peptoabysmal said:
Which is an excellent argument against Democrats. The Louisiana governor is a Democrat and would have been still sitting on her hands if Pres. Bush hadn't called her and urged a manditory evacuation. Mandatory evacuation ordered for New Orleans
What part of manditory is non-manditory?
What part of
I don't have a car, or money to pay for $2.50 gas do you not understand, chump?
Just how fast do you think they could have upgraded a 100 year old levee system which has withstood category 3 storms to withstand a category 4 or 5?
If you'd bother yourself to do a tiny bit of research, you'd find the city complaining about these levees for the last five
years. They had plenty of time. They had specified how much money was needed, and
Bush & Co. stripped it all away for war operations. There's no polish on that turd.
The National Guard doesn't and never did exist solely to handle natural disasters.
God, you're feeble. Is that hair split finely enough for you? The fact is, they are here to provide for our nation's security, and the fact that they and their equipment are mostly busy in a war of choice based on a phony premise is ENTIRELY George W. Bush's fault. Hard to get around that.
And during this time, Katrina was downgraded to a cat. 3 and looked like it was going to miss Louisiana altogether and hit Texas. It was the last day before landfall, that Katrina revved up to a cat 5 and curved it's path northward.
So of course, it was OK to fart around and play guitar and head off to give speeches and crap for FOUR DAYS after we knew it was a complete catastrophe. Keep moving those goalposts around, and you'll eventually get them all in one place where even a cross-eyed moron can kick between them.
The day after the storm is when the levees broke. Perhaps he had a little more to deal with than photo ops right then?
What are you trying to excuse? Maybe the photo ops where
relief and repair operations were set up for a quickie photo-op and then just as quickly torn down as soon as His Presidentness left?
This is something new with this president? It's like everything else that has happened during his watch. There are a group of people who take the simplistic approach of blaming Bush as if he could go and fix the problem himself or that he was singlehandedly responsible. Who is he, Superman?
He is The President. It is his job to lead during a crisis. He did not do his job, and he basically hasn't been doing his job. Everything he's done has been finely calculated for the maximum political impact with the minimum effort on his part, and it's because he's nothing more than an empty suit. Our nation isn't being lead by a man, it's being lead by a group of handlers like Karl Rove who don't frankly give a rip about the rest of us. I'm really getting tired of these "dog ate my homework" level excuses.
So it unfortunately
is that simple, and people like you dry-humping the corpse of his presidency are only making yourselves look repulsive.
I read this. I see a lot of feeble excuses. I see a lot of twisted rationalization. I don't see how you can sleep at night. This is how our government now responds to a disaster -- by doing
nothing while evaluating the political impact. Hope you've stocked up on bottled water and beef jerky.
*Edited to add a link shoring up my comments regarding the need to shore up the levees -- and how it's been known for years. Please note, those levees (apparently) subside all the time because the ground under N.O. subsides all the time. Please also note, for those who wonder what the h*ll this city is doing here -- it's a port, and a lot of our oil comes through it, and a lot of our goods go out of it. It's located where it is because of the ease of access.
