Katrina happened in three stages:

1) Pre-landfall preparations.

Days before landfall, state governors in Katrina’s projected path officially request federal disaster assistance. BushCo/DHS/FEMA respond, designating and deploying FEMA federal disaster coordinators to Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, to help state and local officials. Michael Brown, head of FEMA under DHS chief Michael Chertoff, initially coordinates the federal response, placing MEDEVAC helicopter teams, along with other federal personnel and materials, outside Katrina’s projected path, ready to rush to aid any U.S. citizens once Katrina makes landfall and weakens while moving inland.

Federal disaster relief assets are in place. Katrina hits. The Gulf Coast is devastated along many stretches, but casualties are minimal due to evacuations. Everything is going according to plan.

2) New Orleans’ levees breached, flooding NO and stranding a whole lot of U.S. citizens on rooftops.

This is when things went horribly wrong…on purpose. BushCo saw an opportunity to score political points against Democrats in Louisiana, especially Gov. Blanco (D) and NO Mayor Nagin (D).

Thus, on the morning after the NO levees were breached, Republicans began a smear campaign against Blanco and Nagin, causing the phone lines at FEMA’s disaster relief command center in Baton Rouge to be inundated with calls from reporters demanding to know what Blanco and Nagin were doing to rescue people stranded on rooftops in the flooded NO.

At the same time, BushCo (higher-ups at DHS and in the Bush White House) started blocking FEMA’s attempt to rush aid to NO. FEMA’s federal disaster relief coordinator in Baton Rouge reportedly expressed frustration the day after NO flooded that his orders sending federal aid to NO were being countermanded, with supplies and personnel either being stopped or redirected elsewhere from NO.

But you see, BushCo’s smear campaign wouldn’t have been as effective if pre-positioned FEMA assets had made an appearance in NO, with helicopters either rescuing people from rooftops or ferrying food and water to those thousands of U.S. citizens holed up at the NO Super Dome.

In other words, BushCo intentionally limited government assistance to NO on purpose.

But there’s more. BushCo (DHS-head Chertoff and top BushCo officials) also blocked attempts by anyone else trying to reach NO and help our fellow citizens there. (Brown at FEMA had been bypassed by this time just like the FEMA coordinator in Baton Rouge).

“Good Samaritan” boaters, several hundred, headed to NO to navigate the flooded city and rescue people from rooftops. They were turned away.

Truckers carrying much-needed ice were redirected elsewhere.

Air Force helicopter pilots, flying a resupply mission to an AFB outside NO, helped pluck people from rooftops until they ran low on fuel and had to return to their Pensacola FL airbase. They were severely reprimanded upon their return (Pentagon chain of command so Donald Rumsfeld was involved).

When looked at as a whole, everything that happened in NO after it flooded happened on purpose, as part of a BushCo scheme to smear Louisiana’s Democratic leaders, in BushCo hopes of Louisiana voters dumping Democrats for Republicans in post-Katrina elections.

And then there’s the matter of BushCo trying, during the week following the flooding of NO, to force Gov. Blanco to federalize Louisiana, turning over control of her state’s security and national guard units to BushCo. This is another reason why BushCo purposefully withheld federal disaster relief assets from NO.

BushCo wanted control of security (for Blackwater). Gov. Blanco refused repeatedly to cede to their demands, with the final confrontation being on Air Force One at the end of the week, face-to-face with Bush. Gov. Blanco, in the meantime, had placed urgent requests to other state governors for any of their state’s national guard units (and equipment) that they could spare (that wasn’t deployed over in Iraq). One year later, BushCo got the Republican-controlled Congress to pass a law giving BushCo the ability to federalize any state’s security during a disaster, as declared by BushCo, bypassing completely the governor of any state.

3) The months (and years) after Katrina along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Most (if not all) of the federal/taxpayer money allocated by Congress for Gulf Coast recovery and reconstruction has gone to Republican supporters of BushCo.

Do formaldehyde-laced trailers ring a bell? Provided by, via no-bid contracts, Republican-owned trailer manufacturers in the Midwest, far from the hurricane-affected states?

Republican-owned construction companies out of Florida, who in most cases took taxpayer money and ran, or at least did sub-standard work…to improve their profit margin.

The waste has been enormous, just like over in Iraq. Republican fraud is rampant, just like over in Iraq. And BushCo (along with their conservative lapdogs in Congress) have been negligent in either providing oversight or accountability. Go figure.

But don’t the let the word “incompetence” fool you, when discussing all that BushCo has done over the past eight years. Everything that they’ve done has been done on purpose, with a clearly evil intent. The limited government assistance to the dead and dying in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, purposefully done by BushCo, is just one nefarious example.

It is possible for government to function. We just need to elect governors who can function.

And the whole “limitations of government assistance” only flies until a similar tragic event is actually handled with the due foresight, response and follow-through. Then this guy will look like a complete tool still claiming that it’s not possible to do so.

Right Keltoi?

Does this murderous sociopath really think the public will fall for this more of the same con?

“There’s an interesting lesson about Katrina and the limitations of the Bush administration to respond to big natural disasters,” Langdale said.

There.

They must have his bedroom mic’d, and are recording what he says in his sleep.

“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States…”
– George W. Bush, January, 2001

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face! It’s just a god-damned piece of paper!”
– George W. Bush, November, 2005

No, I really don’t think so. No. Not ever.

This got to be joke.

Yeah, Bush and his cronies are laughing all the way to the bank. At us.

This got to be joke. The clown President can rewrite history or be smarter than a 5th grader when reading My Pet Goat for all I care. The way that Bush crawled from out of the sewer pipe to steal both Presidency, lie to the American people, and destroyed this country and the world financially, mentality, and emotionally, is the same way that he will crawl back into come January 20th. The American people and the world know what the Criminal-in-chief did. Nothing will change that.