Posted on 09/08/2005 11:12:02 PM PDT by YaYa123
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Hurricane Katrina not only covered New Orleans in toxic goo, it also flushed out a large, vocal and potentially pestilential cadre of First Over-Responders.
Rep. Bob Wexler set the stage just minutes after the first levee burst by accusing President Bush of gross incompetence. Rep. Harold Ford followed shortly after with an artless race-card play, wondering aloud why so many people of color had been stranded.
In time, virtually every Democratic panjandrum found some novel way to politicize the Atlantic typhoon. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton inveigled against the evils of Big Oil. Sen. Edward Kennedy suggested holding a forum on New Orleans' racial and economic tensions -- during John Roberts' Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
There was talk of shutting off future tax cuts, spending hundreds of billions of dollars, firing Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, recalling all National Guard units from Iraq and revamping the federal government's plans for dealing with terrorist attacks.
Opinions wildly outnumbered facts among the Over-Responders. At one point, Randall Robinson alleged that locals were cannibalizing the bloated and blistered bodies of the city's dead, while rap star Kanye West repeated the urban legend that black looters were described as "looters," while whites were designated as "survivors."
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"Let's face it, the political left -- aided and abetted by Pat Buchanan and members of the bed-wetting right -- made utter fools of themselves."
That's why nobody will care a year from now what House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi had to say this week.
I hope that isn't the case. I hope Americans very sharply recall what a ditz that woman is.
I second that.
It seems like everyone of these imbeciles came crawling out of the wood work, just hoping to hang something on the President.
Now get this: even Bill Richardson, that's right the same Bill Richardson from the Clinton administration said the brunt of this could not be blamed on Bush, that it was bureaucratic red tape that hindered the efforts of FEMA.
What is Tony's education? He is wicked smart and one of the few commentators really good at a quick and compelling come back.
Which is a result of the big government Democrats and the greedy trial lawyers.
Ping for later read. Must go collapse now.
I think you're right -- '08 and on the other half of the hillary ticket.
You bet 'cha!
US Rep harold ford JUNIOR was a NO SHOW for the $10.5 Billion aid vote.
Your Tony Snow article ping :-)
:-) Thanks for posting this today!
The people who actually make America work. BTW, I heard on the first segment of FNF this morning that Surfer Boy was present at an altercation, camera in hand, as a reluctant resident of NO was removed. Perhaps we will hear the details this morning.
Oh, Yaya, thanks for posting this! I am so glad to see someone pointing out the idiocy of these critics!!
Tony graduated in 1975 from Princeton High School located in Sharonville, Ohio which is exactly 17 miles north of downtown Cincinnati on I-75.
Snow has a B.A. in philosophy from Davidson College, and did graduate work in philosophy and economics at the University of Chicago. His Fox News bio: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,112960,00.html
And more on the same topic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1480866/posts
I don't know why I hear so much griping. I find it amazing that the response was as quick as it was considering how enormous this disaster is. I think many people watch too much tv and movies and think superman is gonna fly in and save everyone from everything.
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