His blog is called “Right Wing Nut House,” just so you know where he’s coming from:
Thanks for linking my timeline.
Your analysis is correct. The timeline highlights what federal officials – and state and local leaders also – said they were doing in response to the disaster. Why there was a Grand-Canyon-like chasm between what they said and what actually arrived is for whatever blue ribbon Commission or Congressional inquiry to decide.
Unless one is willing to posit the notion that the feds were simply lying through their teeth and had no intention of assisting those desperate, hungry people stranded in New Orleans then one must assume that what they said they were going to do, they had every intention of doing. Hence, the nature of the timeline.
If one were to do a proper timeline of events, then it would have been appropriate to include the dog that didn’t bark items. Maybe one could even slip in Condi’s shopping spree or Bush’s guitar strumming photo-op. But that was not my intent.
And if I left the impression of absolving the President of any “blame” then let me make it a little clearer. Anyone who would hire as Director of FEMA a Michael Brown has made a ghastly, unconscionable mistake. Bush wouldn’t be the first President to make a mistake of such magnitude nor will he be the last. I suspect when all is said and done, the American people will make the appropriate judgement and the Republican party will suffer for their leader’s shortsightedness at the polls.
A fair assessment, I’d say.
The Dish 