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Steel: Why not say I'm happy you dont need our help, you must have things under control, but we're fucking going anyways if all we can do is show support.... Cause they know damn well they ARE needed.

The tragedy that unfolded in New Orleans in the wake of the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina should be a political career-buster. Between now and the federal elections in November, 2006 and the gubernatorial elections in 2007, Louisiana's Democratic Party led by Sen. Mary Landrieu (Mitch Landrieu's sister) will try to convince the State's 67% black majority that the suffering they endured during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was the fault of President George W. Bush—who was too busy enjoying his summer vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas to deal with the tragedy that was unfolding in Louisiana for five critical days.

The argument immediately advanced by racism activists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton—two of the worst racist demogoges in the country—the Democratic National Committee, and the antiwar radical left groups like MoveOn.org and Jane Fonda's new group (formed with al Qaeda's representative of British Parliament, George Galloway) Stand Up And Be Counted, is that President George W. Bush did not react until the public outcry overwhelmed the media. Bush wasn't concerned, the liberal pundits said, because all of the rich white folks got out of New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina blew ashore, and the only people left in New Orleans were the welfare class poor—who are 90% black and always vote Democratic.

I think the most frightening thing about the lack of coordination in New Orleans is the fact that Chertoff is the man who was entrusted the President, and through the advise and consent of the US Senate, with the task of coordinating the security of the United States of America. If he could be blindsided by a handful of petty Louisiana bureaucrats while all of the media in America was openly reporting on the chaos in New Orleans, I've got to wonder whatever possessed the President of the United States to appoint him Seretary of the Department of Homeland Security? And, I've also got to ask how long it will be before the President realizes he made a mistake and corrects that error.

...on August 25—2 days before Hurricane Katrina made landfall—Bush declared portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida a major disaster area.Ê Blanco should have declared a state of emergency and asked the federal government to take charge on that date.

Bush's declaration allowed FEMA—which coordinates state and local disaster relief efforts—to make funds and supplies available to the Gulf coast States that were about to feel Katrina's fury. Medical supplies, food and water—and National Guard units were readied. The Red Cross set up a command center in Baton Rouge. But until Blanco declared a state of emergency and invited federal troops into her State, the Bush Administration had done virtually everything it could do.

School buses. Public transit buses. Nagin controlled the public transit system of New Orleans. Blanco controlled the city's school buses since they are owned by the State Board of Education. No one moved any of the mass transit vehicles. (Ideally, as noted earlier, had those vehicles been used to evacuate the poor and the elderly before the storm hit, Hurricane Katrina would not have been a 24-7 news event since August 28 when the tidal surge flooded an empty city. But had the buses been moved to high ground, the city would have had buses to evacuate those who went to the designated safe areas once the storm hit. or those who were rescued by emergency responders once the city flooded.

Thus, the real tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is our expoure—as Americans—to a caste system we created by allowing utopian, socialist politicians to ensnare four generations of Americans and chain them to the bondage of a welfare system that robs men of their dignity and their will to transform their own dreams into realities that would empower their children and grandchildren to play pivotal roles in the future of the greatest nation on Earth.

WERDZ to the effect that liburuls buy votes with welfare checks, and liburuls buying votes is what's wrong with this country.

LOki: This is of course true. Sharpton and Jackson are racists.

vladtweano: intimidating the press
the camera doesn't lie
cult of bush

mundhra: BREAKING NEWS FEMA director Michael Brown being sent back to Washington

mundhra: > BREAKING NEWS FEMA director Michael Brown being sent back to Washington; Homeland Security Director Chertoff to announce new leader for on-the-ground Katrina relief efforts, senior administration official tells CNN. Details soon.

powell

"There have been a lot of failures at a lot of levels -- local, state and federal"

vladtweano: brown's resume a pack of lies
SMILEX!
barred from leaving
the gutting of fema
tom tomorrow

Thanks Department of Homeland Security
But what's clear is that four years after terrorists, on another late summer day, flew hijacked aircraft into buildings in New York and Washington, the United States is no better prepared to respond to catastrophe — even when it comes with days of public anticipation and warning.

Bush's super weather powers may have caused Katrina, but the local Democrats could have stopped it.

research into more than ten years of reporting on hurricane and flood damage mitigation efforts in and around New Orleans indicates that local and state officials did not use federal money that was available for levee improvements or coastal reinforcement and often did not secure local matching funds that would have generated even more federal funding.

New Orleans chief claims he did everything possible to save lives

"Sure, there was lots of buses out there," Nagin said. "But guess what? I LOST MY FUKING MIND!!!!"

Journalists who are long on opinions and short on knowledge have no idea what is involved in moving hundreds of tons of relief supplies into an area the size of England in which power lines are down, telecommunications are out, no gasoline is available, bridges are damaged, roads and airports are covered with debris, and apparently have little interest in finding out.

"We do not yet have teleporter or replicator technology like you saw on 'Star Trek' in college between hookah hits and waiting to pick up your worthless communications degree while the grown-ups actually engaged in the recovery effort were studying engineering."

LOki:
Counter hum to the "Bush Sucks" background hum.

mundhra: don't republicans always preach smaller gov't? wonder if those reduction revamps have the same result in making the government bigger? DHS, perhaps?

We know now that it was the gross incompetence, over an extended period of time, of local Democrat controlled government that has been the cause of this mess.

OH NOES, the DEMOCRATS BOOGYMEN!!

dreymers: thx for the lnx - it's good to see another perspective. But you know what bugs me is that they are bashing dems as much as they are defending reps. They might do better by sticking to the point instead of trying to change people's politics.

LOki: As far as I can tell, each election has been about which slave master will be the kindest to us--which one will give us the hot table scraps from the meal we provided. Everyone is focused on, and argues about which ass-rapist uses the most lotion and the gentlest thrust.

vladtweano: so michnews.com is the best you could muster? i'm not surprised. it's about on par with the other bush fluffers i've read recently. but when you've got nothing, what do you expect?

vladtweano: i call utter fuking bullshit on this carping snidely prick head. i will not buy this for a second, because it's beside the point. even if there were only five guys in a humvee that were immediately available (which i might believe, given the number of guard that are in iraq) there was no excuse for not sending them in there to start saving lives. fuk these disseminating apologists in their hastily-covered asses with a rotating wolverine.

Jason van Steenwyk is a Florida Army National Guardsman who has been mobilized six times for hurricane relief. He notes that:

"The federal government pretty much met its standard time lines, but the volume of support provided during the 72-96 hour was unprecedented. The federal response here was faster than Hugo, faster than Andrew, faster than Iniki, faster than Francine and Jeanne."

For instance, it took five days for National Guard troops to arrive in strength on the scene in Homestead, Fla. after Hurricane Andrew hit in 1992. But after Katrina, there was a significant National Guard presence in the afflicted region in three.