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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:09 PM
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Patrick Rhode (deputy director of FEMA).."Little bumps in the road"
Describing the delay in providing assistance.

Words fail! :mad:
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:12 PM
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1. Be patient
There are FEMA "assets" and "boots" on the ground coming for you.

Do these guys get a cheap frisson out of using paramilitary jargon?
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Justitia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:14 PM
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2. All they are doing is defensively covering their asses!
They are doing NOTHING TO HELP NEW ORLEANS.

NO is DOOMED.

Chertoff: 'There are a lot of conditions on what we can do'
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:14 PM
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3. he's incompetent and only got that position because
Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 01:15 PM by Blue_Roses
he was a campaign manager for Bush.

http://www.fema.gov/about/bios/rhode.shtm
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:15 PM
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5. that's the director, this is the assistant director--which probably
means he has less competence
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:19 PM
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6. This guy is a patronage appointment as well
And like his boss, was a Presidential Campaign point man for Dubya.

http://www.fema.gov/pdf/about/bios/biorhode.pdf
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:26 PM
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7. just wait until you find out the director's qualifications:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4552397
my head exploded when I read that, I think
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belladonna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:15 PM
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4. Yeah, and unfortunately
Some of those bumps are the dead people this administration abandoned
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