Burning Bush
Why do all you lefty radical types hate President Bush so much? Follow the links for documentation.
Well, first of all because he spent the day talking immigration with Chertohoff (White House) and eating birthday cake with McCain (White House again)after the National Hurricane Center’s Director told him of the magnitude of the disaster in New Orleans (AP).
Who needs to even bring up the obscenity that is the Iraq situation when we have the devastated remnants of our homes as illustration. Governor Blanco requested aid, Bush didn’t bother (Newsweek). He was too busy talking Medicaire (White House).
It goes on and on. I guess to many people it does not matter becase it did not happen to anyone but those “deadbeats from New Orleans.” To others it has just faded from memory along with all the other soundbites. Well let me tell you, it does not fade out for us. We live with it every day, trying to put lives together in the face of the three worst impediments known to modern man: the local, state, and federal governments. The unholy trinity of Bush, Blanco and Nagin have done their best to finish us off with their dual pronged plan of incompetence and corruption, but we are still here.
Why do I say that he should never be allowed within our city limits again? Go read a nice, well documented timeline of the times around the Federal Flood, some excellent work by ThinkProgress. This isn’t imagination, its Politicians Gone Wild. How dare anyone tell me not be angry at the total abandonment of the social contract by those in power.
Lets just put it simply: the man is a criminal and I do NOT welcome him in my city. I am far from alone in this. Take your stink of corruption (Enron anyone?) and dereliction of duty (Gitmo, perhaps?) and leave us alone. You have done enough. FYYFF!
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:16 am
Oh, baby, you can do better than that.. the best description I’ve been appointed in the last year (in plural, as it was a group description) was “an angry nest of radical hornets who don’t own homes, don’t work, do nothing to conribute to society and spend their lives in a bar.”
I’m fairly sure I don’t have to spell out the many ironies in that quote. Suffice to say, I’ve learned over time to take such things as a compliment. Kudos are great, but you know you’re really doing something right when the crazies start calling you names. One of my proudest accomplishements is having been the topic of at least one and I think more threads on Free Republic. If you aren’t familiar with that ultra right wing bible thumping trailer trash of a site (all apolgies to the decent bible thumbing/white trash out there), and need a good laugh, google my name along with Free Republic.
Anyway, I digress. As I find my niche here at Humid City, I have a feeling said niche will follow along the lines of my first non-benefit related post… meaning that I get to take everything y’all post and drag it out into the nastier details.
But once again, I’m too tired to spell it out. So while I have plenty to say about Dubya and Chertoff and the NHC, etc., etc., and believe me, I’ll get around to blogging it here - I’m going to stick to picking on one topic you covered and once again encourage anyone who gives a shit to persue themselves… ThinkProgress’s nicely documented timeline of the Federal Flood is a job well done. But why stop at Katrina? Here’s my tip/homework assignement of the day. Go buy the book “1927: The Mississippi River Flood” and read it. Or google something to that effect. Big surprise, turns out that the Army Corps of Engineers and the whole levee system has been nothing but a horribly mismanaged game of political clout trumping science since the beginning.
Like I said, big surprise.
Not.
And if I could, what I’d really like to ask the idiots that started set this whole miserable failure in motion - how the hell did you have the nerve to think you could change the course of a river? We’ve had the audacity to mess with Mother Earth and think we would get away with it…
The last joke will not be by us, it will be on us.
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:35 am
Damn, I left a great response but apparently I hit an incorrect button and it failed to appear. As I’m too tired to try and recreate the whole thing, I’m just going to cut straight to the chase. ThinkProgress’s timeline is a great piece of work, but if anyone out there wants to pursue the whole long sordid story, either buy (and read) the book “1927 - The Great Mississippi River Flood” or google something to that effect. Not that this will come as any great surprise, but the whole Corps of Engineers/Levee has been one big political game from the get go. It is and always has been about ego and power and money and never about the safety of the general public.
And who the fuck had the audacity to think we could trump Mother Nature in the first place? A river is going to go where a river is supposed to go. Who the hell are we to think we can contain that and never suffer any consequences?
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Oh, yeah.
That was the one, NOGoddess…
“how the hell did you have the nerve to think you could change the course of a river?”
That speaks volumes;
About the failure of this levee system from it’s inception.
About the tremedous ego, collective or otherwise, behind these terribel decisions.
About the monumentous task before us, to deal with what the future holds, in terms of the river itself, and the very flow of our country.
Sooner or later all things fall before the tide.
For once, let it be the one called “We The People”.
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:09 am
I just went back and read the ‘timeline’ link again.
This is a perfect example of politics over humanity and a sickening blemish on the soul of our People.
As a Nation, we should be horrified and humiliated that this is our government at work; Lazy beauracrats, too self invovled to attend to the biggest distaster in our history.
As New Orleanians, we should vow to never again allow our fate to be held entirely such slippery and greedy hands.