Thursday, September 08, 2005
The Katrina Blame Game
It didn't take long for the Cause Celeb Crowd to finger point at Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rice- you know, the whole Wu-Tang DClan. However, the same point the finger crowd ignore Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco told the White House it would have to wait for her decision on its proposal. Then she told them her answer was no.
Oh. I see. And somehow the results of a natural disaster are blamed on Bush? Oh, I see - I believe that's called (misdirected) Transference. No, actually it's how the Left works. Here's more from Governor Blanco:
After huddling with her advisers late into the night Friday and again Saturday morning, she rejected a White House proposal to consolidate the National Guard and active duty troops in the Hurricane Katrina disaster zone under a single commander appointed by the Bush administration.
"If I had seen a greater purpose, if I had felt it would make an immediate difference, it would have been a no brainer, but by Friday, we had everything in control," she said in an interview in a trailer behind the state's emergency operations center.
And, so, Blanco, 62, a former schoolteacher, homemaker and football coach's wife -- as unlikely a governor as any -- defied a request from the president of the United States.
The MSM fails to report that The Army Corps planned to upgrade the levees but up until prior to 1997 was blocked time and time again by enviro-litigationists. Further:
The lawsuit stated, "“Bottomland hardwood forests must be protected and restored if the Louisiana black bear is to survive as a species, and if we are to ensure continued support for source population of all birds breeding in the lower Mississippi River valley." In addition to the Sierra Club, other parties to the suit were the group American Rivers, the Mississippi River Basin Alliance, and the Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi Wildlife Federations.
The lawsuit was settled in 1997 with the Corps agreeing to hold off on some work while doing an additional two-year environmental impact study. Whether this delay directly affected the levees that broke in New Orleans is difficult to ascertain.
But it is just one illustration of a destructive river-management philosophy that took hold in the '90s, influenced the Clinton administration, and had serious policy consequences.
The current system in New Orleans was designed decades ago and has been shaped over time by past storms.
And:
Upgrading the system would take as long as 20 to 25 years, according to Al Naomi, the Corps' senior project manager for the New Orleans District.
Mayor Ray Nagin and Governor Blanco can take the largest slice of the Blame Pie.
Instead of focusing time and effort into actually helping those in need, the Monday Morning Hurricane QB's have chosen to play the blame game and spew blatant propaganda which they think will help them politically.
Again, a situation or circumstance - this time a natural disaster - and can the Left offer one, single, solitary proactive suggestion that contributes anything to the compassion and aide to those who need it? No, they can only criticize because that's all they know how to do. It's how children, very young, immature and spoiled children, behave. None of us expected anything different from them, did we?
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