Amid the tragic stories from Hurricane Katrina, some mid-week comic relief. On the blog, "Seeing the Forest", we are lectured under the heading "Why does Bush hate Louisiana?":
It Takes A Hurricane
If it takes a hurricane to wake up the American people, I will not be apologetic for pointing out the obvious. Red state voters have no one but themselves to blame for the excess hardship that will be caused by years of callous neglect from the Bush administration.
Hmmm... at the same time, USA Today reports in its August 31 edition that:
Decades of flood-control efforts to protect New Orleans and other places, combined with the region's huge oil and gas investments, have contributed heavily to the destruction of coastal wetlands that can help tame the fury of storms like Hurricane Katrina, say scientists and government officials.
(emphasis supplied).
Gee, I didn't know that President Bush had been in power for "decades", did you?
The USA Today article goes on to point out that "... in recent decades, development and natural causes have compromised what oceanographer Abby Sallenger of the U.S. Geological Survey calls the 'first line of defense.'" (emphasis added). I wonder if the "Seeing the Forest" bloggers blame Bush for "natural causes" or for displeasing God, too?
Well, even if those bloggers don't, their ideological soul-mate, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., does. In an article, "For They that Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind", posted on The Huffington Post, Kennedy has these words of Biblical-type wisdom:
As Hurricane Katrina dismantles Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, it’s worth recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush’s iron-clad campaign promise to regulate CO2.
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Well, the science is clear. This month, a study published in the journal Nature by a renowned MIT climatologist linked the increasing prevalence of destructive hurricanes to human-induced global warming.
Now we are all learning what it’s like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and--now--Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.
In 1998, Republican icon Pat Robertson warned that hurricanes were likely to hit communities that offended God. Perhaps it was Barbour’s memo that caused Katrina, at the last moment, to spare New Orleans and save its worst flailings for the Mississippi coast.
As always, it's all Bush's fault.
george bush is so wrong like how could you respond to somitheng so important so slow like where they do that at he is wrong now look (they try to tell me keep my eyes open my whole city under water and some people still floatin and they wonder why black people stll voting because your president still choking) Tragedy is hard to get over ( tie my hands by lil wanye
Posted by: Ana | June 14, 2012 at 11:47 PM