I don’t have a problem with the gist of the article, but now WE’RE blaming Bush for Katrina?
“Bush” did more to destroy this country than Clinton and FUBO combined...
Go ahead and challenge me..
I dare you
but now WE’RE blaming Bush for Katrina?
Yes, that is nonsense. Once again Karl Rove had his fat fingers on setting his boss up. He was responsible for that stupid photo op showing a dim looking George Bush looking distractedly at a flooded New Orleans from 20, 00 feet on the presidential jet as he flew to California.
Louisiana government failed spectacularly at every level in Katrina and particularly the worthless Gov Blanco and her coterie of fools were in a huge panic and effectively did nothing for days as they tried to figure out a narrative to get them off the hook.
I actually worked on the US Army attempts at responding to the storm effects. The Louisiana state government would absolutely not cooperate in any way. All the normal disaster response actions were stonewalled. All responses HAD to come from the executive office of the Governor. This was made clear in Baton Rouge. The La Army National Guard would not respond to any requests for information on proposed guard mobilization any heavy equipment loans. The La AG office would only say ‘We will tell you how much Title 10 funds we need (not broken down by program) and you all send us the check, You don’t need to know nothing else. The US Army Property and Fiscal Officer told me he was being stonewalled and had a guardsman stationed at his door that demanded the identity of anyone coming to the P&F office. Eventually after going to the state himself Bush got the same treatment only with Sen Mary Landrieu having a hysterical fit and Gov Buncko behaving in the same stone walling mode he just directed the US govt start pushing men and material into the state. The whole operation was really chaotic and did add to the misery of the populace. The Louisiana political establishment were overcome with paranoia that they would be caught in the usual lying and stealing if they were nirmally cooperative with the feds. That is the only thing I can figure caused their behavior.
Where’s the criticism of the Patriot Act and the TSA? They did plenty of domestic damage.
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 >
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.