Posted on 09/02/2005 6:45:16 AM PDT by Chickenhawk Warmonger
Now is the Time to Shut Up Robin Mullins Boyd
The complete and utter devastation of the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Katrina breaks my heart. Every picture of the damage, every picture of the victims rips at my soul. My heart tells me that the flattened cities are just scenes from a movie, while my brain tells me that the Gulf Coast will never be the same.
In spite of the mass of suffering humanity, some have decided to use this fierce attack from Mother Nature as another excuse to blame President Bush, the Republicans or even the United States. I woke this morning to hear Miles O’Brien braying like a jackass while attempting to goad Gov. Barbour into blaming the Federal Government (AKA the Bush Administration) for “dropping the ball.” I listened to callers on AM talk radio proclaim that Hurricane Katrina was God’s wrath on the United States because George W. Bush is President. Other callers decided that the evil Republicans were deliberately not helping the African Americans in New Orleans so the plan for a “New World Order” could proceed. People running off with televisions and boxes of Nike shoes were called “victims” while snipers shot at hospital personnel trying to evacuate patients. And who could forget Robert Kennedy Jr’s truckload of manure, disguised as an op-ed on the Huffington Post, thrown at President Bush and Governor Barbour.
That spark of the anti-war movement, Cindy Sheehan, took time away from her I Hate Bush bus tour to blame the President for the Hurricane. Meanwhile the 3-bus tour continues while we regular folks wait in line to pay over $3.00 per gallon for gas. The New York Times was more concerned with a critique of President Bush’s speech and the old canard about “global warming” than the looters preventing the rescue of survivors. Sidney Blumenthal lamented the Bush budget cuts for New Orleans flood control to pay for the illegal, immoral and unjust war in Iraq. Blumenthal conveniently forgot what the Clinton administration did to funding for flood control in New Orleans.
Over at the “underground”, the grassroots of the Left took up where the media stopped. Here is a few of the best of the worst…
“We are all victims of this disaster called the Bush Administration. And the best way to help ALL the victims of this disaster is to end it.”
“Did Bush order the failure to fill the levee breach? The City of New Orleans has essentially been destroyed because of a massive failure to attack the levee breach in time. There was a plan in place - but for an as yet unexplained reason - the effort to fill the breach never began, as if someone ordered it not to occur.”
“This has GOT to be our opportunity. Bush *#@% royally on this one. We have to do or say absolutely anything to use this disaster to get rid of the useless chimp.”
“There is no doubt that Bush could have prevented this. We have to make sure that this is the end of this slimy administration.”
“Well, the Bushgang never liked New Orleans anyway.”
“With all the looting happening in New Orleans, and bad as that is, especially with the gun-toting thugs shooting at rescuers and relief workers, STILL I can’t imagine anything as bad as the Corporate looting that has been going on in this country ever since GWB took office.”
“The people who BENEFIT from Republicans in power flew out of New Orleans to their Vacation Resort Homes in Aspen two days before the storm. They are over insured and will be at the front of the line of the government payouts. The top 1% will make money off of their losses on the Gulf Coast.”
“Imagine if this happened in some lily white red state city – the reaction would be much different. I’m guessing the repukes are letting people just die there.”
“They call it thinning the herd.”
“Those Louisiana and Deep Southern mega churches are just storming into action. I see all those big volunteer teams of white Christians fanning out and helping their fellow man, reaching across race lines, volunteering their time, money, and efforts, lowering prices to help the poorest refugees make it through in their time of need. Oh wait; I’m not actually seeing any of that.”
“Fundies probably have no interest in helping New Orleans anyway. Bush is probably celebrating.”
“I have to wonder if the failure to patch the levees was somehow intentional. We know New Orleans is a hugely Democratic area.”
“I guess Homeland Security funds can only be spent chasing down people wearing turbans.”
“Know your America: White people salvage, black people loot.”
There is plenty of time for the left wing fringe to fire up their black helicopters and make their tin foil hats. There is more than enough time left in the Bush Administration for the media to beat up on the President. You have three more years to blame President Bush for everything from hurricanes to panty lines. People are waiting on their roofs for rescue workers. Resources are being diverted to control looting. Rescuers are risking their own life to save the hurricane victims. Families are searching for some tiny piece of their life before the hurricane.
Now is the time for the hate filled Bush bashing party of blame to shut up. Channel some of that energy into helping your fellow Americans. You will have plenty of time to spew your venom after the rescue and recovery efforts are completed.
Forget the MSM...there are plenty of people right here at FR who need to STFU.
Quite frankly I think both sides should shut up and spend that energy toward trying to save the people who need saving. Deal with whose fault it is or isn't after that job has been finished.
The I would think that you, as an intelligent person (I've read your bio) would enlighten them to the facts.
I honestly don't care who is to blame. But someone is.
The MSM, race pimps, and liberals never fail to point out that the overwhelming color of the victims are Black. Yet, these same cretins are strangely silent as to the overwhelming White color of those doing all that is humanly possible to rescue those Black victims.
I watched the videos on the television where several NO policemen were standing at a busted open door of one of the stores while people ran in and out with stuff. There were some shots of NO policemen taking stuff away from the looters but not one picture of any arrests that first night of looting. At what point do we stop being worried about "political correctness" and start doing what is right?
Practically, who's next in line? Cheney. Since they think Cheney is responsible for Bush's actions anyway, this is not going to help them any. Then you have the Speaker of the House (Hastert) and the President Pro Tem of the Senate (Ted Stevens) or maybe it's the other way around. Then we start going through the Cabinet.
I think even the craziest of the crzies on the left knows this and are just trying to weaken the President and the Republicans' popularity to take over Congress in 2006 and the Presidency in 2008.
It is up to grassroots activists like us here on FR to save the A**es of the Republican politicians to keep them in power and keep the liberal lunatics from running the asylum.
Democrat woman. What do you expect? They are mealy-mouthed wishy-washy wimps.
They are no Jeane Kirkpatricks, Condi Rices, Helen Bentleys, Ann Coulters, or FTM Margaret Thatchers.
We have genuine tough women, the ilk of real women stars of old such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Barb Stanwyck & the like.
Dem women are the hokey "liberated & thus (allegedly) tough" women of today's stars such as Melanie Griffith, Demi Moore and Julia Roberts. You can see rite thru them that no matter how they try to fake it, they never exude strength and toughness.
It is not that Americans are not trying to help Americans. That is a stupid thought beyond words.
But at the moment there is a paralysis either due to bad leadership, bureaucracy or whatever and people are dying.
There are American NGO officials on British TV nearly crying because they have supplies waiting to go in but say there is no coordination.
Congressional Black Caucus plays the race card right now in a press conference!!!!!!!!!
Surprise!
Cooper must understand that we have mealy-mouthed wishy-washy feel-good crap for "rules" now that heavens any1 should ever be shot at much less actually killed. That would be very un-PC.
So to avoid shooting at the scum, the NG leaves in many cases cuz they're invariably not *allowed* to shoot the scum. That's how "nice" we are here.
But it gets absurdly ridiculous. There are times to abandon the niceness, take off the kid gloves, and start shooting the @%@#$%heads.
Well that should have been the attitude from the first. Don't you agree?
That is all I am saying. Ther always has to be Law and Order or people will die.
And in case anyone thinks me as a "foreigner" is sitting all happy and smug, well would you if Glasgow, Manchester or Liverpool was in the same situation? No? Neither am I, neither is the UK, and neither is even the lefties.
This is non-political here, as it should be.
You assume "cost" means MONEY for the CITIES.
I'm talking about personal COSTS for the victims - in terms of people who are ALREADY sick & injured and will get worse on long ordeals, people who are already exhausted and don't need to try to prop up on a long ride until they finally get there, etc. The longer they have to go, the harder it is for them to hold up, or even take some things w/them.
Never mind the COSTS to those victims trying to get BACK to where they were - in many cases, that too will be their money & credit, anyway (yes, you do have to make people start being responsible for themselves at SOME point). Not to mention the hardships of just trying to handle business/housing arrangements from further away, or making the trip back thru thousands of miles.
Seeing as you just joined yesterday, I take your comments with a grain of salt. I've donated money and signed up as a volunteer with red cross. My high horse is in the stable. Seems like you found your own high horse.
Bingo! Yes, bad leadership, but it is disingenuous for the media to attempt to tar the Feds. It is not Federal, it is State leadership that must coordinate.
You don't understand the implications and ramifications of President Bush Federalizing the state of Louisiana which is what he would have to do. How? Who knows. Again, read the Posse Comitatus. It goes along with the aftermath of Civil War and Reconstruction. Federalization was done with the War on Drugs and I suppose it can be done for this, but then again, Federalizing a state even in this emergency is not to be done without thinking hard.
Yes, I'm frustrated. I don't want people to die or suffer. We will learn from this.
It is intended to rile the other low income impoverished blacks across the country.
Yesterday, I spoke to a black woman from Slidell who evacuated before Katrina to my hometown.
She was literally in tears over the embarrassment of behavior happening in NO, saying "we are not like what is portrayed". And she was speaking of people of her own race.
She also expressed gratitude in having a relationship with God before this event. And she told her teen daughter that an event like this brings out who we really are. The best of the good and the worst of the evil.
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