This is the guy we've trusted to make America safer? This is the guy who sucked all the money out of FEMA (so the professionals with emergency management experience left the agency), DHS and the Army Corps of Engineers -- and refused time and again to fund the levees. Though New Orleans has long been one of the three most horrendous events we needed to guard against, he took Louisiana's National Guard and sent them off to Iraq. Diverted funds away from the levees. He's a real planner. This is the guy Republicans tell us will protect America from terrorists. If nothing else, his response to Katrina is a microcosm of how he'd behave in another 9/11. It took him (he is the Federal government) 5 days to respond. People died because of his response time. What would he do if the subways of New York City were blown up? I shudder to think of his response. Stan ----- Original Message ----- From: Stan Spiegel To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 12:51 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Red and Blue Marlena: "If this is the treatment a red state gets, imagine if something happens to a blue state." SS: If this is how Bush handles a hurricane with two days notice, imagine how he'd handle a terrorist attack, one that gave us no notice?