{"id":172,"date":"2006-08-23T23:48:53","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T04:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2006\/08\/24\/nancy-and-harry-vs-fema\/"},"modified":"2006-08-24T00:08:40","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T05:08:40","slug":"nancy-and-harry-vs-fema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2006\/08\/23\/nancy-and-harry-vs-fema\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy and Harry vs. FEMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Mercury News, this AP story:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/politics\/15341512.htm\"><p>In a report entitled &#8220;Broken Promises,&#8221; House and Senate Democratic leaders described what they called &#8220;the failed response&#8221; of the administration since the hurricane hit.<\/p>\n<p>Released Wednesday by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her Senate counterpart, Harry Reid, D-Nev., the report asserted that &#8220;thousands of families are still waiting&#8221; for FEMA trailers and that a significant proportion of money that FEMA has spent there &#8220;has been waste, fraud and abuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"citation\"><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/politics\/15341512.htm\">Bush: Katrina recovery will take time<\/a> &#8211; Associated Press<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>How, exactly, are they differentiating their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagw.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2006\">own waste<\/a> from the &#8220;waste, fraud, and abuse&#8221; they&#8217;re laying at FEMA&#8217;s feet?<\/p>\n<p>This seems like a very dangerous game that they&#8217;re playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Mercury News, this AP story: In a report entitled &#8220;Broken Promises,&#8221; House and Senate Democratic leaders described what they called &#8220;the failed response&#8221; of the administration since the hurricane hit. Released Wednesday by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her Senate counterpart, Harry Reid, D-Nev., the report asserted that &#8220;thousands of families [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-katrina","category-progressivism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-2M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}