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Originally Posted by dculkin
If I am following you correctly, you are saying that state and local governments dropped the ball on Katrina. No argument there, but how does their incompetence exonerate the federal government? IIRC, even George Bush said that the federal government screwed the pooch on Katrina. And plenty of people agreed with that assessment. For example: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/13/katrina.congress/index.html
And I just cited Iraq and Katrina as two examples of Bush administration incompetence. It wouldn't take long to assemble a list of other examples: Walter Reed Hospital; being constantly caught by surprise by developments around the world (North Korea, Venezuela, Israel); Medicare Part D; the firing of the US Attorneys; and I'm sure the list would go on and on. |
I don't know what the phrase, "screwed the pooch" means, but I doubt that Bush said that.
the government is a huge enterprise. I have no doubt that with just a bit of patience one could produce a vast list of failures. Vast. this is one of the strongest reasons that I believe in a smaller government. Unlike Bush and other Democrats.
But it is beyond silly to lay them all on Bush directly. Are you always personally responsible for the all official actions of all of your employees?