Posted on 09/06/2005 7:00:12 AM PDT by laz
Buses left in parking lots. Emergency plans completely ignored. Repeated warnings inexplicably unheeded. Contingencies not even considered.
How can it be that in the 21st Century, any group of human beings facing a terrible, imminent danger would fail to consider things and take actions that would occur to even a child? Especially a group of people living in the most powerful nation on the face of this earth?
Was it collective insanity? Mass delusion? Blissful denial?
Or perhaps it was a deadly mixture of incompetence, ineptness, and stupidity -- all coming together fatally at one moment in time for maximum effect.
To all of these questions, I must answer no. None of these reasons is sufficient to explain what we have seen. None of them can solve the mystery of the collosal failure all of us have witnessed. No one on the face of this planet is this incompetent, this inept, this stupid, consistently and repeatedly, to such an extreme. Not even the Left. So what *is* the answer?
The President's foes have tried and tried in many ways over the past five years to destroy his presidency. They have lied about him, obstructed him, and opposed him in every manner available to them. They have even gone so far as to forge false documents in a bid to sabotage and prevent his re-election. Each attempt has been more desperate than the last, and further and further removed from any vestige of truth or of decency. But all of it has failed. Despite all of their efforts, he is still there, and they have been frustrated in all their attempts.
It is not in their nature to advise themselves with reason or wisdom to lick their wounds and throw in the towel. Each successive defeat has made them angrier and bolder, and they continue to hunt for something more damaging to use as a weapon. As long as he is there, they will not quit. So as Katrina bore down on the Gulf Coast during the last days of August, they saw the impending disaster not as a tragedy to be avoided or minimized, but as an opportunity to be embraced and exploited. They resigned themselves to the probability that The Big Easy was lost, as they knew very well they had never prepared her to survive. But perhaps a silver lining could be extracted from the storm clouds, a sort of meteorological/political mutually-assured destruction. If they played their cards right despite the hand they'd been dealt, this tragedy could actually turn out to be a blessing in disguise.
So there was no incompetence, there was no ineptness, and there was no stupidity. What there was, rather, was a purely partisan and calculated and machiavellian plan, concocted and set into motion as the day of reckoning arrived and time ran out. When the corrupt political machine in Louisiana and their DNC handlers realized that Katrina was the big one, that she wasn't going to fizzle out or change course -- that this was the hurricane with their name on it -- they made the conscious, deliberate, and willful decision to do absolutely NOTHING at all to alleviate or ameliorate the situation in any way whatsoever... to allow the situation to become as bad as it could possibly get... and then to lay the whole thing at the feet of George W. Bush.
If New Orleans must fall, they decided, then let her take Bush down with her.
They have not been capitalizing on this tragedy after the fact, all this past week. On this, they were ahead of the curve. They decided to capitalize on it BEFORE it had even occurred, and consciously sacrificed many lives to destroy the enemy and to further their agenda.
This is why they moved not one single bus... nor requested any help from outside... nor attempted to nip the anarchy in the bud... nor did any of the other things which to everyone else are absolute no-brainers. Allowing a hurricane to bring down a city was an acceptable loss if it could serve to bring down a president they detest and abhor. Such is their hatred for him that in order to destroy him, they were willing to let nature tear down one of their political fiefdoms -- like a suicide bomber blowing himself up.
Factor into this also their fear that decades of corruption could be brought fully to light should the Fed come into their state and trip over something hitherto hidden from view, and you will understand why federal help was adamantly and inexplicably resisted instead of entreated. And all of the frantic screeching and howling about racism and slow response, all of the insidious lies and calumnies flying at the speed of sound, are little more than a monumental game of three card monte, a desperate attempt to keep the public's eyes off the ball. But the DNC/MSM emperor has no clothes, and is as nakedly exposed to the elements and to scrutiny as a parking lot full of buses tire-deep in a dying city's blood.
Good call! Thanks.
The NYT wins. In case of disaster in your area do absolutely nothing to save lives, protect property or relieve suffering. Your new assignment is to blame Bush, blame Bush and blame Bush. Got that? Good, together we will build a better America.
I buy most of what is said, but I have a hard time believing there was some consiracy to give up an American city in order to "get" the president.
So, NO is guilty of self-immolation to destroy Bush ?
Have a Battle Star, Skipper!
Can't say that I've not been having the same thoughts, and really, what normal person hasn't? What other way to explain what DID happen?
One thing, though, is this. Rudi should be sitting pretty well for the 2008 election. While the dems try to pin this on Bush, they are going to look more and more insane and out-of-touch!
Well said. You may be right.
While the jackasses are truely the lowest of the low with how they are responding to NO, I will fall back on Hanlon's Razor as to why things went so wrong.
Hanlon's Razor:
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
I don't know, over that thousand years, people have done more for less.
I agree. You have alot of good points.
Did anyone hear the inteview of Governor Blanco this morning on Fox?
She kept insisting that Buses WERE used, that they were '
going around picking people up etc.
Then she said something like "that is what the mayor told me"
Just curious, cuz she could've been caught lying bigtime,
or worse,
showing how out of touch with everything she is.
I thought this morning this very same thing. I think the left could/would let things collapse when they saw it was going to anyway and hope Pres. Bush would take the heat/blame for it.
YOU DA MAN~! LAZ
I do not want to sound like a conspiracy kook, but if any future investigations reveal that there was some hidden intentions by the Democrats in the Mayor and Governor offices in Louisiana with coordination with other leaders of the Democrat party to purposely not do anything about the hurricane in order to blame the President for it, then the Democrat party as know will cease to exist.
They knew the kind of monster storm that was coming their way. They knew. They figured the city would get hit hard, and that there was no way to avoid it. Resigned to that, they planned a way to get something out of it.
No conspiracy, just a pragmatic decision made in the last few hours, probably, when they figured all was lost anyway.
Sorry, I don't buy this AT ALL.
For Chrissake, it sounds like some whacko conspiracy plot the DU types dream up.
Get a grip - Hanlon's Razor [thank you Tower] was in effect.
I guarantee that this is going to be used and used and used in the next election to drive that black vote back to the Democrats in record numbers. The "black genocide" in New Orleans will become an article of faith in inner cities across the country. It's the perfect way to keep the brothers on the Democrat plantation. 'We may not be doin' much for you, but those Republicans just want to kill you like they killed the brothers and sisters in New Orleans.' Hide and watch. They have hit the political jackpot and they know it.
All that means is that Blanco is going to blame the Mayor.
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