Limbaugh says it's a "lie" that "federal response to Katrina was botched" -- blames "local Democrats"
January 15, 2010 1:12 pm ET
From the January 15 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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So easy a caveman can do it.
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And it was 3 days after Katrina hit before we had substantive help there either. But that's the problem. The earthquake happened suddenly, without warning. Catagory 3 Katrina struck New Orleans and the Gulf Coast 3 days after NOAA's Hurricane Center predicted that a Category 5 storm could easily have scored a direct hit on the New Orleans area.
Bush and FEMA had 3 days, 72 hours, to get ready for Katrina to hit. They could have had all kinds of support staged in safe areas away from the path of the storm, ready to move in once the storm passed. But they didn't. And so it was 3 days after the storm hit that N.O. got the help they needed.
And that's only part of the federal response to Katrina that was botched. It's a lie to say that it wasn't botched. Limbaugh's the liar.
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18461
Just drop that myth. Gov. Blanco asked Bush to declare a Federal State of Emergency in Louisiana on August 27, Nagin called for the mandatory evacuation of New Orleans on August 28th, and the White House was informed of the levee breeches on the 29th--the day W was doing a birthday cake photo op with McCain and before traveling to California to discuss the benefits of his drug plan with a group of seniors. Bush didn't even get a task force started until the 31st.
Bush himself all but admitted he blew it when he said, "This government will learn the lessons of Hurricane Katrina. We are going to review every action and make necessary changes, so that we are better prepared."
Rush, you didn't admit and still haven't admitted you were, are a junkie, but there is no way out of this fine mess you've gotten yourself into. You pounced on a political oppotunity like a gutter hog thinking you were cute and smart. But you aren't and you are not.
Rush, set yourself free of this stupid talk. I even know some dittoheads who disagree with your stupid statement.
Your ego can take it.
And Rush, once again, those statements of hate and not caring have rubbed some people wrong..please be careful. We need you to help us crush the Repubs in 2010 and 2012.
Hopefully, I wish you the same fate that you wish our President, I hope you fail which will make this a better country.
I must disagree with you on that statement, the people who claim that the relief after katrina was too slow , they don't realize it. Apparently they think that the relief assets should have been brought in before the storm , that way they would have been destroyed also.
"Rush, you didn't admit and still haven't admitted you were, are a junkie"
I was wondering ,maybe you can give me your opinion? Do you think that Rush and Obama got together while they were in Hawaii together and did some blow, to borrow Obama's term? But then I realized that Rush was not a cokehead, but it was Obama that was a cokehead. So in my opinion they probably didn't hook up.
el Fathead wasn't injured at all. The first responders arrived promptly at his mansion in Florida and swiftly delivered him to his Country Club.
Here is some for to ponder.
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18461
That's at the bottom of your precious article. It was modified.
I wonder why?
You fail.
Because your source can be argued, you fail. You presented it as empirical evidence not once, but twice. That is the same as leaning on Ann Coulter for honest debate. It doesn't work that way. Show me other sources that can't be debated as to show that they could have been falsified, as this one was, and we'll talk turkey.
Morons.
This from an administration that claimed the Executive branch has virtually unlimited power in many areas that those claims had never been made before. This same bunch turned around and claimed that this same administration could not "violate" the sovereignty of a state or municipality to rescue people at risk. This would be laughable if it were not so cruel.