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The serious stuff: More than 40 people have died in an ice storm that ran from the midwest, down to Texas and Arkansas and out to the east coast.
FEMA was a no show days after the storm. Local responders are tired, frayed, but optimistic.
“I’m not saying we can’t handle it,” Smith said. “We’re handling it. But it sure would have made life a lot easier.” ~ Randell Smith, Kentucky Emergency Management Director
Had this been another administration, one might assume that Kentucky, where 11 people have died due to storm-related incidents, was being punished for its general political views and skin color. One might hear reckless and awful accusations that the good people of Kentucky – a state full of white people who voted against The Obama – were being left in the disaster area without help because of the President's barely concealed racism.
That is, after all, what Progressives said about Bush and Katrina.
The Obama agrees. On the new White House website, He boldly proclaims,
"He [The Obama] and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur.”
Verily.
Defending her agency, FEMA spokeswoman Mary Hudak noted, "We have plenty of folks ready to go, but there are some limitations with roads closed and icy conditions."
A likely story. After all, if FEMA could be expected to amass huge numbers of responders all the way to the south end of Louisiana in the face of a hurricane while the roads that weren't under water or collapsing from erosion were choked with hundreds of thousands of motorists trying to flee north, it's ludicrous to assert FEMA couldn't slap on some chains and make it into West Virginia.
Unless, of course, the expectations we were given by Progressives during the Bush administration were silly, malicious and fraudulent.
And reckless, too, since they set up people for expectations and dependency that will not be fulfilled in a time of urgency. (Playing with people's lives to score political points? Nice new era you got there.)
Oddly, the Progressive Media can't be found screaming at the top of their lungs in one voice about the injustice of it all, or The Obama's incompetency in handling a national crisis. A failed Presidency in the first month. That takes some doing.
In some ways, silence is better than hysteria: there are no reports of rural Arkansas boys eating one another, running around in gang-rape brigades at the local shelter, or looting for food and bottled water.
Also, despite all reasonable assumptions to the contrary, seemingly none of the Obamaborgs who pledged to help their Great Man make a better, more collective world (with other people's money) have managed to show up to help.
Perhaps if there was a photo opportunity - if the storm had been consigned to a football stadium in Denver or the Washington Mall - we'd see more.
h/t The Sundries Shack, who coined the headline.
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