The double standard

Gunz wrote:This is the first thing the dems started with after Katrina. Bush isnt there,where is bush...blah blah blah. Well, lets hear it now.

2seaoat wrote:Really?

A tropical storm which barely made a cat 1 needs a presidential response......I think having FEMA doing their job is more important than someone landing at the airport saying what a great job "Brownie" is doing. Mitt is looking for a photo op.......and let him take that with Bobby Jindhal.........the third leg of the wimp triangle with Eric Cantor and Ryan who is going to run a sub 10 second 100 meter after he has thrown the shot 40 meters.........Bobby Jindhal gives me nothing but confidence......he just takes a room and holds your attention......and the cubs are only a few games out of the playoffs. Ike, Barry, and even Nixon were not these new Metro sexual momma boys......when did the Republican Party become the home of the wimp? People may not have liked John McCain, or even Newt, but they were tough and pragmatic and could lead.....Bobby Jindhal.......no wonder the President does not want to go to LA......he would stand next to Jindhal......and people would scratch their chin.....you know the president plays a soft basketball game......not too many people want to be on the same stage as Jindal after that stirring Republican response a few years ago......we have lost our fricking mind......where are the main street Republicans who allowed the wimps to take over the party.

2seaoat wrote:Tell me who went to Nashville a couple of years ago when they got wiped out.......nobody......and I will be damned......they took care of their own mess. People were stripping drywall down to the studs within 48 hours and they kicked ass without a president showing up for a photo op. The thing that matters is the FEMA loans and grants which need to get to people quick. The rest of it is more of that big warm and fuzzy governmental security blanket.........which now you insist Papa tucks our silly butts in.....nonsense. Next, thing you are going to want is the President picking out what toilet paper you have at the fire station..........You know......the President needs to cover your butts, read you a nursery story.......mother goose will do.......and tuck your helpless butt into the cozy wraps of government security blanket......newsflash.....bad things happen.....FEMA when it is not crippled by political appointees actually does a good job.....and the President spending his time changing your toliet paper or tucking you in at night......well.....I guess I do not work for the government, so maybe I just do not understand.

2seaoat wrote:Bush did not screw up NO. The governor did. The mayor did. Brownie did.


The president maybe said some things which the news media jumped on, but the people who died.....that blood was on the mayor and governor, and a pitiful FEMA response because of a political appointee.....Bush was not the mayor or the governor. I threw things at the TV every time I heard that governor started talking. She killed people.

2seaoat wrote:I lost just about everything in two floods, and the last thing I wanted was a photo op with the president. The first flood the County failed to properly get the county declared a disaster area, and the governor never did declare the same, and we were not eligible for SBA loans to replace everything which was lost, and the second time I personally got a phone call from the emergency director that this time he made the proper application to the governor to have the county declared a disaster area, and we were able to get a 41k loan from SBA for the loss, but the first flood we lost over 200k, and if you asked me if I wanted to see the president, or a competent emergency director for the county........I will take the director properly declaring a disaster area, and allowing SBA loans where things had been wiped out. One of our business interests was simply devastated by the flood.

We have been in three historic floods since 1996, and it took us 20 years to pay off the SBA loans from 1996, and we still have not fully recovered from the 2008 flood where just like NO the local officials simply dropped the ball. I can say from first hand experience that an efficient and responsive FEMA makes flood victims happy, and a bunch of politicians taking a tour and a photo op makes most people simply angry. After three days of shoveling mud, tearing out drywall, and realizing how screwed you are.....the last thing you want are politicians.

2seaoat wrote:Bush did not screw up NO. The governor did. The mayor did. Brownie did.


The president maybe said some things which the news media jumped on, but the people who died.....that blood was on the mayor and governor, and a pitiful FEMA response because of a political appointee.....Bush was not the mayor or the governor. I threw things at the TV every time I heard that governor started talking. She killed people.

Joanimaroni wrote:

2seaoat wrote:Bush did not screw up NO. The governor did. The mayor did. Brownie did.


The president maybe said some things which the news media jumped on, but the people who died.....that blood was on the mayor and governor, and a pitiful FEMA response because of a political appointee.....Bush was not the mayor or the governor. I threw things at the TV every time I heard that governor started talking. She killed people.

....that did not stop the whiny butts on our local forums from jumping all over Bush and blaming him.

Floridatexan wrote:

Joanimaroni wrote:

2seaoat wrote:Bush did not screw up NO. The governor did. The mayor did. Brownie did.


The president maybe said some things which the news media jumped on, but the people who died.....that blood was on the mayor and governor, and a pitiful FEMA response because of a political appointee.....Bush was not the mayor or the governor. I threw things at the TV every time I heard that governor started talking. She killed people.

....that did not stop the whiny butts on our local forums from jumping all over Bush and blaming him.

That's because W's FEMA director was a political appointee, just like all the rest of the "Bush team". Bush also cut funding for the levees that may have prevented the massive flooding. Then, if you'll recall, it was several days before FEMA did anything to relieve the destruction, and many people died because of it. I'm not saying the mayor and the governor weren't responsible. But Bush's entire terms of office constituted one big lie.