"Does anyone know what Vice President
Bush called this in 1980? Anyone?
Something-D-O-O economics.
"Voodoo" economics."
Posted on 09/12/2005 6:00:49 AM PDT by Quilla
Fact: Katrina was a devastating storm. It left terrible damage to innocent people's lives and to property throughout the Gulf South.
Fact: There have been other storms as damaging and some far more damaging. What, then, is different about this storm? Here are a few tentative thoughts.
First, the incompetence of the local and state authorities in Louisiana and especially New Orleans was breathtaking. To issue a mandatory evacuation order without providing means of transport is almost criminally irresponsible. To take citizens to shelters where they would be beaten, robbed and raped and to provide no police protection for them was astoundingly incompetent. To allow armed gangs to shoot at rescuers was almost beyond belief.
Second, the response of the federal government is described as slow, and it was slow at first. But can anyone name a natural disaster in which more federal troops, supplies, and money have been dispatched as quickly as they have been done in this disaster? Bush's response has not been unusually bad, but amazingly powerful and swift. In other hurricanes, survivors have been left for weeks on their own. In Katrina's case, the whole affected area has been covered with money and aid and troops to restore order on a scale and with speed never seen before.
Third, the networks and newspapers have been quick to cry racism because so many of the victims were black. This is total nonsense. New Orleans is a mostly black city. Obviously, most of the victims of the storm would be black. No one has been able to point to a single instance in which black victims were mistreated because of their race by whites. In fact, just the opposite has happened. The whole story is of rescues and salvation by people of all races aimed at people of all races. In a gesture never seen before, the whole heart of the nation has taken in poor, bereft black families and sheltered them absolutely without regards to race. This is a mirror of the basic goodness of Americans and the disappearance of racism as an acceptable action basis of American life. It is also a measure of the total absence of racism in the heart of George W. Bush. The media may play this as a story of race versus race, but that is pure incendiary fantasy, and dangerous nonsense.
What is the real story of Katrina is (I suggest) not so much that nature wrought fury on land, water, people, property, and animals, not at all anything about racism, not much about federal government incompetence. The real story is that the mainstream media rioted.
They used the storm and its attendant sorrows to continue their endless attack on George W. Bush. Wildly inflated stories about the number of dead and missing, totally made up old wives' tales of racism, breathless accounts of Bush neglect that are utterly devoid of truth and of historical context -- this is what the mainstream media gave us. The use of floating corpses, of horror stories of plagues, the sad faces of refugees, the long-faced phony accusations of intentional neglect and racism -- anything is grist for the media's endless attempts to undermine the electorate's choice last November. It is sad, but true that the media will use even the most heart breaking truths -- and then add total inventions -- to try to weaken and then evict from office a man who has done nothing wrong, but has instead turned himself inside out to help the real victims.
In the meantime, George Bush does not lash out, does not attack those who falsely accuse him of the most horrible acts and neglect. Instead, he doggedly goes on helping the least among us. I don't know how he does it, but we are very lucky he does. As for truth, it eventually may be salvaged from the flooded neighborhoods of The Crescent City, but not as long as there is a lie to use to hurt an honest man trying to do the best he can, and hundreds of thousands of brave, tireless men and women who do more than point fingers and tell tales. The Katrina story is a disgrace to the people who are "reporting" it while pouring gasoline on a fire. They and their crusade against George Bush are the real stories, and they are dismal ones.
You know if this was Constantine and leading our country as a Christian country, I would say yes. But he's not. He's not doing much to defend Christianity,(especially against the ACLU) and as a the most powerful leader in the world, not defending the truth against the MSM lies only cripples his ability to have a powerful voice to lead as well as cripples the belief in those that believed in him to have elected him and support him as well!
I would have missed this.
It's a must read, IMO.
Well, you're probably not happy then that he has just apologized for botching the initial federal response to Katrina. Thanks W - setting the stage for Hillary in '06!
No; quite pissed as a matter of fact!
I was thinking during the coverage that the MSM very well exhibited its pathology of an almost a perverse gratification in wallowing in tragic news and dead bodies.
I knew that they were that way, but it seemed to be almost to the point of certain persons requiring confinement for their own good. I haven't seen such glee and excitement in the dead and maimed since I watched the James Spader movie, Crash.
WONDERFUL article. I went to the website, got the article, and sent it to EVERYONE on my e-mail list. You tell 'em Ben Stein!
You can't e-mail the President from the White House site anymore, but I can give you an address that you CAN e-mail him from. Just give me a holler. So far, I've had the great honor to received 2 snail mail letters from the White House and signed by George Bush!
"You know if this was Constantine and leading our country as a Christian country, I would say yes. But he's not. He's not doing much to defend Christianity,(especially against the ACLU) and as a the most powerful leader in the world, not defending the truth against the MSM lies only cripples his ability to have a powerful voice to lead as well as cripples the belief in those that believed in him to have elected him and support him as well!"
You have to remember something; George Bush is "walking the walk", much more effective than "talking the talk" which we've heard many politicians do and falsely. He is leading by example, the same as he did during the 2000 debacle. Remember back then, Al Gore was running off at the mouth just about every day. George Bush remained silent then, letting the attorneys do their job, and I, for one, am proud of him as a fellow Texan and as a fellow Christian.
And what example is that? I'll take the blame for what is not my fault? If they call be a bigot, I am one because I won't refute it? Even Christ exposed the Pharisees for the liars and hypocrates that they were!
Glad you found it. I shouldn't have used its nickname, but I was in a hurry. It is the most important thread on FR for my sanity.
You might want to get on the ping list, - GretchenM has it - so you wont ever miss the review of the many public appearances the President has every day - that so many of our newspapers are doing their best to keep from the American public.
"And what example is that? I'll take the blame for what is not my fault? If they call be a bigot, I am one because I won't refute it? Even Christ exposed the Pharisees for the liars and hypocrates that they were!"
Please refer to Matthew 7:1-5.
All of us are imperfect and sinners. They murdered the only sinless man, Jesus Christ.
"Does anyone know what Vice President
Bush called this in 1980? Anyone?
Something-D-O-O economics.
"Voodoo" economics."
PING.... FABULOUS post.
Actually, I like the sound of "Condi for President" in '08. She's got class, a wonderful education, refuses to be a doormat to the far left; she's everything that Hillary isn't.
I e-mailed Beth the way to write to the President, and I will share this with all of you.
Go to www.conservativealerts.com . There you can e-mail any of the elected officials, including the President.
My last e-mail was on August 11, 2005, after Cindy Sheehan had started her shinanigans. It was printed in the hard copy of the Wilson County News out of Floresville, Texas. It reads as follows:
"Stay the Course in Iraq"
August 11, 2005
Dear President Bush,
Mr. President,
I have been following in the news about parents of fallen soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan protesting about their loss and demanding special time with you to air their grievances.
I, too, am a parent of a soldier who went to Iraq and, praise God, returned safely. My son enlisted with the purpose of going to fight in Iraq and is ready to return as soon as he is ordered. Unlike these complaining parents (and I do feel for their loss and pray for healing in
their suffering the terrible loss of a child), I understand why my son enlisted and support him 100% in his efforts.
People tend to forget that military service is on a voluntary basis. I realize that there are those who joined the National Guard before the war who joined only for the extra pay, never dreaming that someday they would be called into service. I also realize that some enlisted in the service, again for the extra pay, the benefits and the free education, never dreaming they would be called to defend their country. These people I do not have much sympathy for in their mutterings and grumbling, as they enlisted, in my view, under false pretences.
Then there are those like my son, Pvt 1st Class Matthew Hazel who enlisted to go to Iraq. There are also young soldiers such as my son's best friend from childhood
who enlisted in the Marines, Danny Keller. Danny was one of the 1st ground troops to enter Iraq the day after his 20th birthday and was on the decoy mission to rescue Jessica Lynch.
Both of these young men are from a tiny area south of Somerset, Texas. Neither have complained. Both are ready to return to action. Both are now 22 years old. They aren't complaining and neither are their parents.
Stay the course in Iraq and elsewhere, Mr. President. I know it's tough going right now, but as you know, anything worthwhile is worth fighting for, and fighting these terrorists is one of, if not THE most important things this country needs to be focused on, for us and for our children
and grandchildren.
Again, I am proud of you as a fellow Texan and as a fellow Christian.
Sincerely,
Linda Willis-Riojas
Don't give up. They used to do the same thing in the Soviet Union and it didn't last forever. Lying, despicable media, indoctrination of the children, nasty, vicious, corrupt politicians. We don't have the gulags but these bastards would if they could. We conservatives are all that stands in their way.
Do you catch the reference to the post-mortem report on the 1968 Demorat convention in Chicago that called the reaction of the authorities a "Police Riot?"
BTTT
The Rats are adamant that it must be a non-congressional 9-11 commission style inquiry. Wonder why.
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