Spinning -- and Dropping -- the Plates Posted by Michael Signer

A follow-on to Suzanne's post... the NYT reports that even President Bush's friends in Saudi Arabia are experiencing the heaves when they watch Iraq convulsing:

"There is no dynamic now pulling the nation together," he said in a meeting with reporters at the Saudi Embassy here. "All the dynamics are pulling the country apart." He said he was so concerned that he was carrying this message "to everyone who will listen" in the Bush administration.

Taking off my partisan hat for a second, I'm truly concerned that the Administration's colossal f-ups in Katrina are going to distract them even more from managing the situation in Iraq well.  From Byron Dorgan's Democratic Policy Committee, a series of over 50 tough questions.  The following 10 are just for starters:

1)     Why did DHS Secretary Chertoff delay the full federal disaster response according to the National Response Plan?
2)     What caused a breakdown in coordination between federal, state, and local government entities? 
3)     Why did the Department of Homeland Security wait so long to request evacuation help from airlines?
4)     Why has Secretary Chertoff refused to take charge of disaster relief efforts? 
5)     Did the Department of Homeland Security have in place a response plan for dealing with Category 4 and 5 hurricanes?
6)     When did DHS receive warnings about FEMA's deteriorating capabilities, and how did it respond? 
7)     Why was DHS Secretary Chertoff unaware that the levees had been breached until a full day later? 
8)     Why did former FEMA Director Brown fail to send personnel to the scene until days after the hurricane hit?
9)     Why did former FEMA Director Brown divert much-needed disaster response personnel to conduct public relations?
10)   Why did FEMA issue a press release urging all fire and emergency response departments not to respond to counties and states affected by Hurricane Katrina unless requested and lawfully dispatched by state or local authorities?

It goes on and on... like, really on and on.

Even with Rove's nimble fingers, I just don't know how they keep all these plates spinning -- which means the country suffers, not just the Republican Party.

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