How's that for a simple phrase to sum up the 1600 Crew and its political appointees over at FEMA? This is some of the most interesting reading of the day...
Born out of the confused and uncertain response to 9/11, the massive new Department of Homeland Security was charged with being ready the next time, whether the disaster was wrought by nature or terrorists. The department commanded huge resources as it prepared for deadly scenarios from an airborne anthrax attack to a biological attack with plague to a chlorine-tank explosion.
But Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said yesterday that his department had failed to find an adequate model for addressing the "ultra-catastrophe" that resulted when Hurricane Katrina's floodwater breached New Orleans's levees and drowned the city, "as if an atomic bomb had been dropped."
Preznit Fear Everything used and still uses Nine-Eleven as cudgel to bludgeon opponents of his corrupt and dysfunctional administration with every single day. The use of Nine-Eleven and the deaths that it brought have gotten Bunnypants more political mileage that any tragedy has gotten any American Politician before.
Chertoff says that "there was no adequate model" for a fucking hurricane hitting the continental US? The terrorists who struck on 9/11 were the exception, hurricanes have been getting generated out in the equitorial ocean every spring and summer since there have been oceans on this planet. They are a predictable, understandable phenomenon studied by scientists for decades with great accuracy and detail. For Chertoff to make such a claim makes him quite simply, a lying fuck like his boss Beloved Leader, and the director of FEMA.
Unfortunately, as most others have pointed out, both of them will probably get the Medal of Freedom and Bunnypants will head to Crawford for another vacation sometime before the end of September.
You gotta wonder, is there anything that the 1600 Crew won't lie about?
