beach bum and cv rick

(from ramblings of a lexington parrot head and cv rick ninja writer respectively) here is yet another article on the state of greensburg kansas, governor sebelius and how it is HER fault a tornado blew through her state and wiped that little town right off the map.

we all know ms sebelius is correct. the response to the disaster not only COULD HAVE been quicker but SHOULD HAVE been quicker. it couldn't be though since many kansas national guard members AND their equipment are in iraq. YET, it's still HER fault.

when we the rest of the united states wake up to the fact we're sinking so low we may NEVER crawl back up to see the light of day

Kansas Tornado Renews Debate on Guard at War

By SUSAN SAULNY and JIM RUTENBERG
Published: May 9, 2007
CHICAGO, May 8 — For months, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas and other governors have warned that their state National Guards are ill-prepared for the next local disaster, be it a tornado a flash flood or a terrorist’s threat, because of large deployments of their soldiers and equipment in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Then, last Friday night, a deadly tornado all but cleared the small town of Greensburg off the Kansas map. With 80 square blocks of the small farming town destroyed, Ms. Sebelius said her fears had come true: The emergency response was too slow, she said, and there was only one reason.
“As you travel around Greensburg, you’ll see that city and county trucks have been destroyed,” Ms. Sebelius, a Democrat, said Monday. “The National Guard is one of our first responders. They don’t have the equipment they need to come in, and it just makes it that much slower.”
For nearly two days after the storm, there was an unmistakable emptiness in Greensburg, a lack of heavy machinery and an army of responders. By Sunday afternoon, more than a day and a half after the tornado, only about half of the Guard troops who would ultimately respond were in place. ...............