One email from an incredibly frustrated FEMA worker, the ONLY FEMA official on the ground in New Orleans at the time when the whole world watched Katrina close in, speaks volumes about this administration.
The Chicago Tribune reports that Marty Bahamonde "had just learned, as he huddled in New Orleans' Superdome with evacuees, that [FEMA Director Michael] Brown's press secretary was fretting about blocking out time for the director to eat dinner at one of Baton Rouge's busy restaurants that night. `OH MY GOD!!!!!!!" Bahamonde messaged the co-worker. `I just ate an MRE- military rations-and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome along with 30,000 other close friends so I understand her concern about busy restaurants."
The FEMA director is worried about dinner while New Orleans drowns. This is simply amazing.
I am reminded again of the president's half-hearted "acceptance" of "responsibility." Have more empty words been spoken? How does one take responsibility without consequences?
As Marty Bahamonde so accurately said, "Oh my God."
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Here's yet another example of how lame FEMA actually still is....the nurse at my kid's school is a Red Cross volunteer who helped in New Orleans for nearly three weeks immediately after Katrina hit. Yesterday, she got her "clearance" papers from FEMA, approving her for assignment.
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