Glenn, you're hysterical. Calm down. I never said that the Democrats
could run FEMA any better, only that the Republicans, who pose as
believers in the free market actively blocked private agencies like
the Red Cross from entering New Orleans, and in fact---despite their
boasting about the 'right to keep and bear arms' and 'private
property' actually encouraged their thugs to confiscate weapons and
seize and enter homes property without due process. They forced
people out of their homes at gunpoint, and in spite of their supposed
belief in a 'free press' controlled media coverage of Katrina
tightly.
FEMA's mismanagement and political grandstanding cost nearly as many
American lives in New Orleans as were lost on 9/11. In fact, in my
opinion, DHS director Michael Cherthoff, FEMA Chief Michael Brown,
and Mayor Ray Nagin should be indicted and tried for Crimes Aginst
Humanity for their role in the Katrina horror.
Eric,
there is no anecdote Jindal could have made that would have
dissuaded a true
libertarian of the notion that there is a no such thing as a
bureaucrat
capable of re-making the federal government into a superhero like
organization, capable of swooping down and fixing a natural
disaster on the
scale of Katrina, Oh......and to do it in a manner capable of
satisfying a
minority group of democrats in an election year.
So exactly what does this leave you..?
Are you saying that the Democrats (with a Federal Bureaucracy a
trillion
dollars bigger), can now wield a more effective jack booted Fema
mob..???
I think you are in fact blinded by this notion of neocons..?
> --- In
libertarianrepublicans@yahoogroups.com<libertarianrepublicans%
40yahoogroups.com>,
> "ERIC"
> <lincolnproducts@> wrote:
>
> Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal---another nonentity being groomed
by
> the RNC image-makers abysmally flopped delivering the GOP reponse
to
> Obama's speech last night.
>
> Even neocon media pundits like David Brooks were disgusted,
calling
> Jindal's speech "a disater for the Republican Party." This, part
of
> an ongoing series of disaters.
>
> After a long-winded, self-serving introduction, Jindal brought up
> anecdotes of bureaucratic bungling during Hurricane Katrina. Ummm,
> Bobby, it was YOUR republican-run FEMA and DHS who were
responsible
> for that. It was the blackshirts in FEMA who prevented private
relief
> agencies from entering the city-- resulting in further losses of
life-
> -
> just to prove a political point. It was the Republicans who
flooded
> the city with Blackwater-trained stormtroopers who disguished
> themselves by breaking down doors, confiscating weapons, and
beating
> up old people.
>
> Jindal then went on to complain about lack of 'transparency in
> government'. The hypocrisy never ends with these people. With
bozos