Im ready to BARF at these liberals who....

[luvrpgrl]

are politicizing Katrina.

This guy is the biggest dickhead, I would classify him with Hammas who wish to blow up little children to pieces. FUKHIM up hisARSE, if I ever run into the guy in person I will lite him up.

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001782.htm#84


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Guest blogged by Joseph Cannon

I'm not going to post the piece I started to write.

My original reaction to the Katrina catastrophe was going to be: "NOT ONE DIME."

For an hour or so, I contemplated the idea of turning it into a crusade: No-one in the blue states (where the money is) should give one dime of aid to the victims of this hurricane, which devastated Bush-friendly regions.

Why did I flirt with such a callous attitude?

Because it should be obvious to all that this tragedy was not just an act of God. Dubya and his diety conspired to transform mere disaster into an unprecedented mega-catastrophe.

Scientists warn us to expect more Katrinas. Global warming -- the existence of which W would prefer to rationalize away -- caused the temperature of the sea's surface to rise in the Gulf of Mexico, thereby transforming what should have been a manageable hurricane into a monster.

The National Guard was off in Iraq stealing oil -- and everything else in that nation -- all to benefit Haliburton and the oil companies. They could have been in N.O. earlier, building levies, overseeing evacuation.

Bush financially eviscerated the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The money went to his Iraq debacle.

Bush cut funding for hurricane relief and the prevention of disaster in New Orleans:
When flooding from a massive rainstorm in May 1995 killed six people, Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, or SELA.

Over the next 10 years, the Army Corps of Engineers, tasked with carrying out SELA, spent $430 million on shoring up levees and building pumping stations, with $50 million in local aid. But at least $250 million in crucial projects remained, even as hurricane activity in the Atlantic Basin increased dramatically and the levees surrounding New Orleans continued to subside.

Yet after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward SELA dropped to a trickle. The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security -- coming at the same time as federal tax cuts -- was the reason for the strain. At least nine articles in the Times-Picayune from 2004 and 2005 specifically cite the cost of Iraq as a reason for the lack of hurricane- and flood-control dollars.


The federal governmen has, in short, demonstrated an utter lack of foresight. Bush was giving specious pro-war speeches and dodging Cindy Sheehan when he should have been helping local governments prepare.

The governors of Louisiana and other affected states were reduced to begging the federal government for aid. Under Clinton, they wouldn't have had to ask: Such aid would have been understood as inevitable.

Even Bush the elder immediately sent 25,000 troops to clean up after Hurrican Andrew. Bush the younger won't be able to spare half that amount of manpower.

So why was I thinking of starting a movement against giving aid to the stricken areas?

Because these are red states. They voted for Bush. These ninnies obviously wanted these policies, and they deserve to live with the consequences of their votes.

A large part of me still believes that many of these W-worshipping numbskulls deserve to suffer and to die. They brought it on themselves. Let them look to Jayzuss for aid: It's time they stopped leeching off the more productive blue staters.

(Californians stupidly give much more to the federal government than we receive from it; the money flows in a very different direction in the red states.)

So, at least, I started to write. But then (to paraphrase the old song) I thought I'd better think it out again.

Many of the victims, the ones who have suffered the most, are poor. The hardest hit were the blue state folk living among the red state maniacs. New Orleans, we should note, went heavily for Kerry.

And that's why we must help. Although it was very tempting to say otherwise.

But let us make one thing clear: We WILL politicize this issue.

The Republicans did not shirk from making political use of 9/11, and we should not shirk from reminding the country that Bush turned what should have been a mere problem into Ragnarok.

Conservatives may accuse us of lacking taste if we use this sad occasion to point out sadder facts of political life. Cable news pundits will try to pretend that now is not the time for partisan politics.

If they say that, screw 'em.

If the Bush-voters want Californians and New Yorkers and other blue staters to fork over dough, then they damn well had better take our words as well. Republican policies caused this catastrophe. Force them to hear that message -- again and again. That message is the price of the charity they now demand.

[Austin85]

had to say that

1. This guy is also quite twisted..
2. but Alot of what he writes are true facts. period.. Bush spends 1 biilion a day in Iraq. and denied funding for fixing the levees in New Orleans...for 1. Saw that story on ABC news tonight.....

So deal with it. Clearly innocent people don't deserve to suffer because they voted for this corrupt fool; but those are true facts listed in that post.

Bush is an idiot. and he is f'in up this country faster than anyone ever has!

[mzsmbs]

luvpgrl

[cmac2012]

Luvrpgrl, the guy's a full-time *********, no doubt, even if there are a few nuggets of truth in it.

Hate to say it, but his going on about red state/blue state is somewhere in the ballpark of your liberal/conservative pigeon-holing.

[Brian Carlton]

The federal governmen has, in short, demonstrated an utter lack of foresight. Bush was giving specious pro-war speeches and dodging Cindy Sheehan when he should have been helping local governments prepare.

The governors of Louisiana and other affected states were reduced to begging the federal government for aid. Under Clinton, they wouldn't have had to ask: Such aid would have been understood as inevitable.

Even Bush the elder immediately sent 25,000 troops to clean up after Hurrican Andrew. Bush the younger won't be able to spare half that amount of manpower.

No politics about it. GWB doesn't have the money or the troops or the supplies to deal with a disaster of this magnitude. People are dying because of his policies.

Everybody but the genius knows that he has spread the resources thinner than a sheet of paper to deal with this Iraq fiasco.

[H2O2]

Opportunity costs --> simple economics at work. Send yer NG n' billions across the globe and you've got less to use back at home--nothing political about it, just the FACTS.

W's Iraq venture = $300 billion US tax payer dollars!

[Brian Carlton]

Originally Posted by BusyBenz

W's Iraq venture = $300 billion US tax payer dollars!

.........assistance granted to flood victims in LA and MS: $10 billion

.........seems equitable to me.

[cmac2012]

The BBC has been putting out scathing indictments of the lack of forsight displayed by the Bush admin. on this. The flooding of NOLA has been near the top of the list of potential domestic calamities for some time. Money that was requested for various shoring up of levies has been diverted -- the part of the Pontchartrain levy that failed was recently repaired, in a substandard manner.

They're saying that just before the congressional recess, they voted to delay work on the levies!! And this in a period when hurricane activity has been unusually savage.

Word is that FEMA monies have been diverted to Iraq recently.

Dubya Dubs gonna take some serious hits on this one, and most all will be justified.

[Brian Carlton]

Originally Posted by cmac2012

Dubya Dubs gonna take some serious hits on this one, and most all will be justified.

Don't bet on it. The man has the Lord to watch over him. Bet his constituents won't be moved at all. Look at the genius who started the thread.

[crash9]

Originally Posted by cmac2012

Money that was requested for various shoring up of levies has been diverted -- the part of the Pontchartrain levy that failed was recently repaired, in a substandard manner.

They're saying that just before the congressional recess, they voted to delay work on the levies!! And this in a period when hurricane activity has been unusually savage.

Word is that FEMA monies have been diverted to Iraq recently.

This isn't new though - they've been putting it off forever

[Austin85]

Interesting how the W supprters are staying clear of this thread....
.."You want the truth?..You can't handle the truth!!!"

usually they'd be in here spouting off the usual pro -idiot babble....

[Brian Carlton]

Originally Posted by Austin85

Interesting how the W supprters are staying clear of this thread....
.."You want the truth?..You can't handle the truth!!!"

usually they'd be in here spouting off the usual pro -idiot babble....

I don't think we have too much longer to wait. The genius will return soon enough. The babble will restart with a vengeance.

[MS Fowler]

I don't have a lot of "truth", but the way you guys are playing the "blame game" is truly disgusting. There may 10,000 people dead, and all you can do is rub your hands together and think that it means bad things for your political opponents.
Amazing!
Disgusting

[Brian Carlton]

Originally Posted by MS Fowler

I don't have a lot of "truth", but the way you guys are playing the "blame game" is truly disgusting. There may 10,000 people dead, and all you can do is rub your hands together and think that it means bad things for your political opponents.
Amazing!
Disgusting

There may be 10,000 people dead. And some of them may be dead because of the failure of the FEDERAL government to do an adequate job in a timely manner.

Last I looked, GWB was the head of the FEDERAL government and the person where the buck stops. No blame involved. No rubbing of hands. Just an observation of the facts presented. Or do you disagree with these facts?

Maybe you feel that he is doing the best that he can. No national guard troops or security personnel for four days, thereby rendering any rescue personnel useless. No coordination by FEMA of the various rescue personnel, as explained by Bot. Do you really think this performance is acceptable?