Some strange political irony...
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Right after Hurricane Katrina, former Bush security advisor Richard Clarke wrote a short essay in The Atlantic magazine about the response of FEMA during natural disasters. In the essay, he wrote it like it an "imagine" piece describing how FEMA should work in a huge disaster making the reader think of how much better it could have been in the Gulf after Hurricane Katrina if FEMA had reacted better. Then he dropped the bombshell - he pointed out that what he described did happen previously by FEMA, but when it did it was under Bush 1 and in Florida during a huge hurricane (I think it was Hurricane Andrew). The irony is how here again the use of FEMA has been important. Not only that, the Republicans are getting a slap for fighting the signs of climate change and ignoring them and also for forgetting the advantage (and right) response of a good FEMA reaction.
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Right after Hurricane Katrina, former Bush security advisor Richard Clarke wrote a short essay in The Atlantic magazine about the response of FEMA during natural disasters. In the essay, he wrote it like it an "imagine" piece describing how FEMA should work in a huge disaster making the reader think of how much better it could have been in the Gulf after Hurricane Katrina if FEMA had reacted better. Then he dropped the bombshell - he pointed out that what he described did happen previously by FEMA, but when it did it was under Bush 1 and in Florida during a huge hurricane (I think it was Hurricane Andrew). The irony is how here again the use of FEMA has been important. Not only that, the Republicans are getting a slap for fighting the signs of climate change and ignoring them and also for forgetting the advantage (and right) response of a good FEMA reaction.
