Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Monday, September 01, 2008 5:37:24 PM
In the context of human life, it won't matter too much if the levees hold this time around in New Orleans. 2-million people have evacuated the Gulf Coast ahead of Hurricane Gustav, and New Orleans is a virtual ghost-town. A clear contrast against Hurricane Katrina when the Democrat Governor, what's-her-face Blanco, did nothing but complain in front of cameras; and Ray Nagin hid under a hotel room bed crying like a little girl while hundreds of buses sat parked and flooded instead of being used to evacuate the people he swore to protect.
Hurricane Gustav made landfall Monday, slamming the heart of Louisiana's fishing and oil industry and testing New Orleans' levees with 110 mph winds before weakening to a category 1 storm.
Gustav made landfall as a category 2 storm at about 10:30 a.m., but had weakened by 3 p.m. ET to a category 1 storm. At its peak Monday, the storm had a gust of 117 mph just before 5 a.m.
"We are seeing some overtopping waves," said Col. Jeff Bedey, commander of the Army Corps of Engineers' hurricane protection office. "We are cautiously optimistic and confident that we won't see catastrophic wall failure."
So what is the difference between Hurricane Gustav in 2008 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005? Clear and simple answer: Governor Bobby Jindal, Republican in Louisiana. The orderly evacuation of New Orleans didn't happen because of Ray Nagin, which is obvious considering the corrupt incompetent liberal was re-elected and is still in office. No change there. Instead of joining Ray Nagin to hide under a hotel room bed and cry like a little girl, Governor Jindal took action and did his job... just like Governor Barber of Mississippi did in 2005 with Hurricane Katrina. When you elect liberal Democrats to run your cities you are putting you and your loved ones in extreme danger when disaster strikes. Jindal and Barber protected the people of their state. Blanco and Nagin distributed their incompetence, corruption, and irresponsibility to the people of Louisiana... and the people suffered for it.
Nearly every major city in America has a liberal Democrat mayor. It should be no wonder that the vast majority of poverty, social welfare, crime, and general chaos occurs in the areas run by Democrats. The liberals have been in charge of our cities for decades and have nothing to show for it but utter failure. If there was no Bobby Jindal in Louisiana to do Ray Nagin's job for him, New Orleans today would be full of death and destruction all over again. Even though the people of New Orleans, dependent upon the social welfare and diaper-changing foisted upon them by liberal policies, re-elected Ray Nagin; the population of Louisiana heard the message of Hurricane Katrina loud and clear. Citizens of Louisiana took action and threw Blanco out of office replacing her with a conservative Republican Governor.
The folks in New Orleans may have a penchant for suicidal politics, but the rest of Louisiana made a much different decision. When you step back and look at the entire State of Louisiana, it is no surprise everyone outside of New Orleans made the responsible decision for those inside New Orleans. After all, New Orleans residents are evidently used to others making decisions for them. Why think and act for yourself when you have Ray Nagin to do it for you? Typical liberal ideology of dependency and victimhood which leads to poverty and loss of life. In fact, the dependency of New Orleans residents is at such an extreme level they put the same man back in office who keeps them in poverty, addicted to a special racist brand of social welfare, and left them to die during Hurricane Katrina. Citizens of Louisiana learned the lesson. It's time the rest of the country learns it by their example instead of waiting for a disaster to open their eyes.
Allow me for a moment to be as clear as possible. When New Orleans residents re-elected that criminal Ray Nagin as their mayor I wrote them off completely. You only get to fool me once. Until the residents of New Orleans throw that incompetent piece of human garbage out of office and replace him with someone who won't leave them to die in the wind and rain, I could care less if 20 hurricanes hit New Orleans in 20 days. Democrats today are telling us that God is sending the hurricanes to New Orleans. It is not God' fault any more than it's Hurricane Gustav's. The fault rests squarely on the shoulders of every resident of New Orleans who voted Ray Nagin back into office.