Posted on 09/02/2005 6:45:16 AM PDT by Chickenhawk Warmonger
Now is the Time to Shut Up Robin Mullins Boyd
The complete and utter devastation of the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Katrina breaks my heart. Every picture of the damage, every picture of the victims rips at my soul. My heart tells me that the flattened cities are just scenes from a movie, while my brain tells me that the Gulf Coast will never be the same.
In spite of the mass of suffering humanity, some have decided to use this fierce attack from Mother Nature as another excuse to blame President Bush, the Republicans or even the United States. I woke this morning to hear Miles O’Brien braying like a jackass while attempting to goad Gov. Barbour into blaming the Federal Government (AKA the Bush Administration) for “dropping the ball.” I listened to callers on AM talk radio proclaim that Hurricane Katrina was God’s wrath on the United States because George W. Bush is President. Other callers decided that the evil Republicans were deliberately not helping the African Americans in New Orleans so the plan for a “New World Order” could proceed. People running off with televisions and boxes of Nike shoes were called “victims” while snipers shot at hospital personnel trying to evacuate patients. And who could forget Robert Kennedy Jr’s truckload of manure, disguised as an op-ed on the Huffington Post, thrown at President Bush and Governor Barbour.
That spark of the anti-war movement, Cindy Sheehan, took time away from her I Hate Bush bus tour to blame the President for the Hurricane. Meanwhile the 3-bus tour continues while we regular folks wait in line to pay over $3.00 per gallon for gas. The New York Times was more concerned with a critique of President Bush’s speech and the old canard about “global warming” than the looters preventing the rescue of survivors. Sidney Blumenthal lamented the Bush budget cuts for New Orleans flood control to pay for the illegal, immoral and unjust war in Iraq. Blumenthal conveniently forgot what the Clinton administration did to funding for flood control in New Orleans.
Over at the “underground”, the grassroots of the Left took up where the media stopped. Here is a few of the best of the worst…
“We are all victims of this disaster called the Bush Administration. And the best way to help ALL the victims of this disaster is to end it.”
“Did Bush order the failure to fill the levee breach? The City of New Orleans has essentially been destroyed because of a massive failure to attack the levee breach in time. There was a plan in place - but for an as yet unexplained reason - the effort to fill the breach never began, as if someone ordered it not to occur.”
“This has GOT to be our opportunity. Bush *#@% royally on this one. We have to do or say absolutely anything to use this disaster to get rid of the useless chimp.”
“There is no doubt that Bush could have prevented this. We have to make sure that this is the end of this slimy administration.”
“Well, the Bushgang never liked New Orleans anyway.”
“With all the looting happening in New Orleans, and bad as that is, especially with the gun-toting thugs shooting at rescuers and relief workers, STILL I can’t imagine anything as bad as the Corporate looting that has been going on in this country ever since GWB took office.”
“The people who BENEFIT from Republicans in power flew out of New Orleans to their Vacation Resort Homes in Aspen two days before the storm. They are over insured and will be at the front of the line of the government payouts. The top 1% will make money off of their losses on the Gulf Coast.”
“Imagine if this happened in some lily white red state city – the reaction would be much different. I’m guessing the repukes are letting people just die there.”
“They call it thinning the herd.”
“Those Louisiana and Deep Southern mega churches are just storming into action. I see all those big volunteer teams of white Christians fanning out and helping their fellow man, reaching across race lines, volunteering their time, money, and efforts, lowering prices to help the poorest refugees make it through in their time of need. Oh wait; I’m not actually seeing any of that.”
“Fundies probably have no interest in helping New Orleans anyway. Bush is probably celebrating.”
“I have to wonder if the failure to patch the levees was somehow intentional. We know New Orleans is a hugely Democratic area.”
“I guess Homeland Security funds can only be spent chasing down people wearing turbans.”
“Know your America: White people salvage, black people loot.”
There is plenty of time for the left wing fringe to fire up their black helicopters and make their tin foil hats. There is more than enough time left in the Bush Administration for the media to beat up on the President. You have three more years to blame President Bush for everything from hurricanes to panty lines. People are waiting on their roofs for rescue workers. Resources are being diverted to control looting. Rescuers are risking their own life to save the hurricane victims. Families are searching for some tiny piece of their life before the hurricane.
Now is the time for the hate filled Bush bashing party of blame to shut up. Channel some of that energy into helping your fellow Americans. You will have plenty of time to spew your venom after the rescue and recovery efforts are completed.
The radical, mindless left in this country are going to continue to be a major downside problem until they are voted out of existence in our politics -- the media (MSM) should follow suit shortly thereafter -- but until the people rise up against these anti-American communistic fools, we will continue to hear their mantra-of-hate drone on...
What ISN'T said is that the folks MOST responsible for the pitiful immediate response to the disaster in NOLA are corrupt, inept Demoncraps.
Actually, according to Pat Roberston...God caused Katrina to smite the wicked NOLA and also to shut up Cindy Sheehan and detract coverage from the Roberts confirmation hearings. The DU lefties believe all of it also, excet that it wasn't God that caused the storm, it was Karl Rove..
As if FEMA and the Executive Branch are the only agencies in North America that have the capacity to plan and execute disaster relief.
Oh geez, yes. Even my husband's diehard democrat union guys are ticked off. They know that President Bush did not cause the hurricane, global warming, nor did he order the people into the stadium without preparations.
They blame that feckless mayor and governor.
I read that it is the second time Allah has answered their prayers.
Note too the "surprise" when the locals don't riot after winning a sports championship. Houston isn't like other cities.
HEAR FRICKING HEAR!!!!!!!!!
YES!!!!!!!!
Good luck with that.
As an outsider all I can say is that the rest of the world is astonished that five days after the disaster struck places like the Superdome are without US officials and troops.
There were American troops in Indonesia two days after the tsunami.
Even Rupert Murdoch's Sky News has basically called the National Guard cowards for "refusing to go down streets because men have guns. Can you imagine the British Army refusing to go down Liverpool because there were dangerous men? It would never happen!"
Oh hell, you should have heard the N.O mayor spewing out his "IT'S BUSH'S FAULT" mantra last night! Unfortunately, because the mediawhores despise W, everything is falling into place for them! That's all I've been hearing from the moment I woke up! I'm afraid it's becoming a losing battle against the presstitutes! Right now, they are sitting pretty and righteous, licking their nasty little sniveling chops! They can almost taste the downfall of W's legacy! One news person said the other day, "So he's coming to N.O. I wonder if he'll have a bullhorn moment like in NY(he chuckled) the folk there are angry and I don't think they'll be very controlled in the confrontation! This reporter was down right giddy...DAMN CLYMERS!
How dare Sky News call the National Guard "cowards"! The only cowards are those sitting in safety blasting the Bush Administration for the actions of criminals. Where's the blame for the state/local government? Where's the blame for the NO police dept that stood by while people looted televisions and jewelry?
As usual, the Left has no ideas, only implications.
As an outsider all I can say is that the rest of the world is astonished that five days after the disaster struck places like the Superdome are without US officials and troops.
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True it is. There are two camps in this mess -- the DETRACTORS which are causing trouble just to be doing just that, then there are those who are dealing with the real facts, as you have done. My post referred not to the factual side, but the trouble-making political opportunists who are trying to exploit the situation purely for political gains.
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