According to liberals: Republicans should rule over democrats

First off ... in the eyes of a liberal ... this is all George W Bush's fault. Because of his hatred for poor, uneducated black folks (note I had to throw in all the extra adjectives to overcome the fact that no president before Mr. Bush has had such a diverse group of individuals, particularly African-Americans, in REAL positions of power), he torched oil wells in Texas to increase global warming, personally dug large holes in the New Orleans levees, used Air Force 1 to seed the clouds in the Carribean Sea to start the storm that became Katrina, and even urinated in the water to increase the ocean temperature.

All silliness aside, if you follow the shrieks of the democrats in the Katrina argument, you can only arrive at one conclusion: democrats are arguing that Republicans should have control over everything.

1) Bush is to blame for the weakness of the levees ... this is just stupid given that they have been aware of the problems since the 1920s, but let's go with it. From my understanding, the Army Corps of Engineers are primarily driven by the funding that they receive, which is purely stipulated by Congress in the normal budget (pull out your high school American Government book if you want to know who really spends the money in this country). As I also understand it, these projects are part of the pork boondoggles that the representatives from each state manage to scrape up for themselves and their pals: from the stories it sounds like Mary Landrieu (Democrat Senator from LA) was particularly successful in securing money for Army Corp projects, none of which were dedicated to making the levees stronger. As a matter of fact, Landrieu apparently has to put in legislation which overrides the Corp on a few of her boondoggles because the Corp said the projects were a waste of money.

If you follow Democrat logic, Bush should have told Landrieu to go to hell, taken the money that she wanted to spend on her personal boondoggles (and a lot more besides) and used that to shore up the levees. Effectively, the democrats are arguing that Landrieu is too stupid to figure out where to spend money IN HER OWN STATE, and Republicans should come in from outside to fix LA's problems. One only hopes that the voters in LA agree with the democrats' logic the next time around and vote for Republicans for the US Senate!

1b) Levee problems (cont) ... Bush should also override all the whacko environmentalists that stand in the way of every project (bar none) in this country.

If you follow Democrat logic, Bush should have told the environmentalist whackos to go to hell, and undertaken all these projects regardless of the environmental impacts (the project wasn't going to get done on time regardless, but somehow the dems can turn the clock back since it MUST be GW's fault) and not allowing any liberal group delays (i.e. lawsuits). Actually, to get things done on time, we would have needed Republicans in office long before 2000, so the democrats are really arguing that we should have had a Republican in place of Clinton, fixing the levees. I would hardily agree to that!
One hopes that from here on in, the voters of the country will follow the Democrats' logic and elect nothing but Republicans to deal with all matters that environmentalist whackos will try to obstruct.

2) Bush is to blame for not getting supplies to the people ... again, really stupid considering that the supplies were there and the governor (democrat) ordered them to be kept from the people. This is particularly troubling ... since they were asking for a "Constitutionally" questionable action on the part of the federal government (I will get to that later): democrats are arguing that the Republicans should have dismissed the authority of the democrat (governor) and taken over control since obviously she was incompentent to run her own state. The first wave of attacks came against FEMA ... easy target for mindless liberals. This has since backfired since not only was FEMA in place, they were in place faster than they had in any previous storm (BTW ... if the truth ever does come out, I think the nation is going to owe Mike Brown a huge apology ... but that presumes that the media will ever get the truth out, which doesn't play well to their benefactors).

If you follow the Democrat logic: Bush should have told Blanco to go to hell, taken control of the entire state, and used the resources SHE HAD AT HER DISPOSAL to render the aid necessary to prevent the problems that did occur. Mind you, we are now finding out the problems were nowhere near as awful as the Geraldo Riveras of the media would have you believe, but that doesn't change the democrat logic that when Republicans are in charge of state governments, things work better. One only hopes that the voters in LA agree with the democrat logic and vote Republican the next time around!

3) Bush is to blame for not securing New Orleans / Superdome / Convention Center ... same basic logic as above regarding overriding the governor. Note that the feds would have had no additional resources (that is NOT what FEMA does), but of course they didn't need them ... there was more than enough national guard resources in place had Blanco given the order (or even if Blanco would have simply turned over control).

If you follow the Democrat logic: Bush should have told Blanco to go to hell, taken control of the entire state, and used the national guard that SHE HAD AT HER DISPOSAL to secure the area to prevent the problems that did occur. (Never mind that this is a very touchy area since we are talking about "military" assets used for police work which presents huge Constitutional issues). The conclusion is that the democrat logic from their complaints is that we need Republicans in charge of state governments for better security and crime prevention. One only hopes that the voters in LA agree with this democrat logic and vote for Republicans the next time around!

4) Bush is to blame for not evacuating New Orleans / Superdome / Convention Center ... do I even have to talk to this one? Nagin had a plan, ignored it. Plan predicted everything with eerie accuracy ... including the looting, rapes, destruction ... specifically saying don't do the Superdome and Convention Center without a huge security and operations force.

If you follow the Democrat logic: Bush should have told Nagin to go to hell, taken control of the city, and followed the written plan that Nagin and his "administration" had at their disposal for years. Note that this presumes Nagin can read and follow instructions. According to democrats, it is too much to assume that a Democrat politician can actually read, so you have to rely on Republicans to carry out plans or at least be there to read to the illiterate democrat in charge. One only hopes that the voters in New Orleans agree with this logic the next time around and elect a Republican!

5) Bush is to blame for all the high gas prices: the lack of supply, dependence on foreign oil, the lack of refinery capacity and all these weird gas blends. I guess I cannot really blame the libs for their ignorance, after all the types of stuff they study ... liberal arts, environment, journalism ... don't really teach the concepts of supply/demand (i.e. if you put 1Billion chinamen in cars, gas will cost more).

According to Democrat logic: we need to vote for exclusively Republicans who will open up all possible oil drilling ON OUR OWN LAND, ban the lawsuits that make it impossible to build new refineries, and remove these insane environmentalist restrictions on gas so that we can all return to using basically the same stuff. As a nation we need to follow this democrat logic and vote for only Republicans, across the board (local, state, federal ... legislative, judicial and administrative).


So, according to Democrats, you should always make sure Republicans are in charge and running the show when things go wrong. The democrats promise not to disappear, they'll all switch over to the news media (am I being redundant) and continue to whine and cry about everything, just that from behind the newsdesk, they won't have the ability to actually foist their ridiculous ideas upon us).