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.
BTTT.
With the success the teachers have been having with educating the kids, I would have to take it under serious consideration. Graduating children that can't read their diplomas seem like a job not well done.
Teachers should get out of politics and get rid of that abomination of a union,. and get back to teaching.
It is curious you assume all teachers are Democrats.
Hadn't seen you in a few weeks.
How are you faring?
Thanks for the endorsement.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477162/posts
Blanco has yet to declare state of Emergency.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477173/posts
My hero is :
More photo's of the sunken buses.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477176/posts
Military telling it like it is.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477148/posts
NG deployment time line.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477195/posts
Official reminds that State was notified that supplies were ready on Wed or Thursday. Were not requested.
KatrinaBlameGame Bump
BTTT
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477374/posts
Unanswered questions with more links.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477530/posts
Blanco requests funds for 3 shelters.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477547/posts
cars not race.
You know... come to think of it, Michael Moore is pretty much the perfect size to plug that huge hole in the levee. Finally! A purpose for him!
"Moral of the story, don't hire a Democrat for any important job."
"So can we go fire the teachers?"
-"It is curious you assume all teachers are Democrats."
No, I did not. It is curious you assume that I did. Had I assumed all teachers are Democrats, I would have written:
"So can we go fire all the teachers?"
Yeah, I know. They keep telling me that.
Marking of the book...
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