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Limbaugh fill-in Jason Lewis: "Real Americans" think that Katrina victims were "a bunch of whiners down there"

February 02, 2009 3:56 pm ET

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    • Author by magnolialover (February 02, 2009 3:57 pm ET)
         
      This? Again? You can tell they've got nothing when they're going back to attack people that they've attacked before. Whiners? As in, almost their entire city was destroyed? Yeah, I'm sure that's what constitutes whining.
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    • Author by ToddK_Chicago (February 02, 2009 4:39 pm ET)
         

      I am assuming that we should hear soon about the Kentucky whiners asking for federal assistance after a little puffy white snow fell on them too.

      And from the state of Senator Mitch McConnell's who is saying that less government spending is the way to go.  Such irony, no? His state wants money but he does not want to provide it to other states.  Their ideas are as bankrupt as this nation.

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      • Author by magnolialover (February 02, 2009 4:58 pm ET)
           
        I always loved the right wing radio talk show hosts who were indignant that all of those people didn't just drive on out of New Orleans, and other areas in Louisiana and Mississippi when Katrina came through. Forgetting of course, that poor people didn't have cars and all.
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        • Author by Tbone Slickens (February 02, 2009 9:46 pm ET)
             

          Poor people didn't have mass transit in NO?  Ray Nagin didn't have enough school buses parked that were not used?  

          While I would not classify the people as whiners, I think there were inherent problems with NO that prevented the people from an orderly evacuation.  I think it's high time to put the blame where it belongs and that would be squarely in the state and local governments of Louisiana.  

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          • Author by magnolialover (February 03, 2009 12:44 am ET)
               
            We're not just talking about NO. Remember, a couple of States went through this. There were NOT enough school buses to take all of the people out of the city that needed transportation. Sure, there were mistakes on behalf of the State and local government, but also, our federal government failed FAR worse. As in, they basically left people there after the storm, and had no means in place to come to rescue, so to speak. Don't give me your right wing BS. Federal gov failed big time, and FEMA was being run by a horse judge.
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            • Author by Tbone Slickens (February 03, 2009 8:45 am ET)
                 

              I agree plenty of mistakes were made, but to say there was "no" plan in place is just dishonest.  Let me ask you this.  Was Katrina the first hurricane disaster that the US has faced?  There have been others; 

              Andrew 1992

              Now ask yourself has FEMA performed like that in the past?  If they have then you have a systemic problem.  

              FEAMA's response to Andrew

              So please spare me the worn out left wing venon on this.  If you don't have the sense to get on a Greyhound and get out of a city below sea level when a CAT 4 is headed your way, then you learned a life lesson the hard way.  

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              • Author by foghornleghorn (February 03, 2009 2:08 pm ET)
                   

                Again, Bonehead, you miss the point.  NO was damaged by hurricane AND flood.  See the difference?  You can't compare it to Andrew, Hugo, or any other hurricane you can recollect.

                And say, for arguments sake, that everyone got on those school buses.  Where were they going?  When would be allowed to come back?  How would they pay for food and lodging?  You just don't think things through very well, obviously.

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              • Author by Mrs. Teufelshunde (February 03, 2009 3:42 pm ET)
                   

                TBone, your article points out that FEMA learned from their mistakes and did a great job in 1995.  Why was it that a decade later it again failed so miserably?  Perhaps because the Bush Administration appointed political lackeys with no experience into the pivotal roles and FEMA reverted back to its no-nothing status? 

                I'm not sure how your comment proves anything other than that FEMA downgraded during the Bush Administration, seeming to place the blame firmly on them.

                I'm pretty sure there's plenty of blame to go around, but deciding that the poor people who lived in the city with NO experience or understanding of flooding and levee failure are the MOST to blame seems really, really, absurd.

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              • Author by magnolialover (February 03, 2009 5:13 pm ET)
                   

                Entire cities were not flooded out during Andrew.

                Bush and FEMA messed this one up BIG time.

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              • Author by magnolialover (February 03, 2009 5:16 pm ET)
                   
                As others have said. Where are those buses going? Where are the people on said buses going to stay? If it was a Greyhound bus, how are people, with no money, going to pay for their tickets? How or what are they going to eat? When are they going to come back? It seems all so very simple, just get on the bus and get out of the way, but the problem was much larger than that, and that you fail to see that the federal response was botched, badly, doesn't surprise me in the least. When a couple of States were devastated, and almost an entire city was under water, don't you think a federal response was required? The worse natural disaster in our country's history, and Bush and his cronies botched it, bad. It's not left wing venom, it's what happened you choad.
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                • Author by Tbone Slickens (February 03, 2009 10:45 pm ET)
                     

                  It was a CAT 5 people!  It didn't matter what FEMA or anyone else did, that was a devastating hurricane.  It was CAT 3-5 for at least three days before landfall.  Where do you go?  Who knows?  Out of the city!  How many school buses could be filled?  I don't know but I can tell you how many WERE NOT filled.  

                  As I said above there is plenty of blame to go around, but to lay this at just one agency's  feet is ludicrous.  

                  Keep up the name calling though...It so belays your point...

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                • Author by Tbone Slickens (February 03, 2009 10:54 pm ET)
                     

                  Choad...NICE...do you even know what that means!  ;0

                  You stay classy...

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    • Author by fawltylogic (February 02, 2009 8:46 pm ET)
         
      He puts the "ass" in "compassion".
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    • Author by eweston8542983 (February 02, 2009 11:55 pm ET)
         
      Good Job Brownie!!
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