Posted on 09/07/2005 11:53:45 PM PDT by laz
No trap. Just total incompetence. Blanco and Nagin are waaaay too stupid and inept to be setting traps.
Never attribute to Malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Well it's a good theory but no way will it ever be proven short of The Sinkmeister himself confessing and in bringing forth tapes of the plotters setting it up.
You forget that the fact that the Dems in LA have been taking kickbacks from crooked contractors who used substandard materials and methods when they should have been shoring up the levees. These will show up when they start investigations. You can start by searching all of Nagin's personal papers and computers and I'll bet that you will find millions of dollars of money in offshore bank accounts.
Or greed or incompetence.
I'll have to second that. While I can be as tin-foil hat wearing as the next guy, it is hard to believe that the Dem leadership could be that evil.
Do you think either of them will even bother running for reelection? Blanco isn't just an idiot, she committed political suicide. She's caused her base constituency to be spread all across the country. I bet most them won't return. She's just lucky she didn't get them all killed. Katrina was a cat 5 storm while it was offshore on Sunday, Aug. 28. If it had continued straight for New Orleans at that strength, there would have been few survivors. The levee system was only intended to protect against a cat 3 or less storm. As soon as it became a cat 4 storm, the evacuation plan should have been executed.
I don't recall ever implying Blanco masterminded any plan. She is a TOOL being used by the ones calling the shots. As I described her, a monkey wrench thrown into the federal machine.
Well, you know the saying (adapted): Just because you think it's a trap doesn't mean they aren't out to lay one. I don't know if it was all as preconceived as you suggest. Maybe started out as incompetence, then suspecting Bush of trying to play politics because that's what the left would do, then politicizing it in reaction to their suspicion. One thing I know for sure, and that is the Dem leadership is corrupted and can and does stoop to almost any level to further their agenda.
I think that you're right. I agreed with Wayne LaPierre when he said that the dems were willing to accept a certain level of death and violence in order to help push their political agenda, and I agree with you here. Certainly, not the "rank and file" dems, but the leadership? Absolutely.
There's a ring of truth to the saying that there are two parties: The evil party (the dems) and the stupid party (the pubbies).
Mark
"Where they have gotten" is minority status in the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and most state legislatures. Plus, they have lost the last two Presidential elections. The scumbags of the left are getting loonier by the hour and as far as a massive Democrat conspiracy (and I LOVE conspiracies!) to try to make Bush look bad by sabotaging New Orleans, I can't buy it. It appears that a lot of Democrats have died in New Orleans, and even the Democrats aren't stupid enough to kill that many of their own votes on purpose.
The same thing was said about Hitler and the Nazis, wasn't it, in the beginning. Before the evil had run its course and the extent of it was finally revealed.
Rule of thumb: NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE ENEMY. It can be, and is often, fatal.
I believe you have it exactly right. Incompetence cannot explain the pattern of behavior we have seen, except for Mayor Nagin.
It was a trap. And the full-court leftist attack was orchestrated.
But President Bush pre-empted one jaw of the trap by taking the initiative before the hurricane made landfall, and he avoided the other jaw of the trap by staying within his legal authority.
Not really they could have been promised an appointment, or a job at some lib company.
The dems don't have a Karl Rove to create this situation.(sarcasm)
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