What was the biggest blunder of the Bush Administration with Katrina?

[Quixote1818]

Here are a few things please feel free to add to the list:

1. Cut funding that could have prepared levies and flood walls for a #5 Hurricane.

2. Dismantling of FEMA and merging it with homeland security.

3. Hiring a green horn from his good old boy network to handle FEMA.

4. Playing golf the day after Katrina hit.

5. Meeting with two girls who looked Black for a staged PR stunt as he turns them toward the camera.

I guess I can forgive him for cutting funding because that kind of thing happens all the time and disasters never hit and no one ever knows what could have happened but I can't forgive him for fucking up FEMA, playing golf as people were drowning and doing fake PR stunts to make himself look good.

[supernova]

1. I vote #2

with #3 a close second.

The rest of them could have been lapses of any admin.

[kansasblue]

2. 2

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. FEMA

Their failure to be there the minute that hurricane was over and the minute New Orleans started flooding is the worst mistake his administration has made. More people died (in just a few days) because of this fuckup than the number of soldiers killed in Iraq.

[bettyellen]

4. refusing or mulling over offers of help for days......

and they packed up the levee repair trucks and the food distribution they staged for the photo op when he left too.
i thought those gals were south african?

[Quixote1818]

7. They may have been. A few people thought they were Hispanic

but I am not sure. Even if they were real victims, the way he turned them toward the camera was disgusting!

[Quixote1818]

19. .

[Spazito]

5. I think a better question is: What did the bush admin do RIGHT

The bandwidth used to answer this would be nil, lol.

[bullimiami]

6. not caring because there was no profit in it.

but there is now.

plenty of contracts will be going out to corporations to rebuild.

[valerief]

8. Number One

Then Number Two and Number Three. The others are just PR things and only affect him, not NO.

[shraby]

9. Being president is his very biggest blunder.

[stilpist]

12. Great minds, eh, shraby?

You beat me by a minute. :toast:

[stilpist]

10. Other

The biggest blunder was not conceding to the elected President Gore in 2000.

I will never forgive him for anything.

- Stil stilpist

[Quixote1818]

14. All I know is that as long as he is in charge NOTHING will be taken

care of the way it should be and I will have zero confidence in the administrations ability's to handle ANY crisis. In fact I EXPECT them to screw up!

[FloridaPat]

11. Starting a war based on lies and using the NG as full-time soldiers.

[KaryninMiami]

13. Here are a few more..

Faked Levee Repair for Bush Photo Op: Senator Mary Landreiu's press release says it all:
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/09/bush-faked-levee-repair-for-photo-op.html

Here's her quote:

"But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th
Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment.


Here's another unforgivable action brought to you by Bush and Company:

Barring the Red Cross from delivering food.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm
By Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

As the National Guard delivered food to the New Orleans convention center yesterday, American Red Cross officials said that federal emergency management authorities would not allow them to do the same.

Other relief agencies say the area is so damaged and dangerous that they doubted they could conduct mass feeding there now.

"The Homeland Security Department has requested and continues to request that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans," said Renita Hosler, spokeswoman for the Red Cross.

"Right now access is controlled by the National Guard and local authorities. We have been at the table every single day . We cannot get into New Orleans against their orders."



I'm sure the list goes on and on. They people should be put in jail-- AFTER they clean up the shit and debris and corpses and go door to door looking for survivors (or victims) with the National Guard...

[KaryninMiami]

15. Allows food delivery to stop because of his visit

(Guess his photo ops were far more important then delivering THREE TONS OF FOOD to starving survivors)...


http://www.nola.com/weblogs/print.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Time...

Three tons of food ready for delivery by air to refugees in St. Bernard Parish and on Algiers Point sat on the Crescent City Connection bridge Friday afternoon as air traffic was halted because of President Bush’s visit to New Orleans, officials said.

The provisions, secured by U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville, and state Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom, baked in the afternoon sun as Bush surveyed damage across southeast Louisiana five days after Katrina made landfall as a Category 4 storm, said Melancon’s chief of staff, Casey O’Shea.

“We had arrangements to airlift food by helicopter to these folks, and now the food is sitting in trucks because they won’t let helicopters fly,” O’Shea said Friday afternoon.

[mcg]

16. 1

[MichiganVote]

17. Um...all of it, right down to the dead senior citizens

[ThomWV]

18. If He Had Cut His Vacation Short BEFORE The Storm

He could have averted much of the blame he well deserves if he had cut his vacation short before the storm hit. At least then he could claim he had done something - as it is now it can be accurately pointed out by anyone that the asswipe continued with his vacation for a half a week after this disaster took place.