A cartoon to lead off your day
I got a kick out of this one.I find it perfectly absurd that the Bush administration implicitly blamed Kansas Governor Kathleen Gilligan Sebelius for her state's response to the Greensburg Tornado last week.
What's really at issue here is the same problem that plagued New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 - the National Guard is stretched so thin from deployments in Iraq that have been extended and extended, there simply is not enough personnel and equipment to respond to natural disasters, let alone any other governmental or civil issues.
More on this later in the weekend.
Labels: Greensburg Tornado, Hurricane Katrina, Kathleen Sebelius, National Guard, War in Iraq
posted by RJ at 7:59 AM
3 Comments:
Huh. And all along I was thinking it was an F-5 tornado that caused all the trouble in Kansas. Obviously I was wrong, and George W. Bush is to blame for tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, global warming, and morning breath.
Impeach the bastard ASAP before tornado season ramps up!
Turn off Fox News and slowly back away. I sure hope you didn't get this opinion from The Half Hour News Hour, a truly pathetic attempt by the right to combat the wild success of The Daily Show. (I bring that up because I heard a similar joke on the horrifically bad show that I watched in its entirety yesterday. I deserve some sort of award.)
You completely missed the point. No, Bush isn't responsible for Katrina, tornadoes or earthquakes, but he IS responsible for how the federal government responds to them. When the National Guard of any state does not have the equipment it needs to respond to these types of disasters because Bush has extended and extended their tours in Iraq, then he IS responsible.)
Turns out John Kerry was right - this war IS a backdoor draft. Bush just keeps extending troops' tours of duty - their families and their sanity be damned.
On the inside of the Statue of Liberty's base reads a poem:
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Who ever thought that could apply to our returning troops, who have been systematically dicked over by this administration for 4+ years?
Huh. And all along I was thinking that people had a responsibility to help themselves and help their neighbors. Thanks for straightening me out... from now on, I'll sit in my basement waiting for Uncle Sam to take care of me no matter what happens.
That's just tough to swallow, considering the ice storm that knocked power out for thousands of residents all across Nebraska (my home state) at the end of last year. I didn't see any National Guard troops around then, but nobody seemed to complain. No FEMA trailers or debit cards, but people seemed to make it through. How? Because they were responsible. They planned ahead for disasters, and those that weren't affected helped those that were. We didn't need Uncle Sam to fly in on a chopper to make us all feel better. This governor in Kansas (and everyone who is picking up her sob-story) is just one more lib who is convinced that the federal government exists to hand money out to whoever thinks they need it. Disgusting, in my opinion.
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