I Wasnt Going To Start Fingerpointing But....

I wasnt going to start fingerpointing, and I dont chat very often, but lastnight I went to a Political Chatroom on Yahoo chat. What I found there was shocking. And it wasnt just 1 Political chatroom, it was ALL of them! The blame the Left is throwing at our President is overwhelming. However there were more Republicans there to counter all the mudslinging, but the point is, the left is so hateful of the South and everyone that voted for President Bush, they actually thought Louisiana and the Gulf coast states "Got what was comming to them"!!! I found this extremely disturbing. Making fun of people who had just went through the worst Natural Disaster in this Nations History is just unacceptable. The truth of the matter is every state has its own Governor who runs the state, and a Mayor in every city that runs the city. The President has the authority ONLY to declare Federal and National emergancies. Unless of course we were to be attacked like what happened on 9-11. The state has to declare a "State" of emergancy. President Bush DID declare both "Federal" and "National" emergancy's 2 days before the storm ever hit. Clearing the way and speeding up the process for "Federal" monies to be available, and the National Guard to be available WHEN the Governor of the affected state calls for help. Now the Governor's of Mississippi and Alabama were in touch with the President right away. The Governor of Louisiana thought at first they had dodged a bullet when the storm passed and they werent flooded. But then came the flood. The Governor of Louisiana still didnt call for emergancy aid until this disaster was in epic proportions already. So 1 day already passes without any help getting to the people. President Bush clearly must have been wondering by this point what is going on? So he tours the Louisiana area and decides for himself to send help. The Governor had requested a small amount of National Guard at first because there was no way at the time of knowing the magnitutde of the situation. So the situation keeps getting worse, President Bush takes another tour of ALL the damaged areas, and decides that (He being a Governor himself) Louisiana needs a WHOLE LOT more aid and assistance and National Guard presence than the Governor of Louisiana ever requested. Hence during his tour over the devistation, help started arriving from everywhere. The Ground, Air, and Sea. Then people started getting the help they needed. Now at first I was going to give the Governor of Louisiana (Kathleen Blanco) the benefit of the doubt. And the Mayor of New Orleans (Ray Nagon) the benefit of the doubt also. Until I found out that there was alot more that could have been done by both of them before the storm ever hit. On a yahoo news story I saw yesterday, Drudgereport had it also there were hunderds and hunderds of buses, school buses, other buses sitting in water. They could have been used in the very beginning to evacuate hundreds possibly thousands more people before the flood waters came, and they were never deployed. Yet when there were other buses on thier way he "The Mayor" had ordered them to go get people from the Hyatt hotel and take them to the front of the line at the Superdome and get them evacuated to Houston Texas before the people who had been sitting in filth and sqwaller for days were allowed to leave. He let his buddies cut in the front of the line. This came from a man who was on a talk radio show and demanded "Someone get off your asses and do something". Why didnt he do something? Why did "Blanco" wait so long to call for the small amount of help she requested, and turn it into a bigger amount of help she actually needed? I do blame these 2 for not thinking the worst is about to come and we need to do something about this NOW!! When 9-11 happened I saw Rudy Juliani and Governor Pataki right out on the front lines with thier people comforting them, and rolling up thier sleeves to get a handle on the situation. I havent seen this yet from the Mayor of New Orleans, and The Governor of Louisiana. And the left has the balls to blame President Bush for a slow response? Note: I havent heard the Governor's of Mississippi, and Alabama blame our President for a slow response! The ball was in Louisiana's court and they blew it. Not to mention when 80% of the state of Louisiana is under water, coordinating an effort of this magnitude and having it arrive in 4 days is not bad at all. But the thing that gets me the most is most of the help needed could have been sent earlier had the Governor and the Mayor whom I'm sure have had drills on this shit, got off THIER ASSES earlier!!! And thank GOD we have a President who knew he wasnt being told something and went and found out for himself, and got help in thier faster than the Governor or the Mayor ever would have.
God Bless You President Bush!!!
And if you dont believe me, go to any Politics Lobby chatroom on Yahoo and hear and see for yourself how the Lunatic Left Liberals are cheapening themselves more and more over this event.
I intend to copy and paste this post and mail it to every single Senator, Congressman, and Representative, so if there is an investigation, and I hope there is, they will start at the right place, right in the Heart of the Big Easy!!!