The Failure in New Orleans

Liberal democrats and the mainstream media have been incredibly quick to bash President Bush and the Federal Government for their handling of the rescue efforts in New Orleans. Sid Blumenthal, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , and Molly Ivins shots off condemnation pieces within 24 hours of this tragedy, revealing their true colors once again. Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling for a 9/11-style investigation of Katrina, seeking to point fingers and cause disruption for the President and the Republican party. They are cheap opportunists and the very worst kind of snake oil salesmen.

So what\’s the bottom line?

Did the President make all the right choices? I don\’t think so. But he has been confronted with choices that no President has had to make before! Now there have been TWO major disasters on U.S. soil on his watch. It\’s not his fault, it\’s just the way it is. I hope Americans are not stupid enough to blame him for 9/11 and for Hurricane Katrina. Say it isn\’t so…

All things considered, things in New Orleans have improved DRAMATICALLY. In fact, it\’s going from chaos to organized chaos. Not bad for one week.

While people are pointing fingers at Mr. Bush and the feds, they actually help to illustrate the point that conservatives and Republicans have been stating again and again.

Government is NOT your daddy, and cannot save you from things like these. Government is the LAST group you want to depend on to save your life when you have other options.

In this case, people did have other options.

Ask New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin why he did not deploy the hundreds of buses to evacuate the poor and elderly from the city when he could have?

There they are, just soaking up the water. The could have and SHOULD have been used to rescue the people that were trapped.

Ask Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco why the established plan for something like this was not executed. Ask her why there was not food, water and security at the Superdome.

Louisiana has been a democrat-controlled state for my lifetime and then some. The response to this tragedy, and the fact that there are so many poor people in New Orleans to begin with, is more a reflection on the failed policies of the Democrat party than anything else.

the liberals can point fingers at the President and Republicans all they want, but I guarantee you that if Rudy Guiliani were the Mayor of New Orleans and Jeb Bush were the Governor of Louisiana, the adults would have been in the house, and they would have handled this tragedy far better.

It is time to bring an end to the entitlement mentality that even allow people to depend on Government for anything more than guaranteeing the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.