Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Katrina on White House Web
Posted by Ian McNulty on Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:37 PM
It was a long time coming, but finally the digital numbers did wind down to flashing zeros on a friend's fridge magnet, above.
Meanwhile, the Obama team wasted no time staking a position on the Katrina aftermath. On a feature of the White House Web site listing the administration's agenda, a section on "Katrina" is none too gentle with the Bush legacy on the disaster:
"President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur."
There are no details here about what Obama will do differently, but the administration does claim he "will partner with the people of the Gulf Coast to rebuild now, stronger than ever."
I guess we'll see how that shapes up.
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Yes the funny clock really makes things so much better here. I have one on my fridge that counts up. It counts up from the time I was told that New Orleans would fill up like a bowl and drown everyone if we didn't build better levees. I was told that in Middle School. I took it to heart. That was 35 years ago. I heard it several times after that from Experts and from Laymen. Some how though Nagin and Blanko never get blamed in the National Press. Only Bush. It doesn't help that people like you don't tell them any different. As long as we keep depnding on the FEDs we will never get out of this. When are we going to take responsibility and start electing compotent people for local office? That will be the day I feel better about the situaion. Untill then I guess I have my clock to remind me of my own responsibility. Maybe you were not told that a Katrina would come when you were a kid or maybe you forgot or maybe you just hate Bush. In all cases your ignorant of the facts and complicit and a fabrication and a confederacy of Dunces. You get all of your facts from Tom Tomorrow apparently.
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Thank God for the end of "that" era and for The new White House admin. I know we have a long hard road ahead but things are already 10000 times better. God Bless the people of New Orleans and the Gulf. I hope to move down there this year to help make these promises a reality.
