[Chickenhawk Warmonger]

The mantra continues - blame President Bush but not those actually responsible for the chaos. I wish they would all just SHUT UP!

[EagleUSA]

The radical, mindless left in this country are going to continue to be a major downside problem until they are voted out of existence in our politics -- the media (MSM) should follow suit shortly thereafter -- but until the people rise up against these anti-American communistic fools, we will continue to hear their mantra-of-hate drone on...

[clee1]

What ISN'T said is that the folks MOST responsible for the pitiful immediate response to the disaster in NOLA are corrupt, inept Demoncraps.

[steenkeenbadges]

They will never shut up. We and they are locked into an eternal battle for the souls of mankind. It's pointless to rail at them - they are being who they are.

[LOC1]

Houston is doing our part. What is New York doing? and Boston, and Philadelphia, and?

[ken5050]

Actually, according to Pat Roberston...God caused Katrina to smite the wicked NOLA and also to shut up Cindy Sheehan and detract coverage from the Roberts confirmation hearings. The DU lefties believe all of it also, excet that it wasn't God that caused the storm, it was Karl Rove..

[OpusatFR]

Oh geez, yes. Even my husband's diehard democrat union guys are ticked off. They know that President Bush did not cause the hurricane, global warming, nor did he order the people into the stadium without preparations.

They blame that feckless mayor and governor.

[hiredhand]

As my wife would ask, "Got your MUG? Good! Here...let me pour you a big ole mug of STFU!" ...:-)

[stuartcr]

I read that it is the second time Allah has answered their prayers.

[listenhillary]

HEAR FRICKING HEAR!!!!!!!!!

YES!!!!!!!!

[steenkeenbadges]

They will never shut up. We and they are locked into an eternal battle for the souls of mankind. It's pointless to rail at them - they are being who they are.

[RoseofTexas]

Oh hell, you should have heard the N.O mayor spewing out his "IT'S BUSH'S FAULT" mantra last night! Unfortunately, because the mediawhores despise W, everything is falling into place for them! That's all I've been hearing from the moment I woke up! I'm afraid it's becoming a losing battle against the presstitutes! Right now, they are sitting pretty and righteous, licking their nasty little sniveling chops! They can almost taste the downfall of W's legacy! One news person said the other day, "So he's coming to N.O. I wonder if he'll have a bullhorn moment like in NY(he chuckled) the folk there are angry and I don't think they'll be very controlled in the confrontation! This reporter was down right giddy...DAMN CLYMERS!

[socialismisinsidious]

notice how they never mention that Democrats have been in charge in NO forever--it IS a hugely Democratic area

notice they never mention how the welfare nanny state has taught people nothing but learned helplessness

notice that they never mention what should be done or how to pitch in and help

notice that they never mention that their hero,Clinton,nixed $$ to repair the levees in 1999

and all this racial crap from a bunch of people who worship Margaret Sanger...hypocrites as usual.
blame, blame, blather but don't actually do anything...typical of the left.

[Erik Latranyi]

As usual, the Left has no ideas, only implications.

[highlander_UW]

“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.”

Ah, a true peek into the black heart of a true democrat. Say or do anything to achieve thier political power grab against the election results. No concern for the displaced and dead here, just a craving opportunist looking to make hay out of someone else's suffering.

“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.”

True liberal compassion...to heck with the hundreds of thousands affected by the hurricane. They can not see beyond their myopic talking points and fingers greedy for power.

[Shery]

My earnest prayer, after praying fervently for the dead, missing, stranded, and dislodged, is for the majority of the country to wake up to the hatred, the acid vitriol being spewed by the radical left. If honest people stood back for even a moment, they'd have to agree that the democrats have become unglued and spend more time and effort trying to make Bush look bad than trying to make policy that helps. I agree that it's time they SHUT UP!!!

[Dick Bachert]

As the mess is cleaned up and the bodies buried, we need to think very hard about this:

---

I wrote his after Andrew, whose path was eerily similar to that of Katrina. That should tell ANY sane person that THIS WILL HAPPEN AGAIN AND PROBABLY IN LESS THAN 12 YEARS GIVEN THE MORE AGGRESSIVE HURRICANES IN THIS CYCLE.

Simply change some of the names.

If they rebuild NOLA on the present site – and DON’T get folks OFF THOSE BEACHES ALONG THE ENTIRE HURRICANE-PRONE U.S. COAST -- keep this for the NEXT catastrophe. Insanity is defined as doing the same things over and over while expecting a different result. Whom God would destroy, He first makes insane. Has this nation lost its mind? Look to NOLA – BUILT 8 FEET BELOW THE SURROUNDING WATERWAYS – for the answer for that.

WHAT GEORGE SHOULD HAVE SAID
by Dick Bachert

On the evening of September 1st, 1992, President George Bush went on national TV to announce that the already empty federal coffers would pour forth uncounted billions of dollars to totally rebuild the Florida and Louisiana communities destroyed by Hurricane Andrew. A vast majority of Americans seem to agree with this action, providing yet more evidence (as if more were needed) that we have come very, very far from the philosophy of self-reliance articulated by one Colonel Davey Crockett. (See "Not Yours to Give" available from FEE at www.fee.org)

Instead of attempting to purchase his reelection with plundered resources, this is what George Bush should have said.

"My fellow Americans,

As you all know, a devastating hurricane has struck the southern tip of Florida and Louisiana. Our hearts and prayers go out to all who have lost so much.

"There is now a great cry for the federal government to "do something".

"And we shall.

"I have dispatched otherwise idle military resources -- men and women involved in our national defense who will profit from what will amount to a real-life field exercise -- to the area to render whatever aid the local authorities deem appropriate to restore basic communications and public safety infrastructure. But, beyond that, we can do little else. Before you brand me a heartless monster, allow me to explain:

"The area involved has been regularly struck by many such storms since long before we have inhabited this continent. There is reason to believe that this pattern will continue. All who have vacationed or visited there will agree that it is a beautiful area and by driving a short distance, residents there can avail themselves of the ocean waters and sandy beaches of that coastal setting. I, too, understand the attraction. That's why I spend as much time as possible
in Kennebunkport. That's the upside of living in such an area.

"The downside is that the area is regularly struck by these terrible storms. Which is why responsible and intelligent residents of the area insure their property against the inevitable resultant damage.

"That the largest private insurers have determined that certain of these areas are so likely to be struck by storms such as Andrew as to make them "actuarially unsound" risks is a matter for the insurers and the property owners. Government will only, through the lawfully established court system, do its best to see to it that any contracts between these private parties are honored.

"If a prospective property owner is unable to secure private insurance against these calamitous eventualities, he or she had better reevaluate his or her position. If a prospective owner cannot bear the financial loss which would flow from the destruction of an uninsured home in one of these high risk areas, he or she is well advised to purchase in an area where such insurance is available. It is not, nor can it ever be, the government's place to levy a compulsory tax on citizens who do not live in these high risk beach areas to subsidize the folly of those who choose to do so! It would be criminal to force citizens who themselves already pay hundreds of dollars each year to protect their homes from
normal hazards such as fire and the occasional tornado to also pay for the beach front lifestyle of others! To increase their taxes so that some of their less responsible fellows may enjoy the benefits of living in these normally
beautiful -- but statistically periodically dangerous -- surroundings is unconscionable.

"As much as our hearts go out to those who have lost so much, I must remind them that just as it has happened in the past, it will happen again. If you chose to remain there, you do so at your peril. This is an election year and the temptation is great for me to obligate the already strapped taxpayers of the entire nation to pay for the rebuilding of these damaged areas.

"Though it may cost me another term as President, I must, because of the dangerous precedent it would set, resist it. To do otherwise would be the grossest unfairness to, say, a citizen in Kansas whose roof might be blown off during a tornado. Would that citizen not have the right to ask the federal government to do the same for him? Multiply that by the numbers of isolated, individual-but equally calamitous disasters each year and you will come to see that the treasury of even the richest nation on earth (which, thanks to decades of such nonsense, we no longer are) would soon collapse under the load.

"On a technical level, I would also remind you that expert analysis of the destruction of these homes quickly disclosed that it was government and the building codes -- rather the false security of their enforcement -- which led to the loss of nearly 85,000 dwellings. You who now look to government to solve your problem ought to consider that it was the failure of the government mandated building code enforcement that reduced your home to a pile of rubble. Your reliance upon government enforcement of these codes and their assiduous observance has proven to be an error.

"In that connection, I would point out that engineers who surveyed the damage discovered a number of structures which survived. It was found that these buildings had been built under an older, ostensibly less stringent code and/or were constructed using a number of proven, but more costly, techniques designed to improve survival.

"If you do plan to rebuild in one of these uninsurable sections, please, in order to minimize the destruction the next time another killer storm comes ashore, employ these construction techniques.

"Let me now turn to what we must now do to help those in such desperate need at this moment.

"I submit that we should continue and intensify what we've been doing thus far: The volunteer activities many of you have undertaken as individuals, small businesses and large corporations are doing exactly what I envisioned when I
launched my "Thousand Points of Light" campaign. What we need now are millions of such points. And, if the response continues to swell as in the past few days, we'll get there.

"Let me also remind you that the first folks into the area with meaningful relief were not government people. As we have seen, these huge bureaucracies possess equally huge levels of static inertia. They lack the flexibility and
sensitivity to function efficiently. People helping people is the highest embodiment of the faith our forefathers brought to these shores over 300 years ago.

"America was -- and, I fervently believe, still is – a nation of people who understand this basic concept. It is time we remembered that government's role is to only do for citizens those few constitutionally limited things we cannot
individually do for ourselves. I'd remind you what George Washington said about government: "Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is force! And like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

"It is also time for us all to remember that we must take individual responsibility for ourselves. We must remember, for example, that we cannot construct our homes in places where the forces of nature periodically rage against us without adequate preparation for those periodic rampages.

"To be more specific, if we must build in those areas, we must take personal responsibility for the soundness of construction and/or insure against the certain eventuality that these natural assaults will occur. The days when
individuals can look to a government to force the rest of us to underwrite the folly of the few are gone! I urge those of you now digging out from the destruction in Florida and Louisiana to remember that as you consider your future. I pledge that if you grant me another term in office, I shall devote my next 4 years to bringing government back under the United States Constitution in order to ensure that it does only those few things we cannot do for ourselves and does them as efficiently and effectively as possible.

"Let me again urge us to continue the enormous volunteer efforts we have already begun until this tragedy is behind us.

"Thank you and good night!"

[CodeToad]

Bush would just kill me with laughter if he would say, "Listen, you nitwits, we have spent billions on your submersed little corner of the world. You have a mayor, Parish commissioners, and a lame-assed governor, but somehow it is all Washington’s fault?? You lazy sonsofbitches have done NOTHING for yourselves over the past 35 years since the last disaster, but somehow it is MY fault??! I’m coming down there this morning to take over, since that is what you seem to want. You state and local elected officials have had your chance, now it’s mine turn!”

[pointsal]

Right sentiment....ping

[mhking]

We have to do or say absolutely anything to use this disaster to get rid of the useless chimp.

Did anyone doubt that this would be the DUmmies' response?

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[tiki]

Reading this it just dawned on me why the Dimocrats are using this as a bludgeon on Bush, they think that 9/11 gave him his popularity and they are not going to let him rise to this occasion without constant criticism.

After 9/11 the country pulled together, there were no parties, there was no division, we were a country, wounded and bleeding and we worked together to protect it. The Dimocrats should be shot, this is proof that they care not one whit what happens to our country, only their cushy jobs. Have you heard one Dimocrat commiserate with the victims except when they can tut-tut about Bush's lack of whatever? I am disgusted, completely and thoroughly.