[Jacksonville Patriot]

The Democrats have chosen to attack us on the sodden ground; we must defend ourselves.

[airborne]

Passive? No, just busy taking care of people.

Meanwhile the Dems and the media run around and point fingers.

According to an ABC poll, the public is not blaming Bush. They're blaming the local government.

[atomicpossum]

Karl Rove Rope-a-dope.

[Pukin Dog]

Exactly wrong. We should shut up and let the Democrats continue to damage themselves. The author is wrong.

[AmericaUnited]

Don't forget... Bush and Rove always let the enemy give themselves to shoot themselves first, while wasting their ammo. Then they come back with a very good counterattack.

Note how these admin officials say 'that will be looked at...'. Now it would seem as completely petty as the MSM and rats to be talking blame while people still need help.

[COEXERJ145]

The Democraps and their MSM allies will fail again.

Bush stole the 2000 election

Enron

BUSH KNEW! (Sept. 11th)

Bush lied about Iraq

Prisoner abuse

Bush stole the 2004 election

Downing Street Memo

Plamegate

The Ditch B*tch

And now it is the hurricane.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"But it's hard to defend the administration when the administration won't defend itself."

Exactly. It's so damn infuriating. It's as if the second term has brought about squishiness within the administration. True strength and leadership do not disappear over time but posturing sure can. Perhaps it's just the people around the President. I don't know but it irks the hell out of me that they all seem so ineffectual and weak in the face of leftist attack.

[Jim_Curtis]

Hugh Hewitt, meanwhile, has advised conservatives to "turn the other cheek" in reaction to unfair criticism from the left.

Only Michael Savage is a bigger joke than this Hewitt guy.

[Nathan Zachary]

FEMA didn't preform poorly at all. It was the local and state government who failed to preform at all. Everything was there at their disposal, waiting for their orders.

Patricia Brach, public information officer for FEMA, said Saturday that her agency has prepositioned emergency service teams already posted away from the coast so they can rush aid to where it is needed. Stocked at the sites are ice, water and medical teams, including veterinarians. "With a catastrophic storm, we need all types of medical teams. But we don't do anything until the state requests and an emergency is declared," she said in an interview at the OEP facility.

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050828/NEWS01/508280319

FEMA didn't preform? Sorry, point the finger somewhere else, like a certain MAyor and Governor.

[trek]

This post is right on. Let's hope the Stupid Party finds uncommon wisdom this time. Otherwise it's curtains. I hate to add to the bad news, but the RINOs will be even more emboldended on this as they jockey for position in 2008. Things don't not look good to me.

[Travis McGee]

I hope that sooner or later the MSM discovers that New Orleans did have a written emergency plan to cover the evacuation of the poor, but that the idiot mayor of New Orleans ignored it, and allowed the evacuation buses to be ruined by the flood, forgotten.

The city leaders had at least two full days to use these hundreds of buses to evac the poor, exactly as their own emergency management plan called for.

Here's the southeast Louisiana evac plan supplement, most recently revised in 2000. Go to page 13, read paragraph 5. It states:

5. The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating.

[Yosemitest]

Let the democrats shoot off their own foot. The Cutting Edge: IT'S IDEOLOGICAL, NOT RACIAL.

[mercy]

There's plenty of blame to go round. People will figure this out. EVERYBODY screwed up. It will all equal out.

Everybody knows Lousyanna is a cesspool of corruption and Nwalins is the heart of it. The GOP's not going to lose any voters over this. The balance of power is not going to shift.

The more the Rats howl the more good folks will realize how evil they are.

[EternalVigilance]

White House Passive in face of Democrat, Media Smear...

To whatever extent that might be true, I would say that such tactics would qualify as what I call 'political judo'.

Let the force of your enemy's stupidity carry them forward to disaster....

It's one the things the Bush political team is quite good at.

When your enemy is destroying himself, don't interfere.

See my tagline:

[hershey]

Michael Chertoff came on Meet the Press and handed Russert his lunch. Russert can't be as stupid as he sounded. The contrived indignation over thousands of people (blacks),left for dead! Chertoff reminded him feds can ask, plead with local and state authorities for permission to take over, which they did, but the feds' role is to support local and state efforts until given permission to move in whole hog.

Russert then demanded: how can you possibly be prepared for an other attack here, perhaps nuclear, and Chertoff said, we have to deal with the situation as it is, but think and plan ahead, not dwell on the past. Dwelling on the past wastes energy and brains better spent on preparing for the future. He hinted that he wouldn't be wasting any more time on foolish interviews where he had to answer stupid questions.

Chertoff was extremely impressive, as always.

[dfwgator]

They are not being passive, it's just they are too busy trying to save lives. Now is not the time to respond to their ridiculous moonbat allegations.

[js1138]

Bush is a grown-up, and grown-ups don't expect infants to be grateful.

Similar things were said about Bush before the last election, but he easily increased his margin of victory.

Don't mistake what the press says for what the people know.

[Logical me]

Wow, just shows how nuts these CRATS are. Louisiana Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu threatening our President. What a stone nut and should join the ranks of the Mayor and Governor. Where do these lame brain come from?

[raybbr]

Ping! to a thread related to our Obama discussion yesterday.

[Congressman Billybob]

The bitter irony is that Senator Mary Landrieu is a product of the corrupt system in New Orleans that has contributed for decades to the failure that became the New Orleans disaster. I've written before about direct corruption involving her father, former Mayor Moon Landrieu.

The corrupt and stupid political machine in New Orleans elected Mayor Nagin, who ignored the evacuation plan from 2000 which called for buses to get the people out who had no private means of transportation. Nagin beat feet to Baton Rouge, and let both the buses and the people sit where they were.

The corrupt and stupid political machine in New Orleans also provided the margin of victory for Governor Blanco, who had the responsibility to call out the National Guard. She rejected President Bush's suggestion that she call out the Board BEFORE Hurricane Katrina hit.

Then, of course, there are the local police in New Orleans. Some attempted to protect and serve, in impossible conditions. But many abandoned their posts, and some actually engaged in looting, themselves.

If anyone needs to be punched in the face, it is Mary Landrieu, not George Bush. (Not that I am actually proposing physical violence, mind you. I do admit, however, that the one time I ran for office I had award-winning posters, one of which said, "Fight Crime. Punch a Politician Today." LOL.)

I agree with Hinderacker that the Bush Administration should fight back against this tide of lib-Dem dishonesty. But it should NOT be with mere soundbites. Instead, it should be with a heavily-factual time line of who did (or did not) do what and when.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Tide of Lies Swamps NY Times: Employees Riot and Steal Office Supplies"

[syriacus]

I agree that those who know the truth should spread it to counter the Dem lies.

I think that, over the long run, the Dems are fighting uphill

Many of those young folks who rode in transport helicopters are, right now, thinking about their strong and skilled rescuers .

The do-nothing Dems will have a hard time competing with the strong image of the "do-or-die" rescuers in uniform.

I look forward to a substantial increase in the number of recruits for all branches of service.