The Coalition of the Swilling

I totally understand how you guys feel. The Washington Post ripped off one of my posts the other day.....well, ok, they did not rip it off, but it sure sounded like things I had been saying for a week...Oh well.

Back to the shadows for me.

If this double posts...sorry..

I understand how you guys feel. The Washington Post ripped off one of my post the other day, well, ok, they did not "rip" it off, but is sure sounded like things I had been saying for the past week. Oh well.

Back to the shadows for me

dammit.....sorry guys

Argh, is the comment screen loading slow Wunder?

I think Hosting Matters or some server along the way was bogging down this morning.

Keep a spot open for us.

Jesse, maybe you should kick in a million or two in cash for the victims living in squallor, hmmmmm?

[crickets chirping]

Are you still watching ABC? I would've thought Primetime Live would've put you off them for good.

On CBS The Early Show this morning, they were STILL foaming at the mouth, blaming the president and FEMA. Jeff Goldstein has an EXCELLENT post up this morning about the Blame Game -- I sent it to a friend I thought was a reasonable liberal and he was STILL blathering on about delayed response and racism.

I give UP.

Yeah, over at Dawn Patrol, Ms. Rachel put up a poetic little reminder that blame can wait - and it took five replies for the bashing to resume. I'm no fan of Gov. Blanco (who should have had a little more gravitas when her citizens needed it) but let's hold off until the dead are buried, for crying out loud.

BTW - how in holy hell does Jesse Jackson know what a slave ship's hull looks like? Full of barnacles? Was he keel-hauled as a boy?

Lisa ~ we don't watch any ABC at all, except WNT and football. So it's not as painful as one might think, lol!

Diptera ~ do not agree one iota. In the words of Eddie Murphy "You brought that sh$t on yourself, man!" I refuse to let the LA/NOLA officials off the hook/stand idly by while they throw Molotov Cocktails at everyone else and THEY STARTED doing so from Day One. A good part of it is fed by our experience here ~ Escambia is one of the biggest but poorest counties in all of FL, yet our local officials were MAGNIFICENT during Ivan and our Emergency Preparedness gurus acted as if they did Cat 4's all the time, when, in fact, there hadn't been a major hurricane through here in 30 some odd years. Our neighboring county, in contrast, was abysmal in their response. Utter and complete collapse. And they answered for it and learned from it.

NOLA even had Ivan as a wake-up call, a chance to address obvious flaws in their disaster response, and did NOTHING but write up a very pretty plan to get more federal funding. And did NOTHING to implement the plan. Oh no. Those bodies in the street, in the attics and in the Superdome coolers deserve fingers being pointed at the folks in whose charge their lives were held. Who were entrusted with the safekeeping of the city and it's people. And those scurrilous bastards don't rate getting to blame anybody but who's in the mirror. If the Mayor/Gov and their Jesse coat tail riders' charges go unanswered and the true facts remain unknown because it's 'unseemly' to argue, then who speaks for the bodies? And what happens the NEXT time?

I would agree that the bashing and finger pointing should not have started, 'Fly, but since it did start what seems to me the correct version of events needs to be vigorously defended so that the "Blame Bush!" mantra does not become permanently embedded in the public's psyche.

FYI

Anyone hear any Rush today? He makes an interesting point about how New Orleans' city officials have been misspending (sp?) federal funding for the levees for the past 10 years.

He cites CNSNews and it's right there on the front page. Good stuff.

Weird. The URL isn't working. It's www.cnsnews.com for those who don't know.

Hey, want the top of your head to blow off?

Read this:

http://www.thisisnotover.com/archives/2005/09/heres_what_gets.html#comments

I'll wait.

I don't dispute that we need to find out what went wrong, but like we say on the rink, that's primarily to stop it from happening again. It already happened now and there's no undoing it - having the proper proportions of guilt fixed in the public mind will not help the suffering.

We have every right to get angry about the sudden eruption of "Bush doesn't care about xxxxxx" and seek to correct it before it becomes "common knowledge." Ugly reality, I suppose, that once the mud starts flying one can't ignore it until the important jobs are done. (It would be a fine thing for someone to say, aloud, "Can we at least drain the city first, you ghouls?" It just wouldn't work on those who already have no shame.)

And that's the key - "while they throw Molotovs," as Ms. Sister said. A long obsession with ducking responsibility before Katrina is hardly a precursor to the dawn of reason once it strikes, and it doesn't surprise me to hear the same folks long accustomed to mooching the Feds now blaming them when the response isn't instant enough. I confess to foolishly hoping that this would be an occasion to rise to, forgetting about human nature - a sudden crisis doesn't usually improve or destroy a person's character, it merely reveals it.

Wow. That site is amazing. Wow. I have no words for how amazed I am at the total lack of rationale there.

Apparently they don't want a leader who can duck emotion and deal with a situation in the most logical manner. They want a leader who cries along with the people and remains ineffectual as they "feel their pain."

And I agree about the blame game. But I'm a Louisiana native and I was just waiting 'til folks started talking about Louisiana's LOOOOOOONG history of shady politics. It should surprise no one that there was no plan, no effective leadership in place. This is the state of the "Shifty 50." The Huey P. Long state. The state that when Duke was running against Edwards there were bumper stickers floating around that read "Vote for the crook, it's important."

There are a lot of us who can't be down there to help. So it kind of falls on us to analyze. Pundits will fall on both sides of the coin. What we're seeing a demonstrable lack of are facts presented without an agenda-laced bias.

As much "proper proportions of guilt fixed in the public mind will not help the suffering" is true -- the polarization of America continues.

I sent that same link to Jeff Goldstein, and he posted it, along with blistering commentary.

::pinky to corner of mouth:: Mmmmmmmm, what shall I incite next?

From the comments section of the frothing moonbat website Lisa so thoughtfully provided:

People want a president who feels their pain and Bush has failed to communicate that sentiment throughout this whole episode.

These goofballs are serious! Virtual headshaking here, folks. From the original post (emphasis is by the author):

"I want to hear about how he sent his lawyers into a room -- he had four days, you know -- and demanded that they come back in an hour with a plan for him to send the Marines into New Orleans with 100 trucks of food and water, posse comitatus(/i> or not. I want to hear that he was panicked. Because I was panicked."

They don't want a leader, they want a friggin' actor. Who panicks. Or a talk show host that will incite a fight in studio. Because, y'know, I want to see a sense of urgency.

And this cretin wants Bush to admit that he contemplated breaking the Posse Comitatus Act! This is from the same sort of people who whine and whinge on how civil liberities are being eroded away by the evil Chimpy McBusHitler and his Digital Storm Troopers. The exact same reason why the Posse Comitatus Act came into being in the first place.

If Bush had done that for, say, 9/11, or Ivan, these same touchie feelie leftards would be freaking out, tearing their hair, and screeching that Howard Dean needs to Do Something.

Pathetic. God, the Republicans need to win in 2008. Maybe all those exploding heads on the left will clear the decks for the rational people who still align themselves with classic liberal values, and not this drug enhanced fuzzy memory of how things should have been in the 1960's.

I don't even think these folks have a rationale, Jeff. They simply hate Bush and his administration so much that regardless of the event, they will find an argument against. Regardless of logic.

The problem is, they don't know what they want. They don't even really seem to know what they don't want. They feel anger and hatred toward something because they're told to feel anger and hatred by their leftist hierarchy. So they make arguments that make no real sense.

Silly.

The insecure, spoiled and pampered cretins want a hug, that's what they want. The gist of their comments can be summed up as, "Make me feel good, Bush, or I'll.....I'll....I'll SCREAM!!!, that's what I'll do!!"

That's the best explanation for it I've ever seen, JeffS. What the hell ever happened to the Pat Moynihans of the world. True to their liberal roots, but gentlemanly enough to acknowledge the facts. And work with everyone.

I am so sick of shrieking eels.

Don't you love to see how red faced Democrats get if you tell them that by today's standards JFK would be a conservative?

Of course, one would imagine he would have followed his party down this path along with the rest of the clan. I just love making the comment every time I hear some "Evil Conservatives" comment.

Cullen - make them madder and tell them that by sixties standards Bush would be a liberal.

JeffS - in other words, these commenters want a President who acted in the selfsame fashion as Governor Blanco. How did that work out for them?

Folks, what they really want is Alpha Gore to throw a lispy temper-tantrum in the Oval Office and fly to the rescue!