Posted on 01/29/2009 11:43:00 AM PST by cardinal4
One can’t reflect upon the recent changing of the guard in Washington, without recalling the previous one. And in this instance, one can’t judge the previous guard without bringing up Hurricane Katrina.
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Meanwhile Congress still hasn’t gone after William Jefferson, a man with cold cash who used National Guard troops to escort him to his house to get some $$$ in the Katrina aftermath.
You know what I find irritating about this?
It was the most successful human airlift in history.
And no one, to my knowledge, has ever explained just where did the money go that was paying for the auxiliaries?
The pumping operation went well, too, after the initial problems they had. Law Enforcement, however..
“The Left got away with blaming a sitting President for a hurricane..”
Not logically, but emotionally. They got “Bush” emotionally hooked to “Katrina”
We are seriously witnessing a new kind of mind control being used on people. They know the audience, they know how to manipulate that audience, and they are doing it.
It’s the same Pravda Media techniques employed by Stalin and Goebbels. They study such things in communications classes.
The goal is the same, thought control.
‘Law Enforcement, however..’
Was a failure at the local level.
Note that stuff stopped the minute the General showed up, told the media they were ‘stuck on stupid’ and laughed at the bogus ‘sniper’ stories.
If I remember correctly the Governor of Louisiana refused to allow the National Guard into the flood zone for many hours. Plous the mayor had refused to evacuate the place with hundreds of buses at his disposal.
Most people don’t understand that emergency relief falls under the governor’s office.
The gulf coast is a hurricane zone. It has always been a hurricane zone and it always will be. The people who live there know that. They have a hundred years of experience dealing with what is to them a part of life.
Put an incompentent boob in charge of the state house, and you’ll get a disaster. Put someone reasonably competent and things will go as they should. Even an incompetent in the state house wouldn’t normally do much damage if he’ll just let his professionals do what they know how to do. Governor Blanco was an outrageous case, in that she refused to allow the National Guard or any other rescue agency to go into New Orleans... because it wasn’t safe.
That has never happened before or since. There is nothing like it in my memory anywhere. The Navy and the Coast Guard were there doing what they do before the wind stopped blowing. FEMA’s people were prepositioned ahead of the storm ready to go. Neighboring states called up their Guard units and offered them to Louisiana; they were ready to go. Supplies poured into the area from everywhere, and sat outside the city awaiting an order to go that never came.
The disaster that was Katrina didn’t happen in the neighboring states because their Guard and rescue units were on the ground immediately. Things didn’t turn around in New Orleans until Bush federalized it and took control away from the governor. Thats the truth that the press has tried to erase from the public memory.
Not hours. More like a week.
She was the one who be blamed.
As a Katrina survivor, it galls me that Bush was blamed for the “federal response”. The people to blame are Nagin & Blanco (dumb & dumber). Nagin refused to issue the mandatory evacuation til noon Sunday-(Katrina hit 6:10 Monday morning) b/c he was worried about being sued by the hotels & restaurant owners. Blanco refused to order in the LA National Guard immediately to follow the orders of the DNC & embarress Bush. (so people were forced to wait another 2 days for help).
I’ve always told people Nagin & Blanco should be sued in class action for negligent homocide.
So in other words it is Bush’s fault, right?
The rats orchestrated the whole thing.
And Sheperd Smith was their useful idiot.
Louisiana got a ton of money. The problem is that it went to politicians who doled it out to bureaucrats so they could create committees to hire experts to write studies to submit to a panel who created guidelines, requirements, rules, and procedures for people who lost everything to abide by in order to protect the state from being cheated out of money by people by people pretending to have lost everything when in fact they did not. (breath) Then, they hired a bunch of appraisers who low-balled the value of a home so the homeowners would appeal the amount to another panel and the state then had to hire more appraisers, accountants, actuaries, and attorneys to testify that the state's amount was correct only to have said panel agree with the homeowner's appraisal. (breath) THEN, the state created another bureaucracy for the homeowners to submit their paperwork to, only to refuse to give the homeowner a check because the owner had lost some piece of paper along the way and didn't have sufficient information for the bureaucrat to determine the accuracy of the homeowner's file (sadly, the bureaucrat did not have ANY of the homeowner's paperwork in his files because that information is stored in a different department). When the homeowner returns after finding the paper, a new "public servant" has been assigned to his file and is unaware of conversations with the previous bureaucrat because no notes were taken and again denies the homeowner because of a different piece of missing paper. When the homeowner finally gets everything he needs together, the billions of dollars given to the state has amazingly disappeared. Whoda thunk?" Meanwhile, the state was cheated out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by people pretending to have lost everything, but did not.
In short, government took it, for "the greater good."
“the Governor of Louisiana refused to allow the National Guard into the flood zone for many hours.”
It wasn’t hours, it was days. Hurricanes have been hitting the U.S. FOR YEARS without the kinds of problems we saw in New Orleans. It was a complete failure on the part of LOCAL GOVERNMENT, period.
I believe they thought they could handle it themselves knowing the federal entry would have exposed the corruption. And I think she activated them before Bush arrived.
“same Media techniques employed by Stalin and Goebbels”
Yes, but things are actually a lot more advanced now. The stuff you reference was blatant and obvious. The stuff we are witnessing now is seemingly innocuous and unprovable.
“The stuff we are witnessing now is seemingly innocuous and unprovable.”
Actually they are quite bold “consensus” “the debate is over” “everyone is in near agreement” “fake but accurate” “no controlling legal authority” “depends on what the meaning of IS is” “the most trusted man in America” “the war is now unwinable” “fair and balanced” “the most trusted news source” “the paper of record” “all things considered” “democracy now”
All lies.
The left also got away with shifting horrible decisions from an incompetent DEM mayor and DEM governor to Bushie and his team.
We know it is, my point was, enough people believed eyeliner Shephard wetting his pants on TV, and that contributed largely to the election of a Ray Nagin clone, Barack Obama.
The media and the DNC used Katrina to get back congress and elect a democrat to the White House. It was based on a sham.
It always comes down to one of the most glaring disconnects between conservatives and liberal loonies (y'know, Us & Them);
They simply DO NOT understand, nor have they likely even read The Constitution of The United States of America.
These days, I start any such discussion with a Lib Loon by asking a question..."By the way, have you read the Constitution?"
If they lie and say they have, you've got them. If they don't lie and say they haven't, discussion is over before it starts...Thus keeping my blood pressure at an acceptable 130/80.
Graet tagline..
The media saw disaster and asked where was President Bush, not Mayor Nagin or Governor Blanco. What a crock - blame the rescuer of LAST RESORT (National Government) not the FIRST RESPONDERS (City, County and State) that FAILED!!!
Yep. My argument isn’t with you, it’s with the boneheads who want to blame the Katrina debacle on Bush.
She was just following orders from her DNC masters in Washington.
“Blanco’s non-response was calculated to give the president a black eye”
Are you saying that the Democrats denied aid and endangered people during a natural disaster, just for political purposes. Because, if the non-response was orchestrated, that is exactly what they did. I did find it strange that the governor relied on the Clinton FEMA director instead of attempting to work with the administration, it was also evident from the onset that the MSM had no interest in honest and accurate reporting. Here is an example of the biased reporting associated with Hurricane Katrina http://slate.msn.com/id/2125224/
This is a blueprint for where the trillion bucks will go when Zero gets his stimulus bill passed.
Very well stated!
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As I recall, within hours of the hurricane hiting New Orleans, the left was blaming Bush for it. “if only he had signed the Kyoto Accord”. “The mere fact that he had signed the Kyoto Accord would have prevented this hurricane”
I’m scared to death if they take over health care (maybe that’s a good thing).
Well I remember the video clip of Blanco whispering into an open mic that she didn’t send in the National Guard because she didn’t want to put people in harms way.
This statement can be taken several ways...
That our National Guard, who were serving in Iraq but also working stateside, were babykillers who engaged in war crimes (anti-military rhetoric from the Left)...
That the National Guard would impose a “police state” on the good people of Louisiana...
That the National Guard would be endangered by encountering a violent civilian population in Louisiana (post-apocoplyptic mindset that did nothing about gang crime and police corruption)...
Or perhaps she was afraid of having “outsiders” see how things “are run” in New Orleans and elsewhere in Louisiana (like payment for police who didn’t really exist).
You give too much credit to Blank-o. She is D-U-M-B.
Just look at the Motor Vehicles Department in your home state, that’s what government run health care will be like..
Boneheads, indeed. When Shep was weeping on the air, screaming about snipers, I thought I was Lewis Carroll, it was that bizarre, watching events unfold with Shep carrying on like a little girl..
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I think it was, at least, partly because she didn’t want outsiders to see their mess (MSM did yeoman work on helping her) and partly because of their laxidasical attitude and their indecision. A blogger was posting from scanner traffic during the storm and reported that there was very little radio traffic until the National Guard arrived on site (National Guard reported instances of well over an hour when LA Homeland Security could not be contacted) but it was busy after that (by noon the day after the guard arrived the Calvary was arriving). It was also clear that the Democrats were playing games Pres. Bush was being pressured to declare Martial Law but LA would not agree to it, Pres. Bush then sent in Federal Law Enforcement (primarily US Marshals) to help restore order .... guest you could say he declared Marshal Law. I believe this little episode will cost the MSM and the Democrats in ways they don’t expect, far too many people were not fooled.
That's exactly what I'm saying.
The rats have had a long history of doing just this.
They don't care about the welfare of The United States of America. They're only interested in having power.
The republicans are the dumb party.
The rats are the evil party.
funny no one needed FEMA’s help to get to DC for the inaugaration
The Missouri and Iowa folks along the Big Muddy didn’t either, they came anyway. Don’t get me wrong, it was welcomed aid. But Shep Smith didn’t come out here and wet his pants on TV..
“Their stock answer is that ‘Bush should have gone in anyway.’”
Right. Just like Lincoln did.
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