Bush To Blame For Dinosaur Extinction

Bob Newman

Bloated blowhard Michael Moore says George Bush is a racist and intentionally delayed Hurricane Katrina relief because he hates blacks. The remarkably wealthy and obese Moore, who makes more money during lunch than most Americans make in a month, refuses to take some of his scores of millions and mount a rescue and relief effort for the very blacks he claims to love and care for.

Self-proclaimed scientist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., says Bush created Hurricane Katrina because he wouldn’t sign off on the Kyoto Accords. He fails to mention that the Accords came about during the Clinton years and that the Clinton administration didn’t sign them either, first and foremost because the Senate never got the deal to Clinton’s desk. He also fails to mention that thousands of scientists say global warming is a natural phenomenon anyway. How many millions of dollars from the staggering wealthy Kennedy clan were immediately sent into the fray to help? You guessed it. Oh, and Kennedy the environmentalist doesn’t want sea-based electricity-generating windmills off his family’s Hyannisport compound because they would obstruct the view and cause him to have to turn his yacht more often.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md), in a news conference with the Congressional Black Caucus, spoke for God himself against the rescue and relief efforts to date. A congressman spoke for God. He also said, “They are not refugees. I hate that word.” They are refugees, bub, and I would like to know why you are so concerned with semantics.

Professional shakedown artist and multi-millionaire Jesse Jackson suggested evil whites in the federal government were the reason why hundreds of thousands of refugees in a 90,000-square-mile disaster area were not rescued within a few hours by federal troops who were just goofing off in the first place.

Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly, the world’s most righteous, capable, and brilliant man according to Bill O’Reilly, made the stunning assessment that we need to get the National Guard into the disaster. Boy, he sure knows how to cut to the chase. He continues to point fingers at the feds and implies he could have done better. Have at it, Bill. Get down there and take charge. By the way, stop claiming you broke stories that others broke days or weeks before you picked them up and claimed them as an “exclusive.”

Geraldo Rivera, an actor masquerading as a journalist, grabbed some lady’s baby, began shouting with tears in his eyes how folks need help down there, and then quickly handed that kid back to mom after the camera was turned off. If he cared so much for that child, why didn’t Geraldo pull out some cash (he’s got millions) and hand it to the mother, who has nothing?

Over on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough called for an investigation.

Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans went on the tube and started screaming and cursing that the government wasn’t doing anything to help anyone in his city. He bellowed that he didn’t want to see anyone talking in a news conference anymore. He said this to the news media, of course. Mayor Nagin, you are all done, mister. You failed to prepare your city for the long-awaited monster storm everyone knew would one day arrive. Your city is one of the murderous in the country. You can’t get nearly enough cops to work in your city because of low pay and extreme danger. You had no enforceable mandatory evacuation plan whatsoever. And now you are telling the world that it’s everyone’s fault but your own. You didn’t even have a plan to evacuate the hospitals.

Governor Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana also had no plan for this near-worst-case scenario. She, like Mayor Nagin, decided the best plan was to hope this never happened and figured if it did happen, those slackers in the National Guard, Marines, Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard, who are just sitting on their butts anyway doing largely nothing of consequence, would just trot on down as soon as the storm passed and fix everything within minutes. The governor had no plan to help evacuate those who didn’t have the ability to flee on their own.

And what of the hundreds of thousands of people who knowingly and willingly chose (elected, decided) to ride out this beast? Why didn’t they prepare for the hurricane? Why did they stupidly choose to stay in the first place when they were told how bad this one was going to be? Where did they read that the federal government is first and foremost responsible for getting them out of a jam? I can’t find that written anywhere. If your survival plan is to just wait for the Marines, it might be a while because, just in case you have not heard, the Marines are fighting two wars at the moment.

The bottom line is that rescue and relief efforts on this scale from the federal government take a few days to get rolling, which is one of the reasons why it is the primary responsibility of mayors and governors to have plans in place to fill in the gaps while federal assets mobilize. And it is every American’s personal responsibility to evacuate when told to do so if they can, and the vast majority of those who stayed did so of their own free will and refused to prepare for the consequences of that decision.

Responsibility starts with the individual and works its way up. It does not start with the president and work its way down. There’s nothing in the Constitution or in federal laws that says the guy in the White House has to do everything for you in an emergency.

Are we pretty clear on this now, boys and girls?

###

Bob Newman, a decorated, retired US Marine, is host of the “Gunny Bob Show” on Newsradio 850 KOA in Denver, and host of “Anger-Management Hour” on 630 KHOW, also in Denver. A ground-combat veteran, he is the director of international security & counterterrorism services for The GeoScope Group and is the military science & terrorism columnist for The Denver Daily News. He can be reached at bobnewman@clearchannel.com.

bobnewman@clearchannel.com