Wednesday, September 14, 2005
More good news from New Orleans
On September 6, we heard from the MSM that pumping out the city would be "a herculean task that could take months." Today we hear that the city will be "almost completely drained by October 8."
Pretty soon, the recovery effort is going to start looking competent. Then what will the Bush-haters say?
5 Comments:
By 
Gordon Smith, at
Wed Sep 14, 09:27:00 PM:
People are still dying every day. The deaths probably won't be attributed to Katrina, but people are packed into hot warehouses (by the Red Crss). Infants, elderly, and the sick are dying every hour of every day. The death toll is still rising meteorically, Hawk.
Also, I'm disappointed that you've started to toss out the misleading blanket, "Bush-haters". I don't hate Bush. I think he's incompetent, shortsighted, and violent. But I don't hate him. This charge is incorrect except for a few. Those few don't speak for me. It's hate I'm against.
FEMA has been turned into a puny lie when it ought to be the premier emergency force on the planet. Where have my tax dollars gone?
By Gordon Smith, at
Wed Sep 14, 09:28:00 PM:
um...I just realized that meteors don't tend to rise, so allow me to restate...
The death toll is rising dramatically, Hawk.
By Dan Kauffman, at
Wed Sep 14, 10:57:00 PM:
But I thought New Orleans was a
"quagmire"
Nice to know somethings never change the nay-sayers are as consistant as usual.
When information is incomplete and confusingthey fearmonger and rabble rouse. When the situation stablizes and the fingerpointiing direction turns in directions they are uncomfortable with? They will start saying, now is not the time to fingerpoint, now is the time for healing and solutions.
Just think a few shifts of voters in 2004 and the Federal FEMA could have been run by the SAME party that did such a wonderful job at the State and City level in LA and NO
By TigerHawk, at
Wed Sep 14, 11:59:00 PM:
Fair point on the death toll, although that will be tough to unpack. In a population of hundreds of thousands of people, any number of people die every day in the ordinary course of, well, living. Now, whenever a New Orleans evacuee dies, there will be a certain amount of debate over whether to "count" that particular death.
As for the Bush-hating business, I believe that a reasonable er, scrutiny of the last year's worth of output over at the Scrutiny Hooligans would reveal what most Americans would call hatred (although in fairness, Uptown Ruler has a sharper edge than you or Catchy, in my estimation). But, even if that is an unfair charged leveled at you, who said I was talking about you?
You are a lefty in North Carolina where you have to be at least a little bit polite in the expression of your political views. In Princeton (or Manhattan), everybody assumes that you hate Bush so they let their guard down. Da TH Wife and I have almost weekly encounters around town with people who say the nastiest things about the sitting President. Bush-hatred is not rare in this neck of the woods, it is rampant.
By Papa Ray, at
Thu Sep 15, 10:53:00 PM:
When somehow, someone fails at something that they believe in and care about deeply, they hate whatever or whoever caused them to fail.
That hate sometimes is forever and ever.
No matter what.
Papa Ray
West Texas
USA
