Meanwhile Congress still hasn’t gone after William Jefferson, a man with cold cash who used National Guard troops to escort him to his house to get some $$$ in the Katrina aftermath.
You know what I find irritating about this?
It was the most successful human airlift in history.
“The Left got away with blaming a sitting President for a hurricane..”
Not logically, but emotionally. They got “Bush” emotionally hooked to “Katrina”
We are seriously witnessing a new kind of mind control being used on people. They know the audience, they know how to manipulate that audience, and they are doing it.
If I remember correctly the Governor of Louisiana refused to allow the National Guard into the flood zone for many hours. Plous the mayor had refused to evacuate the place with hundreds of buses at his disposal.
Most people don’t understand that emergency relief falls under the governor’s office.
The gulf coast is a hurricane zone. It has always been a hurricane zone and it always will be. The people who live there know that. They have a hundred years of experience dealing with what is to them a part of life.
Put an incompentent boob in charge of the state house, and you’ll get a disaster. Put someone reasonably competent and things will go as they should. Even an incompetent in the state house wouldn’t normally do much damage if he’ll just let his professionals do what they know how to do. Governor Blanco was an outrageous case, in that she refused to allow the National Guard or any other rescue agency to go into New Orleans... because it wasn’t safe.
That has never happened before or since. There is nothing like it in my memory anywhere. The Navy and the Coast Guard were there doing what they do before the wind stopped blowing. FEMA’s people were prepositioned ahead of the storm ready to go. Neighboring states called up their Guard units and offered them to Louisiana; they were ready to go. Supplies poured into the area from everywhere, and sat outside the city awaiting an order to go that never came.
The disaster that was Katrina didn’t happen in the neighboring states because their Guard and rescue units were on the ground immediately. Things didn’t turn around in New Orleans until Bush federalized it and took control away from the governor. Thats the truth that the press has tried to erase from the public memory.
The left also got away with shifting horrible decisions from an incompetent DEM mayor and DEM governor to Bushie and his team.
The media saw disaster and asked where was President Bush, not Mayor Nagin or Governor Blanco. What a crock - blame the rescuer of LAST RESORT (National Government) not the FIRST RESPONDERS (City, County and State) that FAILED!!!
As I recall, within hours of the hurricane hiting New Orleans, the left was blaming Bush for it. “if only he had signed the Kyoto Accord”. “The mere fact that he had signed the Kyoto Accord would have prevented this hurricane”
funny no one needed FEMA’s help to get to DC for the inaugaration