More on the blame game
David Frum on Katrina's blame game:
And yet ... and yet ... is all this really necessary? The time will come, and come very soon, when the great self-critical mechanisms of American society and government will go to work to study what went wrong. Those who deserve blame will get blame in plenty then. But now - with the dead still uncounted and unburied, with the living still struggling for refuge and help, is there not something indecent about the haste with which the American left avidly tries to turn this terrible disaster to political account?
Is there not something bizarre about their willingness to fire off accusation after accusation, each contradicting the last? The disaster was caused by the Bush administration's failure to protect the environment from global warming .... no, no, it was caused by the administration's refusal to manipulate the environment by funding more levees to control the Mississippi River .... it's Iraq, no it's budget cuts, no it's wetlands, and on and on and on.
Good God, what is wrong with these people? Will they ever learn to see somebody else's misfortune as something more than their political opportunity?
Update: More here.
And yet ... and yet ... is all this really necessary? The time will come, and come very soon, when the great self-critical mechanisms of American society and government will go to work to study what went wrong. Those who deserve blame will get blame in plenty then. But now - with the dead still uncounted and unburied, with the living still struggling for refuge and help, is there not something indecent about the haste with which the American left avidly tries to turn this terrible disaster to political account?
Is there not something bizarre about their willingness to fire off accusation after accusation, each contradicting the last? The disaster was caused by the Bush administration's failure to protect the environment from global warming .... no, no, it was caused by the administration's refusal to manipulate the environment by funding more levees to control the Mississippi River .... it's Iraq, no it's budget cuts, no it's wetlands, and on and on and on.
Good God, what is wrong with these people? Will they ever learn to see somebody else's misfortune as something more than their political opportunity?
Update: More here.
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The LA Times is just out of control today. There isn't any single article to point out, just basically the whole paper. Try to read Steve Lopez. Just astounding. And the screaming headlines. And the letters. Bottom line, it is all Bush's fault.
To the MSM, this is just one more show to produce and if it is played up correctly, ratings/circulation will increase.
In this fast food instant gratification world, how is it that everything hasn't been put right by now?
Ah yes, the good old days. Before Bush was in the White House, there were no hurricanes, wars or terrorism. Certainly no human being ever took advantage of a vacuum to loot and destroy property and kill people. Maybe when Hillary is elected, the world will return to its calm, peaceful self. Sigh.
- Dirtbiker for W
And the blind will see, the deaf will hear, and the lame will walk.
Yeesh.
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