Governor Jindal (R) Has Louisiana Under Control
Update: Mayor (Chocolate City) Nagin tells New Orleans, “if you stay, you are on your own!!” Isn’t this what the media and the liberals said constituted an impeachable offense? Also, check out Michelle Malkin.
It seems that Mayor (Chocolate City) Nagin has learned a lot from his failures in 2005. Nagin and Kathleen Blanco had no clue what they were doing. Conservative Republican Governor Bobby Jindal seems to be doing exceedingly well. Could it be that the mishandling of the aftermath of Katrina was a democrat problem with the name Blanco/Nagin? Michael Moore is still rooting for the disaster.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Spooked by predictions that Hurricane Gustav could grow into a Category 5 monster, an estimated 1 million people fled the Gulf Coast Saturday – even before the official order came for New Orleans residents to get out of the way of a storm taking dead aim at Louisiana.
Mayor Ray Nagin gave the mandatory order late Saturday, but all day residents took to buses, trains, planes and cars – clogging roadways leading away from New Orleans, still reeling three years after Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city and killed about 1,600 across the region.
The evacuation of New Orleans becomes mandatory at 8 a.m. Sunday along the vulnerable west bank of the Mississippi River, and at noon on the east bank. Nagin called Gustav the “mother of all storms” and told residents to “get out of town. This is not the one to play with.”
Huckabee Explains Palin to Liberals
Former Governor Mike Huckabee is a wonderful spokesperson for the conservative movement and the republican party. I don’t always agree with him, yet he is the sunniest republican on the current political scene. Listen to Huckabee explain the credentials of Sarah Palin-especially if you doubt her at all.
In addition, Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard and Fox News has an excellent piece about Palin today.
A spectre is haunting the liberal elites of New York and Washington–the spectre of a young, attractive, unapologetic conservatism, rising out of the American countryside, free of the taint (fair or unfair) of the Bush administration and the recent Republican Congress, able to invigorate a McCain administration and to govern beyond it.
That spectre has a name–Sarah Palin, the 44-year-old governor of Alaska chosen by John McCain on Friday to be his running mate. There she is: a working woman who’s a proud wife and mother; a traditionalist in important matters who’s broken through all kinds of barriers; a reformer who’s a Republican; a challenger of a corrupt good-old-boy establishment who’s a conservative; a successful woman whose life is unapologetically grounded in religious belief; a lady who’s a leader.
So what we will see in the next days and weeks–what we have already seen in the hours after her nomination–is an effort by all the powers of the old liberalism, both in the Democratic party and the mainstream media, to exorcise this spectre. They will ridicule her and patronize her. They will distort her words and caricature her biography. They will appeal, sometimes explicitly, to anti-small town and anti-religious prejudice. All of this will be in the cause of trying to prevent the American people from arriving at their own judgment of Sarah Palin.
That’s why Palin’s spectacular performance in her introduction in Dayton was so important. Her remarks were cogent and compelling. Her presentation of herself was shrewd and savvy. I heard from many who watched Palin–many of them not predisposed to support her–about how moved they were by her remarks, her composure, and her story. She will have a chance to shine again Wednesday night at the Republican convention.
When in Doubt, Bring Up Katrina
You can tell that the liberal, drive-by media is scared that Obama might lose this election. The reactionary radical voices who control CNN and MSNBC are expressing their angst by shrieking about the choice of Sarah Palin and re-hashing every misguided Katrina story.
Three years after Hurricane Katrina, Anderson Cooper, Keith Olbermann, CNN, and MSNBC continue to use Katrina as a tool to undermine President Bush and the United States of America. The fact that the failures in New Orleans were failures of the local and state governments is never mentioned by these strident voices of liberalism. As usual, the fundamental American concepts of indiviudal responsibilty and individual rights are never mentioned by Cooper or Olbermann. Cooper and Olbermann are so ridiculously radical that they don’t even acknowledge any role for the Mayor (Chocolate City) Nagin, and Kathleen Blanco (former governor).
You can see Michael Moore cheering for Hurricane to hit New Orleans this week and calling it the perfect storm for President Bush and the Republicans. Moore actually laughs at the fact that there could be lots of human suffering this week, and the entire event is nothing more than a political weapon to him.
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