Politicizing Katrina: As Loathsome as it Gets

ChronWatch ^ | 09/01/05 | Edward L. Daley

[DARCPRYNCE]

I don't think I have to point out to anyone just how horrendous the situation down in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama is today. Hurricane Katrina has proved to be the worst natural disaster to strike the United States since the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, and the effects of this unprecedented catastrophe will surely be felt in this country for many months, and perhaps years to come.

[crowman]

Here's a thought on how all of this might play out through the end of the year.....The MSM has stopped carping about Iraq....They have leeched onto Katrina....This de-focus on Iraq will allow them to ratify their NEW CONSTITUTION in October in a calmer climate....By November the Iraqis will be starting a fine new chapter in changing their history and building their future....AND the GULF COAST by then will be far along on the re-building process, and the MSM will abandon it and start hunting for a new victim, which sadly for the LEFT won't be IRAQ....Some of them may already see this scenario of the next few months and dread its realization....The rest of us will take heart.....Here's wishing all of us and early Merry Christmas....

[pepperhead]

Your right Randi Rhodes has a truly ugly soul. Blaming the President is stupid in any natural disaster. I didn't question anything X42 or congress did during disasters of the past. The congress and our President will do what needs to be done. Trying to politicize this at a national level is discussing.

[Steely Tom]

...This de-focus on Iraq will allow them to ratify their NEW CONSTITUTION in October in a calmer climate...

Good thinking, crowman.

It has occured to me that all this hubbub in NO is creating a great opportunity for our military to knock the living CRAP out of someone somewhere, like Iraq or Afghanistan, with hardly anyone noticing.

Every disruption contains an opportunity, somewhere.

(steely)

[dukeman]

Take a look at this.

[ArrogantBustard]

The left has been setting this up for years, creating a mass of ignorant people that they can control like sheep.

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The Gods of the Copybook Headings

By Rudyard Kipling

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AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will bum,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return.

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[hershey]

The left leaning early AM talk show host, Scott Allen Miller, WRKO in Boston, took off on Bush this morning for not 'being there' sooner, 'boots on the ground', handing out bottles of water or MRE's. What did he want? The President standing on rooftops in the middle of Katrina, 100 mph winds, handing out water while roaming gangs of thugs took potshots at him with AK47's?

The Left doesn't have a clue. It's all about image. Like Clintons magic bible that got bigger every Sunday. Substance doesn't matter, especially if a Dem's involved. Good intentions mean everything, accomplishment is de trop. So the fair Mayor of NO was on tv all weekend. You couldn't escape her. Nobody complained that she didnt' hand out water on rooftops. Nobody complained that she couldn't organize the city better and reach people who needed rescueing. Not a peep.

The Left expect the feds to do it all 24/7 -- a logical extension of the welfare, nanny govt. mindset. So the clowns on MSNBC complained that Bush wasn't there, hadn't acted sooner. Blah, blah, blah. The left will use this to woo blacks back into the fold, and it's already started. Bushis a racist. He couldn't be bothered because folks in NO were poor and black.

[jmc813]

She is just an ugly person, that is all there is to it, and I am not talking about her appearance.

Oh, don't worry. She's ass-ugly physically too.

[holden]

You're showing that the world in which you're right is the world that has no ethics.

I presume you followed you're own advice, to the extent of your abilities.

HF

[Erik Latranyi]

The party out of power always politicizes those things that can give the party in power a black eye.

That's not completely true. Republicans did not criticize Clinton's handling of hurricanes through the 90's.

[katana]

sound judgment and common decency

These are two things which have never been associated in any way with the name "Kennedy".

[Democratshavenobrains]

Surpise! This is what lefties do. Why can't Republicans plan for it?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

You win. ;)

[crowman]

I can imagine zarqawi and hamas and cnn sitting around scratching themselves in frustration at their current inability to drive the news......

[dmz]

I don't typically associate ethics and political parties. I admit that's a bias of mine. And it extends to both sides of the spectrum.

[norton]

I'm asking this on more than one posting, have not seen anything in the media (and I'm getting sick of FOX):

Please, someone (try to) make me smart here:

I think that the states have to invite federal agencies in to assist, and that Posse Comitatus (SP?) denies use of federal troops to police the civil population.
So when did LA ask for federal help? When did Mississippi and Alabama ask? What took place in LA to allow US military police to enter the city?
And,
Wasn't there an issue early on in which Louisanna does not have a provision for martial law so, in fact, the ground was not clear for at least some time???

[Dionysius]

The left will never be persuaded away; we are not equipped to counter their lies, deception and dishonor with mere words. They own the MSM and public education. Like leftists everywhere, they must be driven out. Perhaps we need someone like Hillary to achieve power so that the revolution to save our nation may begin. It could be coming to this.

[norton]

The only down side to your thoughts is that Katrina will also sweep the Able Danger hearings into the back pages.
Of course, that's here they'd have been in any event.

[rhetorica]

It is my understanding that the Natonal Guard is activated by the Governors of the respectative states. I don't think Bush could order NG troops to LA, Miss, or AL until asked to by the Governors of those states. In going back and reading stories from Sunday and Monday's New Orleans and Baton Rough newspapers, I didn't see an evidence that Governor Blanco activated the Guard in her state.

[norton]

that's the point I'm trying to make

[crowman]

Maybe Able Danger will spark up because the shreekers who say that Iraq caused Katrina make the mid-east central again.......The MSM will just have to multi-task......