To ConservativeWanderer: What can I say — I just like seeing right wingers get all foamy mouth when I refute their utterly unsupported, malicious rubbish with facts backed up with comprehensive links and hard-to-twist logic. I guess my problem is that when I hear someone make accusations that I happen to know is malicious gossip at best, I don’t keep quiet about it.
To chemman: What part of this link didn’t you understand? There was a plan in place in advance of Katrina, and the feds had a big part in it, and not only did they fail miserably, but that Bush, Chertoff and the rest of the gang that couldn’t shoot straight had no clue about what was going on.
I forgot to bring up the oil spill issue in my original post: it was decided long before Obama took office that fixing those types of deep water drilling mishaps was best left for the oil companies who supposedly — at least in theory — would have the best expertise as well as the very expensive and highly specialized equipment to handle stuff like that. This wasn’t exactly a situation where you all had to do was order in troops and supplies for evacuation and rescue in a timely manner.
