Damned George Bush! He orchestrated 9/11 and sent planes flying into the World Trade Center, killing thousands. He intentionally refused to provide funds for levy repairs in New Orleans and refused to endorse Kyoto. Result? The catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina (note that he was not only reponsible for the devastation in New Orleans, he was also responsible for the hurricane forming in the first place). And now he’s really gone and done it! He caused that bridge collapse in Minneapolis! Oh the humanity!
Ok. Think this is all satire? Think I am exaggerating? Politico.com does a good job of capturing early Democrat assessments of the bridge situation. The Dems didn’t wait long to announce that they have discovered the truth behind the bridge collapse.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who chairs the appropriations subcommittee that funds transportation programs, slammed President Bush for threatening to veto the transportation bill because it exceeds his initial budget request.
“This is what I worry about every day. The lack of investment in infrastructure is frightening,” Murray said. “This is what [Bush] is threatening to veto — investment in infrastructure for [roads] we go to work on every day.”
Or how about this one from his highness, the Great Senator Harry Reid?
Reid even suggested that Bush has been too distracted by the Iraq war and post-Sept. 11 national security needs to focus on the country’s water, sewer and transportation infrastructure.
“Since 9/11, we have taken our eye off the ball,” Reid said.
So far, it’s been fairly benign, but wait til the Congressional investigations open up. These idiots will have a heyday with this one. They’ll ignore the fact that the state of Minnesota had a $2 billion+ surplus. They’ll ignore the fact that spending of federal funds for highway and interstate repairs and projects (which account for the overwhelming majority of transportation funds used by states nationwide) are mostly left to the discretion of each respective state.
Nah. It was W’s fault. One more reason that he is the worst President in the history of this nation.
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Is it not a conservative policy to demand accountablity from one’s own government? I do not blame President Bush for the hurricane but I do blame him for miserabe leadership and extremely poor executive management of the government. The response in recovery has been a bureaucratic bungling nightmare from the word go.
I’ve actually kept quite about it. But I know it’s coming.
Michael Moore will write an open letter to Bush within the next few weeks (since “Sicko” is not doing well and is slipping) to draw attention to himself.
If he doesn’t directly blame it on W, he will take the position that Bush isn’t doing enough.
I guarantee it.
“The response in recovery”
Doctor, Katrina was the largest natural disaster to hit New Orleans and was a bullet it dodged for 200 years since the Lousiana purchase in 1803 (a “gift” from France btw, can we say “buyer’s remorse?)
Throughout those 200 years, many Presidents and administrations passed through that all could have made the levies stronger. This wasn’t a Republican issue, but liberals made it one to further their cause of Bush-bashing.
Finally, FEMA is something I am against anyway. Ridiculous organizations set up at the taxpayers’ expense that make God-like promises to tragedies. What happens in a tragedy? We mourn, we feel bad — we then pull up ouor britches and move on.
The chaos in New Orleans had nothing to do with a lack of leadership from the government and had everything to do with local idiotic Democratic leadership and Democratic voters.
Thanks for the comment, doctorj. But you can fault Bush for poor leadership in many areas and fault the federal government for a slow response to Katrina. Yet to be intellectually honest, you also need to fault Mayor Ray “Chocolate” Nagin and Governor Kathleen Blanco for their, almost criminal, negligence in reacting to the disaster.
My whole point here is that the Dems have so much hate, venom and vitriol that they will take any natural or man-made disaster and make the most improbable of ties to President Bush. This level of partisanship is unprecedented and gives me little hope that any civility can ever be restored in DC.
DoctorJ, do you blame Mayor Ray Nagin for not moving resources?
He is truly the one to blame. There was a local plan for breaks in the levees and evacuation prior to a hurricane.
Why does Nagin get the free pass?
Amen. Remember the school buses?
I heard that Michael Moore is going to do a movie about the deficiency of our bridges here in the U.S.
He and some of his followers are going to Cuba and they are going to walk over a bridge to show how safe they are!
A sneek preview of the movie has Moore stating the following:
“If I can walk over a bridge here in Cuba, why can’t our SUVs in the U.S. sustain a lesser weight?”
LMAO. Sad thing is Devil Dog, you’re probably right.
But hey, why should he stop at Cuba!? Doesn’t Afghanistan or Iran have bridges? LOL
I am a native New Orleanian. My mother lives in Pass Christian, MS. Government at all levels has failed. Does that make the federal government’s ineptitutde any else horrible? Passing the buck doesn’t fix a thing. I once supported the Republican party because I thought they identified a problem and fixed it. They don’t. They just point fingers at the other side and blame them. I have seen first hand the disgrace of this federal government. It is a bureaucratic mess, incompetent to the core and ripe with cronyism. I have also seen Americans turn their backs on their own citizens, something I NEVER thought a possibility. I am your enemy now. That is fine, but explain to me why I still have to send taxes to this nation; this “United” States of America.
Check this link out and see the true heros of “Katrina”. They are the ones that maintain what little faith I have left in my own country. Too bad volunteers can’t design and build true levees and flood protection. Too bad they can’t restrore and maintain coastal areas. That is the area of the Corps of Engineers and we have already seen what a good job they are doing.
http://berkleeonthebayou.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/thats-my-blood-down-there/
“Does that make the federal government’s ineptitutde any else horrible?”
Listen Doctor, what you have to prove is that the Clinton administration or any other administration for that matter would have responded any differently.
You have to prove the ineptitude. You can’t just blindly acknowledge that facts raised by Philip and Devil and then well “well okay, everyone was responsible but that damn federal government!” This disaster was enormous. In this case, we really need the local ones on the spot to have their shit together in order for the federal government to provide anything in the first place.
I’m glad you mentioned MS. I guarantee you, they did a better job at taking control of the situation than New Orleans did.
Philip- I was just waiting to hear that somehow the bridge collapse was W’s fault.
Frankly, all liberals should take responsibility for this one. If they were really keeping government duties in line- such as dealing with our infrastructure and were less interested in all the social programs that guarantee them votes, there’s a good change the bridge would not have collapsed at all. Sigh.
Right, Jennifer.
Like several commentators have mentioned – “infrastructure” is not a sexy word in politics. It doesn’t win you as many votes as doling out money to individuals.
Hey, DOCTORJ, have you looked at the Dem Party and them blaming Bush for everything.
Please, direct the comments to the Dems while you’re at it.
Also, you might want to try Mayor Ray Nagin. Funny, Dems never say anything about the ineptitude of Mayor Nagin. I guess it doesn’t fit the agenda – like helping people who can’t help themselves.
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