Rove: Bush administration 'fulfilled' its Katrina responsibilities

[Amerigo Vespucci]

The video referenced in the story is at the URL below.

Rove: Bush administration 'fulfilled' its Katrina responsibilities



Don't be surprised if this causes you to spill your coffee. When pundits began to critique the recent speech of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal in an ABC News green room on Sunday, former Bush adviser Karl Rove declared that the federal government met its responsibilities with regard to the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

The following exchange appears on the video below at 2:11.

"With all due respect, the government official who was responsible for managing Katrina under the Stafford Act was the governor of Louisiana and she lost office in large measure due to the poor quality of her performance," Rove quipped.

"I think many thought that Katrina was the bookend to Iraq," The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel said. "That's when millions of Americans, left or right, woke up to the incompetence of an administration that had worked hard to diminish government as a force for good and therefore was able to pinpoint--"

"With all due respect, the federal government's responsibilities were met under Katrina which were to provide the immediate assistance, to pluck people off of the roofs," Rove remarked. "The people in charge with calling the evacuations are the state and local officials."

"The voters have made their judgment," pollster Stan Greenberg interjected.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rove_Bush_administration_fulfilled_its_Katrina_0302.html

[KamaAina]

1. The government officials who were responsible for managing the levees and floodwalls

were the Army Corps(e) of Engineers. Not the state, not the city, the Army Corps(e) of Engineers.

:grr: :banghead: :nuke:

[old mark]

7. The Corps of Engineers recommended the levees be rebuilt/

reinforced several times and financing was turned down by the federal government because it was too expensive, IIRC.

Bush did fly around the area, so I guess he thinks he contributed something, and Jaindl lied about his role in the rescues, so I guess he thought he should have contributed something. FEMA fell asleep, its director went to expensive DC restaurants where he "could not be disturbed" with emergency messages, then posed for photo ops after being advised to remove his jacket and roll up his sleeves to appear as if he was "working".

Karl, I always knew you were an asshole, but I never realized how much of one you really are.

mark

[spanone]

2. bwahahahahahaaa.... now that's funny karl

[Democrats_win]

3. Katrina shows how government investing now can help in the future.

This disaster cost many times the amount that it would have cost to fix the levys in the first place. I remember when conservatives belived in this wisdom. Now conservative wisdom is an oxymoron.

[Soylent Brice]

4. i wonder if we'll hear more of his knee slapping routine from behind bars...

when they get around to arresting him, that is...

[elizfeelinggreat]

5. never forget

We must never forget. Thanks for reminding us.

[gratuitous]

6. The voters rendered their judgment, indeed

Rove is aware of this, naturally. It just hasn't quite become a part of the official Inside Washington narrative, so Rove is free to keep lying about it. Perhaps soon the people who are the prevailing party of the voters' judgment (that's YOU, Harry and Nancy) will begin acting as if they have a mandate from the voters to enact their policies.

[LynneSin]

8. If the "Katrina Responsiblities" was emptying out the minority population of the state

in order to turn it into a solid red state then yes, I guess they did!

[indepat]

9. We can believe everything KKKarl says and what OxyRush and all other RW talking-heads say for that

matter. :P