Not much traction with the abuse (Wes Pruden Rocks!)

The Washington Times ^ | 09-06-05 | Wesley Pruden

[smoothsailing]

George W. finally gets it -- in more ways than one. The tardy president was back on the Gulf Coast yesterday, bucking up the spirits of the damned and stiffening the resolve of the slackers.

He's getting it as well from his critics, many of whom can't believe their great good luck, that a hurricane, of all things, finally gives them the opening they've been waiting for to heap calumny and scorn on him for something that might get a little traction. Cindy Sheehan is yesterday's news; she couldn't attract a camera crew this morning if she stripped down to her step-ins for a march on Prairie Chapel Ranch.

[WOSG]

WOW. HOME RUN COLUMN.

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The vultures of the venomous left are attacking on two fronts, first that the president didn't do what the incompetent mayor of New Orleans and the pouty governor of Louisiana should have done, and didn't, in the early hours after Katrina loosed the deluge on the city that care and good judgment forgot. Ray Nagin, the mayor, ordered a "mandatory" evacuation a day late, but kept the city's 2,000 school buses parked and locked in neat rows when there was still time to take the refugees to higher ground. The bright-yellow buses sit ruined now in four feet of dirty water. Then the governor, Kathleen Blanco, resisted early pleas to declare martial law, and her dithering opened the way for looters, rapists and killers to make New Orleans an unholy hell. Gov. Haley Barbour did not hesitate in neighboring Mississippi, and looters, rapists and killers have not turned the streets of Gulfport and Biloxi into killing fields.
The drumbeat of partisan ingratitude continues even after the president flooded the city with National Guardsmen from a dozen states, paratroopers from Fort Bragg and Marines from the Atlantic and the Pacific. The flutter and chatter of the helicopters above the ghostly abandoned city, some of them from as far away as Singapore and averaging 240 missions a day, is eerily reminiscent of the last days of Saigon. Nevertheless, Sen. Mary Landrieu, who seems to think she's cute when she's mad, even threatened on national television to punch out the president -- a felony, by the way, even as a threat. Mayor Nagin, who you might think would be looking for a place to hide, and Gov. Blanco, nursing a bigtime snit, can't find the right word of thanks to a nation pouring out its heart and emptying its pockets. Maybe the senator should consider punching out the governor, only a misdemeanor.

[facedown]

Black and white churches of all denominations across a wide swath of the South stretching from Texas across Arkansas and Louisiana into Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and Georgia turned their Sunday schools into kitchens and dormitories. In Memphis, Junior Leaguers turned out for baby-sitting duty at the city's largest, most fashionable and nearly all white Baptist church, cradling tiny black infants in compassionate arms so their mothers could finally sleep. The owner of a honky-tonk showed up to ask whether the church would "accept money from a bar." A pastor took $1,400, some of it in quarters, dimes and nickels, with grateful thanks and a promise to see that it is spent wisely on the deserving -- most of whom are black.

The most under-reported story of the calamity: Americans doing what Americans always do - getting the job done.

[FlingWingFlyer]

So it was Airhead Huffington's blog that started the cannibalism rumors huh? Figures.

[smoothsailing]

Is Pruden good,or what! ;)

[Choose Ye This Day]

Sen. Mary Landrieu, who seems to think she's cute when she's mad...

Boy, is she deluded. Great line.

[kb2614]

The first polls, no surprise, show the libels are not working. A Washington Post-ABC survey found that the president is not seen as the villain the nutcake left is trying to make him out to be. Americans, skeptical as ever, are believing their own eyes.

Those stupid Americans. How dare they question there MSM betters. Everybody knows IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!! sarcasm

[Eagles6]

Short and to the point. Very good. I don't know if there were 2000 buses, at least a couple hundred. If anybody knows for sure, chime in. More than enough, anyway, to evacuate everyone who needed it before the storm. The dims and the msm are shameless, as if we didn't know.

[de Buillion]

Home Run! Thanks for this post, smoothsailing.

[lepton]

I don't know if there were 2000 buses, at least a couple hundred.

Don't know the total number, but there were over 200 in one busyard.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I loved the part where Wes reminded Miss Cutey Pie that hitting, or even threatening to hit the President was a felony. On the other hand, she could smack Blanko and it would only be a misdemeanor. ROTFL!!!

[onyx]

This is GOLD.

[Lancey Howard]

Wes Pruden is, and has been for a very long time, outstanding.

There used to be a great radio talk show host in this (Philly) area by the name of Tom Marr. He hosted a Saturday night radio show back in the '80s here on WWDB-FM (R.I.P.) and he often talked about his friend Wes Pruden.

[nopardons]

Marvelous column! I wish this stuff was stated more often and by more people.

[smoothsailing]

Buses? We got buses here at FR!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1477545/posts

post #20 is my favorite,BTW!

[zeller the zealot]

What worries me is the 47% in the ABC poll that DID blame the Bush administration. These people are going to try and elect Hitlery in a few years. They may succeed. God help us.

[Chaguito]

I've counted 450 in three photos of different yards, including municipal buses. 2000 doesn't seem far off.

[smoothsailing]

Wes is top drawer material,Lancey.

I've heard that name,Tom Marr,is he still around?

[Reagan Man]

Nice going Wesley.

Ray Nagin, the mayor, ordered a "mandatory" evacuation a day late, but kept the city's 2,000 school buses parked and locked in neat rows when there was still time to take the refugees to higher ground. The bright-yellow buses sit ruined now in four feet of dirty water.

2,000 buses! WOW. Nagin could have moved 100K people out of NO. Instead he ran off to Baton Rogue and later blamed the President for everything going wrong. What a guy! LOL

[Jack Deth]

Gotta love Wesley Pruden!

When he connects, which is damn near all the time. He nails it HARD and knocks it wayyyyy out of the park!

Jack.