{"id":33224,"date":"2013-01-09T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33224"},"modified":"2013-01-09T07:08:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:08:34","slug":"heckuva-job-baracky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33224","title":{"rendered":"Heckuva Job, Baracky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katrina was bad.<\/p>\n<p>Sandy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/337101\/sandy-katrina-and-pro-government-party-mona-charen\">was, in many ways, worse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Six days after Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, President Bush\u2019s presidency had been declared a failure and a disgrace. It was all FEMA\u2019s fault, we were given to understand, and, by extension, Bush\u2019s fault. It wasn\u2019t the incompetence of local and state officials, or the levee collapse (a failure, by the way, that impartial observers lay at the feet of another government agency going back years, the Army Corps of Engineers). No, within a few days of the storm\u2019s impact, Bush was an enemy of the people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Compare and contrast:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Six days after Sandy hit the East Coast, most of the press had utterly lost interest in the human toll, though thousands of people went without food, water, gasoline, or electricity for the better part of two weeks. The Washington Times reported two weeks after Sandy, \u201cBodies are still being recovered in Staten Island. Chaos reigns in the streets of the outer boroughs. Residents have taken up arms \u2014 baseball bats, machetes, shotguns \u2014 as crime and looting soar.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All they lacked was a Superdome. \u00a0And Anderson Cooper to trumpet the rumor mill to a gullible nation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It took three days for the Red Cross to reach Staten Island \u2014 ditto for FEMA. For those without power or water, that\u2019s a very long time. What happened to the \u201clean forward\u201d strategy FEMA had supposedly put in place? What became of the prepositioning of supplies like water and blankets? Prepackaged meals and bottled water languished in Georgia and Maryland warehouses, reported Breitbart.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s simple; after election day, the <del>photo op<\/del> disaster was no longer of use to the narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katrina was bad. Sandy was, in many ways, worse. Six days after Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, President Bush\u2019s presidency had been declared a failure and a disgrace. It was all FEMA\u2019s fault, we were given to understand, and, by extension, Bush\u2019s fault. It wasn\u2019t the incompetence of local and state officials, or the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33232,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33224\/revisions\/33232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}