Showing posts with label Louisiana flooding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Louisiana flooding. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

The Staggering Hypocrisy Of A Despised Duffer

Via The Advocate—Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said the president spent 20 minutes with him discussing the severity of the flood and traveled to a disaster recovery center to meet with local volunteers.

Later he spent 20 minutes in a closed meeting with families of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man who was killed in an altercation with police on July 5, and officers slain and wounded in a convenience store attack less than two weeks later.

The Advocate originally criticized the president for not ending his vacation in Martha's Vineyard immediately to visit the region. There has been bipartisan criticism for being too slow to visit the state.

One Denham Springs resident slammed the president saying, "There ain't nothing he can do for us that Louisiana ain't done for ourselves.  I've got no help from the federal government. I ain't asking for help from the government. Baby, let me tell you my community has come through."
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Friday, August 19, 2016

Ain’t No Community Organizer Got Time For That!

On Thursday, Homeland Security Director Jeh Johnson took heat from reporters in a news conference in flood-ravaged Louisiana.

Responding to criticism that President Obama has not interrupted his summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Johnson said several times, "The president can't be everywhere."

Johnson also said The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer "has a very busy schedule this fall and in the coming days,"

"There's been a lot of criticism about President Obama not visiting Louisiana. Will you be recommending that he come to Louisiana and visit?" a reporter asked Johnson.

“Well, of course the president can't be everywhere. I can tell you that the president has been closely monitoring the situation here in Louisiana. He made the federal (disaster) declaration in a matter of hours—it was expedited, we're up to 20 parishes now.”

“I will be briefing him on what I see here and what the status of our recovery and response efforts are...So the president is closely monitoring the situation, through his cabinet, through his FEMA administrator, and is very much on top of it.”

The reporter again asked if Johnson would recommend that Obama visit:

"As I said, the president can't be everywhere. I know he has a very busy schedule this fall and in the coming days, and uh, he is closely monitoring the situation. When you are the chief executive of the entire U.S. government, you can't be everywhere, uh, including places you would like to be. Uh, but through me and through (FEMA Director) Craig Fugate, I know he is very much on top of this situation.”

Another reporter noted that Wednesday's briefing from the White House press pool began with the announcement that the president was playing a round of golf: "And you sit there and say twice the president can't be everywhere. The people of Louisiana are dying. How hard is it for you, as the Homeland Security director, for you to have your updates going to the president on the golf course?”

"Well, as I said, he is very much on top of the situation, and I know that he is aware of the level of federal assistance that can be provided and is being provided, and I'll be briefing him myself right after this visit,” Johnson responded.

When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, President George W. Bush was excoriated by Democrats and the media for taking a helicopter tour of the flooded city instead of getting a ground-level view.

Donald Trump visited Louisiana today and helped to hand out supplies to flood victims.

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