After the Blame And Hand Ringing What Next?
What will he Mayor of New Orleans tell his grandchildren? Will he explain how he could have dispatched city busses and school busses to evacuate at least the near downtown areas before the hurricane hit? What can he say about not having an effective evacuation plan for the city? What can he say about having several days advanced warnings of the severity of the coming storm? If I were the Mayor of New Orleans, I’d kiss any plans for a political future goodbye.
The new Governor of Louisiana doesn’t come off looking much better. On Friday, the federal government took charge of relief efforts after the city and the state failed. I have a plan for Louisiana Politicians, Put them in a pit of hungry alligators if they survive they get confirmed. Otherwise, send the bodies to the Left Coast where timidity is the norm.
President Bush will take the brunt of the heat for the missteps in preparing for, during and after in this disaster. The president is the least responsible. Administrations spend billions of dollars creating programs and selecting the right people to administer the various departments. Department secretaries require conformation by congress. This ball was dropped many times before Katrina came rolling ashore. Presidents operate on trust in their cabinet and department heads most of the time. One man can’t be on top of everything in government all the time. Still when things go wrong presidents are blamed as if it were a personal thing. Men who run for president know the drill and accept the challenge, perhaps hoping they’ll be the exception. This country’s divided between conservative and liberal. That was not the intent of the founding fathers. The founding fathers were meticulous in crafting a government that would assure no one man or one party would be able to over rule others. Congressional politics has become a battle of the [wits,] half on one side of the isle and half on the other side. The constitution has been so perverted it’s doubtful Thomas Jefferson would recognize his own writings.
This perversion has played in to the hands of opportunist who are intent on seeing their agenda prevail. It’s as though they wait in anticipation of catastrophic incidents to occur just to give them a political edge. Perhaps this devastation will show their colors. It took the United States Military to come to the rescue they operate on orders, why were their orders delayed. Was it fear of ridicule, was it incompetence, was it politics. Whatever it was someone has a lot to account for and it’s not President Bush.
The disaster in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast should have followed a well laid out plan, the first line should have been the City government taking action, it wasn’t they waited for someone else to take charge. The second line should have been the State government of Louisiana, it waited for someone else to take charge. FEMA and the rest of the federal government waited for the two afore mentioned responsible parties to tell them what they needed, they didn’t. All those who didn’t do what they were employed do want to play the blame game. It’s all Bush’s fault. I believe an intelligent concerned America will see through the hype. The public wants action not words.
If I were President Bush, after the water recedes and the sky’s clear, I’d warm up that pit of alligators and toss a whole messed up bunch of bureaucrats in it. The Katrina Hurricane disaster is government incompetence at it absolute worst, from local, state, and federal government agencies. There needs to be accountability for both bureaucrats and elected office holders. If not what will the next catastrophic incident, bring. If we learn anything from Katrina We learned we need a new director of Homeland Security. We learned homeland security is more than harassing little old ladies in airports. It’s more than attending meetings and making speeches. It’s about accepting responsibility and performance.
Who will protect the rebuilding funds the federal government shells out for rebuilding New Orleans from corrupt Louisiana politicians? Will FEMA require accountability or just throw money around as they have in the past. Should the media get out front tracking privileged contracts or wait and blame it on Bush? There’s a great deal congress can do aside from sending out absentee voter ballots with self-aggrandizing literature included.
It’s time to set politics aside and work for the restoration of those victims lives in our nations worst recorded disaster. My check’s in the mail is yours?
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