Barbara Bush
Wait, let me see - people who had very little, but had a sense of community and people and place, who have lost all of the little that they had and are displaced persons in a strange city, sitting on a goddamn cot in the Astrodome, and she says they are better off now? That's where he gets it - that deep sense of compassion and understanding that led him to tour a part of our country turned to hell overnight and talk about how he used to go drinking there....
The Guardian
It's good to read something other than corporate-owned US media sources. Interesting.
great post. Just passing through, I'm liking the blog by the way.
ReplyDeleteThanks, it's usually much more yarn, dogs and work oriented, but I'm pissed right now.
ReplyDeleteCatherine, I feel I'll be pissed for a long time over all this. Our governor (NM - Bill Richardson) contacted the LA governor the day before the hurricane with an offer to send National Guard. She accepted and it took the feds in Washington until Thursday to process the paperwork. We all need to contact our local politicians to request an independent hearing into what went wrong.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Nanette - I had to sit in the office and overhear some Fuckwit True Believer lay all of this off on the governor - "She never asked for help!" The link to the diary on DailyKos spells out the gov't regs, available to anyone who wants to read them. Even if the governor hadn't formally asked, and she DID and the paper trail is there, they were still responsible. Period. I'm reading and hearing all these stories of "self help" because the feds dithered and split hairs over legalities, when by their own policy, this was their job! This is WHY we have a damn Departement of Homeland Security! I take it personally, I'm about 40 miles as the crow flies inland from the Atlantic, but 2 hours drive time from elderly parents with special needs on the Gulf coast, and that's not driving on interstate highways but on roads that will flood in a heartbeat. If I have to go rescue them, "Brownie" better at least issue me a frigging Hummer and spot me the gas. If that's what Homeland Security has come down to, just freaking tell us.
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