The big heroes of the 9/11 commission are busy flapping their gums about the response to Katrina:
Anyone watching that storm knew it was going to affect Florida, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana," said Lee Hamilton, a former Democratic congressman from Indiana. "This is not a disaster for the mayor of New Orleans to deal with."
"It was a disappointing response," said Thomas Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey.
"It was obvious nobody knew who was in charge," Kean said. "There was no unified command structure ... the mayor is saying one thing, the governor says another. The president is in the state, and the governor learns about it on TV."
Buncha fooking Monday morning quarterbacks. these guys. It's driving them crazy that they're not in the spotlight anymore so they have to go spouting off - look at me! look at me! I was on the 9/11 Commission! I've got opinions, too!
We don't have to listen to you guys — you were the 9/11 Commission, not the Katrina Commission, and there's not going to be one of those, so stick it in your piehole, ya has-beens!
"A number of our recommendations were in the area of emergency preparedness. Had they been executed, the death toll would have been lower," Hamilton said.
Oh, my, and if you'd been a better politician you woulda been president and you could've handled the crisis and lowered the "death toll," moron. Instead you're over there stroking your 9/11 Commission report that no one even read anyway, just like all these other "reports" and "research" that are always going on. No one reads that crap — it's just to prop up the economy.
You should be kissing George W. Bush's left testicle that you were even considered relevant enough to be on a 9/11 Commission that was completely ignored, because at least it said 9/11 on it and everyone knows that was important so you get to have a little importance rub off on you even though no one knows who the fook you are and couldn't give three little dingleberries.
9/11 is so over. It's Katrina time, baby! And you're not invited.
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Article comments
1 - Joanie
Blunderford, while you bring up some valid points (points I agree with on the whole), it's hard to get people to understand where you're coming from when you paint with such an angry and frustrated brush.
Look, I lost a friend and mentor to Katrina. I'm tired of the posturing in D.C. and across the country. But, our anger and frustration only serve to alienate those who might be persuaded by reasonable discussion.
I've done my crying. I've written my (private) angry screeds. And, I've worked hard to maintain a little decorum and swallow the bile as I encounter those who erroneously quote the rabid Left. Something along the lines of "you catch more flies with sugar than you do vinegar"...
Take a deep breath and count to ten as you exhale. As angry and right as you are, people won't listen to the angry guy shouting from the street corner.