Bush said this morning that the response so far was "unacceptable". Good. But yet offered nothing more than vagaries. More about assets and moving them into the area. There were stories yesterday about national guard troops being on seen but playing basketball. These people need leadership. Hands on, concrete deliverables leadership, "You! Go here and clean up that street.", "You! Drive here, pick up these people and drive there."
Update: Have a listen to the Chertof interview I talked about last night. It's amazing. The dude who is in charge of all of this obviously had no clue there were people at the convention center, days into the disaster. The incompetence is appalling. Reporter: "I'm telling you I have a reporter on scene at the convention center witnessing thousands of people starving". Chertoff: "It's dangerous to extrapolate from anecdotal evidence...I have not heard a report about people at the convention center." I was literally screaming at the radio. You could look at CNN yesterday and they had live shots of the convention center hours before this interview. This is ridiculous.
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