FEMA and the truth

Rush Limbaugh’s points out FEMA’s slow past:

"U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings, now retired, used his political muscle to move military support instead behind [the mayor's] efforts. 'To me, it's a reminder that our country can do much better,' said Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, who led Charleston's response to Hugo in 1989. After Hugo devastated the counties around Charleston, local officials pleaded for emergency help and were told by agency officials strapped for money and personnel to apply through the governor. U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings, now retired, used his political muscle to move military support instead behind [the mayor's] efforts." So the whole point of this, is Mrs. Clinton is out there trying to say that FEMA under her husband's administration or anybody else's was this smooth-running, well-running, well-oiled machine, and it never has been. It's a federal bureaucracy, and to the extent that red tape is the problem here because bureaucracies are way too big. But don't fall for this notion that FEMA has always acted first. They're not a first responder anyway, but the idea that FEMA has been a well-oiled machine up until Mike Brown and George Bush got hold of it, and don't forget that it was the Democrats who wanted FEMA to be part of Homeland Security in the first place. It was the Democrats that wanted to build a new bureaucracy and move FEMA into it after 9/11 happened. So they're getting away here with rewriting history, because their allies in the mainstream press are simply an echo chamber for what they are saying. So many misconceptions and so many lies, actually, are being passed off as truth.