There were roughly 83,000 Guard personell available to KS from its neighboring states through something called EMAC. The Emergency Assistance Management Compact which allows Governors to cross level assets in time of emergency. The Guard is just one facet available per this agreement. It includes assets from several other state and federal agencies. No EMAC requests were placed. None were needed. The state’s Adjutant General was confident his resources were adequate for the job.

The 1st Guard assets in place – a Civil Support Team – was in place 6 hours after the tornado went through.

The soldiers caught looting were active duty soldiers from nearby Ft Riley, not KS National Guard.

Yes, even LTG Blum, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau has said that Guard equipment has been depleted by overseas efforts. He has even managed to secure funding for its replacement seperately from the active component’s military funding. Regardless, the governor’s existing assets in KS and those available from neighbors are currently more than adequate to deal with her existing problem.

The kneejerk “don’t believe the White House at any cost” mindset is counterproductive. learn to put things in perspective/context and don’t trust that all the soundbites you hear are the complete story.

You have all been duped.

Again.

Bob

Our tax dollars? I guess you’re not counting the 52% of adults in this nation who don’t pay a cent in income taxes.

Perhaps we should sell all our roads, schools, and the Veterans Administration to for profit compnaies do they can jack the cost of everything on us?

When the government of a nation is run by WE THE PEOPLE, what you are saying is that people should ignore the troubles of their neighbor. Luckily for you and the rest of us, we the people have decided that we will not do the business of government in that fashion.

Comment by Crump’s Brother — May 7, 2007 @ 12:57 pm

It amazes me, with the blundering of government spending, that people still think that private industry will actually raise the cost of things. The cost of private-industry goods falls continuously while improving in quality, whereas government budgets increase continuously without any real advancement. However, the fact that the tax codes aren’t transparent makes liberals believe that these things “paid for by the government” are free to them.

Lack of reliance upon government should not cause a turning of backs upon one’s neighbors, unless, of course, you believe that the government should take care of it all so that you don’t have to. Remember the Tsunamis in the Pacific? U.S. PRIVATE SECTOR aid far outweighed contributions by any nation on the planet.

If the state of Kansas can’t manage something small like this without crying about Daddy Bush, I think they need a new governor.

Someone like Haley Barbour perhaps, after his splendid performance after Katrina.

Common denominator? Stupid female democratic Governors.

They were given authorization for the use of lethal force on American citizens as per their rules of engagement, and proceeded with a general disarmament of legal gun owners. Does the term right-wing paramilitary come to mind?

The diminution of the National Guard through prolonged Iraq War deployments opens up endless opportunities for mercenaries to provide a “market solution” to the problem of manpower shortages in domestic disasters. It wouldn’t surprise me to hear about a Blackwater facility opening up in Dodge next week.

Blackwater is in the process of establishing a base in the Portrero Valley, CA with Schwartzenegger’s full support. Futuristic?

The official interviewed in that story said that Kansas can call on other states for help effectively giving it 400,000 Guardsmen, but that no one has asked for help yet.

Not that they need help from other states since it’s only a town of 1500 that was affected.

Comment by Partisan and Proud — May 7, 2007

Sure, and Custer was sure he had a winning battle plan for Little Big Horn, an apt comparison considering the slaughter perpetrated upon the GOP by the electorate in November 2006

But hey, you keep telling yourself that it’s you, not the overwhelming majority of the US public thoroughly sick of W’s policies, who’s closer to US public opinion regarding Iraq, and push that meme as hard as possible, seeing as how it was so successful for Karl Rove the last time he tried the “Dems=Terrorists” bs, November 2006

Good luck to you, lil’ trooper, you’re going to need more than a towel or umbrella, as if the US is still bogged down in Iraq come November 2008, the 2006 anti-GOP tidal wave will look like a light sprinkle compared to the 2008 elections

I wouldn’t go nuts over 2008.

Comment by Partisan and Proud — May 7, 2007 @ 2:27 pm

Of course you wouldn’t you are going down. We have heard all of your useless rhetoric here verbatim from trolls who are much better than you are and they were wrong to.

Good luck fu*k head.

“The minority leader of the Kansas house is Dennis McKinney, a much-admired conservative Democrat who represents the heavily Republican constituency that includes Greensburg. Until 9:45 last Friday night, McKinney had a house in town, and when the storm hit, he had been in it. I asked him about the miracle of the cleared roads. “We got help,” he told me over an intermittent cell connection. “We live in an area where most of the towns are small, but most of them have volunteer EMT units and volunteer firefighters. After the storm, within minutes, we had several fire companies here, and then more came. We had a huge response from the surrounding communities — all well-trained volunteers. And we have a lot of pick-ups! One of the things about living out here is we all have four-wheel-drive pickups. So for example a few of us cleared my road right away — cut up a tree that was across the road, hooked a chain to it and dragged it away with the pick-up. We just helped each other.” On Main Street and out on the highway, the people who only minutes earlier had been residents of a small Kansas town had been joined by others and together they all spent the whole night hard at work on a dark and unsheltered plain.” (Denis Boyles, 5/7/07)