From the very beginning, we were very clear in expressing our opinion that hanging the blame for the Katrina mess on Michael Brown’s shoulders was a load of bullshit. As per usual, it looks like we were right:
WASHINGTON - For months now, former FEMA Director Michael Brown has been the butt of late-night TV jokes and a punching bag on Capitol Hill for his handling of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe.
Surprisingly, redemption seems at hand.
Bolstered by Wednesday’s release of a videotape and transcripts of federal disaster response sessions in the days just before and after Katrina, Brown and his hurricane team are seen as sounding the alarm of an impending disaster. In contrast, President Bush and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff appear impassive the day before Katrina struck as officials predicted that the levees around New Orleans could fail. The president asked no questions.
The only fault that we have to admit to was assuming that the reason for Bush’s backstabbing was that he was trying to feed the Dhimmicrats a bone by sacrificing Brown so’s to lift the blame off the ClueFucked Cajun Cunt Blanco and Hizzoner Raycist “Let the Motherfuckers Drown” Nagin. He was trying to shift blame, alright, but His Majesty got the intended beneficiary wrong.
Not that this makes Blanco and Nagin any less guilty of criminal negligence, of course. There’s precious little you can do when the Governatrix refuses to let aid in and the Mayor refuses to evacuate the population in the projected path of the hurricane, preferring to let a few hundred buses with full tanks drown in their parking lots instead.
So His Rottieness still refuses to blame Bush for the disaster. He’s the President, not the king, and there are limits to what he can do if those he intends to help refuse to let him. Imagine the furor if he’d decided to overrule State government and take direct control of the situation.
There’d have been screams, wailing and gnashing of teeth over federal tyranny and it would’ve been entirely justified. We’re a republic, not a tinpot dictatorship, and His Majesty kind of likes it that way.
So it was a classic damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation for the White House. If he overrode the corrupt and incompetent local government he would been ready for impeachment, and if he respected the Constitution, which is what he did, he would be blamed for everything by the Dhimmicrats and their wholly owned subsidiary, the mainstream media.
But that doesn’t make stabbing a loyal servant in the back honorable, particularly a loyal servant with a spotless track record, and that’s what pisses His Rottieness off. What Bush should have done, had he any honor at all, would be to come out in the open with a clear accounting, placing the blame where it rightfully belonged and fighting the good fight.
Instead he chose to behead one of his “expendables” as a peace offering in order to spare himself a fight.
Pitiful.
Of course, the MSM will now try to spin this into yet another attempt at placing the blame on Bush.
He’s to blame alright, but not for what they’re going to blame him for. The blame for what happened in the aftermath of Katrina belongs with the useless suits in the government of Louisiana, but you won’t hear the overpaid and underqualified hacks of the MSM talking about that.
What Bush is to blame for is being an opportunist, selfish, disloyal ass who’d rather stab a good man in the back than pick a fight with a bunch of whining, honorless weasels.
And that, in so many ways, is worse.
At least in our opinion.
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Ummmm…maybe the wingnuts in LA and all those FEMA knuckleheads in DC can print this and use it as thier
“guiding light” next hurricane season?
North Dakota News
This text is from a county emergency manager out in the
Western part of North Dakota state after a recent snow storm.
WEATHER BULLETIN
Up here in the Northern Plains we just recovered from a Historic event — may I even say a “Weather Event” of “Biblical Proportions” — with a historic blizzard of up to 44″ inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles,
stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10’s of thousands.
FYI:
· George Bush did not come….
· FEMA did nothing….
· No one howled for the government…
· No one blamed the government
· No one even uttered an expletive on TV…
· Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit
· Our Mayor’s did not blame Bush or anyone else
· Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else either
· CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC did not visit - or report on this
category 5 snow storm
· Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards…..
· No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House….
· No one looted….
· Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something
· Nobody expected the government to do anything either
· No Larry King, No Bill O’Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No
Geraldo Rivera
· No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found
And
· Nope, we just melted the snow for water
· Sent out caravans of SUV’s to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars
· The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn’t ask for
a penny
· Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments
delivered it to the snow bound families
· Families took in the stranded people - total strangers
· We Fired up wood stoves
· Broke out coal oil lanterns or coleman lanterns
· We put on an extra layers of clothes because up here it is “Work or
Die”
· We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out
of a mess created by being immobilized by a
welfare program that trades votes for ’sittin at home’ checks.
· Even though a Category “5″ blizzard of this scale has never fallen
this early…we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
“In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48
March 3rd, 2006 at 7:06 amdegrees North Latitude, 90% most of the world’s social problems evaporate.”
Hey Snarl, Those are places jesse jack-shit won’t go ‘less there’s a free buttet.
March 3rd, 2006 at 7:43 am…In other words, one group of people “Cowboyed-up” the other “bugged-up”.
Sorry, Freudian there,, that’s free Buffet
March 3rd, 2006 at 7:56 amNo.. Yadon’t say?!? Not the “honerable” “reverend”…
Say it ain’t so!
Man if I din’t know better I would say you just called Ol’ Jees’ a pimp…;-)
March 3rd, 2006 at 8:30 amCiSSnarl5.7, that rocks. Got a source for that so I can post it on my own blog?
Besides, how far ahead of time did Bush actually know? Two days? Three? Do you honestly think that that is enough time to DO anything about the problem? What purpose would be served by getting into a panic over something that there’s no chance in hell of anyone doing anything about, and if you send construction crews in to start, you’re likely to do more harm than good.
March 3rd, 2006 at 8:31 amIt looks like there’s quite a bit of truth in it, but you might want to check this out over at Snopes.
March 3rd, 2006 at 9:50 amAnd this has been perhaps the greatest failing of President Bush: a refusal to even confront - much less refute - the outright lies of its political enemies, including the media. For too long the Administration has relied on the blogosphere and the talk-radio people to carry its water rather than fighting its own battles…all because Bush is still wedded to that “bringing a different tone to Washington” nonsense. Even to the point of tossing loyal servants under the bus as a sort of sacrifice to the deities of comity and civility.
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:17 amBush tried to be honorable and take the blame, but that wasn’t good enough for the Dem’s. They wanted to really stick it to him by having hearings on this. Now they’ve forced us to go back and look at what happened without the hysterics and half truths cascading out of the MSM. The shock has dissapated and we can see the actual timeline and nail down who dropped the ball.
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:30 amWilly Wonka Nagin’s reaction was shock over the MSM story of Bush and the levees. This is really pathetic, since you would think the mayor of a city would know it better than the President, who has to worry for hundreds more. Nope, all he knows is he’s got thousands of degenerates on welfare paid for by whitey, tourism consisting mainly of hot college chicks showing their cans for beads once a year, and levees that he probably thought could withstand a concentrated 25 kiloton blast. What a moron.
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:49 amOK. One more time.
March 3rd, 2006 at 11:05 amW is the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
He is not the Governor of Louisiana.
He is not the Mayor of New Orleans.
The latter two are the ones responsible for maintaining order within their jurisdictions.
They are the ones charged with the safety of their constituents.
They are the ones who did not make use of all the resources at hand prior to the storm.
They are the ones who failed those they left behind.
They are the ones who delayed in requesting assistance when it became glaringly obvious to anyone with three functioning braincells that they were not up to performing their tasks.
W is not a genius. W does many things I do not agree with, including failing to put to rest the silly attempts to lay blame for the aftermath of the storm at his feet by reminding any one who bitches about the federal response to the storm that the state and local officials were the faultiest cogs in the machine.
The first person responsible for you is you. Then you look to your neighbors. Your local elected officials have a role to play. If they fail, get new ones. But nature happens. When you know something wicked this way comes, you get the hell out of the way, or you prepare to keep you and yours as safe as possible. Don’t whine that the Feds didn’t tuck you in. That’s not their job.
I wouldn’t take it for hard truth that this was actually written by some county manager..it was sent to me via E-mail and I just got a chuckle out of it…but if true, even in ND, I would guess a county manager would be in seriously hot water with the PC crowd for something like this.
My apologies for posting something and not saying if I knew it was a true source or not, but hey…at least I’m not on the 6:00 news forcefeeding it down peoples throats as hard facts…
March 3rd, 2006 at 11:11 amMisha, I don’t know if the Prez dumped Brown for reasons of political expediency or not. Much has been made over the years of his faults - real, perceived and contrived - but disloyalty to his team members is one that doesn’t come up often. You may very well have him nailed on this one, but for what it’s worth, he denies it.
I do know, though, that the MSM, in their relentless quest for The Truth, did their best to make Brown look like an uncaring, clueless, egotistical buffoon when they publicized the contents of several of his Katrina related email communications.
And then, even more unhelpfully, there arose the issue of his padded resume, which made many people - a few not even part of the media - question his qualifications for the post. That may have been enough grist for the mill that fanned the flames of the last nail in the coffin that broke the camel’s back - so to speak.
Like I said, you may very well have it right about President Bush, but it looks like Brownie didn’t help his own cause.
(Link for McClellan quote)
March 3rd, 2006 at 11:19 amTrue, Mike M, and in all fairness it is a possibility that Brown fell on his sword voluntarily. But if that’s the case, then I’m at a loss as to why Brown has been so busy protesting his innocence ever since.
If you were sacrificing yourself for the Boss, it would seem to me to be counterproductive to create a big fuss about it afterwards.
One thing that is for sure is that the Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the DNC, the MSM, are the ones guilty of smearing an innocent man’s name non-stop.
Judge, jury and executioner, just the way they always behave, those “professional, impeccably credentialed and unbiased journalists” and their umpteen layers of rigorously factchecking editors.
They owe Brown one heck of an apology (just to begin with. A monster damage settlement seems to be in order as well), but we all know that that’s never going to happen.
March 3rd, 2006 at 12:00 pmAbsolutely right. And I don’t think he did make a big deal about it - at first, anyway. For Brown, I think the rules changed when Chertoff and his people started pointing their fingers at him and tried to make him the scapegoat rather than to accept any responsibility themselves. There’s plenty of blame to go around - at all levels of government and between parties too.
March 3rd, 2006 at 12:34 pmPopular Mechanics Takes apart the Katrina Myths.
Quite frankly the federal Gov’t responded quicker than any preceeding Hurricane.
March 3rd, 2006 at 12:45 pmThose of us who are back working and rebuilding our lives in New Orleans and along the affected Gulf coast areas are, as most of us have always been, completely disgusted with the Imperial Federal Government. Feds screwed up the levee system, Feds are spending our tax dollars, too, at double and triple the rates of what private and local gov’s are paying for similar or better products and services. Porky corporations are getting big dollar contracts while small businessmen are doing the work for pennies on the dollar. That’s the Feds at work. Feds created and maintained the dependent population that the MSM focus all attention on, while ignoring the hardworking (and sometimes hard-partying–with no apologies thanks very much) backbone of this area. Feds screwed our schools with forced bussing, quotas, and our local governments with gerrymandering pandering by idiots with undeserved white guilt complexes to undeserving, but cheaply bought (with federal progam dollars) dependent voters (idiots like Nagin and most of the N.O. city counsel are nothing but poster children for Federal affirmative action programs–Oliver Thomas an apparent, notable, bright exception). We could have and can still protect ourselves better without Federal involvement, as every region of this country should. Of course, we’ve paid our taxes for the aid we’re asking for, just like Florida, Alabama, and the Carolinas–the notable difference being, they get one or more big payouts of pork virtually every year, continuing to rebuild more, bigger, and costlier right in the way of the most active hurricane tracks in the western hemisphere. Missouri and the upper Mississippi delta regions got their taste of the pie a few years back when seasonal flooding decimated their areas. N.Y. got a whole bunch of Federal dollars, plus a whole bunch more public sympathy (including significant donations of emergency vehicles and various additional charities from Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states) after 9/11/01. It has been 40 years since New Orleans has needed or asked for this kind of help and we basically got squat other than lies and Federal incompetence then. We were assured back in ‘65 that the levees would be repaired and built right, but that was a big Federal Imperialist lie. Were we given only a fair share, not the full value, just a fair share of revenue the Feds have long stolen from us for our oil and gas production and processing, we’d have had plenty of money to build our own levees right and a plethora of other positive improvements in our environment at all levels. Instead we are exploited and denigrated like a third world colony, used as a mud room for the nation’s energy and chemical needs, a Skinner’s box for social experimentation and made objects of derision by those the Feds and MSM have empowered. Short and sweet, we didn’t want the Federal Imperialists here in the 1860s and we still don’t. Louisiana was and though greatly diminished by Federal exploitation, still is one of the richest states in natural and human resources. It has the potential to provide its citizens and visitors a near-Xanadu quality of life. It’s about 70 degrees, sunny and gently breezy today in New Orleans–try that north of the 48th parallel. We welcome positive criticism and contributions from all those on the nicedoggie net and we’re with you to fight the ersatz Federal Impire of numbskulls (wherever they’re stealing the rights of the states and people) of whom Michael Brown is but one among many of the vainest and least competent.
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:28 pmI have supervised people for years, mostly good hard working people who asked nothing more then my support and to be treated fairly. I have always done so, even at my own peril. That is what loyalty is about! As for Mike Brown, I have no idea if he fell on his sword or was booted. I do know that I would have refused his resignation and told the media, the Donks and every other swinging dick to take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. I would have pointed out very loudly, that Blanco and Nagin were elected to take care of LA and NO and they failed miserably!
March 3rd, 2006 at 5:46 pmI think W is basically a good man but he failed to stand by Brown when the going got tough which I find reprehensible, on a personal level!
I think he needs to shitcan some of his advisers(yes, “Rove the Overrated” among them) and play it more from the gut. Like he did after 9-11!
All I have read explains neatly why I have no intention of depending on government for any help at any time. I only pray they do not impede me. It also remains why I could live entirely self-sufficient for a good length of time, with no public services. I trust neighbors and friends far more.
March 3rd, 2006 at 8:34 pmthis load of garbage makes me want to puck. On my blog, I got the relative law for FEMA inorder for them to do anything.
(battleposition17.blogspot.com)
By the way, FEMA and the RED CROSS says the you need to be ready to go it alone for upto 72 hours before help arrives.
March 3rd, 2006 at 11:02 pmGovernor ‘Firing Blancos’…
The news today comes as no surprise to me, but may indeed burst the bubble of many an aspiring President Bush basher. New tapes have come to light and this is indeed not good news for the left’s angry rants:…
March 3rd, 2006 at 11:52 pmCrime Free New Orleans
The upsurge in crime in cities that received New Orleans evacuees indicates New Orleans may now be virtually crime free except for the possible exception of politicians reportedly receiving graft and kickbacks and misusing federal relief funds.
Since political graft, malfeasance and misfeasance do not appear to be punishable under the Louisiana criminal code, it has been suggested by the extreme right-wing mainstream media that the mayor could be unable to justify the continued employment of the non-existent 200+ member ghost police force on the city payroll at the time Hurricane Katrina arrived unexpectedly taking by total surprise the entire city and state leadership as well as the inhabitants and devastating the city.
The mayor may be pressured to lay off the non-existent law officers due to a lack of sufficient punishable crime to justify their continued non-employment. However, it is likely that many in this phantom phorce were minorities so it is fully expected that leading minority organizations and individual religious advocates with high public visibility will get involved and demand that any non-existent minority police officers be reinstated and given back pay and bonuses plus promotions … uh, and a personal apology from President Bush.
BTW, just stumbled onto this site (spilled my drink too). Just who are you people? I have already had to change my Fruit of the Looms 11 times due to unfortunate accidents caused by random acts of unPC humor.
Grits (Pronounced Greets for you unfortunate yankees.)
March 27th, 2006 at 12:46 am