Republicans in Full Cover Up Mode after Katrina

[Red Harvest]

Looks like the Republican response to Katrina is now kicking into high gear, if only the Administration's emergency response had been as energetic.

The House and Senate Republicans got together to start a bicameral, but not bipartisan investigation of the Katrina response. The Democratic members learned of it from the media. Looks like we can kiss our hopes of an independent commission good-bye. This is being done as a cover up, not an investigation. GOP political organs (like FOX ) and its leadership have been pulling out all stops to blame the poor Federal response on Louisiana.

Watched FOX spinning on the Astrodome this morning..."lockdown" was used. Comment about how "some who probably don't need (or was it deserve?) the promised money" etc. Several other efforts of distortion in the few minutes I watched.

The day before I watched some blond twit on FOX saying how it was unbelievable that several hundred cops were unaccounted for and could we imagine if that had happened in New York? She said she "understood" (???) but it was just amazing. She seems to have not "understood" all the obvious differences:
1. New York officers homes were not demolished for the most part (like 70% of New Orleans police.)
2. New York officer's families were not evacuated or needing evacuation for the most part. Some with large families had to leave with their family.
3. New York had onlly limited/temporary communications damage compared to New Orleans. And they still had power, they still had sewer, they still had transportation.
4. There was a lot of help arriving in New York within 72 hours of the attack. There was almost no relief for those New Orleans officers.

Now we have certain conservative members on the board trying to blame this on a welfare state. Of course they will say that about any poor region because it us unlikely to be a GOP stronghold due to demographics. Easier to blame the victims than face the problem. Is this what you want? A govt. that only responds to disaster in GOP leaning areas? Stupid me, I thought this was supposed to be a govt. by the people, for the people. Not by the GOP, for the GOP.

Doesn't matter what kind of state it was, the truth is that the main emergency response by our Federal govt. couldn't respond within 5 days of the first major warning. That is unacceptable and it merits independent investigation, as do the state and local responses. Anything else is a cover up.

P.S. FEMA still does not have its housing vouchers worked out. They are a week late now.