Once things calm down a bit, I agree with what Hillary wants to do - provided it doesn't focus solely on the federal government.
I'm sick of the finger-pointing at Bush. The media and the liberals have taken a tragedy and turned it into a political issue. The people who have not done their jobs correctly (N.O. mayor, Louisiana governor, and apparently the FEMA director) are slinging blame at Bush, and they are getting patted on the back for doing so.
I'm not calling for people to BLAME these people either, but the old addage definitely rings true - when you point your finger at someone you have 3 pointing back at you.
Edited to add: Just found this blogpost at Michelle Malkin. It looks like someone has already been investigating. Hillary could save the government a whole lot of money by looking into investigations such as this one, rather than calling for a Katrina Commission. Of course, we all know that her main goal in a commission is to discredit anyone remotely related to President Bush, so she can increase her chances of election in a few years.... ;-)
"It has become increasingly evident that our nation was not prepared," Clinton (D-N.Y.) said in a letter to Bush asking him to set up a "Katrina Commission."So is she saying that the federal government and not the states/cities should be responsible for all of the evacuation plans in the country? The federal government should just barrel in and take over when some sort of natural disaster occurs?
"The slow pace of relief efforts in the face of a mounting death toll ... seems to confirm that our ability to respond to cataclysmic disasters has not been adequately addressed," she said.
I'm sick of the finger-pointing at Bush. The media and the liberals have taken a tragedy and turned it into a political issue. The people who have not done their jobs correctly (N.O. mayor, Louisiana governor, and apparently the FEMA director) are slinging blame at Bush, and they are getting patted on the back for doing so.
I'm not calling for people to BLAME these people either, but the old addage definitely rings true - when you point your finger at someone you have 3 pointing back at you.
Edited to add: Just found this blogpost at Michelle Malkin. It looks like someone has already been investigating. Hillary could save the government a whole lot of money by looking into investigations such as this one, rather than calling for a Katrina Commission. Of course, we all know that her main goal in a commission is to discredit anyone remotely related to President Bush, so she can increase her chances of election in a few years.... ;-)
