The Daily Howler: Facts about Hurricane Response
(Via Instapundit, via Mark Kleiman)
As the DH admits, this ain't much, but it's a start. You'll have to scroll down to the section titled "Katrina Creep."
The most important point in the post is that this cursory survey of info about past hurricanes indicates that federal response normally takes days to get on-scene.
The second most important point is this one: liberals are beginning to act like conservatives have been acting over the past 15 years, wontonly and irrationally spewing blame at their political opponents, automatically and vociferously arguing that partial and conflicting data clearly and unequivocally indicate conservative nefariousness. Actually, come to think of it, this may be the most important point...
Lastly, but still somewhat importantly, the DH points out that Clinton cancelled his vacation before Andrew hit, even thought he'd just been on a rather lengthy mission to New Zealand and had planned to do some golfing in Hawaii on the return trip. Bush, of course, couldn't be bothered to cut his month-long vacation short.
(Incidentally, Krauthammer assigns blame like so. His ranking doesn't seem unreasonable to me, but he is, of course, an intellectually dishonest partisan hack so his opinion on the matter gets no weight. What surprised me about this is that he managed to force himself to put Bush on the list at all. Maybe that's to give the thing some veneer of objectivity.)
(Via Instapundit, via Mark Kleiman)
As the DH admits, this ain't much, but it's a start. You'll have to scroll down to the section titled "Katrina Creep."
The most important point in the post is that this cursory survey of info about past hurricanes indicates that federal response normally takes days to get on-scene.
The second most important point is this one: liberals are beginning to act like conservatives have been acting over the past 15 years, wontonly and irrationally spewing blame at their political opponents, automatically and vociferously arguing that partial and conflicting data clearly and unequivocally indicate conservative nefariousness. Actually, come to think of it, this may be the most important point...
Lastly, but still somewhat importantly, the DH points out that Clinton cancelled his vacation before Andrew hit, even thought he'd just been on a rather lengthy mission to New Zealand and had planned to do some golfing in Hawaii on the return trip. Bush, of course, couldn't be bothered to cut his month-long vacation short.
(Incidentally, Krauthammer assigns blame like so. His ranking doesn't seem unreasonable to me, but he is, of course, an intellectually dishonest partisan hack so his opinion on the matter gets no weight. What surprised me about this is that he managed to force himself to put Bush on the list at all. Maybe that's to give the thing some veneer of objectivity.)
posted by Winston Smith at
9:28 AM
6 Comments:
"wontonly" ? There's a joke in there, I just know it.
Actually, come to think of it, this may be the most important point...
wait, I wasn't done.
So now we can look forward to the liberals gaining power? After all, give the people what they want.
"liberals are beginning to act like conservatives have been acting over the past 15 years"
Is that just a reflexively-typed sentence, or do you have some evidence?
Oh, fer chrissake, I can't be the only one around here who's paying attention...
4 to 3? If so, I'm not privy to what your navel lint is saying, or DU, but the liberals I read and vote for are still as reality-based as ever.
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