The ghoulish glee of the Left, as this tragedy unfolds,is appalling. This, to them, is the Gift That Keeps on Giving. Every death, every injury, every loss, is another arrow in the Left's quiver, to be aimed at the President.

Don't think for a minute that anything as simple---or easily ignored---as a fact is going to have any impact. They see this as the best opportunity ever to strike out at the President, and at every single thing he has done. Levees broke? Blame Global Warming, Iraq, and possibly too much bike-riding. Adn it goes on and on, and gets more and more shameful. They are wallowing in this, and can't even be bothered to try to hide their exultation.

Local Dems fall down on the job? Just yell louder, accuse more ferociously, and come up with some more claims about Presidential failures. I'm waiting for a claim that the President DEMANDED that the Corps of Engineers use their allotment to improve fish habitat in the West, instead of on potentially life-saving flood mitigation projects. Ooooh, that might be tricky. Fish habitat, after all, is ENVIRONMENTAL. What a quandry!!

Lately the Rev. Jackson has been saying, essentially, that Bush left poor black people in New Orleans to die, becaue of their voting patterns, and the fact that they are black.

I'd be physically sickened with visceral disgust if I had expected anything different.

Apparently Rangel is foaming at the mouth too...

He's blaming the war and tax-cuts for the rich.

Hurricane Katrina a force of nature? I beg to differ!

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050902071309990001

this article seems to give a good overview of the lunatics out there ranting and raving. A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING!

According to LGF:
Blanco Refused to Act
At the Washington Post, in a story with a headline that gives no indication of the important information it contains, we discover that federal officials were desperately trying to get Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco to do something about the disaster in New Orleans—but she refused to act!

This is the letter I sent Sen. Mary Landrieu after watching her on the This Week show:

Ms. Landrieu,

I was watching This Week and saw you give George Stephanapoulos a helicopter tour of the devatation that Huricanne KAtrina unleashed in the south. No doubt it was horrifying but I have to strongly disagree with you that President's Bush"s trip there was a photo-op. Now is not the time for partisanship. What you said during the helicopter tour really is inexcusable. It's a cheapshot and reeks of bitter partisanship and worse you're making a political hay out of this horrible disaster. It doesn't bode well for you to be threatening to literally punch someone in the face. That's not something we expect from our leaders especially from someone holding your office. It's not going to help your cause.

I respectfully suggest that next time you go on national TV, use it wisely. This is not the time for assigning blame. Now is the time for everyone to work together. If what I saw on TV is an indication of how you work in the Senate, all I can say is you're doing you're constituents a great disservice.

German T. Santiago
New York

On the other hand, I heard a woman whining to Michael Medved on Friday about the President "delaying"---and she meant that he 'delayed' coming to New Orleans for a couple of days. She WANTED him there.

The Left has it all set up. If he does go, he is grandstanding, taking first reponders away from live-saving duty to provide security, etc. If he doesn't go, he is "delaying" or not doing anything. The Left clearly has no concept of how things work---that there are telephones in Crawford, for example, to allow the President to contact civil and military authorities. Or that the job of an executive is know who to assign to what.

I still wonder--how many of the protesters in Crawford left to go volunteer in Houston, or anywhere else for that matter?

Flashback to 2004, Hurricane Ivan and the City of New Orleans

Found an article from 2004 and the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan wherein the evacuation problems in New Orleans were made absolutely clear to Gov. Blanco and Mayor Nagin.

This obviously has be angry enough to spread the word on their negligence. Moreso because the partisan hacks are trying to place the blame on the Federal government even though New Orleans situation is unique amons ALL US cities. Or are there other US cities sitting on the coast and well below sea level that I'm unaware of?

It just keeps getting sicker. I heard a talk show caller try to get onto a soapbox about how Halliburton had been given the contract, back in '04, to "rebuild New Orleans". Huh??!!

All that is left is a claim that if Bush had only completed his National Guard service, he would have been able to lead a flight into New Orleans on a rescue mission.

Hey, being rescued by Vietnam-era fighter jets is no weirder than thinking we should have been dropping bottled water on the people stranded on bridges. As if they didn't have enough problems, without being bombed by plastic water bottles. This bright idea was put forth by the woman who thought Bush should have been in New Orleans right away, instead of "delaying".

Blanco must have control of the situation, judging by how screwed up her handling of this mobile hospital was.

Story and links here
http://laffinattheleft.blogspot.com/2005/09/another-missed-opportunity-by-blanco.html

Never fear, though. Haley Barbour and the Mississippi boys put the good doctors to work.