Posted on 10/02/2005 4:14:47 AM PDT by Deacon_m
I think this was where you were supposed to add the big exclamation point to show you really mean it, followed by the petulant stamp of your foot and the threat to call your mommy.
Notwithstanding this, it was these same State and Local entities who shouted the loudest and pointed the longest fingers - IMO an effort to 'Get Ahead' of the criticism of their miserable leadership by setting the tone of complete Federal responsibility for every detail of Local and State disaster preparedness. Let's face the facts, every one dropped the ball on this one but, as is usually the case, those who shout the loudest and point fingers the most are usually the real culprits.
You thought wrong. And the only mommy who needs to be called is YOUR mommy. No run along and get off.
Governor Blanco, is that you?
I agree, it just seems absurd to try to extract votes out of this fiasco. Everybody ended up doing less than they could.
This should be sent to the office of the GOP in Louisiana.
Here it is http://www.lagop.com/
And here's the Email address for the Executive Director for the office of the Louisiana GOP: ellen@lagop.com
"With ONE very glaring exception. Texas had no "contraflow" plan in place to make all lanes of Interstate highway AWAY from the coast "one-way-only"---hence the massive traffic jams"
Contraflow would have done little to alleviate the massive traffic jams. Highways bottleneck outside urban areas no matter how you plan it. Contraflow was only practicle outside Beltway 8, and then had to be coordinated with other cities, counties etc. People who used other than main highways had far fewer problems with traffic.
"I have friends there, and what they tell me of clogged highways caused by the panic in trying to get out isn't something to be proud of. We're all real lucky nature didn't test the two places equally"
Are the friends you speak of "sheep"? Why would anyone get on a freeway where traffic is not moving? I had friends who left from the Baytown area in the wee hours of Thursday(after Rita was upgraded to category 5) and had zero traffic problems. Some people think the interstates are the only highways, in this case, they were parking lots.
Afternoon D,
The reality as to the lives lost in La. were due to gross incompetence, misappropriated funds, criminal negligence on part the the mayor, governor,house/senate representatives.
They should all be charged with negligent manslaughter. They sat on their asses and let their constituents die. Automatically, then point the finger of blame at President Bush.
These communists are so easy to spot via the DNC (Communist Manifesto) play book.
I guess that government sugar tit in NOLA, is just too, good for some to change their voting habits.
A simple syllogism describes it best, "One receives the type of leadership/action for which they vote for in NOLA."
Impeach Nagin,Blanco&Landrieu,
NSNR-CSAOTL
Here is an e-mail I received today and thought I would share with you all.
George Bush, the man
David Warren.The Ottawa Citizen
Sunday, September 11, 2005
There's plenty wrong with America, since you asked.
I'm tempted to say that the only difference from
Canada is that they have a few things right. That
would be unfair, of course -- I am often pleased to
discover things we still get right.
But one of them would not be disaster preparation. If
something happened up here, on the scale of Katrina,
we wouldn't even have the resources to arrive late. We
would be waiting for the Americans to come save us,
the same way the government in Louisiana just waved
and pointed at Washington, D.C. The theory being that,
when you're in real trouble, that's where the adults
live.
And that isn't an exaggeration. Almost everything that
has worked in the recovery operation along the U.S.
Gulf Coast has been military and National Guard.
Within a few days, under several commands, finally
consolidated under the remarkable Lt.-Gen. Russell
Honore, it was once again the U.S. military
efficiently cobbling together a recovery operation on
a scale beyond the capacity of any other earthly
institution.
We hardly have a military up here. We have elected one
feckless government after another that has cut corners
until there is nothing substantial left. We don't have
the ability even to transport and equip our few
soldiers. Should disaster strike at home, on a big
scale, we become a Third World country. At which
point, our national smugness is of no avail.
>From Democrats and the American Left -- the U.S.
equivalent to the people who run Canada -- we are
still hearing that the disaster in New Orleans showed
that a heartless, white Republican America had
abandoned its underclass.
This is garbage. The great majority of those not
evacuated lived in assisted housing and receive food
stamps, prescription medicine and government support
through many other programs. Many have, all their
lives, expected someone to lift them to safety,
without input from themselves. And the demagogic mayor
they elected left, quite literally, hundreds of
transit and school buses that could have driven them
out of town parked in rows, to be lost in the flood.
Yes, that was insensitive. But it is also the truth;
and sooner or later we must acknowledge that welfare
dependency creates exactly the sort of haplessness and
social degeneration we saw on display, as the
floodwaters rose. Many suffered terribly, and many
died, and one's heart goes out. But already the
survivors are being put up in new accommodations, and
their various entitlements have been directed to new
locations.
The scale of private charity has also been
unprecedented. There are yet no statistics, but I'll
wager the most generous state in the union will prove
to have been arch-Republican Texas and that,
nationally, contributions in cash and kind are coming
disproportionately from people who vote Republican.
For the world divides into "the mouths" and "the
wallets."
The Bush-bashing, both down there and up here, has so
far lost touch with reality, as to raise questions
about the bashers' state of mind.
Consult any authoritative source on how government
works in the United States and you will learn that the
U.S. federal government's legal, constitutional, and
institutional responsibility for first response to
Katrina, as to any natural disaster, was zero.
Notwithstanding, President Bush took the prescient
step of declaring a disaster, in order to begin
deploying FEMA and other federal assets, two full days
in advance of the storm fall. In the little time
since, he has managed to co-ordinate an immense
recovery operation -- the largest in human history --
without invoking martial powers. He has been
sufficiently presidential to respond, not even once,
to the extraordinarily mendacious and childish
blame-throwing.
One thinks of Kipling's poem If, which I learned to
recite as a lad, and mention now in the full knowledge
that it drives postmodern leftoids and gliberals to
apoplexy -- as anything that is good, beautiful, or
true:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise .
Unlike his critics, Bush is a man, in the full sense
presented by these verses. A fallible man, like all
the rest, but a man.
Afternoon E,
I believe (SJ) must be watching to much BET News/MSM and it has affected his or her logical thinking.
Last time I checked the funds were there for NOLA to upgrade the levees, dams and water-pumps. When local and state representatives squander 250 million dollars studying a bridge, (then shot happens).
The blame rest with their mayor, governor,& state representatives. So sad too, bad and spring jack ain't in charge of (jack).
"The truth always hurts the liberals, for that is what they fear most in life."
Saying what needs to be said,
NSNR-CSAOTL
When springybooty made that statement it pretty much sealed the deal. Governor Blanco couldn't have said it better.
What really gets me snorting and coughing is when they rationalize the stupidity of spending billions of others money to set NO up for the next inundation by invoking it's status as a 'Cultural Treasure' (Or some other similar nonsense). Can someone please explain exactly what culture this den of corruption, incompetence and license is a treasure of?
Sorry, I don't buy it. Make I-10 outside 610 "east-only" east of Houston, then north by various north-bound highways, and "west-only" west of Houston. Likewise state highways US-299, I-45, US 59, outside 610 "one-way only" away from Houston. Keep 610 and Beltway 8 both directions to feed folks onto those roads. Split those folks onto "other than main" highways when the roads "bottleneck".
The simple fact is that TEXAS HAD NO PLAN, because their "internet system was "too complex"". New Orleans is FAR less "well equipped" with major highways out of the main urban area, and yet moved people with few problems.
Biggest export port in the USA for agricultural products, third biggest (I think) IMPORT port in the USA.
You may not like it, but New Orleans will ALWAYS be there, for that reason alone.
"Cultural treasure" has squat to do with it.
The Democrats have used Bush hatred to their advantage.
They can point the finger at Bush to hide their own incompetence.
Louisiana did not take the full blow...It was Mississippi that took the full blow. Lousiana was from faulty levees that wouldn't hold up in a specific storm surge...It beats the heck out of me when they knew this was a possibility yet had no evacuation plan...The contrast between the two is compelling.. no one can deny it.
Hey D1,
The culture of why should they apply, when they can rely on that Great Society communistic utopian agenda.
A culture of blaming others for their failures and programed hatred towards whites.
This does not apply to all of the NOLA citizens, but does to the anarchists and communists welfare kings&queens from the womb to the tomb.
Why rebuild? Let the able bodied get off their asses, get a real job and pay taxes like the rest of us.
Unproductive people need to find a new country, Ethiopia might do or Holland.
So Mote It Be,
NSNR-CSAOTL
Evening Reverend D,
The democrats relish the day when they can get shrillary in office. It will be short lived though, for the start of the civil war part 2 will take place in America.
It will not be about North versus South , but Good versus Evil. The deomocrats can kiss their asses good by for we will not give any quarter.
For God and Country,
NSNR-CSAOTL
Those who were wiped out by Andrew and Ivan might not share your view.
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