Posted on 09/05/2022 9:17:22 AM PDT by Hojczyk
2 things...
Medicare part d...
Largest entitlement program ever...
Patriot act...
Now successfully being used against us..
I have not even mentioned open borders and uniparty judges...
Or the ‘07 depression....
Or nation building...
Or Afghanistan...
I can go on and on..
Clintoon was held in check by Gingrich...
And have not even started on bushie #1..
I likey the new Republicans...
See post 21
Maybe, but she was a monumentally stupid person and in Louisiana the petty level that opportunities for political patronage are sought at and the absolute obsession with control by Orleans Parish politicians produced an incredibly toxic stew. Blanco was controlled by her husband a former High School football coach and ‘Coach’ had to approve everything that came out of the executive office. Blanco was a career school teacher and teacher’s union activist. That should tell you all that is needed about how both greedy and stupid the pair were.
A small example of how petty political patronage seeking is: The Louisiana Army National Guard was using its boat inits to collect bodies both of the drowned and those washed out of cemetaries. Coach ended that with a phone call. Some crony who owned a funeral parlor demanded that right for himself at 100 per corpse. He got his drunk of a brother to round up skid row types and use his outboard to snag bodies. You can imagine how professionally it was done. The drunks were caught rifling the corpses for pocket change, watches, etc. That is the dark side of state’s political culture.
Louisiana - Half under water, the other half under indictment.
Karina was NOT on Bush. Remember all those school buses sitting idle in the parking lot during Katrina? That was ALL on Ray Nagin, the mayor of Chocolate City. He refused to evacuate the inhabitants. The levies system of which the city received millions from the federal government to specifically shore up, went instead to “other” city services. Even the New Orleans cops decided to raid the local Walmart’s for cassette tapes. How’s that for caring about their people? Freaking savages!
Bush’s problem is that he just took it, and didn’t fight back.
I agree with most of this article. I do not agree with the description of the Katrina response. The battle between establishment Republicans and conservative Republicans predates the Bushes. Goldwater represented a conservative revolt against the Establishment. Nixon, notwithstanding the hatred he generated in the press, was an Establishment Republican. Reagan was a true conservative and the best President in my lifetime. And then we got the Bushes, who dominated the Party for 26 years, although Newt’s influence was very helpful from 96 through 2000. Trump represented another revolt against the Establishment, which is why the Establishment Press has treated him so unfairly. . Whether the standard bearer. is Trump or someone else, must never allow the Bushes and their successors to regain control of the Party.
Nagin admitted he had never read the city disaster evacuation plan. The Emergency Ops center really wasn’t stood up. No one expected the flooding on the scale that happened. The storm wasn’t much in NOLA, the Mississippi coast took the real hit with a storm wave 15-20 feet high. What failed in New Orleans were flood walls located on the outflow canals not levies. The storm pushed a large amount of water into the lake and then this pushed down the canals. The Corps of Engineers had, incredibly, when designing the walls reversed the load bearing equation so the walls were weakest at the toe father than the center of mass. For years Lakeview residents had complained to city, state and COE water management authorities about significant leakage into their yards. The COE was positively contemptuous of such inquiries. LBJ removed responsibility for NOLA water management from the parish levee board and turned it over to the COE. Sen Long thought he had done something clever.
The one true levee failure the very large concrete Industrial Canal Leve. This is the event that released a wall of water into the Lower 9th Ward and Chalmette. To my knowledge the exact reason for the failure has never been determined. The levee was constructed of continuous pour concrete in the 1923-24 time frame. The Port of New Orleans, who operated the Industrial Canal regularly inspected it with berm walkers for any visible anomalies. One theory is that the weight of the mass of concrete increase over time and this along with a sand pocket well under the levee may have led to occult weakening and the flush of water from the Mississippi River-Golf of Mexico cut off may have caused the catastrophic material failure of the canal Levee, Or maybe whitey blew the levy up to drown poor black people, something many in the black community believe to this day.
Katrina was nothing. The Patriot Act was the start of the current tyranny - and that lies squarely on the Bush wing. Not to mention the lives lost in the sandbox.
No the enemy have always blamed President Bush for Hurricane Katrina and this article is simply using the Democrat's shtick to bludgeon Biden's RINO friends. If it works, that suits me fine.
< rant > To me articles like this are only a step or two above conspiracy theories. They are just selectively historical mix and match events while ignoring larger events and issues so the author can sound smart.
The alternative to Bush were Gore and Kerry who would have been far worse. 9/11 happened, so what was Bush supposed to do? There was no major opposition going into Afghanistan or Iraq from either party. This is the same as the German Generals who agreed with all the decisions Germany made during the war, then afterwards tried to make it sound like they were the voice of reason opposing the mistakes they themselves made. A lot of the people blaming Bush now for what happened after 9/11 were his cheerleaders then.
Ever since Reagan, Republicans act like the President is supposed to be some kind of all powerful figure or the Kwisatz Haderach out of Dune. He's not. The President can not go alone and has to work with and compromise with Congress. Republicans in the House and Senate ignored domestic social issues too. It was not just Bush (elder and younger). It is congress where legislation and funding happen, not the Presidency. There was also the badly overrated Karl Rowe, let Bush's win go to his head. From 2004 onward, Rove tried to impose his vision of the Republican party on the Republican voters, and the party paid for it.
Does anyone remember where they were and what they were doing on the morning of September 11, 2001?
I do. It was kind of a big deal then.
What about how we were thinking and feeling about it for the next ten years? How Republicans thought Obama was throwing away the victory Bush had largely won? How Obama enable Alqueda, ISIS, and was passive about the insurrection in Iraq, caused the Syrian civil war at the same time, and nearly enabled a Isis Caliphate in Iraq and Syria?
I remember that too. < /rant >
Right and good that it changed! Now its the People’s Republican Party and not the Rich Man’s Toy it was. NO MORE RINOs, No more dynasties, American (not China) First.
Example: The Patriot act wasn't originally used against the American People, but the Obama leftists in the DOJ/FBI/IRS used it against their political foes, and the Biden group is now openly abusing their ability to the point of full throttle Stasi behavior.
W's silly reach across the aisle crap made him naively stupid. But the hard left are driving multiple trains of abuse through the openings they themselves purposefully made.
Thank G-d.
No, the enemy has always blamed President Bush for Hurricane Katrina and this article is simply using the Democrat's shtick to bludgeon Biden's RINO friends. If it works, that suits me just fine.
Bush’s were responsible for how many American soldiers deaths and maiming? And how much of our wealth going to these places that HATEOURGUTS.
And for What.
Bush’s and Cheney are crappola.
I challenge you to reading comprehension. I said I agreed with the article. But, are we using Democrat talking points now?
I didn’t intend to be confrontational with you...
Although re-reading my post it sure seems that way...
It’s just that the bushes make my blood boil...
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