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Friday, February 10, 2006

"it is disengagement"

Representative Thomas M. Davis III, Republican of Virginia, chairman of the special House committee investigating the hurricane response, said the only government agency that performed well was the National Weather Service, which correctly predicted the force of the storm. But no one heeded the message, he said.

"The president is still at his ranch, the vice president is still fly-fishing in Wyoming, the president's chief of staff is in Maine," Mr. Davis said. "In retrospect, don't you think it would have been better to pull together? They should have had better leadership. It is disengagement."

One of the greatest mysteries for both the House and Senate committees has been why it took so long, even after Mr. Bahamonde filed his urgent report on the Monday the storm hit, for federal officials to appreciate that the levee had broken and that New Orleans was flooding.

posted by lequincampe at 10:31 AM

1 Comments:

Blogger R J Keefe said...

It may have been a mystery for the House and for the Senate, but it's no mystery to me. The only corporate sponsors interested in New Orleans are the contractors who might rebuild it.

Fri Feb 10, 03:12:00 PM  

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