[duckln]

Pat nails it again.

Does he sound like Rush or vice versa.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I agree, Pat got this exactly right. Sounds like the old Pat.

[Fenris6]

As evidence: Mayor Nagin's claim that evacuation failed b/c he had no bus drivers.

If New Orleans had been FReeper-ville, citizens would have hot-wired all the buses themselves and gotten people out to safety.

Instead, it looks like no one was left in NO with the motivation to use their own initiative [except for that one black kid, bless his soul].

[sourcery]

Moral hazard

[GSlob]

Patrick Buchanan is absolutely right.

[clee1]

Damn! Pat is actually lucid for a change. Will miracles never cease?

[Lorianne]

Nicely done.

[Sender]

Stranded for days in a pool of fetid water, almost everyone waited for the government to come save them. They screamed into the cameras for help, and the reporters screamed into the cameras for help, and the "civil rights leaders" screamed into the cameras that Bush was responsible and Bush was a racist.

And Mayor Nagin screamed for the feds to "get off their asses", and Governor Blanco needed just 24 more hours to decide what to do.

All the while, the tough Acadiens made do, did what was necessary, and guarded their homes until the water went down. No big deal. All the while the Mississippians and Alabamians who lost everything salvaged what they could, helped one another and started the process of recovery.

I think we should put all the Democrats and whiners and fed-bashers in the Superdome, lock the exits and let them work things out among themselves.

[NutCrackerBoy]

Patrick Buchanan is back. Stay, Pat, stay.

[Racehorse]

Stranded for days in a pool of fetid water, almost everyone waited for the government to come save them.

Unlike Drudge, I think Buchannan know when to use the word.  :-)

[themank]

I don't know, Pat. These people got off their duffs well enough to walk all the way to the evacuation points, so laziness doesn't explain everything. I still think we are missing part of the picture of what happened at the Superdome and Convention Center. I saw on Hannity (during the days after the hurricane) that people tried to walk out and were stopped by law enforcement and sent back. There is more to this story, that's all I'm saying, I'm not pointing fingers.

Food and water are a great motivator. Even the laziest welfare bum will get motivated when they are hungry and thirsty. I've been without water for a couple days in the heat; the thirst becomes all consuming. Maybe welfare explains why they don't have a car and credit card to evacuate to Memphis BEFORE the storm. But not why they stayed for 4 days at the dome.

It's understandable the old people in the nursing homes and hospitals drown or succumbed to the elements. They weren't going to be walking out without help. They waited around for nothing I'm afraid.

The other weird thing is why help didn't get to Mississippi for days, either. Something went wrong in the overall plan, we just don't know what it is yet.

[Finalapproach29er]

Reminds me of what German troops said after WW II.

They said they had to wait for orders, and were astonished at how Americans could improvise on a moments notice- especially the lowly Privates and Sargents.

America has lost some of that in the last few decades.

We need to cure this sclerosis. IMO