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.
Did you check our the links?
"Moral of the story, don't hire a Democrat for any important job."
So can we go fire the teachers?
"I know many of us expected the authorities to be able to immediately help these people, but it wasn't possible."
I would revise that to say I know many of us expected the Louisiana authorities to be able to immediately help these people evacuate before the storm, but it just didn't happen.
"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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Hear he blows:
Got this email from a friend who also likes to keep an eye on the blowhard.
From our dear friend, Michael Moore. Hear, hear Mr. Moore!!!
Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush
Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?
Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were
still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more
important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.
There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay
the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!
You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.com
P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.
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What did I miss about the press acting badly?
You know, come to think of it, who died and gave them the authority to mold public opinion to their way of thinking?
BTW, before I forget, I loved your work. Thank you.
If you aren't liberal you aren't enlightened, don't ya know.
Haven't quite gotten here yet...
But I am now, so I'm going to see what I've missed!
Good research, Lady.
It's all there, you did a good job of putting it all together.
There's more...The Bataan was on station on Tuesday, I believe, running rescue missions.
The poor stranded people at the Convention Center are crying for someone to come help them while the US Navy is still pulling people from their homes. Pretty selfish, if you ask me.
Mayor was trying to run things from elsewhere.
He abandoned the city and many of the cops quit.
What we've seen is a case study in how not to run a city.
Total failure of leadership.
Those closest to the disaster failed.
feel free to add my pics to your well-written indictment of Nagin.
don't feel bad - I only just now found them and stole them from Polybius
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.
There's a lot to blame on this one, but hopefully there will be more "Indians" and not so many chiefs soon.
*shaking head in dismayed unsurprise*
Blanco and Nagin beginning to look like aspired to delusions of incompetence.
It's one thing to elect a crook, it's another to elect a congenital moron.
Thanks for putting this together. This will be a valuable resource in the weeks to come. I hope they put it somewhere handy on the site so we can refer to it.
Yeah but so what ... it's Bush's and the Republican's fault.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2004/09/09_414.html
September 24, 2004
Very informative. Seems as though Ivan was a dry run for the incompetent leaders of Lousiana, so they could botch it big time for Katrina.
I tried to post this as a separate thread but the mods pulled it.
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