It was probably not entirely clear to anyone, the governor, the president, or the National Guard, just how bad things were on Monday. It's getting to be Friday evening. What was your excuse again? I see no particular reason why the president could not have made a phone call to the Pentagon after the news broke on Tuesday that the levees had broken. Dana On 9/2/05, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Matthew wrote: > > Instead of looking just at the Pres to blame for all of it, you should > > research what the state government was communicating to the Federal Gov > > I agree completely. To be clear, this was a failure of gov't on every > level: city, county, state, and federal. My point is, while I can > understand that maybe the Governor is hamstrung, the President isn't. > He should be able to cut through all of the red tape; that's the > purpose of his executive authority. > > As to "being him", I don't need to be him to see that the NO relief is > a major fek up. If I was him, I'd use executive authority to get > troops and supplies in there fast. He's not chose to do that. > > In defense of that decision, it may be because, in reviewing that > option, his people felt the actual aid would get to people just as > fast by messing with nothing. That is, yes the train started slowly, > but it's almost up to speed. > > However, even if that's the case, he's not doing much good as a > symbolic leader either. I don't hear the, "I'm bringing the full > resources of the US government to bear ... blah blah blah" Instead > he's going to tour and has said the effort is "insufficient". That's > not reassuring when you're starving to death. > >
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