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It means that a basic function of government is to plan for, and respond to, natural calamities.
I am perfectly happy in hanging the mayor of New Orleans and every state official in Louisiana for their contributions to this collossal tragedy. But from all indications to date, the local and state rescue infrastructure was simply demolished, and the federal response to it was profoundly incompetent, and I read your feverish posts primarily as efforts to remove Bush as far from responsibility as humanly possible.
(As well you should try, Penske, because this isn't even a problem of ideology. It's a failure of competence with searing personal and direct effects on a scale that has few parallels in recent memory. There is the real risk that people may conclude that government is simply broken, and the next task is to fix it. It is unfortunate, I suppose, that the GOP is currently holding the keys, but them's the breaks.)
More importantly, I am frustrated with your incessant cheerleading, and your embrace of Katrina's destruction as another opportunity for photoshopped images and ranting that increasingly departs from reality.
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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.
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Actually, exactly like that. I used to see some degree of wacky charm in your rants, because I refused to believe that anyone would write this shit and actually mean it. Perhaps I'm simply losing that willful suspension of disbelief, but my patience with this nonsense is running quite thin these days, and the tempation is to either rake you over the fucking coals every goddamned day for this stuff, or simply ignore you.
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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.
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I agree, Penske, and that's why I'm challenging you to take your onanistic rants to their logical conclusion. Pity that you lack confidence in your convictions, such as they are, or we'd see sketches of New Orleans' poor dying in the floods, posted with the same glee with which you post Byrd, Kennedy, or now Landrieu or Nagin photos.
Instead, you decide to shoot lower than the place that your rhetoric takes you, and content yourself with funny pics of the mayor of a decimated city, with wacky goog-ly eyes. How cute.
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