Posted on 09/03/2005 1:56:40 PM PDT by Wolfstar
PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: President George Bush spoke to the nation during a rare live weekly radio address from the Rose Garden at the White House this morning. He announced that the U.S. military will send an additional 10,000 National Guard troops to Louisiana and Mississippi to assist in hurricane relief. The influx of new National Guard troops is in addition to 7,000 active-duty federal ground troops being sent to the area by the President.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will visit Mississippi and Louisiana tomorrow, and the President returns Monday. His planned schedule has been cleared. Even his meeting with the Chinese president has been cancelled.
Although, for Constitutional and other legal reasons, the federal government cannot move state officials asside, the President has essentially federalized the disaster. The term "federalized" cannot be used officially, although that is what has happened in practice. (We just won't say it's been federalized.)
QUOTE OF THE DAY: From the President Radio Address this morning:
I...met relief and rescue workers who are performing heroically in difficult circumstances. They've been working around the clock, risking their own lives to save the lives of others. Yet, despite their best efforts, the magnitude of responding to a crisis over a disaster area that is larger than the size of Great Britain has created tremendous problems that have strained state and local capabilities. The result is that many of our citizens simply are not getting the help they need, especially in New Orleans.
And that is unacceptable.
Hour by hour, the situation on the ground is improving. Yet the enormity of the task requires more resources and more troops. Today I ordered the Department of Defense to deploy additional active duty forces to the region. Over the next 24 to 72 hours, more than 7,000 additional troops from the 82nd Airborne, from the 1st Cavalry, the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, and the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force will arrive in the affected areas. These forces will be on the ground and operating under the direct command of General Russ Honore. Our priorities are clear: We will complete the evacuation as quickly and safely as possible. We will not let criminals prey on the vulnerable, and we will not allow bureaucracy to get in the way of saving lives.
IT IS TIME FOR OUR VOICES TO BE HEARD. IT IS TIME FOR US TO COME TO THE DEFENSE OF THIS GREAT PRESIDENT. It's time for us to say the things he can't say due to presidential decorum, protocol, and political constraints. From Ben Stein's excellent article entitled "Get Off His Back" posted here on FR today.
George Bush is the least racist President in mind and soul there has ever been and this is shown in his appointments over and over. To say otherwise is scandalously untrue.
If the energy the news media puts into blaming Bush for an Act of God worsened by stupendous incompetence by the New Orleans city authorities and the malevolence of the criminals of the city were directed to helping the morale of the nation, we would all be a lot better off.
Each of us can help in some way in this national catastrophe. One way is to obtain good, factual information to counter the relentless assault on the President that's occurred with abandon in the news media the last few days, and then to spread the information as far and wide as possible within the sphere of our own lives.
I strongly urge every active Doser and every lurker here to spread the truth: The Governor of Louisiana and her administration, the Louisiana legislature, county officials (called parish in LA), and the Mayor of New Orleans and his administration are criminally negligent. Their negligence, incompetence and corruption have caused the deaths of uncounted thousands of their own constituents. They MUST not be allowed to deflect blame to the President. They must be held accountable.
The following excerpt is from an outstanding article posted on FR here. It is by Dr. Jack Wheeler at "The Point." In a few words, Dr. Wheeler puts into stark relief the challenges President George W. Bush has had to confront within just FIVE YEARS. Who among us would not be experiencing a degree of strain and burnout if we were in his job today? And yet, even if the strain may show early in these crises, he has never failed to rise to the occasion. We are alive to bear witness to one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known.
So here’s a confession. Anyone’s heart has to go out to the folks you see on television who have lost everything they possess – but the person my heart goes out the most to is George W. Bush.
No president in modern memory has been subjected to more calumny, lies, and slander than him. After the Democrats do everything they can to steal his election in 2000 then have the brass to claim he stole it from them, eight months into his first term there is the worst terrorist attack in the nation’s history, and he has to wage a war against an enemy of insanely depraved evil.
He does so with incredible determination and fortitude, and is hated and vilified for it.
Then in his second term there is the worst natural disaster in US history. Either one would be an extraordinary historical challenge for a president. Only a man of enormous faith and ability could be willing and able to take one on. To ask him to take on both is asking him to be superhuman.
He is not, of course, but we are asking him to be. All we can offer in return is our gratitude. And our contempt for New York Times-Moveon.org-Cindy Sheehan America-hating scum.
God bless President Bush
Pinging you to the Saturday Dose.
And as always prayers for our heroes in the military.
God Bless this President.
After 9/11, I came to believe that President Bush was chosen "for a time such as this". I still believe this. Would a President Gore or President Kerry be able to handle the crises that this good man has? I doubt it, because President Clinton wasn't good at doing it either. We must keep praying for God to give President Bush an extra dose of resolve in the face of disaster and the unyielding hatred of the Democrats/MSM/liberals.
Thank you for the dose and your defense of the disgusting charges of racism against this president.
If any of us can be of any help with the timeline, please let us know. I will be sure to post it, when available, on pertinent threads. Repeatedly. It will be called spamming but I don't care.
Nothing will convince me that the left and the media aren't trying to cause race riots in this country, all to further their own agenda and discredit this president. We must not allow that to happen and I know that we on FR will do everything we can to ensure it doesn't.
Reading between the lines I think that is exactly what he is doing.
I strongly urge every active Doser and every lurker here to spread the truth: The Governor of Louisiana and her administration, the Louisiana legislature, county officials (called parish in LA), and the Mayor of New Orleans and his administration are criminally negligent. Their negligence, incompetence and corruption have caused the deaths of uncounted thousands of their own constituents. They MUST not be allowed to deflect blame to the President. They must be held accountable.
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