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Welcome Joe Love and Palmer-Hale!
Glad to have you aboard. The liberals are getting all the press with their whining, but my gut feeling is that most Americans are seeing right through that BS.
Kooka, thanks for your comments. First, my sincere thanks to you, your fellow liberals, and your radio station for aid given. I heartily welcome being proven wrong about aid from liberal sources; we all need to be working on this.
That said, please understand this. After years and years of you liberals accusing conservatives of being greedy, insensitive, uncompassionate, uncaring and all the rest, liberals have a hard slap in the face coming for they way they have mouthed off about this disaster. Conservatives, millionaires and big businesses, three of the favorite targets of liberal scorn, have been giving tremendous amounts of aid. President Bush uses every press appearance to solicit donations, but I have not yet heard one – not a single, solitary one – of the liberal loudmouths do the same.
Look at your own attitude about corporate giving. You were putting down people and organizations that are in a position to take massive action for good, not even giving them the benefit of the doubt and seeing what they were doing. (By the way, Wal-Mart has pledged another $15,000,000 to the effort.) My situation is much like yours, and as you say you are doing, I am giving what I can to help. Neither of us can give millions of dollars, and I admit that implying you could was unfair. But neither are your complaints about those who can and are giving millions.
As for your comment that Bush is at least partially to blame for slow response: Thank you for the “partially,” that was very unliberalike. Here’s an angle on this you may not have thought of. If emergency resources had been in place at the storm’s onset, as many liberals are demanding with perfect hindsight, an awful lot of them would have been damaged or destroyed before they could have been even used. I heard one commentator complaining that the Navy didn’t have its ships offshore before the storm. Excuse me, but the Navy does not deploy its ships into the path of Category Five hurricanes.
Palmer-Hale, Senator Landrieu is more politically inbred than that – her brother is the lieutenant governor of the state! And people complain about the Bush brothers?
posted by
WriterofLight
on September 5, 2005 at 6:52 PM
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Very perceptive
Thanks for writing a really right-on blog on the New Orleans tragedy--you do realize what I believe to be the truth--Blanco is a joke--Landrieu is a political left winger and speaking out as loud as she can to blame the president because she must be scared to death when the truth finally comes out and she is exposed as the crook politician she is and her father (former New Orleans mayor) was--they are part of the reason there are so many poor black people in New Orleans--keep 'em down---they are a sure block votes for democrats. It's funny, they can get them in buses to vote, why couldn't they get them in buses to get out of the city before the storm?
posted by
Palmer-Hale
on September 4, 2005 at 6:31 PM
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Well, once more you are wrong as can be
As far as I can see the Liberals are doing much more than you can imagine. My radio station, which is as liberals as ti gets, is right now doing what it does every time something like this happens and is raising money.
It is sad that Conservatives are trying to use such a situation to make themselves look high and mighty. You were trying to put me on a guilt trip the other day because I do not have the money your beloved Big Business has and I can not give millions of dollars. It was a sad and childish act to try and put me down for being a hard working American who can barely afford to take care of his family and so can now give. If I could afford to give I would. All the Liberals I know of who can give, are giving what they can. In fact Gomedome has already said he, a Canadian liberal, is going to go and volunteer his time to help efforts to gather needed stuff to send down there.
In times like these it is childish to try and say one side if giving more than the other. Grow up a little here.
As for how you started this post, it is partially Bush's fault we could not react quicker. The same tams that would normally react to such things are stuck in Iraq reacting to such things over there. Because of Bush's war we are less able to take care of the homeland. We have too much of our needed resource over in Iraq and it has to come at some price, that price being the security of those here on the homeland.
posted by
kooka_lives
on September 3, 2005 at 6:45 AM
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These are all things
I find my household speaking about when discussing the news coverage of Katrina. It seems to me that the governor is to blame for much of the problems New Orleans is having right now.
Well-written entry. I enjoyed it. ., and I'll be back.
posted by
Joe_Love
on September 2, 2005 at 9:39 PM
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