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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (14016)9/9/2005 4:06:17 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
It would be nice if the Democrats who are so eager for excoriating Brown had some words of criticism for officials in Louisiana and New Orleans who so clearly dropped the ball.

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The real time for helping people was before the hurricane hit and the plans and excecution of the evacuation were so woefully inadequate that people clearly died or suffered because of the local officials miserable performance before the hurricane. They had had ample warning more than a year earlier of the inadequacies of their evacuation plan and the dangers inherent in gathering people in the Superdome, but they didn't seem to have learned from those occasions.

Just imagine if Bush had not urged them to order a mandatory evacuation the weekend before the hurricane. Think of the thousands more who would have been stuck in New Orleans when the levees broke. But Bush seems to get no credit for that at all, except from conservatives.

And think of this. At the last minute the hurricane weakened a bit and move a tad eastward. If it had struck where it was aiming for - it would have hit smack on New Orleans. And if it had, there wouldn't have been all those people stuck in their houses crawling out from their attics. They would have been dead. And we would have been asking why the city hadn't done more to get them out during the evacuation. Look at the parts of Mississippi where it hit directly. That would have been New Orleans. It's a sobering thought.

I've seen plenty of Republicans criticizing the federal response, FEMA and Brown. Conservative bloggers also. But I haven't seen one Democrat criticizing the mayor or governor. Surely, intellectual honesty would demand casting a nonpartisan eye at the people responsible for devising a plan to save as many people as possible and for providing food, water, and protection to those urged to shelter in the Superdome.

Instead the Democrats are already making fundraising appeals based on the hurricane and hurrying to try to exploit the tragedy for partisan advantage. And that is why so many conservatives are coming up from their defensive crouches and becoming simply furious at these attacks. The Democrats are overplaying their hands and looking to be more interested in partisan advantage than truly finding out what went wrong so we can make sure it doesn't happen again.

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