{"id":22896,"date":"2005-09-09T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:45:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T06:45:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:45:20","slug":"fema_has_always_been_bureaucracy_on_parade2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2005\/09\/09\/fema_has_always_been_bureaucracy_on_parade2\/","title":{"rendered":"FEMA Has Always Been Bureaucracy on Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: Here\u2019s a little bit of a story. This is from the Charleston, South Carolina Post and Courier. &#8220;FEMA Again Plays the Villain to Some Across Lowcountry; Hard feelings toward agency stirred up as residents watch familiar response. &#8212; Hurricane Katrina is leaving one more big black blotch on the reputation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, vilified in the Lowcountry since Hurricane Hugo and frustrating residents as recently as Hurricane Gaston last year. The nation has watched in horror as New Orleans has descended into lawlessness and despair in the wake of Katrina. By most accounts, armed looters now roam the streets, while tens of thousands of thirsty and tired refugees wait in filthy conditions for transportation out of the flooded city&#8230; Katrina is worse than what Charleston saw after Hugo, where FEMA\u2019s response also trailed local efforts. Critics say the FEMA response for the new storm is just as slow as it was for Gaston last year. Local residents and officials watch it with reactions that range from disappointment to disgust. <\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/fema_has_always_been_bureaucracy_on_parade.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"174\" class=\"alignright\"\/> &#8220;U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings, now retired, used his political muscle to move military support instead behind [the mayor\u2019s] efforts. &#8216;To me, it\u2019s a reminder that our country can do much better,\u2019 said Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, who led Charleston\u2019s response to Hugo in 1989. After Hugo devastated the counties around Charleston, local officials pleaded for emergency help and were told by agency officials strapped for money and personnel to apply through the governor. U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings, now retired, used his political muscle to move military support instead behind [the mayor\u2019s] efforts.&#8221; So the whole point of this, is Mrs. Clinton is out there trying to say that FEMA under her husband\u2019s administration or anybody else\u2019s was this smooth-running, well-running, well-oiled machine, and it never has been. It\u2019s a federal bureaucracy, and to the extent that red tape is the problem here because bureaucracies are way too big. But don\u2019t fall for this notion that FEMA has always acted first. They\u2019re not a first responder anyway, but the idea that FEMA has been a well-oiled machine up until Mike Brown and George Bush got hold of it, and don\u2019t forget that it was the Democrats who wanted FEMA to be part of Homeland Security in the first place. It was the Democrats that wanted to build a new bureaucracy and move FEMA into it after 9\/11 happened. So they\u2019re getting away here with rewriting history, because their allies in the mainstream press are simply an echo chamber for what they are saying. So many misconceptions and so many lies, actually, are being passed off as truth. Linda in Selma, Alabama, I\u2019m glad you called. Welcome to the program.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Hello?<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Yeah. Hi, Linda. We got real phone problems here, folks. You\u2019ll have to pardon.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: That\u2019s alright. We have problems here, too.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: How are you, Linda?<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>CALLER: Well, we\u2019re doing fine, Rush. We\u2019re independent truckers and we\u2019re down here in Selena, Alabama with a load of water for the flood victims. It\u2019s a FEMA load. And we have been jerked around since last night. We were first to Meridian Naval Air Station and sat there all night until about 5:30 this morning we finally got through the gate. And they sent us from there over to Selma, Alabama and &#8212;<\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/fema_has_always_been_bureaucracy_on_parade.Par.0007.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignright\"\/> RUSH: Now, wait. Wait, wait, wait just a second. You\u2019re using &#8220;they.&#8221; You say it\u2019s a FEMA load. So FEMA has given you the water, but who is it that\u2019s making you play jigsaw puzzle here?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: It\u2019s FEMA. That\u2019s who we report to at Meridian Naval Air Station. That\u2019s who was running the show there. And they are here in Selma, Alabama, and you have never seen such a disaster in your life, a bureaucratic nightmare. There\u2019s probably 400, maybe more, trucks sitting here, loaded, and nowhere to go.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: This sounds like the fiasco we\u2019ve heard. The mayor put out a call for all these firemen from around the country. So the firemen said, &#8220;Oh, yeah, we\u2019ll heed the call, answer the call.&#8221; They go down there and they find out they were going to use firemen to pass out pamphlets telling people where to go to get what. So many of the firemen said, &#8220;I didn\u2019t come down here to pass out pamphlets.&#8221; So, hey, folks, this is bureaucracy on parade. Here you go. Bim, bam, thank you, ma\u2019am, and, you know, the big government crowd is out there saying we need even bigger government to make this more efficient. 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This is from the Charleston, South Carolina Post and Courier. &#8220;FEMA Again Plays the Villain to Some Across Lowcountry; Hard feelings toward agency stirred up as residents watch familiar response. &#8212; Hurricane Katrina is leaving one more big black blotch on the reputation of the Federal Emergency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FEMA Has Always Been Bureaucracy on Parade - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2005\/09\/09\/fema_has_always_been_bureaucracy_on_parade2\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"FEMA Has Always Been Bureaucracy on Parade - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Here\u2019s a little bit of a story. 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