As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Democrats would offer New Orleans as a sacrifice to Mother Nature if they knew they would benefit politically as a result. You can almost hear them praying for God to steer this thing right into the Big Easy today, the start of the Republican convention, so the news media can take attention away from the RNC, and so the left can blame the GOP for the ensuing natural disaster. The left long ago gave up any pretense of actually carrying about the “little guy,” especially when ruining the little guy can make for delicious headlines.
The trouble is, the fallout from Hurricane Katrina was purely the result of liberalism. The left blames President Bush. It was all they had. They couldn’t blame the mayor of New Orleans or the governor of Louisiana. They were both Democrats. They had to find a Republican somewhere. But liberalism exacerbated the disaster. Liberals teach their voters to rely on government for EVERYTHING. And so the Democrat voters in New Orleans obliged by waiting on the government to rescue them. Trouble is, government is prone to inefficiency, which is why the rest of us with a modicum of common sense and personal initiative would have simply packed up the suitcases and valuables, loaded up the car, and hit the road. But even that was too much to expect from the Democrat voters in New Orleans. To suggest any sort of personal responsibility is considered mean-spirited by the left. Liberalism strips people of any sort of initiative by teaching total government dependence, and so even rudimentary decisions such as evacuating in the face of a major hurricane become too much for your typical Democrat voter who is trained to rely solely on government.
