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The Hurricane Katrina blame game has officially begun. You didn't think this one was going to be swept under the rug, did you? Yesterday hearings began and residents of New Orleans were invited to testify in front of the House....and oh what a spectacle it was. Among the complaints of the victims of Hurricane Katrina:
The nonsense continued...one clown testified that the levees were bombed, repeating the Louis Farrakhan lie. To their credit, a few Congressmen said they simply did not believe those testifying. But that caused our favorite little jihadist in Congress, Georgia's embarrassment Cynthia Al-McKinney to speak up. Speaking of the non-existent racism, she said "Racism is something we don't like to talk about, but we have to acknowledge it. And the world saw the effects of American-style racism in the drama as it was outplayed by the Katrina survivors." People living in the 4th district should be so proud.
The facts are the facts: the main reason the Katrina response was botched was because the Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana botched it. This was a Democratic operation, and they screwed it up. Did FEMA come up short? Absolutely! But by and large, this one lies squarely at the feet of the state and local officials.
The Hurricane Katrina blame game has officially begun. You didn't think this one was going to be swept under the rug, did you? Yesterday hearings began and residents of New Orleans were invited to testify in front of the House....and oh what a spectacle it was. Among the complaints of the victims of Hurricane Katrina:
- Racism was to blame for the slow response to Hurricane Katrina.
- They compared themselves to victims of genocide and victims of the Holocaust. One congressman pointed out the lack of gas chambers in New Orleans, to no avail.
- "Community Activist" Leah Hodges said that victims of the flood died of "abject neglect." I thought they died from the flood? And if they did perish from neglect, whose fault is that?
- In what has to be one of the more telling statements, 53-year-old New Orleans resident Patricia Thompson said she knew it was racism. Her proof? "Yes, it was an issue of race. Because of one thing: when the city had pretty much been evacuated, the people that were left there mostly was black."
The nonsense continued...one clown testified that the levees were bombed, repeating the Louis Farrakhan lie. To their credit, a few Congressmen said they simply did not believe those testifying. But that caused our favorite little jihadist in Congress, Georgia's embarrassment Cynthia Al-McKinney to speak up. Speaking of the non-existent racism, she said "Racism is something we don't like to talk about, but we have to acknowledge it. And the world saw the effects of American-style racism in the drama as it was outplayed by the Katrina survivors." People living in the 4th district should be so proud.
The facts are the facts: the main reason the Katrina response was botched was because the Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana botched it. This was a Democratic operation, and they screwed it up. Did FEMA come up short? Absolutely! But by and large, this one lies squarely at the feet of the state and local officials.