Posted on 02/03/2009 5:50:48 AM PST by an amused spectator
CNN Elections 2008 shows us that Kentucky went overwhelmingly for the Republicans during the November 2008 election:
McCain/Palin - 58%
Obama/Biden - 41%
The state re-elected Republican Mitch McConnell, and 4 of 6 US House representatives were elected as Republicans.
So, it's Winter 2008/09, and Kentucky has been buried by ice for more than a week. Where's President Obama? Where's FEMA? No one in Kentucky seems to know, but fortunately for Present Obama, a lone Democrat is in charge of Kentucky - Democrat Governor Steve Beshear, and he's covering for Barry "The Big Wagyu" Obama in a Big Way:
Beshear has consistently praised Obama, a fellow Democrat, for the attention he's devoted to what Beshear calls the biggest natural disaster to hit his state.
"I was impressed that he [Present Obama] knew a lot of the particulars about what we were facing here," the governor said last week in announcing the disaster declaration.
Obama's Lapdog Media is also lending Obama a hand, by studiously ignoring any similarities between the Kentucky ice storm response and the response to Hurricane Katrina during the Bush administration. We ALL remember how the press punished Bush over that one, don't we? Matter of fact, they're still punishing Bush over that one.
Well, it's a new day in America, and a new set of voters in trouble with the weather.
Only this time, this set of voters picked the wrong horse.
Obama, and his media machine don't LIKE Kentucky's voting choices - so they'll get nothing, and like it.
COme on, Mitch - stick it to the ObamWeenie! Of course, maybe Mitch doesn't want his constituents to end up like the kulaks...
I borrowed it from someone who says they borrowed it. Whoever coined it - pure genius. I like the “Chicago-Style Mint Juleps”. Is that what they were drinking at the “Let Them Eat Wayuga” party?
I like KYtrina better.
I’m 17 miles north of the river, 60 miles due east of Cincy.
Exactly. Making this out to be a pay back ‘conspiracy’ is thin, very very thin.
The payback is in the stimulus, Zero is simply failing in Kentucky.
I don't know. Oddly, the press wasn't really interested in Barry Antoinette's booze of choice. Didn't want to offend his Muslim brothers... ;-)
I seriously doubt Obama is going out of his way to piss off Mitch McConnell right now.
Apparently you're not aware of who we're dealing with.
They're Alinskyites.
We're going to be lucky if Free Republic is online a year from now. Big Barry and his Big Media pals are going to pee all over your dry powder long before the year is up, FRiend.
These people don't tolerate this sort of thing, because they know what it is - it's their stock-in-trade.
I was here for the Clintons, and they were bad enough. The Alinskyites are infinitely worse.
So good luck with that whole biding your time thingee. Maybe you can start an American Weiße Rose Society...
Trust me, you're not dealing with the same weather where you are. The areas SOUTH of the river and from Louisville WEST got hammered. There are areas in my neighborhood where the lines were down on 6 to 7 different poles in a row. Areas where we have never lost power in the 7 years we have lived here.
The trees were so heavy with ice that they bent 10 feet and ultimately blocked the street.
One of my neighbors has 2-3 feet of broken tree limbs covering his entire lot.
I work in Indiana (7 miles north of Louisville) and the ice/snow are not anywhere near as bad here as in Louisville.
So did we. Exact same weather pattern went literally over my house. got the same amount of ice, same amount of snow.
Its not nearly as bad as what took place over Christmas of 05.
Not saying it isn’t difficult. Just noting this isn’t ‘katrina’ and anyone claiming it is is belittling what took place along the Gulf Coast.
In KY, we don’t need zero, any of his confiscated tax money, or any of his platitudes. Utility workers are working 16 hour shifts to get power on and doing one hell of a damned good job all things considered. The churches with power have opened their doors for those without power, and people are taking care of each other. Zero isn’t punishing anybody. He’s only demonstrating who you can depend on when the ball goes up. And we know who that is.
How many more people in Kentucky will die before Obama takes action?
This is pure by-the-book Saul Alinski-style, Chicago politics. The idea is to send a message that if you don’t pay up now, you will pay later. So, everyone get in line now, or else next time this could be you.
I’m intimately aware of what we are dealing with.
Great post, so I'll re-post it in its entirety. Go Kentucky!
Where, oh where, is The Messiah and his FEMA? Where???
;-)
The further south you go in the lower flatitudes, the less people and governments are equipped to deal with below-freezing "weather events". People from more northerly areas sometimes can't understand what even a dusting of snow can do in a normally warm area.
You guys used to snow and ice where you're at, anoldafvet?
‘People from more northerly areas sometimes can’t understand what even a dusting of snow can do in a normally warm area.’
True enough. I was amazed at how Norfolk Virginia would simply close down if half an inch of snow fell in the late 1970’s when stationed there.
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