Notice Anything Different This Time?

Posted by: Jason | August 31st, 2008 · 11:24 PM

Let’s call it like it is folks… Governor Bobby Jindal’s doing a hell of a job down there in Louisiana tonight. If you watched any of the Governor’s various press conferences today, the man is calm, informative, and in total control of the situation to the best of his ability. We can only pray it’s all that’s needed.

It’s sad, quite frankly, that Louisianans weren’t fortunate enough to have this man running the show three years ago, for after viewing his performance today, I think we’d all agree he’d of saved precious lives.

Further, in exploring the political ramifications of Hurricane Katrina–for let’s face it, with the timing of the Republican National Convention, seeing Republican response is the big elephant in the room (no pun intended) this weekend–it’s clear now that President Bush was a political victim to an ill-prepared, no-nothing incompetent Democrat Governor named Kathleen Blanco who failed at every level.

But what’s more serious, is that it’s also clear that because of a lack of preparation and effective leadership on the part of folks like Blanco and Ray Nagin at the state and local levels, hundreds of people needlessly died. Katrina and the entirity of it’s sad aftermath was not President Bush’s fault, any more than we should blame the new moon for the night’s darkness.

Politically, and let’s pray for saving lives first and foremost as we await the chaos to come for our American brothers and sisters of the south, but dare I say politically… this performance on the part of not only Governor Jindal, but Governors Barbour, Perry, Riley, and Christ alike, have put on notice the stark difference in leadership to Kathleen Blanco’s former incompetence, who not only failed to initiate the mandatory evacuation plan suggested by the federal government days in advance of Katrina, but who thought it wise to funnel a city of poor residents into a hell hole without food or water. The woman ought to be in jail!

The American people need a lesson in government. State and local authorities, such as Governor Bobby Jindal today, are in charge of such natural disasters for their own states first, only to be followed up later by the backing of the federal government upon request. And what you’re seeing now, under the leadership of Jindal, is responsible government to the fullest extent which could have been given in the preparation for Katrina.

So you see, as much as the Democrats enjoy exploiting death and tragedy for political gain as in Katrina and Iraq alike, as we’re reminded of this week in Barack Obama’s acceptance speech (because… you see… President Bush “wanted” to watch a city drown and not do anything), it turns out that good, strong, Republican government works.

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