CNN Poll: What Level of Governement is MOST responsible?

[FreeCajun]

On the Front Page... Currently

43% Federal, 18% State, 16% Local, 23% All of the Above


http://www.cnn.com/


And just in case, you want to answer the blame game LIES pointing at Blanco and Nagin, read this post at DailyKos:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/7/03232/64789

We asked for backup WELL before Katrina hit! Where the HELL were they at?

Thankfully high and dry,
FreeCajun

[freemen2005]

1. One would think, the entire gov. not just bits and pieces.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. Bullshit! The mayors and governors have no authority to evacuate

to other states or beyond their city borders where the residents would be safe. They were faced with totally inadequate resources and funding DECREASED by the SHRUB administration.

FEMA and BUSH didn't give a flying fuck about the poor left behind so THEY JUST LET THEM DIE. That's the alpha and omega of it.

[Lerkfish]

18. no, apparently YOU would think that....

Bush signed an order putting it directly under FEMA control BEFORE the hurricane struck.

get thee behind me! you fool no one.

65 posts in one day! busy, busy newbie.

welcome to DU!

[blonndee]

2. Done. 43% fed.

[iconoclastic cat]

3. That's actually an reading skills test, because all you have to is read

the DHS site to see that it is the Federal Gov't that is responsible.

[klook]

4. Done

Federal - 43% 10151 votes

State - 18% 4305 votes

Local - 16% 3727 votes

They're all equally responsible - 23% 5515 votes

Total: 23698 votes

[kenny blankenship]

5. What is the point of the poll--blind ppl to W's STATUTORY responsibility?

This is not a matter of opinion or polling...
We have a Department of Homeland Security. We have FEMA.
BY LAW the Federal Emergency Management Agency is authorized and mandated to MANAGE EMERGENCIES.

They fucked up HUGELY, and our whore media is too stupid or too GOP-compliant to point out the plain facts.

A state of emergency was declared BEFORE the hurricane made landfall. The declaration was received and echoed by the Bush Administration. They FAILED to do anything to prepare for disaster.
They FAILED to manage this emergency.
They FAILED to 'secure the homeland'.

They failed utterly in the first and most important task of ANY government--to protect lives and civil order.

[shance]

7. Federal Government is too generalized - no one is then accountable.

THE WHITE HOUSE IS RESPONSIBLE.

[whistle]

8. Done....

Which level of government is most responsible for the slow response to Hurricane Katrina?

Federal 43% 10151 votes

State 18% 4305 votes

Local 16% 3727 votes

They're all equally responsible 23% 5515 votes

Total: 23698 votes

I said Federal because I watched Katrina from when it began in the waters below the Bahamas and as it slid across South Florida as a cateegory #1 and then gained strength as along the Florida Keys. Katrina had disaster imprinted all over it and the National Hurican Center was plotting a path straight to New Orleans and the Gulft Coast. None of the Federal Authorities seemed to be paying attention, even though the Gulf Coast towns and municipalities and major cities were all asking for help. The federal disaster prevention agencies should have been there to prevent the disasters on human life.

[Jon8503]

9. Voted. N/T.

[mnhtnbb]

10. Federal 43%

[HR_Pufnstuf]

11. About time, they did it right.

Yesterday, they combined State/Local and split the Feds between Bush and FEMA, in the last poll.

Manipulate this.

[dave502d]

12. Done.

Which level of government is most responsible for the slow response to Hurricane Katrina?

Federal 44% 21597 votes

State 18% 8888 votes

Local 16% 7754 votes

They're all equally responsible 23% 11312 votes
Total: 49551 votes

[dzika]

13. done

[Blue_In_AK]

14. Done

Federal 44% 21597 votes

State 18% 8888 votes

Local 16% 7754 votes

They're all equally responsible 23% 11312 votes
Total: 49551 votes

[Douglas Carpenter]

15. done and kick and recommended

[Zodiak]

16. This poll is for us

It is actually a liberal-bias poll. Practically every Democrat thinks it is the primary responsibility of the Feds, and so we all get to vote on the same box.

The Repubs think it is state and local, and they have TWO boxes to choose from. Split votes. Now they know what it feels like!

Finally, centrists would tend to attribute responsibility across the board, so they click the last one.

In the end, the Democratic opinion gets the highest percentage.

Boy, it isn't often I see a poll that is worded to piss off freepers.

44-16-18-22 when I voted. Over 55,000 votes

[cry baby]

17. 44% feds...23%both

[nookiemonster]

19. Done.

n/t

[Fluffdaddy]

20. Done

[Lochloosa]

21. 44% Federal

Which level of government is most responsible for the slow response to Hurricane Katrina?

Federal 44% 28262 votes

State 18% 11579 votes

Local 16% 10141 votes

They're all equally responsible 23% 14662 votes
Total: 64644 votes

[NNadir]

22. Jeanne-like, confused think isn't it?

That BAMM model looks scary. It doesn't seem anyone has any clue about what it's going to do.

[kenny blankenship]

23. Maybe they should rename it--

Hamlet?

[glugglug]

30. not really

The BAMM model could hit Melbourne and Cape Canaveral hard, but those are not so heavily populated. By the time it got to Tampa and into the gulf it would be weaker than the everyday thunderstorms.

[highplainsdem]

24. Done. Now 45% Federal

[MidnightWind]

25. Bump!

Bump it high!

[WiseButAngrySara]

26. Here;'s another one AOL...ask which individuals are to blame,and also

a seaprate question about national, state or local. The only person I scored excellent was Blanco.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4701773&mesg_id=4701773

[oasis]

27. 170,0771 votes. Feds 45%,state 18%,local 16% and all 22%

[usregimechange]

28. kick

[Be Brave]

29. kick