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Well, its been nearly a week since Katrina hit and Caesar has asked one of his centurions to fall upon the sword. Michael Brown, head of FEMA, has been sent packing back to Washington DC and to an uncertain future. After one week of mass hysteria from the Left, we now know that the Mayor and Governor are completely culpable for the "loss" of New Orleans. The mayor allowed several hundred schools buses to sit unused while the Astrodome filled with people with nowhere to go. The governor herself we now know, refused to allow aid to be sent to the Astrodome so the people would not get used to staying there, in effect, she starved them to get them to leave.
President Bush on the other hand has been stellar. We now know it was his administration that declared the Gulf States a disaster area way before the storm came ashore and the only thing left was for the governor's of each state to request aid. We now know that it was President Bush that actually compelled the reluctant and ineffectual governor of Louisiana to order a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans on Sunday, a day before the storm hit.
Lt. General Honore, Commanding General of Task Force Katrina, heading the military response to the worst ever natural disaster to affect the United States has been completely infectious with his optimistic outlook regarding the future of New Orleans. He sees trees, he sees buildings, he sees people and yes he sees water but the city will rebuild.
The broadcast media, the Democrats and the Hollywood glitterati, however, have completely sunken to a new low. They are naysayers that have nothing good to say and are bitter that no one takes them seriously. The constant bitching and whining from this group of Jacobites has completely alienated America from them. The fact that George Bush has not been hurt politically in the polls after a week of despicable and insane comments and commentary simply enrages them all the more.
A week of political assisination by the media in which nearly every Republican was misquoted or taken out of context from House Speaker Hastert to President Bush to Secretary of State Condi Rice shows us that the Left is indeed playing hardball and that no tragedy will be left to its own devices if it can be politically manipulated for an election victory.
The Democrats had their chance to "show us" how they would handle a regional crisis and boy they blew it. They are an embarrassment and more seriously, a liability. They will suffer miserably at the polls come 2006 for this debacle.
President Bush on the other hand has been stellar. We now know it was his administration that declared the Gulf States a disaster area way before the storm came ashore and the only thing left was for the governor's of each state to request aid. We now know that it was President Bush that actually compelled the reluctant and ineffectual governor of Louisiana to order a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans on Sunday, a day before the storm hit.
Lt. General Honore, Commanding General of Task Force Katrina, heading the military response to the worst ever natural disaster to affect the United States has been completely infectious with his optimistic outlook regarding the future of New Orleans. He sees trees, he sees buildings, he sees people and yes he sees water but the city will rebuild.
The broadcast media, the Democrats and the Hollywood glitterati, however, have completely sunken to a new low. They are naysayers that have nothing good to say and are bitter that no one takes them seriously. The constant bitching and whining from this group of Jacobites has completely alienated America from them. The fact that George Bush has not been hurt politically in the polls after a week of despicable and insane comments and commentary simply enrages them all the more.
A week of political assisination by the media in which nearly every Republican was misquoted or taken out of context from House Speaker Hastert to President Bush to Secretary of State Condi Rice shows us that the Left is indeed playing hardball and that no tragedy will be left to its own devices if it can be politically manipulated for an election victory.
The Democrats had their chance to "show us" how they would handle a regional crisis and boy they blew it. They are an embarrassment and more seriously, a liability. They will suffer miserably at the polls come 2006 for this debacle.
posted by Bruce R. McConnell | 10:49 PM
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