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Posted by Thad
Via Rachel Maddow, I just leared that FEMA has basically been told to stay the fuck away from Hurricane Ophelia:
In a departure from the prime role FEMA usually plays, a Coast Guard rear admiral will coordinate federal aid.
- Thad
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but what are they going to do with all the duct tape?
Posted by: ol cranky | September 14, 2005 at 07:52 AM
Lower primates do in fact learn from experience, I suppose. Who knew?
Posted by: Bill the cat | September 14, 2005 at 08:56 AM
Isn't this what the Republicans wanted? To render government so inept that people would stop relying on it?
This doesn't strike me as happy or funny at all. At one point, FEMA had resources and expertise that no one else did. Now people have less to help them out.
Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | September 14, 2005 at 09:32 AM
I'm with rob - this is bad news. It's always bad news.
Posted by: eRobin | September 14, 2005 at 11:23 AM
At one point, FEMA had resources and expertise that no one else did. Now people have less to help them out.
Bushies strike again: FEMA has become more of a threat than a promise (I think brother Neil did the same type of damage to protections during the S & L crisis)
Posted by: ol cranky | September 14, 2005 at 12:10 PM
Ol cranky...
Not surprising it seems to be their MO. A close friend was an EPA attorney and a staunch Republican.
When Bush got in they cut the funding for the EPA using their "starve the beast" strategy. If they can't do away with something openly in Congress because its popular, they just cut the funding for it.
My attorney friend eventually resigned in disgust. He told me that he had a list of over thirty corporate polluters that were dumping really toxic waste in to the environment in the state but with no funds to actually mount the case there is nothing that you can do.
De Lay is trying to do this with targeted circuit courts he doesn't like. Congress controls the funding for the courts and has the power to do it. This is coercion of the independent judiciary that the founders designed.
FEMA’s budget has also been hacked to death as well as stuffed with hacks. Is anyone surprised?
Posted by: Flint | September 14, 2005 at 01:34 PM
At least we still *have* the Coast Guard on our side.
Posted by: John M. Burt | September 14, 2005 at 03:46 PM
Isn't a Coast Guard Admiral heading the FEMA effort in NO? Is this the same guy?
Posted by: SamChevre | September 14, 2005 at 04:28 PM