I’ve argued here before about how Republican incompetence is simply used as an excuse to claim that goverment is incompetent, and we should elect more Republicans who will try to simply reduce the cost of an incompetent and worthless goverment. In other words, Republican incompetence rewards Republicans.
I made a point of singling out FEMA as an example of this in action. And never has this example been more prescient than with the release of the Senate Investigation into Katrina.
The bipartisan investigation into one of the worst natural disasters in the nation’s history singled out President Bush and the White House as appearing indifferent to the devastation until two days after the storm hit.
It said the Homeland Security Department either misunderstood federal disaster plans or refused to follow them. And it said New Orleans for years had neglected to prepare for large-scale emergencies.
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The senators concluded that only by abolishing the Federal Emergency Management Agency — which Sen. Susan Collins (news, bio, voting record), R-Maine, called a “bumbling bureaucracy” — and replacing it with a stronger authority could the government best respond to future catastrophes.
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Lieberman, in an addendum, took sharper aim at Bush, who he said appeared distracted from the disaster as it unfolded. “The president is, after all, the commander in chief — not only in terms of international crises, but in terms of catastrophes here at home,” he said.
So let’s see, it’s blatantly obvious that the problem with FEMA is that Bush doesn’t care and a moron is in charge. This is so blatantly obvious that even Lieberman is willing to say Bush is to blame (although Lieberman’s willingness to say this may have something to do with this guy). So the solution is to… reorganize the “bumbling” beauracracy. Because we sure as hell aren’t going to hold any bumbling beauracrats accountable. We wouldn’t want to fix the problem because then people might think “hey, maybe the goverment can do something for me!” And we can’t have that- because once they think the goverment can do something, they start thinking the goverment should do something. Which takes precious money away from what the goverment should be doing- giving money to rich people and companies.
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