Tom Jaszewski wrote
imagine that....

President Bush and Republican leaders are trying to shift blame for
the poor rescue and relief effort to the victims of Hurricane Katrina
including state and local officials. Don't let them get away with
that.

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Heaven forbid that a Democrat mayor, Democrat parish president,
and a Democrat governor should be held responsible for failing
to do their jobs. Please cite the text from the FEMA charter with
the guarantee that FEMA will respond in less than 72 hours. Local
government has the responsibility of being the first responder.
The feds should be coming in to handle that which the locals
can't handle - not what the locals have totally ****ed up.

If the local Democrat morons had done their jobs correctly, then
the horrific tasks facing the feds would have been tremendously
mitigated. Of course, that is heresy to the liberal entitlement
mentality. Blame Washington when your plight is your fault for
being too stupid to evacuate, and your fault for voting for stupid
local officials. Local officials who live in Hurricane Alley but are
too stupid to develop and implement contingency plans which
could have been done by many 9th graders.

The ultimate blame rests upon the shoulders of those who were,
sadly, too dumb to exit before the storm hit. I'd guess that at
most about 5,000 people had a very legitimate reason for staying.

Smart people were taking steps to exit on Friday, August 26.
The very smart were already in action on Thursday. I grew up
pretty poor, but I know that if necessary, my parents would have
gone out that Friday and pawned their wedding rings, TV set,
household appliances, and anything else of value to get us
and our grandparents on a bus and out of town. Then we would
probably have stayed in the bus terminal one or two parishes
away, waiting for terminal officials to help us link up with a
refugee site.