White House website dumps on Bush over Katrina
posted at 7:45 pm on January 20, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via Politico, a last jab in the eye from the newly Change-ified WhiteHouse.gov, suddenly shorn of the giant portrait of the Leader that dominated the front page when it went live this afternoon. I wonder if this is a case of an overeager nutroots copy writer’s first draft having slipped through the cracks — compare the site’s Iraq page, which conspicuously makes no mention of Bush — or a deliberate swipe taken by Team Barry to placate the left.
I guess we’ll know tomorrow if it’s still there.
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.
President Obama swiftly responded to Hurricane Katrina. Citing the Bush Administration’s “unconscionable ineptitude” in responding to Hurricane Katrina, then-Senator Obama introduced legislation requiring disaster planners to take into account the specific needs of low-income hurricane victims.
Exit question: Since The One isn’t about to jeopardize his courtship of Republicans by prosecuting Bush officials, no matter how febrile progressives’ fantasies might be, how many petty jabs at Dubya of this sort will he have to take to make up for it?
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One is too many.
bookman on January 20, 2009 at 7:47 PM
Is this a surprise? These people will continue to blame everyone but themselves for problems Bush had nothing to do with. This isn’t “hope and change”, it’s “duck and blame”.
whtabtbill on January 20, 2009 at 7:48 PM
I can’t tell if this is more sad, pathetic, or offensive.
Spirit of 1776 on January 20, 2009 at 7:49 PM
uh oh…somebody call the waaaaaaaaaaambulance!!!
hotair won’t collectively whine every time something like this happens will it? that would be rather lame.
ernesto on January 20, 2009 at 7:49 PM
You gotta cut a little slack here. Here’s the bio on George W. Bush. It’s nice.
unclesmrgol on January 20, 2009 at 7:50 PM
Since attacks are the order of the day from team barry, I am going to follow their lead. While Obama was State Senator whose job it was to look out for the people Chicago, a company by the name of Austin Meade National promised to float a bond that would put computers in the classes of Chicago school children. Instead they got nothing, but Austin Meade National made a fortune in fees to carry out the deal. That’s right when Obama was supposed to be looking out the children he was blithely unaware of a company that was exploiting them. Of course this company also managed to kick 1,000 dollars to the Daley, machine, but that goes without saying.
rob verdi on January 20, 2009 at 7:50 PM
Overall crime in Chicago increased in 2008 with murders showing the sharpest rise, police announced Friday, blaming gangs for most of the violence.
Last year, 510 people were murdered in Chicago – at least 229 of them in gang-related incidents, according to police statistics. Police estimate 100,000 gang members live in the city.
In 2007, 445 murders were reported in Chicago. The 510 homicides in 2008 were the most in the city since 2003, when 601 people were murdered.
rob verdi on January 20, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Seriously? I’m having flashbacks of junior high. Nanny, nanny, boo boo. I wonder who can piss further….
duffyanneal on January 20, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Oh and Illinois is a total disaster.
rob verdi on January 20, 2009 at 7:52 PM
I would guess the presidential bios are probably done by a professional historian or librarian connected with the Library of Congress.
INC on January 20, 2009 at 7:52 PM
So flipping furious about this.
rob verdi on January 20, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Most people are here are struggling to grasp the trillions in bailouts, and YOU want us to talk about LARGER numbers than that?
My collie says:
CyberCipher on January 20, 2009 at 7:53 PM
All of the above
rob verdi on January 20, 2009 at 7:53 PM
Obama is like that bad manager you used to work for that kept his job because he stole everyone else’s ideas or made others look bad to promote himself.
These jabs always catch up with you and one day your ego will deflate and the job will come to an end. Your legacy will only be The Great Campaigner- didn’t know how to do anything else.
sherry on January 20, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Alternatively, the outgoing administration may put up their own bio as well. The one on Reagan is really good so I doubt the Dems touched it.
INC on January 20, 2009 at 7:54 PM
There have already been numerous blunders with the Team Obama version of whitehouse.gov. At the open – just after inauguration – they had The One’s picture in an inconographic stare-down with site visitors (Michelle Malkin still has the screenshot on her story; I wasn’t fast enough on the draw), replaced swiftly with what anyone will see when they hit the site now.
This is the new politics. Team Obama will continue to use doublespeak as thin cover.
By the way, has anyone else been experiencing major computer problems this afternoon?
bryanmyrick on January 20, 2009 at 7:54 PM
I think its probably a nutroots copywriter getting through the cracks. So far, Obama has been pretty good about hiding his true feeling about…anything. This seems a little personal.
jimmy the notable on January 20, 2009 at 7:54 PM
This person will be fired by tomorrow. It’s an obvious rogue. Both sides are burdened by these types. Many commenters condone this type of stuff when it’s directed at the other side.
I am pretty sure Obama would not approve this. I hope the person gets named, they need to be publicly horsewhipped…along with Nicole Wallace.
The Race Card on January 20, 2009 at 7:55 PM
I just hope that the idiots that had 5 days notice that a category 5 hurricane was bearing down on them change… and step out of the way next time. Otherwise, even the One will find it hard to protect the stupid from themselves (no matter how much the media covers for him).
RalphyBoy on January 20, 2009 at 7:55 PM
On the very day we are told to put aside our petty differences and work for the common good, we get this crap.
Sweet.
BardMan on January 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM
You know the more I think about this, since I first read about it in the Headlines, the more tone deaf it becomes. On this day, the day when the first black president is sworn into office, a feat not achieved without a significant portion of white people, the White House website decides to poke probably the most racially charged beehive in the last 4 yrs. Not only is the assessment obviously wrong, the idea that the Federal response was unusually slow, but it also shows that Obama has a kind of tin ear that Bush was always accused of having. Just compare this with how Bush never blamed or named Clinton and his Administration for it’s security failures leading up to 9/11. Compare this with how Bush never mentioned a single Dem. Senator concerning the GSE crisis. This was dumb, Pres. Obama. And if you don’t take it down, then you have just knocked the Office down a notch, and the day isn’t even over.
Weight of Glory on January 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM
I said above in the headlines and I’ll repeat it here. I looked at a list of bills Obama sponsored and I saw none Katrina related or disaster related that became law.
Maybe I missed one. Maybe this claim to a swift response only means legislation was introduced and nothing more. Is that worth patting yourself on the back? Inquiring minds want to know.
INC on January 20, 2009 at 7:58 PM
This is uninformed idiocy of the first magnitude. Great Leader should be embarrassed.
I was at a major military emergency preparedness conference in December.
The main “lesson learned” from Katrina is that henceforth, the states will plan to pick up if the lcoal response has been wiped out.
In a major catostophe where the local response is inhibited due to first responders either being injured, killed or missing in action because they’re helping their family members, the first leg of the three legged stool (Local > State > Federal) is gone.
Locals have expertise that the feds and even the states do not own. Locals know the roads, know where resources are and know who has those resources.
Prior to Katrina, we have not had a situation where the local response was pretty much absent. New Orleans emergency responders were gone, for whatever reason.
The Gulf Coast was hit just as hard as New Orleans, but their guys responded.
Anyway, if the locals are gone, the state has to pick up. FEMA had 2,000 personnel stretched over a continent. FEMA has never been the first or even second responder, like all federal agencies, they take some time to respond and it was two days after Katrina hit that the Governor of Louisiana finally made a formal, proper request for help.
So anyone who blames FEMA for not being their immediately really has no idea whatsoever what it is they are talking about. Plans going forward have the states stepping in for the locals and local authorities will cross train with other localities to provide some sort of immediate response when circumstances preclude a 100% local response.
NoDonkey on January 20, 2009 at 7:58 PM
I know what you mean.
Weight of Glory on January 20, 2009 at 7:58 PM
One word…..CLASSLESS!
fbcmusicman on January 20, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Well the good news is….ta da….whatever the problem is he just signed on to fixing it. Lets hope another disaster does not strike during his term in office. There is going to be much crow to be digested if he doesn’t get it perfect on his watch. I don’t know about you but I’ll be watching..
kanda on January 20, 2009 at 7:59 PM
wow. you must’ve been one of those people everyone loved to hang around back in high school huh? what with your emotional control on a level somewhere between a 2 year old and amy winehouse. this little jab burned you that bad? go cry about it.
ernesto on January 20, 2009 at 7:59 PM
what jerks
Drunk Report on January 20, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Im with Ernesto- you guys are all ruining the post-partisanship and unity!!!!!!!!
Chuck Schick on January 20, 2009 at 8:00 PM
I hardly think it is a last one. I fully expect The One to hobble along on this crutch for the next four years.
Dusty on January 20, 2009 at 8:00 PM
For someone who normally voted “present”, I’m sure he thought the act Herculean.
Weight of Glory on January 20, 2009 at 8:00 PM
jimmy the notable,
lets see if is stays up over the next couple days, or if they add lines about the state and local democrats role.
rob verdi on January 20, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Jack#ss’s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How about firing the Liberal mayor,
then the Liberal Governor,that sat
on their duffs,awaiting,some kind of
Hope and Change on Katrina!
Blameing President Bush on Katrina
is assine!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on January 20, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Even if this tidbit is retracted by tomorrow, it’s still how the new administration feels. I’d rather them be open and honest about their BDS, than to hide it in some pseudo-unity babble.
President Obama could state that he doesn’t really believe that Katrina was Bush’s fault, but it would be a lie. And everybody would know it.
Anna on January 20, 2009 at 8:02 PM
despicable, all of them. These guys have to be utterly defeated.
rob verdi on January 20, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Obama sat under Rev. Wright for a long time. Today he asked a guy to pray who said when white will embrace what is right
INC on January 20, 2009 at 8:02 PM
You are absolutely right.
INC on January 20, 2009 at 8:03 PM
This is the order of the day.
As The One hides behind faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and of course, Lincoln,,, voicing lofty phrases of patriotism, love, unity and affection for the “workers” of America,, while the adoring media sobs tears of joy into the cameras,, the truth squads and community organizers will be out in the streets stepping on the throats of the American people, destroying and stealing all that they own.
Just sayin.
JellyToast on January 20, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Translation: President Barack Obama will spread more wealth to people of New Orleans. The same who continue to sit around, whining and complaining that they haven’t got their FEMA checks to buy Louis Vitton bags and big screen TVs.
Ugh, I bet Kathleen “Babbalin” Blanco will be the first to line up to lick the President’s boots if he visits here.
Lay-Z on January 20, 2009 at 8:09 PM
ernesto,
maybe on Sept 12th Bush should have changed every government web site to say that Bill Clinton was too busy getting oral sex to stop the murder plans of three thousand Americans. How cool would that have been!
rob verdi on January 20, 2009 at 8:10 PM
“History is
writtenrewritten by the victors…”RalphyBoy on January 20, 2009 at 8:10 PM
The Race Card,
we shall see.
rob verdi on January 20, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Any federal agency, in this case FEMA, is horrible for dealing with the local situation. Their response here in Texas this last year was horrible for an agency that “learned” from Katrina. They had relief spots all clustered in certain areas ignoring other area that were hit harder. Things got straightened out a bit after the Harris County judge personally stepped in and started directing things(along with the mayor of Houston). They couldn’t put the temporary housing in place because of rules against not putting them in “flood plains” (which was just about everywhere because of the changes made after Allison?) Their cleanup was a huge waste of money. They had workers standing around doing nothing for at least 75% of the time waiting for trucks. Federal agencies are not the solution, they are the problem(thank you Ronnie)
I would trust state and local to get things done – they know the people and the places . They have a vested interest in the area. They want to get things done – federal – not so much.
Corsair on January 20, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Yeah but I thought we were all suppose to be good little conservatives and wish Obama well for the sake of the country.
angryed on January 20, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Someone help me out here.
Is this whitehouse.gov site really just change.gov until the White House can set up the revised site, you know, the old one where it was pics of the rooms, bios of the presidents, and details on daily agendas?
TheRabidRepublican on January 20, 2009 at 8:13 PM
supposed that is
angryed on January 20, 2009 at 8:14 PM
‘Bridge to No-Where’,Revisited!
If My facts are straight,or I remember past H/A
posts,
didn’t Barack Obama vote not once,but twice on
denying the funds to repair the damaged bridge
in New Oeleans,from Katrina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on January 20, 2009 at 8:15 PM
I won’t excuse the lack of class – but I have to say, conservatives need to be more clear on what is the proper, and Constitutional, role of government. We aren’t, and of course the liberals aren’t, so people go around thinking every problem they have should be solved by the feds. The biggest thing that bothered me about the Katrina response was everyone’s assumption that it was the federal government’s problem.
kc8ukw on January 20, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Obama sucks and so does his f*cking party. Every damn one of them.
ErinF on January 20, 2009 at 8:15 PM
He could put an end to this crap.
He could call on MSNBC to stop their nightly call for jailing Bush and Cheney.
But he won’t.
faraway on January 20, 2009 at 8:16 PM
This is the same scum that pointed his bird finger at Hillary and McCain.
The same scum that made a classless joke about Nancy Reagan and “seances”
faraway on January 20, 2009 at 8:17 PM
I posted this at Ace’s…thought I’d share the fruits of my research here too:
—————
I would hope an enterprising reporter in the MSM would do some checking. For example, Katrina hit LA late August 2005. Obama was sworn into the Senate in January 2005.
It should be a pretty easy matter to check bills sponsored by Obama in the 109th Congress and see what he actually did and, well, what actually passed. Bills like S2257 (To provide for an enhanced refundable credit for families who resided in the Hurricane Katrina disaster area on August 28, 2005) which didn’t make it out of committee after being proposed in February 2006 (or almost six months after the hurricane).
Or like S1770 (To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for advance payment of the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit for 2005 in order to provide needed funds to victims of Hurricane Katrina and to stimulate local economies. ) which similarly didn’t make it out of committee.
Or S1865 (To ensure the evacuation of individuals with special needs in times of emergency. ) because, well, I guess responders can’t be trusted to help special needs people in times of emergency and, um, also didn’t make it out of committee.
Or S1638 (To provide for the establishment of programs and activities to assist in mobilizing an appropriate healthcare workforce in the event of a health emergency or natural disaster.) which didn’t make it out of committee and had zero (ZERO) co-sponsors…in other words, a vanity bill.
That’s what he sponsored. He co-sponsored a few others, but I can’t find anything that links well to the description on Dear Leader’s Whitehouse.gov webpage. It would be interesting to know specifically WHICH bill Obama is taking credit for, and I’d like to know on behalf of the Katrina victims on whom he is namedropping what part of their suffering was alleviated by Obama. Because from what I’ve seen, nothing Obama sponsored even made it out of committee, much less passed.
Yes…that’s the kind of reporting I’d love to see from the MSM and not some bored accountant doing a comment on a blog.
Oh, and except where noted, the bills sponsored came in around a month after Katrina hit.
Yes. That’s swift action right there, boy.
JohnTant on January 20, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Most likely the whitehouse.gov job went to the first applicant? No? The uber-prepared transition team didn’t have this planned? A pair of accidents. Distractions.
Nor would he agree with giving Hillary the finger. Or making jokes about Nancy Reagan. Or use ambiguous phrases connecting pigs, lipstick, and Palin.
Spirit of 1776 on January 20, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Everything you said is true. It is a local failure like in Katrina that led to the debacle in New Orleans. If the locals didn’t run but stayed to coordinate. If the Mayor didn’t hesitate to evacuate, if the Governor requested federal assistance sooner. Lives were lost because of the locals. If any of them had done their jobs then FEMA would have provided the assets to work with. The locals were all wrong. New Orleans re-elected the Mayor but Louisiana got rid of the governor. Too Little, Too late.
kanda on January 20, 2009 at 8:19 PM
The thing about the federal response is that it’s not all FEMA.
FEMA is only one player involved. DoD gets involved. HHS gets involved. CDC gets involved (in the case of an epidemic, for example). DOT, FDA, FBI, etc.
FEMA is a small part and if the state request is not properly coordinated, they can be ineffective. The state requests specific help because for the most part, they are billed for the services the feds provide.
Not knowing the specific situation, it could be that the state fumbled the request.
NoDonkey on January 20, 2009 at 8:21 PM
I’m still waiting for Obama’s response to hurricane IKE. You know, the one that destroyed Galveston and all… Oh? you didn’t hear about that one? You mean the press didn’t cover a storm that virtually destroyed a gulf coast city?
Where is Obama? Where is Brad Pitt? Where is the hollyweird telethon to help the people of this TEXAS town rebuild?
I guess Texans just weren’t important enough. Or maybe it’s that Texans are so resourceful that we just don’t NEED government hand outs to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps and rebuild.
the Katrina thing really makes me barf.
pullingmyhairout on January 20, 2009 at 8:21 PM
+1
Disturb the Universe on January 20, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Nice to see we are moving FORWARD with Change where we don’t get petty and partisan…..yeah right…..
what a spoiled arrogant dweeb we just elected…I got $1,000 bucks say he got the crap beat out of him on the school playground…..can you just imagine that skinny little kid with the big ears in Dodgeball…..ahhh I feel better already!
SDarchitect on January 20, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Gawd… little hussein is making Hillary look like the angel of mercy. I would take her over him anyday… and that’s BAD!
Elections have consequences. Question is, will beltway repubs learn? Or do we start a new Conservative Party here and now?
ErinF on January 20, 2009 at 8:22 PM
john tant, I liked your comment so I made a post out of it.
rob verdi on January 20, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Sounds like something Allahpundit would write.
Got a spare-time job you’re not telling us about, AP.
klickink.wordpress.com on January 20, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Watching the ceremony on Fox News this morning, I couldn’t help but notice the camera passed by Mayor Ray Nagin in the crowd a handful of times. I suppose he was coincidentally seated near one of the main cameras, otherwise it was a bit strange how many times his mug appeared on the screen despite the who’s who of other many high profile folks there.
selias on January 20, 2009 at 8:25 PM
You did more research than I did, but my quick scan came up with the same.
INC on January 20, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Just want first responders need. Bureaucrats getting in the middle of it. Don’t these people ever watch disaster movies?
- The Cat
MirCat on January 20, 2009 at 8:27 PM
I don’t recall President Bush using the White House website to slander Clinton like this. I guess this speaks to the maturity of Obama and his liberal friends.
davenp35 on January 20, 2009 at 8:27 PM
thinking every problem they have should be solved by the feds……..
kc8ukw on Jan 20,2009 at 8:15PM.
kc8ukw:Well,with the economy,thats how its going to get
done,the Liberals will spend America straight in
to the ground!
Barack Obama was elected,as the Liberal mindset is
the government,the Feds,and that will be the cure!:)
canopfor on January 20, 2009 at 8:27 PM
At least one per day for the next 4 years. Count on it!
conservnut on January 20, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Wouldn’t put it past ‘em.
klickink.wordpress.com on January 20, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Maybe he just wrote a letter.
bookman on January 20, 2009 at 8:28 PM
No, way more than that. They gotta keep up that BDS to keep getting elected.
ErinF on January 20, 2009 at 8:30 PM
If this had been Bush, it’d already be a storm on the Obama-shills like MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC…
klickink.wordpress.com on January 20, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Thanks, Rob!
And INC…the research took me a total of about 15 minutes on THOMAS. It’s not like the information is hidden or finding it requires some arcane process. Anyone reasonably acquainted with a computer can do the legwork.
That’s probably the most maddening part of this…that proving (or disproving) something so easily checked is apparently beyond the ken or interest of the MSM.
JohnTant on January 20, 2009 at 8:30 PM
A lifetime worth.
beththebaker on January 20, 2009 at 8:30 PM
You know what? At first I thought I could deal with Obama and all. This crap is really starting to piss me off. I don’t blame Obama. He’s got a whole lot to think about other than what’s on the website…
All of this crap comes from the bullet heads he has working for him…I guess you could blame him for that…but it’s just like what the Ohio government did with Joe the Plumber.
I guarantee that cow that did the background check on him didn’t get a call from the Obama camp…she did it all on her own…
If he has any expectation of having anything resembling a decent administration…he really needs to show all of these bullet heads out the door.
BigWyo on January 20, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Considering the actions of our new President’s zealous supporters this afternoon, I am not surprised.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on January 20, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Perhaps our new president can create a wind power program for energy independence using only the hot air of his apologists.
With a gazillion-page background form required for applicants they have left themselves little wiggle room for using the “rogue” element excuse. Even if it was a “rogue” operator – or enough plausible deniability exists for the administration to claim that excuse – doesn’t that mean that the administration doesn’t have control over its own personnel?
Are we going to experience a rerun of the Clinton freshmen year when aides are blamed for unlawfully obtained FBI and IRS files showing up in places they weren’t supposed to be?
This is getting ugly fast, uglier than I had really expected.
bryanmyrick on January 20, 2009 at 8:32 PM
My guess is little hussein will be dealing with a major catastrophe (terrorist related) in the very near future. He won’t be able to vote Present, but no matter what he does, the MSM will say he can do no wrong.
ErinF on January 20, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Damn…I used bullet head twice in one post…
Mebbe I should vent at Ace’s site…I can swear…
BigWyo on January 20, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Maybe,its just the Lefty mentality,
like the picture,of Rahm on Drudges
website,as in ‘Na Na Na,Were in Power’,
so,maybe,its collective as a group!!
And not just an isolated incident,as a
rogue Liberal operative!
————
However, as Kini mentioned yesterday,the
Clinton operatives ka-boshed the White
House computers,ya,maybe just a fluke!!!!
canopfor on January 20, 2009 at 8:33 PM
I predict this will be yet another in a long line of “unprecedented missteps” for the otherwise flawless Obama effort.
Jim Treacher on January 20, 2009 at 8:34 PM
I hate the ugliness factor. However, I think its going to take some serious liberal/marxist ugliness to get Conservatives motivated to a revolution. I just don’t know if the beltway GOP will be so inspired.
ErinF on January 20, 2009 at 8:34 PM
My big take away is that under Bush the site had a link to YOUR government. President Hopey’s site says OUR government. Seems Bush knew he worked for the people and Hopey thinks the government is all part of the collective. bah
ihasurnominashun on January 20, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Don’t cut him any slack. Keep making a fuss. He’ll act like he knew nothing as he is wont to do (Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, et al.), but he’ll toss the Kos Kid who worked on the web page under the bus.
Disturb the Universe on January 20, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Ya notice he never went there. He’s all talk and do nothing but pass the blame. Nagin his colored buddy was Solly responsible for Katrina.
Oh yes the Dem. bitch governor also.
Poor “O” Dumbo he can never erase his white 1/2. Boo Hoo.
He should be thankful his daughters have some white in them instead of looking like his wife.
Rick007 on January 20, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Was he in the dinghy with Sean Penn?
18-1 on January 20, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Fundamentally, the class of people Republican leaders come from are inherently unlikely to be fighters. As more and more of the “elite” joins the left, the remaining conservative elites get more and more used to finding ways to get along with their cocktail party buddies.
One of the things we on the right really have to do is find a way to change the way our leaders are selected. When Romney is the most conservative of our choices of the “major candidates” we have a problem.
18-1 on January 20, 2009 at 8:39 PM
All I know is that after looking at what Obama sponsored, I have a disturbingly clear picture of his priorities when it comes to helping after a disaster.
And since I’m not poor, don’t use the EIC, have no special needs, etc…I’m pretty much figuring that I’ll be relegated to the very end of any federal agency’s efforts to rescue my family in the case of a severe disaster since they’ll be using criteria based on political correctness to allocate resources. So I guess I’m doubling up on emergency provisions and such.
Swell.
JohnTant on January 20, 2009 at 8:40 PM
New Orleans
My wife and I took a trip to NO in April of 1996. It was not bad.
We went back just a few months before Katrina. It was a big difference.
It was dirty, stinky and the people were rude, crude and we actually
cut the trip short. Katrina was a storm. A storm that the people knew
was coming. The mayor & governor of Louisiana were derelict in their
duty to their own citizens. They neither asked for or requested Federal
help before the storm. People were told to leave. There were thousands
of cars destroyed. Don’t tell me the owners of those cars could not have driven even 20 miles away to get out of ground zero. The people stuck were victims. Some were stupid & uninformed but for the most part they were lazy.
The Federal government finally stepped in to save the inept leaders of NO.
They had no plans and no idea of what to do. This is the new society Obama wants to nanny. Stupid, lazy people who will wait for a limo ride to safety. Was it Bush’s fault that a large part of the population took advantage of the situation and robbed, looted & burned stores and business’s to the ground?
Look at the last hurricanes in NO and in Galveston. Both handled by the governers in each state. The Feds are there to support them but it is a states responsibilty to protect property & life.
Obama is setting up America for an epic failure. People will get the idea that they will be “taken care of” and won’t use personal responsibility when making decisions because the Feds will take over the responsibility of thinking for them.
So, the next hurricane, flood, fire, earthquake should see an uptick in the numbers of lives lost because people will think Obama can save them.
izoneguy on January 20, 2009 at 8:40 PM
This……..
……….. is just day #1.
It will be up to brilliant commenter’s like the kind we have here at HotAir to keep this Administration some what honest………
………….. we don’t really react kindly to the re-writing of history, and we know the MSM is just a propaganda machine.
Seven Percent Solution on January 20, 2009 at 8:42 PM
These morons wanted change in the worst way, and by golly they got it.
These are lowest class of refuse ever to inhabit the White House.
drjohn on January 20, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Yes, at least as far as the Agenda section. This is the old change.gov material. It’s not new.
They should’ve prepared better, I think, and not posted this garbage, but it’s old stuff from the previous site.
juliesa on January 20, 2009 at 8:47 PM
True, but for how long. Libs are going to swiftly attempt to stifle what conservative voice there is in America, ala the unfairness doctrine. What then?
ErinF on January 20, 2009 at 8:48 PM
At least we don’t have an arrogant & petty man as President. /s
Pathetic as usual, King Friday.
Dorvillian on January 20, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Spin baby, spin.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on January 20, 2009 at 8:51 PM
So what? With the coming of the utterly private ObaFEMA from the Eternal Campaign $$$, what’s the big deal?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on January 20, 2009 at 8:54 PM
He was already at 75% approval rating from me(I was trying to give him some credit, even though he doesn’t deserve any) and its already slipping. What a day!
crabtree on January 20, 2009 at 8:54 PM
JohnTant
its a great comment
rob verdi on January 20, 2009 at 8:57 PM
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