CNN: FEMA became a dumping ground for all of the president's cronys

[Pithy Cherub]

Jack Cafferty

Staffed with political hacks - I think i just fainted!

[swimboy]

1. Truth to power!

[Pithy Cherub]

13. Proflie in Courage: Jack Cafferty

That was an amazing piece and I have to see it again!

[MSgt213]

2. Jack is going off again!!! Wolf is scared.

[malaise]

3. hahaahaha

That was good.

[Melodybe]

9. Damn big kick, wow! Rock my world Jack!

[MSgt213]

12. How come Wolf is incapable of engaging Jack on any level when Jack

gets his hair up?

[Bluebear]

4. Read about the Newark airport security czar!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4673102

[karlrschneider]

5. Give 'em hell, Jack!

;-)
Um, he did...

[Misunderestimator]

6. Jack's going to end up being my favorite conservative.

His veil has been lifted... it seems.

[donco6]

7. Wow! Of course it only took 10,000 dead to get it on air.

But at least it's out. We need a FULL house cleaning at FEMA immediately!

[malaise]

16. FEMA sent 25,000 body bags

Sadly it won't be 10,000 dead.

[donco6]

17. That's if we ever know.

FEMA may decide we need to be "protected" from that news, too.

[Matariki]

19. FEMA isn't the problem

the bush administration gutting FEMA and giving appointments to unqualified political suck-asses is the problem.

the house cleaning needs to be on the bush administration.

[donco6]

20. FEMA as an org is a good idea,

and has done a lot of good things IN THE PAST. But with the leadership in place now - they're not worth a plug nickel.

If it were me, I'd get in there and dig down until I found that person who'd been with FEMA for years, the type who knows how things are done, but who has never been in charge because of the political appointee nature of his higher-ups. I'd meet with him/her and put them in charge.

[JPZenger]

8. Makes Sense - Politics Ran Florida Hurricane Efforst in 04

This makes sense that people from Bush's election campaigns were appointed to high positions in FEMA. Some people believe the reason why Bush won Florida in 04 was because so many billions of Federal money was thrown at Florida after the hurricanes. There are plenty of news stories in the Florida newspapers about how large amounts of Federal aid was distributed to areas that were not even hit by the hurricanes.

[NYC]

21. Aid distributed with wanton disregard for need.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4692017

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. Bush has filled the government with freepers

whose only qualifications are that they hate everyone who isn't white, rich and pseudo christian.

[barbaraann]

11. They have a lot of free time between disasters.

I wonder how they spend that time. Preparing for future disasters? Politicking for the GOP? Enjoying time with Jeff Gannon? Volunteering in the inner cities?

[w8liftinglady]

14. We Really need to inundate Cafferty with praise...

CNN needs to know he is a valuable asset-this will prevent them from censoring or firing him later.
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[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. I'm more certain than ever that Hitler isn't the apt comparison for

the Bushboy.

George W. Bush is much more like Ferdinand Marcos in his cronyism, corruption, and lack of regard for human rights.

Many of you may not know that in the early 1960s, South Korea and the Philippines were both considered Third World countries, just beginning to industrialize. I knew people who went to Korea as Peace Corps workers.

At that time, the Philippines had Ferdinand Marcos, and Korea had Park Chung Hee. Both were dictators, but with a difference. Marcos was completely in it for the money, while Park, for all his brutality, had the Confucian notion of the emperor working for the good of the people. Where Marcos padded his own Swiss bank account and those of his cronies, Park invested in education and infrastructure and kept a tight leash on multinational corporations.

Now, forty years later, the Philippines is still poor, and South Korea is an industrialized country with a very high living standard.

Yes, the U.S. now has its own Ferdinand Marcos.

[KittyWampus]

18. I prefer the comparison to Soviet Union. The Irony Is An Added Bonus