Posted on 09/01/2005 9:19:42 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
We have a natural disaster, a major US city devastated, hundreds dead, etc... and this mouthpiece of DNC simply wants to leverage it for their advantage.
The political equivalent of looting. When the chips are down, you really get to see who is made of what. All I see is real Americans wading into the septic, stinking mess and braving gunfire to try save lives, and the left-wing political organs working overtime to make hay out of this.
Makes me sick and angry.
Agreed.
We all know that Bush is to blame for everything ... my goodness, he could have stopped the storm had he really wanted to!
Miles O'Brien should get the karmic justice that he truly deserves.. what a p*ssy boy. No character-having weenie. I hate the Left.
Bill Plante's (CBS) first question to Scott McLellan at WH news briefing: "where's the cavalry?"
Nothing and what have the rats done to help us modernize our energy infrastructure. Answer, nothing but block the road.
"Absolutely, Miles. As the storm approached I urged the President to use his Secret Squadron Radio to contact Starfleet so that the population could be beamed aboard orbiting starships and await the storm's passage. However, Bush refused, telling me that the ships were already full of Halliburton employees and friends in the oil industry..."
Barbour was perceived by the 'Rats as the Karl Rove of his day, when he ran the RNC; he flummoxed 'em....I'd like to see him back at the federal level.
President Barbour??
That's what I'm thinking.
Well if he handles this aftermath correctly...he could very well raise his profile enough to be a shoo-in.
Perhpas Bush waited too long to respond.
But the real problem lay on the state level. New Orleans should have been totally evacuated uner martial law by the National Guard and at the governor's oders BEFORE the storm hit.
And when you buiild a city below sea level on the Gulf of Mexico, what do you inevitably expect???
That was as stupid as exoanding Los Angeles on a major geologic fault.
Can Mississippi annex Louisiana?
They're all gonna sue the fed govt ....end up millionaires...get their homes build bigger and better back in the pit of New Orleans.....with a cat 10 levee......
so we might as well accept it.
I think he'd make a great senator...he knows the ins and outs and how the game is played, unlike a certain well-coiffed current MS senator.
Everyone knew the US is going through a natural cycle of increased hurricane activity. We all know that city building codes often require fire escapes so residents can escape danger.
Why didn't New Orleans city codes require lifeboats so residents could escape danger?
Why weren't the environmentalists screaming about new Orleans's precarious position?
Why wasn't Dan Rather investigating the dangerous situation in New Orleans, rather than investigating Bush's National Guard service?
Most of the floods of the 20th century have been due to sustained periods of heavy rainfall and hurricanes. Yet, as beneficial as this system is to the city, inevitably it will spell New Orleans' doom.The levee system that has been built along the river, coupled with the canal system to keep the interior of the city dry, prevent the land from being replenished by the annual spring floods. As a result, the land will continue to sink until eventually there will be nothing to stop the waters of the Gulf to rush back upon the fragile land.
[snip] In order to save itself from the waters surrounding it, the city of New Orleans is slowly destroying its own environment.
The final death knoll of the city may very well come from the river itself. Scientists and environmentalists know that the Mississippi is trying to change its course that will bypass the city in favor of the shorter route to the Gulf through the Atchafalaya basin. So far, the Corps of Engineers has prevented the river from doing this. But, one day, it will happen, perhaps following a direct hit from a hurricane. As late summer and early fall approach every year (hurricane season), New Orleans stands with the threat that it will lose its own lifeline. No canal system and no levee system will prevent the disaster that will follow.
Dare I say this??:.....while the liberals are pointing fingers and attacking President Bush and his administration....it's the conservatives, politicians and citizens, who are actually doing something about this tragic situation.
It's Bush's Fault. We all know it. Why don't we admit it?
The National Weather Service warned Sunday morning that there would be hell on earth, basicly, in that area. The press release sounds like a movie plot. I don't know the time line for Katrina. When did it hit NO and that part of MS?
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