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Originally posted by Gattigap
Guess your celebratory pic of Bush landing in Mobile didn't completely erase the memories of the dead people in the streets, eh, Penske? Pity, that.
Targeting state and local officials is certainly part of it, Penske, but you're only half way there. For complete absolution of the federal executive branch, you've simply got to blame the victims.
C'mon, Penske. Enough with this feckless, pussified, "states rights" argument. That shit's so old, it feels like it hasn't even been GOP orthodoxy since Goldwater. Post some photoshops of people dying in their attics. Be a man.
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The point of the post is to show how one of the critics of Bush and the Feds, who was in a direct position (one of the most primary positions) to adminster the state's disaster planning and mitigate the damage, exhibited a cavalier disregard for the obligations of her office prior to the brunt of the damage occuring. You don't watch and watch and then pick up the pieces. You prepare. And when things go wrong, a leader accepts the attendant responsibility, as Bush did, and the three stooges, Blanco, Landrieu and Nagin have not and will not. They are democrats. there is no concept of personal responsibility. It all falls on the paternalisitic nanny state and its leader. As long the Republicans are hold the leadership.
Finally, if you want me to say that people who had the means to stay and ignored the evacuation order are in part to blame for the resultant suffering they incurred, there you go. Assumption of the risk applies. If you want me to post a picture of dead poor people in order to satirize the lack of personal responsiblity of poor or non-ambulatory people withoiut the means to get out, I won't do it, because I think the government had and has a primary responsibility to the least able amongst us to assist. In that regard I will post the below pic and ask you to explain to me and the poor people who died, on behalf of your comrade, Nagin, why?
