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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm not going to defend some moron whom you saw on TV, and I'm not going to say that five years of wetland protection and restoration would have left New Orleans dry. But the fact is, the Bush Administration has been looking the other way on that shit, and the reason you worry about it is because sooner or later this day comes.
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OK. I agree. So what we should be saying is "Now is a good time for Bush to reconsider his policies on wetlands. Look what can happen again."
But thats not what I'm hearing from most left columnists. Most are trying to opaquely create the perception - however logically and physically impossible it is - that Bush's policies somehow caused or contributed to the NO disaster. They employ tricks like saying "Bush doesn't support building up the silt deposits or fixing the wetlands," followed quickly with "and this wetland and silt issue caused the NO disaster." The speaker knows that to a large swath of the ADD addled audience of Average Joe idiots, this translates to "Bush... caused... the NO disater." They're exploiting some of the public's stupidity and some of the public's desire to blame Bush for everything bad to try to create the perception that he caused this mess.
That is bullshit - its as bad all the GOP semantic dodging we've seen for the past five years.
