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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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[The Mayor]

Thank you Ma'am!

I wish you all were here but your prayers and moral support is what keeps us going.

[deadhead]

"I wish you all were here but your prayers and moral support is what keeps us going."

:-) God Bless you and yours, good night.

[Texagirl4W]

Continued good success. If you don't win this election, you are still a winner with us.

[luvie]

Yes, there's no substitute for the truth, and I imagine it is a refreshing change for the people up there in Erie county. My fingers are crossed....

...and my prayers are with you to succeed at this come election day!

[dutchess]

WOW...awesome job rus...great debate. Your answers were right on. Plus almost lost my coffee with the picture of your dem apponents. I'm praying for you friend!

[dutchess]

Hi Maggie. ANOTHER great dear John letter. So glad you made it back safely today. I admit I take for granted your every day smiling face and hospitality around here until you leave us for a day or so. Love you Maggie.

((((((Lady X)))))))

[The Mayor]

Good Night.. : )

[The Mayor]

Thank you, you all are great!

[The Mayor]

I lkie that.. Thanks LuvW!

[The Mayor]

I had a hard time keeping my composure when he was doing it.

At least he did it, I didn't have to. So he looks like the bad guy.
I really dislike nasty attack politics, win on the issues and substance.
If you can't do that then get out of the race.

Thank you!

[luvie]

You're welcome! I'd have rabbit feet (foots?), horseshoes, four-leaf clovers and every other thing if I thought it would help! But.....prayer works best, so that's what I'll do!

[LadyX]

- - O-U-T-S-T-A-N-D-I-N-G !!!

[fatima]

Thanks for the ping LadyX.

[The Mayor]

Hi M'Lady!

Thanks, I had fun..
Feel like Thomas Jefferson or Sam Adams.

[LadyX]

Thanks - you *know* I just *love* to sink my teeth into John's Essays..:))

I sit here and laugh out loud as I digest them, and imagine how you, dutchess, and Aquamarine and Billie must enjoy reading them first, and looking for the right illustrations - - and never, ever fail to do so!

We are so fortunate to be able to present them right here on The Finest.

[dutchess]

At least he did it, I didn't have to. So he looks like the bad guy. I really dislike nasty attack politics

Boy can I relate. Hang in there rus, your lovely wife and kids...I'm praying for a victory!!!

[The Mayor]

Thank you Dutchess! I have to go to bed..

G'Night..

[LadyX]

"Feel like Thomas Jefferson or Sam Adams."

Indeed, your actions come across - as I once said to you - like one of our Founding Fathers.

Not bald enough to be Benjamin Franklin, though, even if as wise...hm...wonder how you'd look with long hair??!!..:))

I give you this that Ben said:

Prayers and hugs, Your Honor,

~ LadyX

[The Mayor]

Thanks Lady X..
I'm off to bed, see you for coffee.

[LadyX]

I resisted telling you to go to impress the voters...

(Thought you'd get a charge out of that..:))