[Cincinatus' Wife]

***The fact is conservatives have decided to give billions of dollars in tax cuts to the wealthy, rather than making sure our states can handle emergencies. Conservatives are more concerned with capital formation and economic efficiency than they are with ensuring that every citizen is taken care of. ...***

A fine Hillary wannabe. Yesterday Rush played an audio clip of Hillary dodging a question by wailing about tax breaks for the wealthy.

Of course missed by these political spinners is that Bush's tax cuts have stimulated the economy - unemployment is way down, revenues are way up.

And from watching the evacuation coverage, we all can see how the Democratic Party welfare state has taken care of the poor. It's crippled them.

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***....As a student of the left, Jamie Glazov, has observed in an article about the middle-class defenders of recently captured Seventies terrorist Kathy Soliah: "if you can successfully camouflage your own pathology and hatred with a concern for the 'poor' and the 'downtrodden,' then there will always be a 'progressive' milieu to support and defend you."* Huey Newton, George Jackson, Bernadine Dohrn, Sylvia Baraldini, Rubin Carter, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rigoberta Menchu and innumerable others have all discovered this principle in the course of their criminal careers. ...*** Source

[Cincinatus' Wife]

...More importantly, their lack of concern for the poor is what created this mess in the first place. Many of those who remained in New Orleans do not own cars and have no access to public transportation. ...

I thought the Left wants us all to move to the city and use public transportation.

[MNJohnnie]

Nonsensical, hysteric political posturing. Just why is Bush to blame for a situation that Gov Blanco and Mayor Nagel were, and still ARE, in charge of?

Why is the Hate Filled Left ignoring the fact that Gov Blanco did NOT ask the Feds for additional help UNTIL Thursday?

Why is this political bigot ignoring the COMPLETE failure of the 1st Responders (City of NO) and the 2nd Responders (State of La) to freak out at the 3rd Responders (The Feds)?

Why despite billions in Federal Dollars give to City of NO and State of LA by the Dept of Homeland Security since 9-11 to equip 1st Responders and prepare for this exact disaster were neither the State nor the locals able to meet even 1 of their basic requirements in the joint contingency plan?

Does this pseudo Intellectual even have ANY clue of the legal authority and responsibilities entrusted to each level of Govt in such a situation?

Note to moron Bush Basher. Do ANY of you even know that the Gov of Louisiana, NOT the President, is in command of NG units? It WAS HER decision that sent a pathetic 300 armed NG troops into New Orleans ON THURSDAY finally?

The so called "Intellectual" do not even rate an F for their writing on this story. They get an I.

Incompetent, Incomplete and Ignorant

[King Prout]

PFFT!

the philosophy to blame, which has indeed dominated this culture for FAR too long, is the one which trains citizens to be serfs dependent upon daily support from Big Guv: Leftism, in all its grotesque flavors.

[advance_copy]

This would be a brilliant article, if it weren't utterly stupid.

[zip]

This would be a hilarious article if it wasn't for the fact that the poor-by-choice (aka welfare/freebie/takers) believe this crap.

[ohhhh]

When I read articles like this, I remember why I dispise the illuminated left wing. They are a plague and there methods are disaster.
The thought police at work remind me so much of the nazi facists and the communists who destroyed and killed so many people.

[Deetes]

Was this written by a angry high school student ?

[Larry Lucido]

The conservative goal of giving more power to the states put control in the hands of Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco.

Most creative attack on state's rights I've ever seen. State's rights results in incompetent dem governors.

[Recon Dad]

We can all feel good about the educational system in the United States. All these years of liberal indoctrination and this is all the logic that could be mustered up.

I thought there might be some original thought or ideas but alas we can all rest easy, this gentleman is no Bill Buckley.

[muir_redwoods]

This is a college newspaper. The places are full of skulls full of mush, without real education, given to puerile pursuits of hedonism and lacking in significant real-world experience. The student are even worse.

Nothing this nitwit says has any meaning to anyone beyond his psychotherapist. He needs to grow up and soon. He'll understand when he starts paying his own bills.

[Iris7]

Still a lot of Marxist - Leninist - Stalinist believers out there. A whole bunch, if you include the feeble minded. A clear political majority, for sure.

Remember I include the "feeble minded" in this majority. By "feeble minded" I mean most of the people you meet everyday, those who cannot and will not attempt independent and critical thinking.

[Uncle Ike]

Just tossing the same old pig into the air hoping it will fly this time.

"Them as can't do, teach. Them as can't teach, criticize"

[pillbox_girl]

Puh-freaking-leeze!

Who fled the city and abandoned its poorest and most vulnerable to fend for themselves? The liberal socialist democrat mayor and governor -or- the conservative christian churches and congregations?

Who stood their ground and acted to help and coordinate help for the poorest and most vulnerable? The liberal socialist democrat mayor and governor -or- the conservative christian churches and congregations?

The answers to these few simple questions utterly debunk and disprove this shamefully false and dishonest article, but here's another one:

The natural disaster was bad enough, but why did the resulting human created disaster only happen in the state and city run by liberal socialist democrats?

[saneright]

Notice the author does not back up anything he wrote with facts.

I do find the article interesting. The author opens up a window into his brain for all the world to see. He has constructed a reality that is not supported by the truth but as to what he chooses to see and believe.

[manwiththehands]

Conservative ideology promotes disregarding and alienating the poor and disadvantaged.

Lost me on this one ... you don't know any conservatives. Bye.

[Adder]

"They have effectively silenced the poor by consistently supporting laws that hinder their voting rights."

Really? Like what? Saying that all people should have ID? Don't the poor need it to get free cheese?

"The right wing of this country has aggravated the effects of poverty by continually nibbling away at the safety net that aids the poor, while doing nothing about the lowest inflation-adjusted minimum wage in nearly fifty years."

And that gets these people out of the city in what way? Where was the public transportation the leftists are always touting?

"The administration and the Congress chose not to make the security of New Orleans a priority."

Neither, apparently, did the state of Louisiana or the city of New Orleans.

"Conservatives are more concerned with capital formation and economic efficiency than they are with ensuring that every citizen is taken care of."

That's right! Then every citizen can take care of himself, as he should.

The author is a dingbat, completely ignoring that the mayor and the governor are "compassionate and caring" dumblecrats who acted like most of them do: they bumbled, stumbled and mumbled their way into a tragedy then screamed that it wasn't their fault.
They are jerks and clowns who abandoned their constituency.
And idiots like this writer try to blame a philosophy that praises self motivation and self reliance.
Nauseating.

[mtbopfuyn]

Matt, there's a net missing it's flufferby.

[mmercier]

Good post, but should have a barf alert. It is early.

The fact of high taxes only guarantees that the revenue would have gone out to payrolls of people who do nothing.

If you build it they will come, if you give them money they will waste it.

The levies would have still failed if the federal tax structure remained the same as before. They still would be complaining as taxes are never high enough for those who live off of them and produce nothing in return.

The rats are going to turn this around all bassackwards and those fleeced by the non producers will guiltily demand to pay more for less. I can still remember the days when I believed that governments were proactive and responsive; Katrina just reassured me that governments are reactive non responsive payroll clearing houses; with a vested interest in causing the taxpayers to suffer in order to justify their demand for yet greater revenue.

[antienvironmentalist]

This ideology has permeated our country far too long, and as we now see has weakened our national cohesion and our ability to meet the needs of all Americans.

When did it become governments responsibility to take care of the needs of all Americans?

[E Rocc]

Blame UI-Urbana for abysmally neglecting the education of their students:

How to Explain Conservatism to Your Squishy Liberal Friends: Individualism 'R' Us

-Eric