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"La. Turned Down Feds Help, Documents Show"

This headline had to pain the AP. Excerpt:

A ranking Louisiana health official turned down federal offers to help move or evacuate patients as Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans, a newly released document shows.

But the state’s top medical officer said Louisiana coordinated with the federal Health and Human Services Department in evacuating hospitals and nursing homes after Katrina hit.

Two days before the Aug. 29 storm, HHS was told by the state’s health emergency preparedness director that the help was not needed, according to an e-mail released Monday by a Senate panel investigating the government’s response to Katrina.

The state official, identified in the Aug. 27 e-mail as Dr. Roseanne Pratts, “responded no, that they do not require anything at this time and they would be in touch if and when they needed assistance,” wrote HHS senior policy analyst Erin Fowler.

But in an interview Monday night, Louisiana Medical Director Dr. Jimmy Guidry said HHS was helping state health officials plan for evacuating hospitals and nursing homes by the eve of the storm. The federal department also stayed after Katrina hit to help the state coordinate transportation assets, like ambulances and military vehicles, Guidry said.

“They sent people to help us out,” Guidry said of HHS officials in Louisiana. “They helped us get all those assets lined up.”
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The committee also released a Senate interview of Louisiana Transportation Secretary Johnny Bradberry, during which he told investigators “we have done nothing to fulfill this responsibility” of ensuring evacuation plans are in place for at-risk populations.

The feds asked La. if they needed help. The state said “No.” The state said they did nothing to fulfill their own responsibility.

It’s clear, then…it was all Bush’s fault.

January 31, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Brokeback, horseback, bareback, humpback, whatever…

Hat tip to TNJack for passing this on to me.

January 31, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Godwin’s Law violated…in MN Congress race?

Some of you are familiar with Godwin’s Law. If you’re not, click here for a full explanation. There now appears to be a “Godwin’s candidate”, and she’s a Democrat. More:

As the Democratic Party continues its slide into disrepute, there doesn’t seem to be any bottom in sight. Here is the latest smear from the Dems: candidate Coleen Rowley has published a despicable slander of my own Congressman and friend, John Kline, depicting him as a Nazi. Click to enlarge: link

In a sane world, the pathetic Ms. Rowley would be forced to resign from the race in humiliation. That won’t happen, however, as this kind of ridiculous smear is exactly what the Democratic Party is looking for in its candidates. The more outrageous, the better.

Congressman Kline was a Marine, and here you have a Democrat replacing (via Photoshop) his USMC uniform with a Nazi uniform. I wonder if Dick Durbin is Rowley’s web designer?

In case you’re keeping tabs, the left’s rationale goes something like this: former soldiers who poormouth the U.S. military and its efforts (such as John Murtha or John F’ing Kerry) are “patriots”, while former soldiers who do not poormouth our the military and its efforts are Nazis. Thanks for clearing that up for us, libs.

Can we question their patriotism yet?

January 31, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment