White House Passive in face of Democrat, Media Smear on Hurricane

Powerline ^ | 9/4/05 | John Hinderaker

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[TXBubba]

According to an ABC poll, the public is not blaming Bush. They're blaming the local government.

Can you or someone provide this poll? I would like a bit of good news verified.

[BonnieJ]

What I am wondering is what happened to the Karl Rove "story" that was 24-7 for weeks? There is no continuity to their attacks, they are simply ever-present. And not very original or convincing either. Who on earth is buying it that Pres. Bush is to blame for a hurricane?!

[Texas_Jarhead]

Gee, thanks for setting me straight.

[Travis McGee]

I hope that sooner or later the MSM discovers that New Orleans did have a written emergency plan to cover the evacuation of the poor, but that the idiot mayor of New Orleans ignored it, and allowed the evacuation buses to be ruined by the flood, forgotten.

The city leaders had at least two full days to use these hundreds of buses to evac the poor, exactly as their own emergency management plan called for.

Here's the southeast Louisiana evac plan supplement, most recently revised in 2000. Go to page 13, read paragraph 5. It states:

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.

[Yosemitest]

Let the democrats shoot off their own foot. The Cutting Edge: IT'S IDEOLOGICAL, NOT RACIAL.

[airborne]

"Can you provide this poll?"

http://abcnews.go.com/US/HurricaneKatrina/story?id=1094262&page=1

[mercy]

There's plenty of blame to go round. People will figure this out. EVERYBODY screwed up. It will all equal out.

Everybody knows Lousyanna is a cesspool of corruption and Nwalins is the heart of it. The GOP's not going to lose any voters over this. The balance of power is not going to shift.

The more the Rats howl the more good folks will realize how evil they are.

[Nathan Zachary]

Thanks! I was looking for that second pic. Those are the transit buses that Nagin seemed to have forgotten about, along with the 279 school buses in the top pic. there should be 345 transit buses though. All together, they could have moved 20,000 people easily in ONE trip.

[EternalVigilance]

White House Passive in face of Democrat, Media Smear...

To whatever extent that might be true, I would say that such tactics would qualify as what I call 'political judo'.

Let the force of your enemy's stupidity carry them forward to disaster....

It's one the things the Bush political team is quite good at.

When your enemy is destroying himself, don't interfere.

See my tagline:

[TXBubba]

Thanks! And I found it on a thread right after I asked. A bright spot in my day.

[hershey]

Michael Chertoff came on Meet the Press and handed Russert his lunch. Russert can't be as stupid as he sounded. The contrived indignation over thousands of people (blacks),left for dead! Chertoff reminded him feds can ask, plead with local and state authorities for permission to take over, which they did, but the feds' role is to support local and state efforts until given permission to move in whole hog.

Russert then demanded: how can you possibly be prepared for an other attack here, perhaps nuclear, and Chertoff said, we have to deal with the situation as it is, but think and plan ahead, not dwell on the past. Dwelling on the past wastes energy and brains better spent on preparing for the future. He hinted that he wouldn't be wasting any more time on foolish interviews where he had to answer stupid questions.

Chertoff was extremely impressive, as always.

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Democratic Mayor NO Democratic Governor LA Democratic Governor TX bailing them out Media Bailing them out Same old song and dance

Let this ride out. We've got judges to pick. The whole cournty's got the Dems and MSM's number.

[oceanview]

the president himself can't go political, but there is no reason why some of our senators can't be out there refuting people like Mary Landrieu et al.

[dfwgator]

They are not being passive, it's just they are too busy trying to save lives. Now is not the time to respond to their ridiculous moonbat allegations.

[js1138]

Bush is a grown-up, and grown-ups don't expect infants to be grateful.

Similar things were said about Bush before the last election, but he easily increased his margin of victory.

Don't mistake what the press says for what the people know.

[Logical me]

Wow, just shows how nuts these CRATS are. Louisiana Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu threatening our President. What a stone nut and should join the ranks of the Mayor and Governor. Where do these lame brain come from?

[Dolphy]

We should shut up and let the Democrats continue to damage themselves. The author is wrong.

I absolutely agree with you. Firing back or joining the blame game will make us feel better but ultimately accomplish nothing. The fact that some people missed 3 days of food or a shower is nothing in comparison to the challenges that await in handling 10s of thousands of displaced people and the rebuilding.

Once again the Democrats show that their vision of the world and in crisis, extends as far as the next sunset.

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[hershey]

Just remembered another bit between Russert and Chertoff. Russert sneered that they'd known for ten years that NO ws a soup bowl and not prepared for a really bad hurricane. And Chertoff said, yes, local and state govt. had had ten years to upgrade and hadn't done so. Chertoff gave chapter and verse of when and how the feds begged state and local officials to evacuate, early, early on. The levee break was after the storm had passed, and by then the mayor and gov. woke up to the front page of the Time Picayune, trumpeting: 'We Dodged the Bullet'. Those pictures of hundreds of school buses sitting in water should haunt the dems. But it won't. When the truth won't serve, they go with the big lie.