A Few of FR's Finest..Every Day..09-08-05..Liberals: It's silly to blame katrina for an Act of Bush

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Liberals: It's silly to blame Katrina for an Act of Bush

by JohnHuang2

Gov. Kathleen Blanco, reports the New Orleans Times Picayune, "canceled a scheduled trip Monday to visit Louisiana evacuees in Houston shelters to stay in Baton Rouge to meet with President Bush." Bob Mann, Blanco's Communications Director, said the governorette had no idea Bush was visiting. "We had no idea the president was coming." Until early Monday morning. But don't worry. The governorette had no idea Katrina was coming. Until early Monday morning, August 29.

Can't blame her, though. She'd just never heard of the Weather Channel. And didn't have the foggiest clue what the President meant when, days before Katrina hit, he personally phoned to tell her, "Lady, for the umpteeth time, EVACUATE NEW ORLEANS NOW!" New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was just as clued-in. Apparently, neither governor Tweedle-Dee nor Mayor Tweedle-Dumber were privy to reports over the years that hurricanes are dangerous. And that if you're 'Mayoring' a city 12-feet below sea-level, 30-foot storm surges could be a problem.

When it comes to blithering idiocy, Kathleen and Nagin are leading authorities. When someone screws up, the pair sue for patent infringement.

Hours after Katrina hit South Florida, any citizen with access to an Idiot Box knew Katrina was headed straight for Louisiana. By early Saturday, the next day, every six-year old Aborigine in Australia knew Katrina was headed straight for Louisiana. (Katrina was the second disaster to visit the Big Easy in one year! The first was Howard Dean.)

In fact, well before Katrina turned Louisiana into a disaster area, Bush declared Louisiana and Mississippi disaster areas, urged residents to flee, mobilized FEMA, mobilized the Coast Guard, mobilized search and rescue crews and disaster medical teams, pre-positioning them near the expected strike area -- all part of Bush's "slow response" to Katrina. In fact, if I hear anyone say "slow response" again, I might have to punch him. Literally.

The liberals' idea of a "quick response"? Sending hero and Mideast expert Sean Penn on his 'Swift Boat' mission. One whole week after Katrina. The boat, lightly loaded with handlers, cameramen, make-up artists, hairdresser, the professor and Mary Ann, began sinking seconds after launch from the drain hole at the bottom of the vessel that the moron forgot to plug because he forgot to plug the one in his head first. Chirac in the hospital. Katrina. Breached levees. Now this. Karl Rove never rests.

In fairness, Penn worried that people in New Orleans were going without food and water. Liberals care deeply for people going without food and water. Just ask Terri Schiavo.

Look, Penn can complain about inadequate disaster preparations by the feds all he wants, but it's noteworthy that after that harrowing ordeal with his boat, he got a diaper change and a feeding for free -- thanks to FEMA.

After the deadliest natural disaster to strike the U.S. in a century, real Americans responded immediately with generosity and compassion. Liberals responded movingly -- by blaming Katrina on Bush. Katrina -- an Act of Bush. It's Bush's fault. It's global warming. It's Big Oil. It's BushCo. It's Kyoto. It's Iraq. It's racism. It's Bush in Crawford. It's tax cuts. It's chicken-hawks. It's Bush. It's Zionists. It's SUVs. It's Bush. It's the neocons. It's the BFEE. It's Bush. It's Halliburton. It's Haley Barbour. It's Haley Barbour derailing Kyoto which caused New Orleans to flood. Or, the levees failed because of money spent on Iraq. Or, it's Louisiana's National Guard "diverted" to Iraq to fight Chimpy's War for Oil to increase global warming and cause a worldwide flood. And Katrina hit New Orleans because "Bush doesn't care about black people!"

Apparently, Bush doesn't take seriously his duties as President of the United States of New Orleans.

So, if I understand the bitching correctly, Bush (a) steered Katrina into New Orleans because it's mostly black, (b) breached the levees, (c) deliberately blocked relief efforts, (d) blocked delivery of food and water to the Convention Center, (e) ringed the Convention Center with electrified barbed wire fence to block any escape. Bush. He'll do anything for glowing headlines.

Let's see now. Republicans run Mississippi. Republicans run Alabama. Don't hear many complaints about the organized response out of either state. Out of Louisiana, you hear nothing but complaints about the organized effort. I wonder what's different about Louisiana? I'll have to look into it.

The lesson of Katrina is that putting Democrats in charge of your state can get you killed. It's clinically proven. D'rats run New Orleans. D'rats run Louisiana.

The primarily responsibility for local disasters doesn't lie with the Oval Office. In Louisiana, that's the job of corrupt mayors and governors. Local pols there spend oodles of time planning evacuation routes in case of disaster, such as getting indicted.

So Katrina strikes and the locals get caught unprepared and you end up with people huddled in the Convention Center running out of food and water, Mayor jackass too busy sticking pins in his Bush Voodoo doll and yammering away to realize they're running out of food and water, and NOLA police joining in the looting. Even a rescue helicopter was shot at. So much for predictions we'd be greeted as liberators by cheering crowds with flowers and that troops would be home by Christmas. Bush invaded Louisiana without a plan to win the peace! Yada, yada.

Also, local incompetence and corruption is how you end up with rows and rows of school buses in a flooded New Orleans parking lot. Hundreds of buses. Could've been used to transport poor residents out of New Orleans before Katrina. Mayor bozo: Couldn't use 'em -- no bathrooms. Residents would rather swim around in sewage than evacuate in a bus without a bathroom. No, not that!

Frankly, I'm surprised. I thought liberals loved Forced Busing. Here was the perfect opportunity to bus thousands! Too bad it wasn't Election Day. Blanco and Nagin: We can't let Katrina disenfranchise the voters of New Orleans! If we don't bus, Katrina wins.

Truth is, had the locals done an effective evacuation, we'd still be talking about Tom DeLay's golfing trips. No hampered relief effort. Mayor Nagin waited until the last minute to order a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, which he executed by directing residents of New Orleans to the Superdome and Convention Center, in New Orleans. Brilliant.

To evacuate as many residents as possible out of Katrina's path, Blanco gave the National Guard authority to seize buses -- just two days after Katrina passed! Makes you yearn for government-run health care, doesn't it?

The Mayor of NO of the party of "No" who has no city to mayor over and the governor of LA who lives in LA-LA Land. Come the next elections, I wouldn't wanna be a Democrat in Louisiana.

Anyway that's...

My two cents

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[DollyCali]

[auboy]

Now. Now. Remember, Louisiana Daylight Savings is one week behind the rest of the country. Mayor and Governor Van Winkle thought they had plenty of time to evacuate New Orleans.;-)

[Aquamarine]

Bush invaded Louisiana without a plan to win the peace! Yada, yada.

ROTFL! The first good laugh I've had all week!

Outstanding job you two. Dutchess, I don't know where you found all these graphics but they are perfect for this essay.

[Pippin]

HEE HAW!

That's Donkey for Good Morning!

John's essay is at it's usual best form!

WTG John!

[Pippin]

Hi, Lori!

[Pippin]

Hi. Dolly!

[dutchess]

God Bless Our Military
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We ask Lord, that You guide the leaders of our great country in their hour of decision. The burden that has been placed on their shoulders is overwhelming. We ask that with Your infinite wisdom You guide them gently to the right decisions.

Please give us the strength, Lord, to get through each difficult and devastating day that faces each of us and our country. Protect and guide our Military that are now being called to duty, strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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[Pippin]

Re #12

You got coworkers like that too, eh?

Aren't they pathetic?

[Mama_Bear]

Another gem from the keyboard of our JH2! This sez it all, doesn't it?

"Let's see now. Republicans run Mississippi. Republicans run Alabama. Don't hear many complaints about the organized response out of either state. Out of Louisiana, you hear nothing but complaints about the organized effort. I wonder what's different about Louisiana? I'll have to look into it."

Great layout, dutchess, and I love the tweedledee, tweedledum graphic, Billie. Did you also do the donkey 'ping graphic' too?

Bravo! Another super-Fine effort from all involved!

[Mama_Bear]

Mornin' Pippin. Hope you have a better day today. :-)

[Pippin]

I'm gonna try! :o)

[dutchess]

Great layout, dutchess, and I love the tweedledee, tweedledum graphic, Billie. Did you also do the donkey 'ping graphic' too?

Thanks Lori. Yup, billie came through for me with the tweedledee/dum graphic. re: the donkey one. I actually think that that is a real pic. Found a thread yesterday with donkey's wandering loose around NO. (they are used all over the quarter for carriage rides). :o( don't know why my greeting is still messed up. Looked fine when I previewed it! Anyway...thanks sistahs!

[dutchess]

Hey pippin. Ignore that co-worker. (or anonymously print out this essay and put it on her desk LOL!)

[MEG33]

Great layout and essay! Thank you!

[Mama_Bear]

don't know why my greeting is still messed up. Looked fine when I previewed it! Anyway...thanks sistahs!

Mornin' dutchess. A missing < br > after the graphic is the culprit. Isn't it funny (well, not really funny) how one silly little dropped break command can mess up a table so badly?

[Mama_Bear]

Oops, talk about missing commands!....forgot to italicize your comment in my reply. LOL

[dutchess]

I don't know where you found all these graphics but they are perfect for this essay.

Hi sistahs. I've been uploading pictures all week "in anticipation", diverdave sent me the blame bush thing and of course billie came through with the tweedledee/tweedledum. Have to admit, this one was a blast to do! (((hugs))))

[dutchess]

Hi serpent. Thanks for the link and for stopping in. Sure glad this guy isn't my mayor! What a disgrace!

[Aquamarine]

and of course billie came through with the tweedledee/tweedledum.

I missed seeing her sig on the gif the first time around. Billie always does such good work graphics, wish she could do at least one for Johns essay every week.

[dutchess]

Brilliant.

John's biting essays never cease to amaze me!!!! Thanks for stopping in!