Wednesday, August 29, 2007
A Telling Silence
On the second anniverary of the New Orleans levee failure in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, d-day offers an instructive comparison between the two American political parties. While each of the frontrunning Democratic candidates for president has a comprehensive plan for reconstruction, the Republican candidates have, er... not so much:
Rudy Giuliani: Three-line press release, no specifics.Katrina was a natural disaster. The catastrophe in New Orleans, though, was a disaster of conservative government. The fact that conservatives continue to have nothing to say about it suggests that they remain as great a danger to public health and well-being as ever.
Mitt Romney: Nothing on the front page.
Fred Thompson: Nothing on the front page.
John McCain: Three-paragraph press release, no specifics.
Mike Huckabee: Nothing on the front page, at the top of the site is a news flash that "Gov. Mike Huckabee to Participate in the New Hampshire Republican Presidential Debate on September 5, 2007."
Sam Brownback: Nothing on the front page.
Labels: d-day, Katrina, Republicans
¶ Posted by Paul Curtis 11:36 AM
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Hmmm, do you think those Republicans' websites will feature a mention of the anniversary of 9/11 in a couple of weeks?
Naw.
Naw.
There were several layers of government between New Orleans and Washington D.C. Is there not more blame to go around than just "conservative government"? We can address the fallacy of the Bush Administration being a "conservative government" at some other time.
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