Now all we need is a fire in the Reichstag

Originally Posted by speculative

People complained about the federal government's response during Katrina, when it was the LA governor that couldn't pull her head out long enough to request assistance from the national guard. This is designed to get around that kind of bureaucratic B.S. in times of emergency.

Still, it's a good idea to examine the fine print when such things are instituted...

You know, I'm not even remotely a conspiracy theorist. Heck, I consider the vast majority of conspiracy theorists to be mentally ill wackjobs. But god damn this makes me wonder if the maybe the entire Katrina recovery disaster wasn't somehow deliberately orchestrated to give the White House an excuse for this.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by simple incompetence and all that, but damned if this doesn't fit in entirely too well with the administration's apparent overall agenda. I could just be giving them too much credit given their track record, but I really do hope I'm just pulling things out of my ass.

Jam it back in, in the dark.