from the STATE level has stepped up and said, "I screwed up. This happened on MY watch. Now I am going to fix it". Not one. Yet they ALL want to point 1000 miles away to a man that had nothing to do with it. Whatever. I'm sick of people always blaming others instead of themselves first.
If they had told ME to get the hell out of dodge cause a Hurricane was coming and I chose to stay, that would be MY fault only. If I had no transportation, are you gonna pick up the phone and call the White House to send you somebody to help you or are you gonna pick up the phone and call LOCALLY?????