Archive for 2nd September 2005
Have you noticed that everything is Dubya’s fault these days?
Katrina is no exception. On Hot Air America, they’re having a field day (or would be, if they weren’t so close to bankruptcy), spouting all kinds of nonsense they made up in their sick and twisted minds, such as how Bush is enjoying the devastation.
This isn’t surprising. Leftists have been slobbering at the mouth and having fits of insanity since the 2000 election. However, I do think there is something other than just “it’s all Bush’s fault!” going on.
If you peruse the liberal blogs, you’ll see Bush being blamed for everything, including not having enough National Guard troops, or not funding the levees in New Orleans. There’s something striking, and a bit unsettling here, considering that these are Americans saying these things.
Don’t they know the President of the United States is not a dictator? Aren’t they familiar with the separation of powers? Aren’t they aware that the distribution of federal funds is the business of Congress, and that the National Guard is under the control of the state governor?
I suspect the answer is that they don’t, and furthermore, they are projecting what they think the President should be onto reality.
If you think about this for a moment, you’ll be more than a little frightened.
Despite all the howling the leftists do about George “making the Executive branch more powerful” (when in fact he has been returning the Constitutional power to the Executive branch, after being weakened in the 70s and 90s), these people seem to think the President does, or should have, the power to call in the National Guard, allocate funds, in fact, do just about anything he wants.
That’s a scary thought. Remember Waco?
Were mistakes made that increased the chaos? Absolutely, though George Bush didn’t make them, and is in no way responsible. Governor Blanco bears the ultimate responsibility here, not Bush.
But whoever decided not to shoot looters on sight at the very beginning bears the most blame. Had this idiotic decision not been made, looting and crime would have been stopped in its tracks when five or six looters were shot and killed.
The question that needs to be answered is who made this decision? That’s whose head should roll.
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His article isn’t critical. It’s scathing. This is one of the milder portions:
Black people in New Orleans should be made to understand that the whole world is watching. Any racism people may have is being justified every time they turn on their televisions. If you thought turning around the situation in the black community was tough then, wait until the Democrats you know and love so well, have to explain to their white constituents why they’ll need to provide additional tax money to help. And when the plea is balked at, don’t blame racism. Don’t blame Republicans. Don’t blame black conservatives who have moved on. Blame yourselves.
Read the whole thing here.
Hallelujah, Common Conservative is redesigned and back online, which means we get more excellent columns from Tom Adkins. One of my favorites is World Freedom Tax. Some choice quotations:
Well, I think it’s time to admit Jan Egeland is right. And I think it’s time we settled the score. From now on, Americans will pay 1% of our GDP towards true humanitarian needs throughout the world. Not 20 billion for Saddam Hussein’s palaces, like the UN did over the last decade. No, the United States will buck up 1% for actual world emergencies. But there’s one condition: every time the United States military gets called into some God-forsaken hell hole to free millions of people from oppressive dictators, the rest of the world has to foot the bill.
Call it a “World Freedom Tax.â€. . .
So, if a Humvee gets a flat tire, Namibia should pay $300 bucks. If an Abrams tank gets destroyed, France forks over $4.3 million. A lost plane? Germany should send the American treasury a check for $25 million.
But here’s the kicker. Every time a United States soldier enters a combat zone, the rest of the nations on Earth will send him a check for a million dollars a week. If that soldier dies, his family gets a World Freedom Tax check for $10 million. And a letter of gratitude.
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online, amazingly enough. First-hand documentation of what’s going on in the Big Easy. Use this link (there are several others, but this is the one that seems to always work).