Hurricane Katrina occurred in August 2005. President Obama was sworn in for his first term in January 2009.
Yet, in a new poll, 29% of Louisiana Republicans blame Obama for the government’s Katrina failure, while 28% blame Bush, the guy who was actually, you know, president at the time. Another 44% aren’t sure which one to blame.
Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has been indicted on 21 counts of wire fraud, bribery, and money laundering.
Corruption in NOLA! I’m shocked, shocked!
Karl Rove has a piece up in the WSJ blaming Hurricane Sandy for stopping Mitt’s Big Mo and giving us four more of the Kenyan Muslim Socialist. As I pointed out in a post yesterday, Nate Silver established pre-Sandy that Mitt’s momentum had already stopped.
This is a big problem for Rove because he talked a lot of zillionaires into supporting his Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, and he threw their millions down the toilet in what really should have been a slam dunk for the GOP, not just to win the WH, but the Senate as well. So his “evil genius” reputation is at stake (well, it’s still half right), and he’s tap dancing pretty strenuously.
But as the GOP tries to blame Sandy for their shitty candidate and party, let’s follow their logic to its end.
Back at the time of Katrina, the religious nuts said it was God’s punishment for the gays and the abortions.
So if God sent Sandy just before the election, and Mitt would have won without Sandy, doesn’t that mean, um, that God wanted Obama to win?
The death toll of 172 from the flooding in Krymsk, Russia is sad enough.
But the revelation that the government knew of the coming flood at ten o’clock the night before and did nothing to warn the residents is both heart-breaking and outrageous.
The Russian people have gone from the Czars to the Communists to a Mafia-with-nuclear-weapons regime, and still they suffer, and their leaders don’t give a damn about them.
As you’ve probably noticed by now, I find Mitt annoying, very annoying.
He’s done it again, telling a radio interviewer in Alabama that the South “is a bit of an away game.”
How can someone with this attitude be running for president of all the United States? You can’t consider parts of the country “away,” we’re all one people. They’re all home games. If spending some time in Alabama and Mississippi is so alien to him, what’s a summit with Putin going to be like?
There’s something too constricted and limited about his comfort zone that I believe disqualifies him from leading us. He can’t identify with vast swathes of Americans based on how much they earn or where they live. He doesn’t move easily in the wider world.
On December 7, 1941, no American thought Pearl Harbor was a bit of an away game. It was felt as an attack on Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, every city and town in America.
Ok, Mitt doesn’t remember Pearl Harbor. But he remembers 9/11 and Katrina. After 9/11 the school children of Louisiana raised money for a new fire truck for New York City. That truck, the Spirit of Louisiana, escorted by fire trucks in each state it passed through, at one point 100 trucks in Mississippi, arrived in New York in December 2001, after a stop at the White House.
In 2005, after Katrina, the Spirit of Louisiana went back to New Orleans, leading a convoy of 15 NYFD trucks and 400 firefighters.
Somehow, Mitt doesn’t get this, what school children get, what firefighters who don’t have law and business degrees from Harvard get.
And his use of “a bit of” reminded me so much of Poppy Bush asking for “just a splash” more coffee in a diner. It didn’t go well for Poppy in ’92.
Embattled Farmers 