Can we still blame Bush??Follow

Ice storms suck, even up here in New England where we have it, some people were out of power almost a week (or more) after the last one hit up here.

However, if say, we weren't in Iraq, Kentucky would certainly have a lot more National Guardsman to help out, wouldn't they?

I think his point is that FEMA's ******* aren't the sitting president's fault.

My boy scout troop was pretty damn organised, by the way, so you can go **** your own face.

Personally, I'm still blaming Bush Sr. for sh*t.

FEMA was restructured and placed under the control of a whole new government department (Homeland Security) under Bush. We also saw the installment of Michael Brown, a completely unqualified hack, as the director of FEMA. I think it's fair to suggest that Bush's actions had something to do with its failings during that period.

Google flagged everything, even Google, as malware for me for about ten minutes, then it stopped.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/31/AR2009013100798.html

Edited, Jan 31st 2009 11:51am by Kavekk

Well, yeah. So now we've agreed that I'm an adult and you're an idiot. Governor Daniels chose not to call for federal disaster aid. So, um... write him a sternly worded letter or something.

As for Kentucky and Arkansas (the only two states to fully declare an emergency, Missouri just requested aid on a limited basis), there's something like 32,000+ square miles of largely rural area to cover judging from my eyeballing of the FEMA maps. Not that I think New Orleans is any great comparison, but the entire city is 350 sq miles or approximately 1/90th the size of the current federal disaster area.

I'm not defending Obama or anything with this -- like I said, he's been on the job for ten days now and any problems in FEMA have been established through years.

Edited, Jan 31st 2009 12:30pm by Jophiel