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.
Especially when Interstate bridges are no longer existent, or debris is all over the other highways. I've learned that in the past few days.
I know many of us expected the authorities to be able to immediately help these people, but it wasn't possible.
So what were they (local politicians) just lazy, or WHAT?!
i can see it now a michael moore movie on the bush secret plan to destroy blue states one by one he wii tie it to the saudis as well.Poor cindy she ham no one there to listen to her ravings blaming Bush for the actual hurricane.what loon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You've got a very good point. Not only founded by the French, N.O. received a big influx of Acadians ("Cajuns") cast out by British Canadians.
As a matter of fact, there is an effort in Quebec to go down and teach French to people in LA.
My husband and I nearly did it (he's French Canadian, I'm American), and there was one woman stuck in the Superdome who was doing exactly that.
The American people are going to demand to know what went wrong.
They deserve to know the truth.
Republicans win the high ground by calling for it first.
Can you imagine what would happen if the Democrats came out against one.
BTTT!! Again, GREAT post.
You should apply for a job with the Bush administration. ;) I think they could use you right about now.... :)
The mayor was worried about having the authority to call for a Mandatory evacuation.
I also saw that the day of the evacuation there were 2 lanes in and 2 lanes out of town.
Lanes out should have been for private vehicles and lanes in should have been bus express traffic.
There should have been no more people allowed into town.
I need to research further to document these or else I would have included them.
BTTT! I'll read it in a few!!
One sister of the hood approves. A++
Good job and very well done Tas!
Katrina has been a tough blow. But it wasn't his fault.
BTW, I listened to an interview by the new ambassador to Canada from the U.S.--David Wilkins (?) from South Carolina. He seems much in the same mold as GW Bush, a person able to craft compromises across party aisles. As much as I liked (Loved!) Paul Cellucci for sticking up for the U.S., I think this new man will do a great job. He seems able to befriend and calm down the neurotic Canadians, LOL! ;)
*peeking out into the poetry thread that she abandonded so long ago*
you were there, right? bentfeather, I had no idea you were a woman!
*hangs head in shame* I wish I could have kept up with everything, the poetry thread and all. I am sorry.
I have no problem with Bush being polite but "Walk softly and carry a big stick"
Press secretary should have laid down the law to the press.
You don't behave you don't come back. Period , end of sentence.
They would have had to pull one or two press passes and the rest of them would have fallen into line.
I wish David Wilkins luck.
Oh, sweet of you. This is my thread. Has nothing to do with the others. Yes, I was a poet on that thread.
I remember you. You came a few times. Nice to see you again.
Please feel free to come by.
Okay, bentfeather, while I went to the bathroom, my husband has somehow changed this keyboard to a French keyboard, so when I try to do the fancy HTML stuff, it does not work.
I can not even do apostrophes, LOL!
Nice to see you too. I would like to come by again.
All the best... :) (doing the best I can without apostrophes or black slashes). :) Take care. :)
Okay, I canètééé
darn this French keyboard. ;) I cannot do quotes or slashes, etc., but I will log off by saying:
what you said. :)
ènight, all. (that was supposed to be an apostrophe plus the word night. See what a predicament I am in! LOL!)
French keyboards :-)
Bump to read in a bit...first glance is awesome, Red!
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