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.
It is exactly the behavior of young, misbehaved children.
Good post! ;)
Great Summary BTW.
Good post.
Very much agreed and it is the behavior of many adults today too.
Holy cow! It's pouring outside and the thunder and lightning are going nuts. I'm blaming the Democrats.
I call them "Political LOOTERS" , they just can't resist grabbing anything that's loose.
Good job.
Projection is the hall mark of Liberals.
Accuse others of what you are actually doing.
I'm not too worried about the impact of this in the long term. Sure, the Democrats will be able to yell loud and long about the alleged "failings" of the Bush Administration, employing their usual "big lie" strategy.
But once the facts start coming out (as this synopsis already reveals), their cynical partisan exploitation of this disaster will become readily apparent. Also apparent will be the way the Bush Administration is working through the crisis, overcoming the rank incompetancies being demonstrated at the state and local level in LA, without becoming bogged down in playing the blame game.
I think the administration should get the word out in press conferences about the real truth and the real reasons things took time. The president has never been good at defending his position and it is crucial he becomes more active in pointing out the lies of the left press. The White house needs to hammer these punks before this gets more out of hand than it already has become. The administration has allowed this feeding frenzy to continue and they should kill it now. This is my only complaint with the way the President has handled this disaster.
You would think that the looney-tunes lefties would have learned by now. Every time they go at W he winds up pulling the rug out from under them. The best analogy is that of the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote. The Democrats are buying a lot of stuff from Acme, but it's not doing them any good.
Can't trust the MSM.
There won't be an investigation.
The Dems will see to that.
The White House has not had a good spokesman since Ari.
What a loss he was.
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