{"id":1283,"date":"2008-09-18T21:17:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T01:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2008-09-18T21:17:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T01:17:54","slug":"mere-gross-incompetence-is-not-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"Mere Gross Incompetence is not news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we are all concentrating on the coming Depression, an echo of times passed goes virtually unnoticed. While FEMA&#8217;s response to Ike is not the total disaster that was its response to Katrina, it has hardly reached genuine &#8220;heckuva job&#8221; levels. FEMA has avoided failure in some areas by essentially outsourcing its responsibilities to the states, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/print?id=5828158\">such as by refusing to provide critically needed ice<\/a> ; it has failed to organize distribution centers,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swamppolitics.com\/news\/politics\/blog\/2008\/09\/fema_bashed_for_hurricane_ike.html\">and has been roundly criticized for other aspects of its responses<\/a>, and it has kept <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woai.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?content_id=9836fa79-90b0-4bd4-80ba-de0c0d366b61\">truckers parked in their trucks for days, waiting to deliver supplies<\/a>. Were this any other Administration the barely competent response to the hurricane would be news, but expectations are now so low that anything short of a complete disaster barely registers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we are all concentrating on the coming Depression, an echo of times passed goes virtually unnoticed. While FEMA&#8217;s response to Ike is not the total disaster that was its response to Katrina, it has hardly reached genuine &#8220;heckuva job&#8221; levels. FEMA has avoided failure in some areas by essentially outsourcing its responsibilities to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}