For anyone who had any questions on the matter, the entire pathetic response to the suffering people of Hurricane Katrina was entirely President Bush’s fault. Or so the race baiters like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and now Harry Reid would have us continue to believe.
Two days before Hurricane Rita was to make landfall somewhere west of New Orleans, Minority Leader Reid picked up where the other babble-brains left off in the post-Katrina nonsense. This time Reid was criticizing the effective response of the administration.
“It’s nice to have the Bush administration recognize the importance of a federal response to Rita, but why weren’t they proactively mobilizing and organizing like this for Katrina,” read the statement from the senator’s office.
Liberals, completely unable to deal with the reality, are still trying to swallow the Kool-Aid that it was Bush’s fault for the complete, abhorrent lack of leadership following Katrina that caused New Orleans to become the crisis of historic record.
Sean Penn calls Bush’s actions criminal. Bette Midler implies Bush still has a drug problem. At my flagship station in New York, the president’s biggest critic won’t even concede that he could be a born-again Christian.
But they do so dishonestly.
Be mindful that it was the inarticulate, foul-mouthed and incompetent mayor of New Orleans who defied the standing Louisiana Hurricane Evacuation Plan guidelines and left 324 school buses and 364 RTA public transit buses underwater, when two days before Katrina hit he could have swept the low lying neighborhoods and evacuated thousands. Perhaps even the 400 plus people, who turned up in the subsequent sweeps of those same low-lying neighborhoods, who did not survive, could have been rescued.
400 dead and 688 buses speak volumes of complete incompetence or pure negligence, but either way, just blame Bush. Because even if Mayor Nagin can’t string 10 words together without setting off the censor for profanity, it must certainly be the president’s fault that the buses remain locked and eventually covered in sewer water.
Then came the revelations on Thursday that even further refined the picture of just what kind of people hold local elected office in New Orleans. Democrat Cedric Floyd, a suburban chief administrative official for the area was cuffed and his property seized when it was discovered that he had in fact been hiding four truckloads of donated relief items in his own home instead of distributing them to the displaced families he was responsible for. The report indicated that other city officials would soon be indicted as well. The attorney general cited what a horrible discovery this was – victims of Katrina had literally been begging for these items.
I have never said that the feds response to Katrina was in all aspects perfect, or even close to it. It broke my heart to see my fellow Americans stranded and in such pain.
But consider this: How can the feds work with leadership made out of this fabric of adverse and overwhelming corruption and incompetence and make anything happen properly?
I made the observation on the air on Wednesday that it appeared the Rita and Houston-Galveston evacuation and civil-preparedness plans were well ahead of where they were at that same time in relationship to Katrina and New Orleans. Why?
Good cooperation between local, state and federal authorities? That coupled with the fact that local the mayor, chief administrative officials, and other city workers weren’t hoarding the goods to make the poor suffer even more than they already had.
But then again, that’s President Bush’s fault, too. He has too many FBI agents prosecuting porn, he failed to meet with Cindy Sheehan, he put up a racist John Roberts to take away black peoples’ right to vote, he personally is going to put a chastity belt on every single woman in America, he will make slaves of everyone who says “nuclear,” he’s the most homophobic president who has ever served, he drove the truck that dragged James Byrd to death, he didn’t dial up Batman to swing into action, or Superman to use his X-ray vision to spot the goods, there were no weapons of mass destruction, 9-11 was really America’s fault and, last but not least, he bribed the Supreme Court in 2000 to give him the election.
Yes, such astounding proof pretty much settles it.
