This Is Not A Democracy, It's A Republic........
"Chocolate City" Nagin has foot in mouth disease. I don't mind when he opens his trap because all he does is prove what his critics say. He's an ignorant, racist, self indulgent crook who fits the persona of a democrat quite well. Keep his chocolate ass in the lime light.
Grrrr.
I just saw this over on Michelle Malkin's blog.
Maybe a little exposure on 60 Minutes will finally show people what a racist asshole this guy really is!
I was in NO in May; that city was screwed up way before Katrina ever rolled into town. The level of long term neglect is very obvious.
Man, I hate hypocritical, race card tossing, liberal shitheads!
"Man, I hate hypocritical, race card tossing, liberal shitheads!"
Don't be redundant, Henry! 
Ya know, we ended up with a bunch of the Katrina refugees right here in No VA and it was just on the news yesterday that they're NOT leaving. They like it here. They've all found jobs, they like the area, they like us, they like our services (medical care etc. not freebees just how we have things set up) and they LOVE the schools.
Evidently, the socialist paradise isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Good point Wit. Nagin failed his people long before Katrina.
You know, I was going to write something about this today, until I dug a little into it. He has a point.
People are throwing criticism his way for not having the city well on it's way to a full recovery. It doesn't take a couple months to rebuild a CITY... you're looking at YEARS.
He was making a comparison with NY who lost a couple buildings five years ago and have yet to rebuild there either.
Things like the WTC and New Orleans take TIME to rebuild... in todays world of nano-seconds, people have the patience of a gnat, and if I were him, I'd have fired back too.
The problem is James, Nagin always pushes the blame away every time. Ultimately, he did next to nothing to prepare his own city in regard to Katrina, and it is the city/local/state that address address evacutions and refugee's, not the feds.
He's whined like a sissy boy, and never taken an ounce of blame. At least "Macaca guy" apologized,for a stupid nosensical word.
Nagin's "apology" for the chocolate city comment was to say he was actually talking about cocoa... give me a break.
I'd have an ounce of respct for him if he'd say,"hey, I screwed up". But he never does. I loathe people that blame others for their own failures.
Also, The WTC and the surrounding buildings were a result of a terrorist action, not mother nature. There is no excuse for the cars still lining the streets in Nola, nor for there to be any waste left laying about. Rebuilding, sure, that takes a long time, but the clean up should be done. Or at least 99% done.
Nah - not buying it. They've been talking about this on the radio today and with all the money that poured into that city, why is it he wants more? Other cities in this country have been devestated, literally wiped off the map, yet they seem able to rebuild without any federal aid.
To me there is no comparison to the damage NO took compared to Mississippi's Gulf Shore. City after city after city were literally flattened/flooded/blown off the face of the planet - yet they're rebuilding without fed help, thank you very much!
As for the WTC - that's bureaucracy in action. There have been so many lawsuits and gum-ups there it's pretty pathetic. The Pentagon was repaired fully within a year of the attack - and that's with gov't involvement. Aint THAT scary?!
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It's not that easy, Jenn. I think your disdain for Nagin has skewed your train of thought a little.
Much like my disdain for Bush often skews mine, to be fair.
Pete,
“Much like my disdain for Bush often skews mine, to be fair.”
Well since you are willing to admit it, I admit my disdain for certain people on the left skew my opinion of them at times. But how is being ticked off about the “chocolate city” comment as well as the “NYC can’t fix a hole in the ground after 5 years” skewing anything?
Witness you make some good points but as to the Pentagon, it is the HQ for our Department of Defense… that would automatically place it at the top of the list of locations that NEEDED to be up and running…
What's not that easy about what I said exactly Pete?
"There is no excuse for the cars still lining the streets in Nola, nor for there to be any waste left laying about. Rebuilding, sure, that takes a long time, but the clean up should be done."
I aknowledge that building will take some time, but interestingly enough, did you miss the sentence here:"The money for the homeowner program was slower to arrive in Louisiana than in Mississippi because Mississippi was quicker to submit a plan that demonstrated checks and balances on the funding."
But you are right, I feel nothing but disdain for Nagin.
Well yes Pete - it is that easy. Again, Mississippi (where a big chunk of my family is by the way) had not just one city flooded, they had many cities blown off the map. There is NOTHING left there except a few foundations. There is NOTHING that survived! Does anybody hear about this? NO! Have they whined about it? NO! And I tell you what - they just up and cleared the mess away themselves and have already started to rebuild!
I'm sick of Mr Chocolate City and his racism! That hurricane didn't give a damn what peoples color was and according to the Boston Globe race also played no factor in who died in NO - AGE did! And they probably wouldn't have died if Mr Chocolate City had evacuated them as he should have! I can't believe people actually reelected that corrupt idiot!
When you use levee money to buy floating casinos your butt should be flayed and jailed for corruption - not reelected!
Look, you're not going to get an argument out of me that the ball was completely dropped by Nagin and that he shouldn't have been re-elected. But the ball was also dropped on the county, state and federal levels just as much.
It's easy to make everything sound like it was as simple as pie to get everyone evacuated and then get it all cleaned up in retrospect.
The hard hit areas on the Mississippi coast are so spread out and scarcely populated compared to New Orleans that the federal and state monies they did get were easier to put to use. New Orleans is so densely populated in such a small concentrated area and completely surrounded by water pre-hurricane. I'm not making excuses, but it was a "perfect storm" of circumstances that has caused - and is still causing - that area to lag behind.
Hell, we still have thousands of FEMA trailers sitting unused in our state. And, being a border state to both Mississippi and Louisiana, we became - and still are - refugee city. I have a man and his two sons renting - for free - an apartment i built above my garage because his neighborhood is still not cleaned up in New Orleans.
I drove them just last month back down there to check things out to see if they can get settled and the insurance adjusters haven't even taken an estimate on his house yet. There were people in his neighborhood (15 blocks) that were sleeping in tents in their yards. All this after one year.
At any rate, it's easy to sit back and talk on a blog like you have all the answers to support your agenda, but the reality is that it's a complex issue with nearly every level of government and big business at fault.
And, yes, Nagin should take some responsibility instead of acting like everyone else fucked up. But, hey, nobody did. Brownie was doing a heckuva job. Everyone was pointing fingers and not getting anything done.
What it ultimately comes down to is compassion and the spirit of our leaders. We're (supposedly) the richest and most powerful country on the earth, yet we couldn't take care of a natural disaster on our shores, by choice.
My agenda huh? Gulf Port and Biloxi sparsely populated? In fact the whole gulf coast sparsely populated huh? You - are - CRAZY!
The fact is Mississippi has good leadership at all levels, who took the situation in hand and didn't RELY on the feds for help.
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I tell you what - none of my relatives has yet to see a single FEMA truck or representative - then again, they were bright enough not to be there when the storm hit.
And mdconservative - my comment about the Pentagon being built within a year was my poor attempt at humor. My point was that when the gov't is involved that usually just gums things up - and it was scary they actually got things done faster than the private sector. That to me, just didn't compute!
"It's easy to make everything sound like it was as simple as pie to get everyone evacuated and then get it all cleaned up in retrospect."
Pete, ever heard about a thing called "personal responsibility"?
Odd how all the leeches who were at the dome were able to whine and rail about how it took a few days to get help while they looted the local stores.
Person after person I saw interviewed on Fox, MSNBC, CNN, those first few days said the same thing. THEY CHOSE TO STAY. So, DEAL.
I get real, real, sick and tired of losers, and these people were, without a doubt, losers at the highest level; blaming others for their woes.
And before you try to bitch slap me, I can tell you, I have been to lowest of the lows financially, and I've made every dime I have through hard work and effort. I have never gotten hand outs, never sucked the welfare teet.
And by low, I mean my address was park bench # 3 in O.B.
We're (supposedly) the richest and most powerful country on the earth, yet we couldn't take care of a natural disaster on our shores, by choice.
That's why it's called a natural disaster Pete, because the magnitude of raw power and energy brought by mother nature is unstoppable by man. Disasters aren't "by choice" either.
When disasters of this magnitude happen, almost all of the responsibility of taking care of oneself falls upon guess who? No, not the state, county or federal. Yes, the individual. See how dependent people have become on government? Some will die before they get off their fat asses and look out for themselves. Oh well, that's just evolution at it's finest.
That Door Knob Nagin, he was more worries about the businesses making money the night before the hurricane hit. Too worried about what the business owners would say if he closed NO early in order to properly evacuate his city. He could have used anybody to drive the 200 plus buses loaded with the poor give me a handout people out of harms way. If they were smart they would bulldoze the whole Ninth ward, into a pile then set it all on fire, this would do two things, reduce the rubble to nails glass anad metal, and the heat would sterilize the soil. Then rebuild making all first levels 14-18 feet off the ground concrete and only parking with the living spaces above water level. abve the parking then instead of subsidizing the rent for the poor (those that lived there a stones throw form the French Quater paid a mere 450.00 a month rent) allow it to be an upscale rent area. Bring the money in and the town locks in money, subsidize the poor and the city stays a Sh*thole and never regains its charm.
I'm just sick to death of this racist creep - who plays the race card to cover for his own incompetance! After all the help that poured in all over the country to help our fellow Americans, this jerk calls us all racist!. He can kiss my never donating to his city again ass.
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