Somebody forgot to call FEMA before blaming Bush


Exaggerated claims for Democrat governor of Kansas
I have relatives in Louisiana, so I followed the Hurricane Katrina mess closely. I haven't done that with Greensburg, Kansas.

Looks like some others have though.

It's become a pattern: Democrats blaming President Bush for their own lack of disaster preparedness. Like Blanco in Katrina, Sebelius claims the federal response to the May 6 tornado that leveled the town of Greensburg was slow. She blames Bush's deployment of Kansas National Guardsmen in Iraq.

"States all over the country are not only missing personnel," she told CNN, "they don't have the equipment they need to come in. And it will just make it that much slower."

Fact is, she had 4,500 guard troops on call for this town of 1,600 if she needed them. She also had offers of help from other states for any resources Kansas asked for.

More than that, Kansas itself is full of resources — like farm equipment, along with private companies and citizen volunteers that can use them as effectively as any military equipment to clean up.

Worse, after Sebelius' loud complaints, it turned out she hadn't even asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for help.

"If you don't request it," White House Spokesman Tony Snow noted, "you're not going to get it." That, by the way, is the law.

I did some checking this morning and the facts in this editorial seem to be accurate.

A hurricane leveling a town is bad enough. Using the opportunity to go after politics you don't agree with is just plain despicable.

There are reasons why I think progressives and modern liberals are ill served by their current leadership. Who's standing for principles?

Hat tip Betsy's Page by way of Rite Wing Technopagan.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - May 14, 2007 at 05:31 AM  Tag


 ◊  ◊   ◊  ◊ 

Random selections from NeoWayland's library


Pagan Vigil "Because LIBERTY demands more than just black or white"
© 2005 - 2009 All Rights Reserved