Yes, It's All Bush's Fault...

UPDATE:

Reports of big sections blown off of the roof of the SuperDome and water is coming through the six foot openings down on to the ten thousand people taking shelter there...

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I kid you not....President Bush is being blamed for Katrina...

Read this. 

There's tons of hurricane coverage in the blogosphere.  Here are a few:

Michelle Malkin, PoliPundit, The Political Teen who has a great story about Sheppard Smith at Fox News.

Lisa

UPDATE:

I just thought of this...after the hurricane is over, my husband will probably have to go down there on storm duty (insurance).... gee, can I blame Bush for that as well?

Just a thought.

Comments

[Jo]

I'm not surprised that some one would blame our president for this situation. There are truly disturbed people in this country.

[Matt Hurley]

I BLAME CHIMPEROR BUSHITLER McSHRUBBINBUSH AND THE ZIONIST HALLIBURTON! CABAL......

Sheesh...give me a break...

[Phoenix]

Um,,.. How about blaming whoever it was who decided to build a city fifteen feet below sea level?
I guess we'd have to go back a couple of centuries to find out which moron didn't have the foresight to figure out being below sea level and surrounded by THE SEA, THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, and LAKE PONCHONTRAIN might be a bad idea... but what the hell....blame it on Bush. Forget all the presidents before him who could have forestalled Mother Nature's fury with a God-like hand.

[Chris]

Actually, when I read the articles in the post it was kind of interesting...a category 5 hurricane hitting New Orleans was listed as 1 of the top 3 disasters likely to occur and instead of doing the things it would take to prevent massive damage the government cut the funding for those projects. Without making a judgement, maybe it would have been smarter to spend the money to prevent the damage rather than the money to rebuild a city that will still not be protected after we rebuild it...

[Bombtruck]

Sorry, but you could sandbag every street in New Orleans and it wouldn't matter. FEMA has known how vunerable NO was for decades. They've done their best to try and patch up holes in the flood prevention systems around the city, but you're talking about an epic force of nature bearing down on an area that is 10 feet below sea level, surrounded by water on 3 sides. Its nice(and politically expedient) to say "well, if they didn't cut the funding no one there would have to worry about a thing", but the truth is unless you've been through a strong hurricane(cat. 3 and up) you can't possibly understand the kind of damage those storms can and sometimes do bring. I've been through 2 of the strongest, Allen in 1980, and Gilbert in 1988, and what I can tell you is with both storms everyone went in with a 'plan' and everyone came out with chaos. My parents went through another strong storm, Beulah, in the late 60's. It dropped 115 tornadoes in 36 hours and left 3/4 of South Texas flooded. What 'plan' can anyone come up with that can fully protect any city from that?

Not surprised leftist moonbats from the northeast and California would blame Bush. It takes experience and intelligence to understand what can and can't be done about hurricanes, and they exhibit neither.

[Katomar]

Looks like the hurricane blew all the moonbats out into the blogosphere! Maybe they could start trying to blame Bush for the construction on the Superdome, which is now loosing its roof! Forget contractors, forget category 5 force winds. It's all Bush's fault! Maybe I could sue him if I catch a cold this year? How about the city of New Orleans taking a few steps on its own, like working on thier poverty base, creating a few jobs, and thereby enjoying an increase in tax revenues, so it could address some of its problems! Oh, no, I guess that would be too much of an assault on nanny dependency mind-set! It's easier to expect the feds to take care of your every need and them blame them for your own shortcomings!

[JFH]

"Um,,.. How about blaming whoever it was who decided to build a city fifteen feet below sea level?"

All right, Phoenix!! I'm all for some French bashing!! Hmmm... can we sue France for gross negligence?

[Becker]

It was the Evil One, Karl Rove. Please note that Katrina blew Mother Sheehan, the Iraq constitutional disaster, and the controversy about John Roberts off the front pages. It also will give cover to Bushitler for gas price increases that will line the pockets of his zillionaire friends who will contribute to the 2006 & 2008 campaigns. Every penny over about $1.50 per gallon goes right into Bushitler's coffers.

An update on Air America is coming. If only they can pay their elecric bills & keep the transmitters on...

[Lisa]

If the feds just "cut" funding this year... what did they do with the funding they previously received?

You don't think they directed that funding to other places do you....like maybe their pockets?

[dr wnc]

If this is Bush's fault or the next big story it's the result of Global Warming then explain why we had a hurricane just as strong in the 30s and 60s.
The world, and I do mean the entire earth, is far to complex and old for a few billion people to effect it's normal cycle...people need to get over themselves. Stop looking at blame and start living for the hear and now...Help those who need help, we can do more than the goverment, we have no red tape.

[Bombtruck]

The bright side here is, when the failures happen, it will lead to the developments of improved flood control in the Delta. When this storm's gone, those areas will be highly apparent.

[Chris]

Wow--no one said it was true--I just said the articles were interesting and Lisa since I'm sure you read it before you posted it you tell me, why the sudden cut in funding?

[Matt Hurley]

Chris, looks to me like you're problem is with Congress, not the White House...Congress sets the budget...

I suspect cuts had to be made somewhere and it didn't really matter where the cuts were made, somebody would be crying...

Of course, these geniuses are trying to blame the reduction on the Bush tax cuts, but the reality is that the government made MORE MONEY last year than before the tax cuts..........

[Phoenix]

Chris,

Maybe no one addressed your statements because you answered your own rhetoric with this:

>Without making a judgement, maybe it would have been smarter to spend the money to prevent the damage rather than the money to rebuild a city that will still not be protected after we rebuild it...<

Big HUNH ?! here for that statement, but maybe I'm missing something. You're saying this is the reason for the cuts in spending, right? Because no matter how much the government spends on New Orleans, it was a disaster waiting to happen and nothing, and you mean nothing could fix it? I have to agree with you. All the presidents from the beginning of time shouldn't have wasted a penny on this sinkhole, and maybe we could have averted any disaster at all if New Orleans had quit with the wishful dykes and all that.

But let's sue the French anyway! Great idea.

[Lisa]

Chris,

I don't know why the cut in funding... guess they drew the short straw. It doesn't matter. The state of Louisiana obviously didn't spend the previous federal money they received wisely because they are all now running around worried about the levies and pumps. But I'm sure someone's pockets are fully lined.

[catastrophile]

It's all kind of silly . . . people who claim that wetlands are valuable and should be preserved, are mocked and accused of hurting the economy. People who advocate public works spending are called socialists and told that the market will solve everything. People who say that climate change is going to cause more extreme weather are called alarmists.

How many hurricanes have we had in the last few years? How much of this storm could have been absorbed by wetlands which have been paved over? How much damage might have been averted with more public works spending?

But God forbid we should point out that we're right -- that just proves how crazy we are, right?

"No, it's not the fault of the people who have fought tooth and nail against any precautions against calamity! What kind of lunatic are you?"

Meanwhile, Gee-Dub reads his history of salt and insists the jury's still out on whether science means anything.

Sigh . . .

[Lisa]

I'm sorry Catastrophile... which one of us are you calling a lunatic?

Just want to be clear as to who should be responding to you.

[catastrophile]

"which one of us are you calling a lunatic?"

The hypothetical environmentalist who would take this kind of disaster as vindication. (Here in Cali we're lousy with 'em.)

[catastrophile]

Grr . . . are HTML tags disabled, or is it just my new browser?

[HC Steve]

Cat
Cat

You said it better than I ever could have hoped to say it.

Bush is always right and none of the problems we are facing as nation are the fault of the Republicans. The $145,000 public debt that each and every citizen owes isn't Bush's fault. The war we are losing in Iraq that is the fault of the peace protesters. The Democrats must have caused the Trade Deficit. War Profiteering is not the cause of high gas prices. The poor economy is just liberal propaganda. 911 is totally Clinton’s responsibility. The growing consumer debt is just greedy citizens trying to keep their standard of living from falling. The wreaking of our environmental standards is just in our imagination. The growing gap between the rich and poor is because the poor are lazy. The record number of citizens without health insurance is a justified cost savings for the Corporations.

You know none of this cannot be the Republican’s fault since they only control all three branches of the Federal Government.

[Chris]

catastrophile--I don't even know what the html tag thing is but nothing is disabled--if it is about computers, you are on your own here--we are clueless

Pheoniz--try regulating your meds--it was an honest question and here is what happens now--we spend money to rebuild the city and don't spend money on building more levies and better huricane protections--we maybe could have spent the money on hurricane protections and wouldn't have had to rebuild the city the next 6 times it gets hit by a hurricane..

I'm not sure who cut the funding--just an interesting point and not even one I am sure I support--just talking here guys--if you are looking for someone who has time to hug a tree you are looking in the wrong place

[ltcoldevildogret]

what is this "we" stuff chris. seems this is an issue for New Orleans and the state of Lousiana. By the by I have never been to New Orleans that it wasn't chock-a-block full of touristas. And seems I 'members a tax tacked on my bill from the hotel that was a local tax. now where did that money go? probably into some local Demodawg politician's pocket. ya know one of those Demodawgs what the reslib out here flaps his yap about alla time. seems to me them ol' boys an' gals down there in the big easy orter look to they selves firstest.

[Chris]

Hey LT,
I say "we" because I assume that LA will receive federal funds from being a disaster area.

Chris

[Christine M.]

Why blame Bush now?
If FEMA issues list of the "three likeliest, most castastrophic disasters" and the government fails to do anything to address two of them surely you wait for the third to kill a few thousand people before making a judgement as to whether it was worth preparing for.

[Christine M.]

Oh here's why...
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/is_20050606/ai_n14657367
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/is_20050207/ai_n10176537

But of course you would have to belong to a particular political party to relate cuts in flood prevention programs to how well flooding is prevented. That's a partisan issue after all.