Just in Case You Thought Hating Obama Had Any Basis in Reality Among Republicans

A Third Of Louisiana Republicans Blame Obama For Hurricane Katrina Response Under Bush

A large number of Louisiana Republicans think President Barack Obama is to blame for the federal government's poor response to Hurricane Katrina, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey released Wednesday -- despite the fact that the storm occurred three years before he took office.

The Democratic-leaning polling firm, which provided its results to Talking Points Memo, found that 29 percent of Louisiana Republicans said Obama was responsible for the Katrina response. Twenty-eight percent put the blame on President George W. Bush, whose administration did in fact oversee the federal response to Katrina. Nearly half (44 percent) of the Louisiana Republicans polled didn't know who to blame.

Bush was heavily criticized at the time for the government's response to Katrina, a storm that caused 1,833 fatalities, damaged an estimated $81 billion in property, and ranks among the five deadliest hurricanes in United States history. He remained on vacation in Texas as the hurricane rocked the Gulf Coast, before belatedly cutting his trip short and returning to Washington. An infamous photo of Bush peering out the window of Air Force One at the wreckage was also attacked as insensitive, and the former president himself later acknowledged the photo was a "huge mistake" in a 2010 interview.

Bush's approval ratings plunged in the months following the disaster, and his administration was dogged by suggestions that race was a factor in its response efforts.

During a live concert for hurricane relief, rapper Kanye West said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people," a moment Bush later said was the "most disgusting moment" of his presidency. Condoleezza Rice, who served as Bush's secretary of state, recalled in her memoir that there was clearly "a race problem" during Katrina, although she disputed allegations that Bush or his administration were racist.

 

Anybody could see that Katrina was going to come close (if not directly hit) New Orleans...a city built below sea level. If you went 10 miles north, you would have been out of harms way.

Why didn't Ray Nagin move the New Orleans' buses out of the flood zone? Because he's an idiot.

Why didn't everyone simply evacuate 10 miles north? Because the ones that stayed were the Looters.

Everyone cried Crocodile tears when they didn't get their Govmint handout quick enough...and the Looters shot at rescue helicopters.

What was George supposed to do? Disaster Preparedness is a State/Local responsibility. If they need/want Federal assistance, all they need do is ask.

Claims that the Bush administration didn't care about the residents of New Orleans is pure Democratic demagoguery.

 

Oh yaky! None of that blame shifting even approaches the fact that today nearly a third of Republicans blame Obama for the Federal government's Katrina response. You realize that, I realize that, anyone with two neurons to rub together to form enough of a coherent thought to pick their nose realizes that. You like the other Righties here prefer to veer off on a tangentially related topic rather than discuss the actual embarrassing topic posted.

Come on! Nearly a third of Republicans actually believing Obama was responsible for the Katrina response? How brain dead are these old white people and how much irrational hatred can this group really expect the rest of us to buy? This is just an overt example of the latest "hate Obama at any cost" we've seen. You seem too embarrassed to even discuss it.

 

Actually, it's quite easy to blame Obama (and 13 other Senators) for the poor response to Katrina since he voted "NAY" to providing support.

Let me ask you something, National Socialist Joe: If there had been a natural disaster in your area and a Senator voted against providing support, would you place blame on him for "the Federal government's poor response"? Well, of course you would. So would the people of Louisiana.

This information is readily available from the U.S. Senate website and the Library of Congress

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Read the Senate vote here (U.S. Senate website)


Read H.R. 2206 here (Library of Congress website)

 

I'd lay some blame on the city planners personally.

Probably a Kenyan relative of President Obama involved.

 

Believe me, Nagin should have been convicted of manslaughter as well as Blanco. (She called out the National Guard something like 7 days after Katrina hit.) Yet that does not excuse or condone the BS others have done. And that includes that hypocrite Obama. Any idiot who could vote against aid for Katrina and blame the Republicans his $50 B pork bill just because it included $15B for Sandy relieve. To compound that, I seem to remember his saying he would go line by line.

I guess that means he was being a hypocrite about his hypocrisy?

 

Plenty of blame to go around for sure. As a former resident of the Gulf Coast I know, firsthand, how corruption took it's toll on the city...with Nagin & Marc Morial being the worst offenders. Somehow, whenever the issue of levee condition & flooding came up there was always something more important to do with the money.

 

I blame a lot of rain and sea surge. But what do I know.