Yesterday I wrote an article entitled All The Propoganda Thats Fit to Print, referencing the NY Times coverage of the tornado in Kansas. Today, Investors Business Daily sheds a little more light on the subject:

It’s become a pattern: Democrats blaming President Bush for their own lack of disaster preparedness. Like Blanco in Katrina, Sebelius claims the federal response to the May 6 tornado that leveled the town of Greensburg was slow. She blames Bush’s deployment of Kansas National Guardsmen in Iraq.

“States all over the country are not only missing personnel,” she told CNN, “they don’t have the equipment they need to come in. And it will just make it that much slower.”

Fact is, she had 4,500 guard troops on call for this town of 1,600 if she needed them. She also had offers of help from other states for any resources Kansas asked for.

More than that, Kansas itself is full of resources — like farm equipment, along with private companies and citizen volunteers that can use them as effectively as any military equipment to clean up.

Worse, after Sebelius’ loud complaints, it turned out she hadn’t even asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for help.
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