Shoveling BS

Big posting - but worth a read

The professional race baiters have started to come out of the woodwork questioning whether the slow federal response to New Orleans is because ::gasp:: New Orleans is 67% black. Somebody, please, shut these people up. And the "Blame Bush" crowd? Let's destroy the BS coming out of the left side of the political spectrum one at a time, ok?

• The "underfunded levee construction" theory. Complete BS as it turns out. Read the Tribune article here; Michelle Malkin debunks numerous Republican bashings, linking to dozens of articles showing how Louisiana democrats shorted New Orleans flood control. THIS WAS A COMPLETELY FORESEEABLE EVENT AND HAS BEEN EXPECTED FOR DECADES. Flood control is a municipal function and, if necessary, the state may pitch in. Of course, these are all democrats in Louisiana, so it must be Bush's fault. Read HogOnIce for his take on this situation.
  
• Federal relief is slow because New Orleans is a "black" city. Gateway Pundit takes on the master race baiter himself, Jesse Jackson, who arrived in New Orleans after spending a week with dictators Chavez and Castro. Jesse claims that (surprise) blacks are being shut out managerial positions in the relief efforts. Firstly, if blacks are being shut out of these positions, its a local problem. Local government was first on the scene and first in charge. The federal effort is just swinging into action and the general in charge of the effort covering THREE STATES, is (wait for it) Black! Like so much of what comes out of Jesse's mouth, his story is complete horse shit again.
• Bush and the Governor of Mississippi are to blame for "global warming" which supercharged Katrina and wrecked the gulf states. More BS. Governors don't vote to ratify treaties. And as any intelligent person knows, bill clinton sent the Kyoto treaty to the senate in 1997 where it lost 95-0. NINETY-FIVE TO ZERO! How many democrats voted for the bill in 1997? Oh yeah. ZERO! Kyoto will not pass in this country when we would be the only economy wrecked by it. Even democrats aren't that stupid. Here's a link to debunk the global warming theories.
• The federal government hasn't provided buses to evacuate poor residents. Even before Katrina hit, the mayor of New Orleans knew there were poor folks who couldn't get out. So did he use any of these? (go see the picture). Oops. 364 buses in New Orleans that could have moved over 20,000 people PER TRIP to safer ground. (thanks to Billhobbs.com for picture and link). Even an hour or two out of New Orleans means 9 round trips in 36 hours - DO THE MATH! But transit buses were used to move people TO the Superdome instead - the scene of at least 4 murders, two suicides and countless rapes while these buses sat idle and are now useless.
• The Federal government's response is slow. Duh. Bush admitted as much. If you want something done efficiently, you certainly don't hire the government to do it. Government is slow, full of red tape and only hires the lowest bidder. If anyone wanted it to move quicker, they would have held evacuation drills and mass destruction practices. Governments don't like to hold those to often because they (a) only expose how inefficient and ill prepared they are and (b) keep citizens from doing things that actually matter, like doing their jobs and keeping the economy moving forward. You can't shut down a city the size of New Orleans to practice evacuating it. You'd have to shut down highways and airports and pull buses out of circulation and doctors out of emergency rooms where there are real cases to be treated - it's impossible.
• And to top it all off, this 64 year old black writer, says the remaining residents of New Orleans have begun eating their dead (hat tip to HogOnIce again). No attribution. No eyewitnesses. No independent verification. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Just anything to bash Bush.
  

Maybe the left ought to shut up, grab some shovels and use them to help clean up the mess instead of slinging bulls@#$.