Thanks to VodkaPundit for this ammunition.

The “it’s all Bush’s fault” meme has obviously taken hold in the land of the moonbats. I can only chuckle wryly in anticipation of the hoops they’ll have to jump through to explain away this:

Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.
That's an AP story from August 28, the day before Katrina made landfall.

Now, the big question is of course, is who deserves the blame? I’d say a bit of everyone involved. The President should have made sure the beaurocracy was better prepared than it was. Congress for passing pork over and over and over and over again. And over and over and over. The governor of Lousiana because federalism says she is the first to be responsible for everything in the state and for crying on TV. People needed a governor not a mother. The mayor for not being prepared and letting school buses sit in a giant parking lot instead of using them to evacuate the people that needed it the most. The first responders who wouldn’t take charge of the situation.
And most of all, the voters of New Orleans for the last 50 years. That is what voting in corrupt Democratic leadership generation after generation will give you. They voted for government welfare, so no money or time was spent on what has become their Achille’s heel.
I’ve been to New Orleans. I helped set up a free medical clinic just off of Bourbon street. Just a few blocks, and we had to have armed guards to keep people from coming in and stealing stuff. Someone was shooting off of the top of a building just a block farther down. People were animals down there in normal times. I don’t expect much difference.
We were talking earlier about our predictions of the city. Of course, all these are generalizations.
The middle class, with stable families, have evacuated themselves around the country to stay with their relatives. They will stay a few weeks, get jobs, buy a new home, get the kids in school, and stay where they are at.
The lower class, who have been evacuated to football fields, have no where to go. They have no extended family, no outside support structure, and in a few months, will be bussed back into a cleaned up but not rebuilt New Orleans. There will be lots of construction jobs for a few years, but that will dry up, because the people who have any money will not return. Once the federal dollars are gone, so will be everything else. The middle class, which is needed to keep the city running, will never return in many numbers, since now they know exactly what will happen should any emergency arise. The city will fall apart into looting, rape, and murder. Who in their right mind would take that chance with their families?

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

View Technorati blog reactions.

Related Posts