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Originally posted by Penske_Account
The qualification of the criticism is a tacit defence.
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I will concede that I have not spent quite as much time watching the news, etc., in the last week as I normally do -- I did buy some really nice cabs in Napa Valley yesterday, though -- but I have not seen anything in the coverage suggested that Nagin or Blanco fucked up. I am entirely willing to believe it, but you and your photo-shopped images have zero credibility to me at this point -- Chicken Little is on line 2 -- so the case is, to my mind, unproven.
No one has even bothered to explain to me what Blanco failed to do that she could have done, except that nonono thinks she should have had a more masculine, steely determination on TV, which is entirely possible, but to me misses the point that in the first days after the city was flooded, what was really needed was water and helicopters and trucks and helicopters and food and helicopters and ice, and that the marooned residents of New Orleans probably weren't as interested in masculine, steely determination as nonono is on the grounds that they didn't have any electricity to power up their televisions, which were submerged anyhow, and therefore would have missed the tough words and big talk. I hope all y'all enjoyed that sentence as much as I did.
In any event, I care more about federal malfeasance (or nonfeasance) than I do about local or state mal- or nonfeasance, since the federal government is my government, too, while the state and local governments there are foreign bodies operating off the Napoleanic Code that we somehow inherited from France, NTTAWWT. And because I expect corruption and low performance from the municipal government of New Orleans specifically and any city which is 80% submerged generally. And because I live in the Bay Area, and when the Big One hits, I'm expected DHS and the feds to save my ass, not the state of Louisiana. And because the federal government has the big checkbook and the big helicopters, and, in my experience, the more competent and professional employees, at least relative to state government.
Meanwhile, I note that you are still denying your deep and passionate liberal feelings. Stop tormenting yourself. Come over to the side of Good. We are your paternalistic authority figures.
