...I thought that statement from Bush was unconscionable. It sounded more like the "run all day on and sleep all night on 911" clueless frat boy talking.
That's not me, or most of us here, I suppose.
YDogg...that sentiment should be a journal all to itself.
To quote an old R & B shaker: We "get up offa that thing, and work 'til it gets better."
The entire country was moving to act.
That day, I was running a forum with over 6 million hits a year which was devoted to the victims of violent crime. I jumped online to organize our forum and set up two rescue funding efforts.
One was for money to support the needs of the workers at Ground Zero.
And our other effort came about because, having grown up rasing and training beagles at our family kennel, search and rescue dogs are close to my heart. That one was to buy
"Muttluks" from Canada for the rescue dogs at Ground Zero.
S&R teams were litterally working their hands and paws to the bone. Neither dog nor handler would rest for nearly a day or so at a time...or until injury stopped them.
Muttluks were the only product to save pet and paw out at the time.
The Muttluks people got the boots we and others bought (along with their own donated thousands) to the dogs. Dogs that didn't want to quit...couldn't be drug away from the rescue efforts. Dogs that were working so hard that they literally shredded their paws in the glass and gravel of the WTC within 48 hours.
The instant shipping, while no planes were flying, was a near miracle. An overnight delivery company that had clearance to cross the border into the US from Canada volunteered to pickup and deliver the Muttluks to NYC.
Later on, we collected books for soldiers in-country and at the medical base in Germany.
If 911 didn't clue most people in, then Katrina absolutely should have turned on some wattage in even the dimmest bulb that this administration had, in it's coup, created a new country.
BushCo: Out with "America." In with "You're-On-Your-Ownistan."
(Props to the DUer that coined that phrase.)
It's a good thing we're all "can do" people.
Even the dogs worked until exhaustion in the aftermath of 911.
But there's no excuse for the pResiden's non-action during all and any crisis. Bloody frat-boy.