Please Consider This

11:09 pm EST September 2nd, 2005 | Politics | 5 Comments

Assuming that everything goes swimmingly for the relief efforts from here on out, that the right-wing doesn’t try any funny business with the inevitable relief legislation that comes up (which brave Senator – Democrat or Republican – will first propose a repeal of the Bush tax cuts?), and that all goes well from now on… What will be the excuse from the President, FEMA, Congress and on down to the local authorities to explain the people who have died not as a result of the hurricane on the day it happened but because our government simply dawdled and continues to do so?

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5 Responses to “Please Consider This”

  1. Joseph Hughes says:
    September 2, 2005 at 11:09 pm

    I see the finger pointed at not only the victims, but also at local officials. It’s no coincidence that those calling for the most help from Louisiana were Democrats. We’re bearing witness, to use the word normally spoken in a foreign tongue, to an American genocide.

  2. Quaker in a Basement says:
    September 2, 2005 at 11:09 pm

    Those people died for a noble cause–a lower marginal tax rate for top earners.

  3. frameone says:
    September 2, 2005 at 11:09 pm

    I think we’ve already started to see the outlines of the long term spin:

    Nobody could have anticipated the scale and scope of the disaster. Even so, those who remained in New Orleans did so at their own risk and need to take personal persponsibility for their decisions (or else: Look what decades of liberalism has done to the self-reliance of the African-American community). Yes, the relief effort stumbled but that’s why people shouldn’t leave such important issues as disaster relief or social security up to the government. We need continue with the reforms set in place by the Bush administration — which made flood control a top priority on day one — to make government leaner and so more responsive to the needs of the states.

    I give it a week before this list of talking points congeals and the MSM begins its inevitable reflective retreat: Did we go too far in turning the story into what went wrong rather than focus on what went right. Ultimately, everyone will agree that blame for the human tragedy we are witnessing rests squarely with liberal bloggers.

  4. Quaker in a Basement says:
    September 3, 2005 at 12:09 am

    Ultimately, everyone will agree that blame for the human tragedy we are witnessing rests squarely with liberal bloggers.

    Then someone will call for yet another panel discussion on the ethics of blogging.

  5. dude says:
    September 3, 2005 at 9:09 pm

    I agree completely with Frameone. These neocons will conjure up some goofy talking points to spin everything to their liking. Instead of logically concluding that this is what happens when you underfund FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers, the neocons will say “see… this is why you shouldn’t rely on government. government never can do anything right, so we should just privatize FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers”. if we are really lucky, we will end up like the Roman empire in its “last throes”, to use a term that our VP likes. At the end of the Roman empire, they no longer had a volunteer Army or a draft. Instead their army was full of paid mercenaries. From what I understand, our army is already half way there. What do you think Patton or MacArthur would say about relying on Haliburton for our military supply chain in Iraq? …not to mention paying Haliburton drivers 10x what a soldier would make for doing the same damn job.