Feds Lack of Competence Trumps Lack of Response

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  1. Feb. 2, 2006 - State of the Union: 'On the Wrong Track' Bush Speech Pushes War, Ignores Poverty, Joblessness - Majorities of Americans give the president “low marks for leadership” and say “our country is on the wrong track on jobs, health care, retirement security and Iraq,” AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said. “America’s workers are drowning in a perfect storm of job loss, skyrocketing health care costs and disappearing retirement security,

  2. Oct. 03, 2005 - Iraq War Delayed Katrina Relief Effort - The confidential report, which has been seen by The Independent, details how funds for flood control were diverted to other projects, desperately needed National Guards were stuck in Iraq and how military personnel had to "sneak off post" to help with relief efforts because their commander had refused permission.

  3. Oct. 2005 - The Sheik Speaks Out! - In hurricane Betsy, the National Guard was on the streets hours after the winds died down and the flood waters rose. I was there in the lower 9th ward and in Chalmette rescuing people from the 15 foot waters for 5 days and saw how a rescue operation should be run.

  4. Sept. 16, 2005 - Iraq & Katrina: The Bookend Failures of Bush Presidency - As the fallout from Katrina continues this week, the bloody news from Iraq reminds us that the Bush administration has two major disasters on its hands. Here are four posts I did on the ongoing catastrophes.

  5. Sept. 8, 2005 - Bush Never Gave FEMA a Chance - Michael Chertoff, the secretary of homeland security, didn't even learn that the levees had been breached until midday Tuesday, a full 24 hours after the breaches occurred. Why? Why was the federal response so abysmal? Because it wasn't deemed important.

  6. Sept. 8, 2005 - Maximizing Disaster-The Results of Years of 'Downsizing' - Deregulated coastal development, massive funding cuts to disaster response, and political cronyism allowed for maximum private gain at the price of an unprecedented public disaster.

  7. Sept. 5, 2005 - "Après moi le deluge", After me come the floods - "The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will go down in history as one of the worst abandonments of Americans on American soil ever in US history. It’s not just Katrina that caused all these deaths in New Orleans here. Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now."

  8. Sept. 4, 2005 - Falluja Floods the Superdome - As the levees cracked open and ushered hell into New Orleans on Tuesday, President Bush once again chose to fly away from Washington, not toward it, while disaster struck.

  9. Sept. 4, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina Huffed and Puffed and Laid President Bush’s Incompetence Bare - Given that everyone knew about this vulnerability, what has happened over the past week is hard to believe. Simple incompetence? Racism? Or maybe the disaster was so vast that authorities were overwhelmed?

  10. Sept. 3, 2005 - United States of Shame - The Army Corps of Engineers asked for $105 million for hurricane and flood programs in New Orleans last year. The White House carved it to about $40 million. But President Bush and Congress agreed to a $286.4 billion pork-filled highway bill with 6,000 pet projects, including a $231 million bridge for a small, uninhabited Alaskan island.

  11. Sept. 2, 2005 - Funding for Louisiana Flood Control was Diverted to Pay for the War in Iraq - Newhouse News Service, in an article posted late Tuesday night at the web site of The Times-Picayune Web site, reported: "No one can say they didn't see it coming. ... Now in the wake of one of the worst storms ever, serious questions are being asked about the lack of preparation

  12. Sept. 1, 2005 - Politicians Failed Storm Victims - Both the Bush and Clinton administrations proposed budgets that low-balled the needs. Local politicians grabbed whatever money they could and declared victory. And the public didn't exactly demand tax increases to pay for flood-control and hurricane-protection projects.

  13. Lawmakers Condemn Recovery Effort as Wasteful - Nine House and Senate panels held hearings on hurricane relief, with a sense of frustration frequently bursting to the surface. Several members chastised administration officials.

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