Posted on 09/03/2005 4:55:53 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED
In the gambling art of poker, the cards are the cards. The art is the ability to bluff and to read other peoples “tell” and to suppress your own. A successful poker player has the proverbial poker face and the ability to read what other players give away.
The analogy can be made to the Democrat party. They have a habit of yelling loud and long and slinging every type of salacious remark at both President Bush and Conservatives (particularly Conservative Christians), hoping to defame and control the spin cycle.
The Democrat “tell” however is to call for Congressional hearings. There was the 9/11 whitewash of the Clinton Administration, the calls for hearings on the phony “Downy Street” memo and the Plamegate issue.
There have been calls for hearings regarding why the National Guard took so long to respond to the disaster. But where are the calls for a Congressional hearing regarding the Catastrophe in New Orleans?
They ferret around the issue of slow deployment as a way to deflect interest in a comprehensive investigation because a comprehensive investigation would reveal an abject failure of the Democrat government of Louisiana. From the Mayor, the Chief of Police up to the Government. They all failed.
The Democrat politicians of Louisiana were indecisive and people died.
There was a disaster plan in place. True it hadn’t been updated since 9/11, but the plan called for primary evacuation by means of private vehicle to be supplemented by use of buses.
5. The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1476408/posts
On September 1, Here are the buses .
Here are more :http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=1476349%2C8
On September 2 the Chief of Police, Edwin Compass in an interview with Geraldo Rivera, was shouting about needing buses now.
The buses he so desperately needed were sitting underwater nearby.
Senator Kennedy of Massachusetts has slandered president Bush about abandoning the poor.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475345/posts
We heard endlessly on Sunday 8/28 about the plight of the urban poor being left behind as the more affluent left New Orleans.
The truth is far harsher. Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco abandoned the poor of New Orleans. On Sunday , evacuation day, none of the poor were bused on city vehicles out of the city to safer locations. The valuable resource of the buses were not removed to a safe distance as is standard operating procedure for other communities of Hurricane Coast.
Had they been removed to a safe distance they would have been available to return to the city to rescue those left behind. What a difference in human suffering this would have made.
A life saving resource was squandered.
Mayor Nagin was equally guilty of malfeasance in another area.
The Federal agencies held back to allow the Mayor to fulfill his obligation. When it became obvious that the Mayor and his lawyers were not going to evacuate the city, the head of the National Hurricane Center, Max Mayfield called Nagin to beg him to evacuate on Saturday night 8/27.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476538/posts
At a press conference on 8/28 Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin in a joint press conference reported that President Bush had called and pleaded for evacuation.
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?base/news-18/1125239940201382.xml&storylist=louisiana and here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475914/posts
President Bush had ordered FEMA into place on 8/27 two full days before the hurricane and 3 before the levee was breached.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476404/posts
FEMA had pre-positioned 500 trucks of ice, 500 trucks of water and 350 of MRE's prior to the hurricane.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2005/2005-08-30-01.asp
The resources were there. The failure wasn’t federal, the failure was local.
Katrina hit Mississippi as well. Where are the stories of Biloxi?
The question is not why things are going so badly in New Orleans, but why are they going so well elsewhere?
So, Senator Kennedy, Congressional Black Caucus, and MSM, it wasn’t the President that abandoned the poor. It was the Democrat governments of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana that abandoned the poor.
There is a reason that the Democrats are not calling for a comprehensive review of the New Orleans Disaster. They can’t afford for the truth to come out.
When the survivors are rescued, and the dead are buried, then perhaps it will be time to contact the Republican members of Congress and request an investigation of this Catastrophe.
And backed up with facts!
Nice job!
On spot Taz, very good.
The minority party trumps the majority.
What does that say about the majority?
Unfit to lead?
Ari was a great spokesman. He made it an art form.
Ari had a talent of slapping the yapping dogs down with facts.
Thank you. The screaming is a dead giveaway of a weak position. Bush is strong and silent because he knows that in the end he'll be holding the winning hand. He's the one doing something while the Donkeys are screaming.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Here is the hurricane plan for New Orleans, a nice laundry list of what they should have done. Notice it says they would need three days to evacuate. And yes the school buses were the way they planned to do it. When Katrina headed to New Orleans they had the time. Did nothing. Don't forget Bush issued a state of emergency directive on Saturday, so the Governor could call up the feds for help. The call didn't come. I just saw Gov Blanco on the TV, she said she doesn't know where to put the evacuees.
Moral of the story, don't hire a Democrat for any important job.
Bump!!!
Ms.B
Great post! And you're right--it's a win-win situation for the Reps and especially for the President--who needs it.
Everyone's blaming him now. But in a surprise move, he calls for an investigation ... shocking the blamers ... the truth comes out and we find out that it wasn't President Bush's fault after all, now was it...
(that's not to say that there might not be a few problems in terms of coordinating the feds and locals after a catastrophe--I was quite upset, too about these thirsty, abandoned people, but perhaps other states are better at having plans in place and getting needed help? As so many have pointed out, just look at NYC after 9/11.)
In any case, it would be fantastic to have a report exonerating the president (which it will, obviously, especially considering the structure of the U.S. federal system), after hearing rappers, reporters, you name it, slam him personally.
That was exactly the analogy I drew while listening to the tirades of the Mayor and Police Chief. The Mayor was upset because he knew he was responsible. The Police Chief, though, seems to live in a perpetual state of ignorance-------maybe blissful, maybe not.
He was the best. You are once again right on this.
Agreed.
Volume and content frequently are antithetical.
That is spot on.
Suplies were moved to Georgia and Texas prior to the Hurricane.
Takes time to truck them in.
The Senator representing New Orleans is the Democrat of the two.
The chief of police squalling about the National Guard when some of his officers quit and allowed the looting and lawlessness to continue.
Complete lack of leadership.
That about sums it up.
It all comes down to Intelligent Design. Those too stupid to take matters into their own hands, in this case evacuating NO, died as a result of their stupidity. Government interaction has little to do with this humanitarian disaster. Each of us has a responsibility to ourselves and our immediate neighbers.
You know, if the Republicans can't back up their President when his personal reputation is being attacked, then, well, they can go to you know where.
Like I said, it's a win-win. The Reps can call for an investigation and the American people will fully support that.
Here's what they should say: "People are outraged and upset, and want to know what happened. It was not only a catastrophic failure, particularly after 9/11, it was unbelievable on the world stage. The world's superpower couldn't seem to respond to its own backyard. The people deserve to know what happened. What if this had been a terrorist attack?"
I just don't see how the Dems could fight such an argument, particularly after they were the first ones to criticize.
And you know what? I wouldn't mind finding out the answers to these questions, either.
Don't forget there is also a French influence in Louisiana, a French way of thinking you might say (as opposed to an English influence in many other states). Perhaps this has also played a role in Louisiana and New Orleans being the way it is today.
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