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Originally Posted by trickyy
interesting that you should mention such a thing
adding insult to injury is that fact that we were supposed to learn something about coordinating responses to national disasters after 9/11
now that we again look back at the mistakes (systemic and otherwise), is anything going to change for the better? what happens next time? i don't want to change the subject here, but i'm worried that we are once again passing laws, adding positions, and changing org charts, but essentially aren't making any useful improvements.
back on bush, i thought he did accept responsibility a few days after the hurricane. i'm not excusing his statements in the original post...and regardless of what he said, i really hope we don't have another catastrophe for a long time. i don't know if we can handle it.
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if, or when, we do have another disaster, this incident has been machined so that people don't expect much from the feds. Now, I am not going to go so far as to say that bush deliberately refused to respond, hid the fact that he refused to respond by claiming that no one knew he should have, in order to demonstrate what his political party already thinks about the federal government in general. but it certainly, conveniently, meshes with his supporters'
a priori belief that the federal government is bloated, unresponsive, and incapable of responding to these types of things, on the basis that it
did not. so whether it's intentional or not, it certainly feeds into his political platform to reduce the feds on some things while increasing their police powers, which is the most troublesome aspect to me.