things i am tired of

Bill is a republican’s Republican, what else do you expect him to say? The bus story is simply great 20/20 hindsight…this, afterall, is the first hurricane to ever hit an area since school buses were invented and they are designed to carry school children, not evacuees. Bill must believe that the bus drivers were excluded from the evacuation order…the liberal drivers should be shot for not staying with their sinking busses, the conservative drivers were waiting on GW for better intelligence…you want to go there?

I wish I was funded. Sadly, I barely make enough from blogads to cover hosting and bandwidth charges. And, no, I’m not getting checks in the mail from Karl Rove or the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

I did get a check once from state Sen. Curtis Person.

I’ve slammed him repeatedly since then for supporting various pro-cable industry anti-consumer legislation.

By the way, I have criticized Bush on the federal debt, and I’m not a big fan of his Big Government tendencies.

As for the bus thing, I started writing about the failure to use the transit buses before the picture of the drowned school buses surfaced, because I wondered why the buses were used to take people to the Superdome instead of out of the city.

If, as we’re told, most of those who stayed are poor and needed transportation out, the transit and school buses could have taken tens of thousands of them out of the city before Katrina hit. Saying they might not have had enough drivers is silly - in 100,000 people there had to be at least 1,000 with driver licenses.

An 18-year-old kid stole a bus and drove it full of refugees to Houston. They could have found drivers.

And - most damning for Nagin - using the transit and school buses was actually a part of the official evacuation plan that he failed to implement.

By the way, you’re probably tired of the “Nagin blame-fest” on my blog because it is damaging the Left’s attempt to make Nagin a hero.

I am tired of it because it’s an ignorant simplification of a catastrophe that is, like anything of this magnitude, multi-causal.

New rule: If X starts talking about how Y should be ignored because Y is probably being paid by Z, then X should be ignored.

What you and everyone of your ilk are missing about Nagin, which the sane people of the world instantly recognize, is that this isn’t politics any more. Maybe it’s a bizarre symptom of your right-wing fixation on fighting the ‘liberal media’, but I assure you, when AP and CBS and the BBC report on the ‘incompetent’ response to the hurricane, they really aren’t being liberal tools. They are reporting reality. Maybe you haven’t been here for a while. You know, here in reality?

Nagin is not saying ‘Vote democratic!’ He is not saying ‘Don’t re-elect Bush!’ And he is sure not doing a Michael Motherfucking Brown holding a press conference to say ‘I *am* qualified! I *am* I *am* I *AM*!’ All Nagin has said, paraphrasing here, is ‘GODDAMN WHY ISN’T ANYBODY HELPING’.

And apparently you have some kind of big problem with that.

Apparently unlike me trying frantically to figure out what I could do to help, sending money to friends in Houston to use as best they could figure out, you were patting the EPA on the head for twiddling gas formulations. Instead of wondering in disbelief when Friday morning rolled around, knowing that three days is the rule-of-thumb for survival without water and there was STILL no aid in New Orleans, if more people would die of the storm and flooding, or just from plain goddamn dehydration, you were posting pictures of busses and quotes of people complaining about Nagin’s goddamn language.

Maybe he *is* responsible. Maybe there are a thousand people’s blood on his hands. Maybe he’ll be in prison after this is over.

But for you to say that nothing went wrong in New Orleans that 200 buses couldn’t help, and for you to freakishly portray what’s going on in New Orleans as a left-wing power play, is the most irresponsible, insupportable, and just plain asinine thing I have read all week.