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Subject: Canadian press -- A Canadian Press On Bush

 

 

A bit more objectivity than we get from our own press and politicians.

George Bush, the man. David Warren, The Ottawa Citizen Sunday, September 11, 2005

 

 

There's plenty wrong with America, since you asked. I'm tempted to say that the only difference from Canada is that they have a few things right. That would be unfair, of course -- I am often pleased to discover things we still get right.

 

 

 

But one of them would not be disaster preparation. If something happened up here, on the scale of Katrina, we wouldn't even have the resources to arrive late. We would be waiting for the Americans to come save us, the same way the government in Louisiana just waved and pointed at Washington, D.C. The theory being that, when you're in real trouble, that's where the adults live.

 

 

 

And that isn't an exaggeration. Almost everything that has worked in the recovery operation along the U.S. Gulf Coast has been military and National Guard. Within a few days, under several commands, finally consolidated under the remarkable Lt.-Gen. Russell Honore, it was once again the U.S.military efficiently cobbling together a recovery operation on a scale beyond the capacity of any other earthly institution.

 

 

 

We hardly have a military up here. We have elected one feckless government after another that has cut corners until there is nothing substantial left. We don't have the ability even to transport and equip our few soldiers. Should disaster strike at home, on a big scale, we become a Third World country. At which point, our national smugness is of no avail.

 

 

 

From Democrats and the American Left -- the U.S. equivalent to the people who run Canada -- we are still hearing that the disaster in New Orleans showed that a heartless, white Republican America had abandoned its underclass.

 

 

 

This is garbage. The great majority of those not evacuated lived in assisted housing and receives food stamps, prescription medicine and government support through many other programs. Many have, all their lives, expected someone to lift them to safety, without input from themselves. And the demagogic mayor they elected left, quite literally, hundreds of transit and school buses that could have driven them out of town parked in rows, to be lost in the flood.

 

 

 

Yes, that was insensitive. But it is also the truth; and sooner or later we must acknowledge that welfare dependency creates exactly the sort of haplessness and social degeneration we saw on display, as the floodwaters rose. Many suffered terribly, and many died, and one's heart goes out. But already the survivors are being put up in new accommodations, and their various entitlements have been directed to new locations.

 

 

 

The scale of private charity has also been unprecedented. There are yet no statistics, but I'll wager the most generous state in the union will prove to have been arch-Republican Texas and that, nationally; contributions in cash and kind are coming disproportionately from people who vote Republican. For the world divides into "the mouths" and "the wallets.

 

 

 

"The Bush-bashing, both down there and up here, has so far lost touch with reality, as to raise questions about the bashers' state of mind.

 

 

 

Consult any authoritative source on how government works in the United States and you will learn that the U.S. federal government's legal, constitutional, and institutional responsibility for first response to Katrina, as to any natural disaster, was zero.

 

 

 

Notwithstanding, President Bush took the prescient step of declaring a disaster, in order to begin deploying FEMA and other federal assets, two full days in advance of the storm fall. In the little time since, he has managed to co-ordinate an immense recovery operation -- the largest in human history -- without invoking martial powers. He has been sufficiently presidential to respond, not even once, to the extraordinarily mendacious and childish blame throwing.

 

 

 

One thinks of Kipling's poem If, which I learned to recite as a lad, and mention now in the full knowledge that it drives postmodern leftoids and gliberals to apoplexy -- as anything that is good, beautiful, or true:

 

 

 

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

 

 

 

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;

 

 

 

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

 

 

 

Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

 

 

 

Unlike his critics, Bush is a man, in the full sense presented by these verses.

 

 

 

A fallible man, like all the rest, but a man

[Brooke]

 

thanks, that brightened my day.

 

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This should make it even better.

 

 

In Two Storms, Same Media Morons Seen

 

Associated Press writer Stephen Ohlemacher, in a piece entitled, "Rita's Victims Wealthier Than Katrina's," notes that "Hurricane Rita smashed into a region that is wealthier, more mobile and much less densely populated than the one devastated by Hurricane Katrina." How does a hurricane with the hots for soaking the rich know where to find the rich? The Eye -- center of the storm. Gives them eagle-sharp vision. That's how hurricanes with racist impulses like Katrina could find New Orleans. No wonder white Mississippi made out so well with Katrina!

 

 

Applying his piercing logic, Ohlemacher adds that Rita's victims "are less likely to live in poverty, more likely to own a car," less "likely to be a member of a minority group," more likely to be Republican, less likely to have voted for Kerry, more likely to own stock, less likely to love Michael Moore flicks (OK, I added the last four).

 

 

With news that the death toll from Rita was low and damage to oil refineries much less-than-expected, libbies have had little to cheer about. I guess that's what all these 'RITA DEVASTATES RICH BASTION OF PORT ARTHUR!' headlines are for. They make liberals feel better.

 

 

Especially since we now learn that those sensational media rumors in the aftermath of Katrina -- "200 EVACUEES MURDERED BY MICHAEL BROWN AND FEMA AT SUPERDOME!" . . . "WOMEN AND CHILDREN RAPED BY ROVING GANGS OF HALLIBURTON EXECUTIVES AT CONVENTION CENTER!" -- have now been discredited. Yes, even the rumor that Lake Pontchartrain sharks trained by the Carlyle Group and alligators from Jebby's backyard were prowling through black neighborhoods. And gay neighborhoods.

 

 

As part of his valorous effort to 'restore' law and order in New Orleans right after Katrina, Ray Nagin went on the "Oprah" show. The clown told the TV audience of evacuees "in that frickin' Superdome for five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people, raping people."

 

 

One rumor claimed that a dead infant had been dumped in a trash can. It was the only bit of positive news for pro-abort libbies. When you're a loser, you take good news where you can find it.

 

 

Now the press says it's stunned that wild and unfounded rumors they "reported" from people on the street turn out to be wildly unfounded. It took the media only almost a month to figure it out.

 

 

The Los Angeles Times admits that the Los Angeles Times innocently adopted much the same hyperbolic tone as the rest of the MSM, reporting falsely at the time "that National Guard troops 'took positions on rooftops, scanning for snipers and armed mobs as seething crowds of refugees milled below, desperate to flee. Gunfire crackled in the distance." If only Bush supported gun control.

 

 

But! Proving there's still something in the water at the Associated Press, AP writer Tom Raum writes that, "whatever the reasons, the residents of heavily Republican Texas seemed to get better treatment from government during Hurricane Rita" than the poor black victims of Katrina in Lousiana. How preposterous. He knows both hurricanes were racist.

 

 

Louisiana voted for Bush over Kerry, 57%-42%, but that was probably Diebold. Mayor Nagin and Oprah tried to evacuate New Orleans, but George Bush turned his Bull Connor fire hose on blacks trying to leave. That's how New Orleans got flooded. Crappy levees and crooked Big Easy politicians thieving infrastructure money had nothing to do with it, man. Racial healer Charlie Rangel told a town hall meeting last week that "George Bush is our Bull Connor!" After 5 years of "racist" Bush in office, poverty is lower than after 5 years of black leader Bill Clinton in office, so Rangle had to fabricate his cock and Bull Connor story.

 

 

New Orleans failed to use its school buses, but libbies say that was probably George Bush, too. After all, the mayor said there weren't any drivers. They were likely kidnapped by Rove and sold into Halliburton's global slave trade. Probably busy hastily digging mass graves in Iraq to bury the 10,000 corpses from the Superdome. Anyway, George Bush probably hid the bus keys. Hid 'em in the same drawer he keeps that hurricane-ending Kyoto treaty.

 

 

Raum notes that "New Orleans before Katrina was heavily populated by poor blacks who voted Democratic" and that "the issue of race is likely to linger in the aftermath of the two big storms." So far this hurricane season, we've had 17 named storms (10 is the average), 9 hurricanes (6 is the season average) and 5 major hurricanes (3 is the average) -- racism is alive and well! When a purely meteorological phenomena like a hurricane forms in the Atlantic, you know racial tensions are high.

 

 

As for images of all those white volunteers serving black evacuees in shelters, churches and synagogues -- Photoshop. It was the Congressional Black Caucus serving all those meals.

 

 

It never occurs to these idiot "reporters" that the more effective government response to Rita may have something to do with (a) Texas having a functional government, ( a governor who doesn't need 24 hours to think about the hurricane, © an effective police force and (d) local officials who are on the ball. It means better preparation for dealing with natural disasters like floods, forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes or another Kerry presidential run.

 

 

While the moron press and Louisiana's government think downed power lines, uprooted trees, wrecked homes and flooded streets are caused by racism, Texas officials believe a more likely explanation is that a hurricane came through.

 

 

When it's not busy race-baiting, the press is busy trying to split Republicans. In Jackson Square, Bush proposed a "Gulf Opportunity Zone -- presumably, a tax-free status to encourage investment . . . Worker Recovery Accounts of up to $5,000 for job training, education and childcare. He proposed a Urban Homesteading Act on federal lands," (Michael Barone, 9/19/05). Really Marxist stuff. Post-disaster reconstruction won't be cheap, but if you think that's expensive, imagine what it would cost to fix that other disaster area, Helen Thomas's face. Puts it all in perspective.

 

 

Going forward, expect the MSM to eagerly not apply any lessons from their botched Katrina coverage. Which is why I want an independent commission to investigate the MSM. America needs another commission. It's a recipe for finding out the truth. We need a full-scale probe of the MSM's response to Katrina. Liberals love commissions. I'm sure they'll love this one. We need a thorough review to find out the obvious. To make it as independent and nonpartisan as possible, just like the 9/11 Commission, I want Michael Brown to chair this Commission. It's only fair. What do you say, libbies?

[Brooke]

Especially since we now learn that those sensational media rumors in the aftermath of Katrina -- "200 EVACUEES MURDERED BY MICHAEL BROWN AND FEMA AT SUPERDOME!" . . . "WOMEN AND CHILDREN RAPED BY ROVING GANGS OF HALLIBURTON EXECUTIVES AT CONVENTION CENTER!" -- have now been discredited. Yes, even the rumor that Lake Pontchartrain sharks trained by the Carlyle Group and alligators from Jebby's backyard were prowling through black neighborhoods. And gay neighborhoods.

 

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