From the comments:
you didn't get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.
My response:
You people must think that George Bush is omniscient. I guess you believe that if Obama or Kerry had be President that they could have made the storm turn and hit some place else. The head of NOAA told the mayor of New Orleans that Katrina was going hit the area at a level 4, possibly a level 5 and recommended that evacuations begin very soon. The dunderhead who is still that mayor (should be in jail) declined the advice and 1,500 people died in New Orleans. Unlike Governor Perry (TX - Rep) who ordered the implementation of existing evacuation plans of Houston and Galveston as Hurricane Rita approached, the New Orleans mayor and LA Governor Blanco (LA -Dem) didn't initiate the Congressionally ordered (and available) evacuation plan for New Orleans and southern LA as Katrina approached. I’d say the responsibility lies at the feet of the Mayor Nagin (Dem), much more so than the Bush Administration.
And I have noted that none of you left-wingers ever really took Pres. Obama to task as the Gulf oil spill disaster was taking place. The Governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, tried several times to get the Feds to act, to do something to help out, and was met with resistance at almost every turn. Where was the outrage in the MSM over this lack of inaction? It was only later, once the damage couldn't be ignored any longer, that the MSM finally started asking a few tough questions.
Has Obama done anything to help those that he has put out of a job with his lack of action during the spill and the moratorium on drilling in the Gulf? I know the moratorium has been lifted by the courts a couple of times, but the damage was done with the drilling rigs moving to other parts of the world. At least the Bush administration tried to help out the folks who lost their jobs or were displaced due to Katrina. As someone who is currently looking for work I have submitted my resume to several locations. Almost every time I submit my resume I am asked if I am a Katrina refugee. But have never been asked if I am looking for work because I lost my job due to the events in the Gulf and the inaction of the current administration.
And before any of you start blaming Bush for the lack of oversight of the Gulf rigs, please dig a little deeper. You will note this oversight problem extends back even before the Bush Administration. The issue of possible corruption or just plain laziness shouldn't just be laid on Bush. Could he be blamed for the lack of effort to make changes in the agency charged with oversight of this part of the economy? I would have to give a tepid “yes”. But so could previous administrations, and Obama’s administration.
Lastly, you hardly ever hear about holding responsible the company that designed and built the blowout preventer value. I do recall (can’t find though) reading during the first few days of the event that there was little need to worry, this value was designed to shut off in case of an event just like what happened. It obviously did not work as intended. Was it a design flaw? Was it safety checked and passed when it shouldn’t have been? And since this piece was under 5,000 feet of water could it be the function testing systems were flawed, giving incorrect readings with no real way to check the accuracy of the function test system?
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