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Gas lines that extend for hours.
Dumpster diving.
People starving — in New York City.
Sean Hannity pegged it exactly.
Two words: Obama’s Katrina.
This weekend in the Northeastern United States is a snapshot of liberalism at work. As tragic as it is, combined with Benghazi it appears at exactly the right moment — when Americans are ready to vote.
The Society of Beggars, as predicted in this space back in 2008, has arrived.
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Mike in N.C.| 11.2.12 @ 3:18PM
I'm LMAO, Jeffrey. This is the biggest bit of fantasy I think you have ever written. I shall never forget the dumb, uncomprehending expressions on the faces of Fox and Friend's Doocey, Carlson and Kilmeade when Christie explained to them that he didn't give a damn about presidential politics in light of what had happened in his state. Limbaugh was reduced to a sputtering rage while talking about the cooperation between Obama and Christie. Lacking any real intellectual tools, he reached into his adolescent bag of tricks and pulled out "bro-mance." But he understands the emotional and intellectual maturity of his audience. And, Hannity. LMAO.
JP| 11.2.12 @ 3:34PM
Feels good doesn't it. I remember back in 2005 when the libs had a 3 month orgasm during the Katrina aftermath. They piled on and on and on. I thought that one of these days another Hurricane will hit when a Dem is in the WH. It is hilarious watching the libs squirm. Just as the Times this week was praising the virtures of Big Government, Large Government was failing.It fails no matter who is in the WH.
Truth be known there isn't much that government can do when something like Sandy hits an area populated by nearly 20 million people.
Have fun.
Cobalt| 11.2.12 @ 3:45PM
Bloomberg's dubious endorsement of Obama was rather timely, wasn't it?
Mike in N.C.| 11.2.12 @ 5:15PM
I agree with your last sentence. But, Bush was no more a leader in the aftermath of Katrina than he was when he was told about 9/11. And Fugate is so much better than Brownie there is no way even a right winger will disagree.
C. Vernon Crisler | 11.2.12 @ 3:41PM
I listened to Rush. I didn't hear any "sputtering rage" I've only heard that from you.
Mike in N.C.| 11.2.12 @ 5:16PM
You're used to Limbaugh's sputtering rage. He was sputtering.
JimH| 11.2.12 @ 3:19PM
Part of the problem is that people, particularly in cities have grown used to and been taught to wait for government instruction and assistance. One of the worst parts of FEMA is that the old Civil Defense organization which was made of local people is no longer functioning.
Mike in N.C.| 11.2.12 @ 3:28PM
Nonsense. People are helping each other as best they can given the flooding and total devastation in some areas. The right wing propagandists are going to try to equate NYC and north Jersey to New Orleans, Sandy with Katrina and Obama with Bush. They will peddle the same kind of garbage they have about the economy: Obama didn't fix the economy in a year or less. Obama didn't clean up the devastation in a couple of days. Idiots.
JP| 11.2.12 @ 3:41PM
Mike,
Here's a little secret. The economy was never fixed. The Bush Recession ended 4 months after Obama was inaugerated. He had nothing to do with the ending of the Bush Recession. But, he has everything to do with the anemic recovery.
And people like you blamed Bush for the incompetency of NO Dem Mayor and the LA Dem Governor. You blamed Bush for the levies not working; you blamed Bush for the fact that most of NO police abandoned the city. You even blamed him for Katrina itself (via Global Warming). Well what goes around comes around. I intend to blame Obama for every turd that flows out of the sewers and into the streets of Manhatten and Long Island. I intend to blame him for everything that goes wrong that is the responsibility of the govenors and mayors.
Mike in N.C.| 11.2.12 @ 5:18PM
Have fun.
The fact remains, Obama led competently; Bush did not.
CJW| 11.2.12 @ 6:11PM
You mean Obama LIED competently.
rightasrain| 11.3.12 @ 1:22PM
Your standards are extremely low if you call opportunistic photo ops in ludicrous bomber jackets leadership.
Stan Redmond| 11.2.12 @ 4:04PM
The liberal media and politicians set the precedent that EVERYTHING can be fixed or destroyed instantly by the president. Obama was on that bandwagon and now he's getting the much deserved criticism. 8 years we heard the nastiest attacks on Bush. Obama's the president now and he said he can fix everything, lower the oceans, heal the planet, atc. By his own standards and the standards of everyone blasting Bush, Obama is an absolute failure.
Mike in N.C.| 11.2.12 @ 5:28PM
Obama never said he can fix everything. Never said government is the answer to all our problems. This is just the bullshit propaganda you hear inside the right wing echo chamber. Turn of Fox and Limbaugh and read something other tha the crap on TAS.
mike 3/505| 11.2.12 @ 7:08PM
Flat out BS...Obama claimed the very fact of his election started to lower sea levels. I heard him say it....I watched it. Sorry pal. Facts are stubborn things.
Mike in N.C.| 11.2.12 @ 10:56PM
Obama didn't say that and you didn't hear it. Google the subject. This is a reading comprehension test, Sunshine. A little nuanced, but I think you can handle it.
rightasrain| 11.3.12 @ 1:35PM
With what little faux humility a megalomaniac like Obama can muster, he said that generations from now people will look back and say that his election was the moment when the rise of the seas began to slow and the planet began to heal. This is no different from what Mike 3/505 said. In possibly the most unseemly display of hubris ever, Obama predicted that years from now, these god-like accomplishments will date from the moment of his election. I'm lucky I don't have a strong gag reflex.
Occam's Tool| 11.2.12 @ 5:40PM
By the way, Mike, New jersey has turned away help from Alabama. Christie is screwing up. So is Obummer.
I went back and saw an idiot Liberal (redundancy) posting a glorious missive about our President elect circa 11/11/08 as a comment on Jeff Lord's prescient column back then.
Here's what I posted to Diana's splug, as I am also posting to you (by the way, Obama has deep-sixed our economy---I'll be investing in stocks if Romney wins, Gold if Obama wins):
"Occam's Tool| 11.2.12 @ 5:36PM
Diana:
after the horrific damage President Obama has done to our country over the last four years, with the TRILLIONS of dollars added to the deficit, the BEST unemployment statistic of his career being 7.8% (caused by massively massaged data), our credit rating being dropped, health insurance going HIGHER as a result of Obamacare with FEWER people covered, Iran on the verge of getting nukes, the Middle East taken over by Islamists, the European Union being a) taken over by Islamists and b) aging and shrinking and c) going bankrupt, and finally: our Ambassador being cornholed and murdered by Islamists on 9/11/12 and the government being COMPLETELY ineffective in the latest hurricane to hit our shores; after all that, don't you feel like a blithering idiot for posting this moronic missive above?"
RCV| 11.2.12 @ 5:57PM
Better check out those gold dealers this weekend, Occam. See you in Westwood!
Mike in N.C.| 11.2.12 @ 6:01PM
Why can't people on the right understand that much of our current deficits as well as the debt are the result of actions taken Bush? Please spare me the bullshit retort that Bush isn't running. The past is prolong to the present and Bush's responsibility for his bad economic and foreign policy decisions did not end the day he left office.
Unemployment is still as high as it is because the GOP refused to pass a stimulus that would have helped states maintain the jobs of police, firemen and teachers and well as addressing onfrteucture issues. Please don't bore me with "hair on fire" bullshit about the U.S. being a month away from becoming Greece. It's simply not true.
Do I feel like a blithering idiot? No, but whe I read your post, I knew I had encountered a fucking cretin.
Butch| 11.2.12 @ 3:43PM
Mr. Lord, you shouldn't say that Obama has been an abject failure in yet another responsibility. After all, he IS making sure there are gubbmint trucks set up to serve as voting booths in all the dem precincts, with the ballot already appropriately completed.
Mike in N.C.| 11.2.12 @ 5:20PM
A counter to GOP vote suppression?
Skippy| 11.2.12 @ 6:26PM
You ain't seen nothin' yet.
Next election only white landowning men will be excluded from voting.
Which will be fine and will give them plenty of time to load their rifles.
RCV| 11.2.12 @ 3:56PM
HAH! What a desperate, distorted view of reality. We've heard from two non-Democrats -- Governor Christie of New Jersey and Mayor Bloomberg of New York -- what a fabulous job President Obama and his administration have done with respect to this disaster, in stark contrast to his predecessor's performance after Katrina.
You are destroying what little credibility you have left, Mr. Lord, just as Sandy has put the final end to Romney's chances. Did you bother reading the amazing endorsement of Obama by ... The Economist!!!
JmsA| 11.2.12 @ 4:17PM
Bloomberg is not a Republican; he's not even a RINO. He endorsed Obama and is helping democrat candidates in Florida. He also wants to revoke the 2nd Amendment. The Economist, a British publication, is full of leftists. And by the way, upon release of the jobs/unemployment report, the market took away all of yesterday's gains. As for Katrina, why don't you ask the folks of Louisiana why they didn't re-elect Blanco, the then democrat governor? And don't try to tell me she was termed out, because she wasn't. Meanwhile the so called "republican" New York City Mayor, is catching flak for insisting the marathon go on, so as to, as democrats continue to do with the current situation in this country, erect Potemkin villages.
RCV| 11.2.12 @ 6:00PM
I wouldn't have reelected Blanco either. The Marathon was cancelled, as it should have been.
The Economist is "full of leftists"? Don't know what political spectrum you view things from but its very different from the one I do.
JmsA| 11.3.12 @ 5:36PM
RCV, you best listen to your master and don't forget to cast your REVENGE vote.
I stand by all of my previous comments.
My political perspective is well right of center, as is also that of others from whence I came, now polling at 76% for Romney, and 19% for The One.
The Economist, according to its editor, Bill Emmott, has always been liberal, though at times voicing approval of centrist and conservative policies. As of late, that publication has been drifting further to the left as evinced by its support of the British Government's actions with respect to global warming, gun control and gay marriage. It also previously endorsed Bill Clinton. Any so called economic journal that backs anyone who after four years of statist policies has failed to lower the unemployment rate to below that of when he took office, cannot be reasonably concluded to be other than biased to the left. The recession, though The One now waxes to the contrary, was declared over by June 2009. By this time in Reagan's first term, following his inheriting Carter's economic disaster which peaked in 1982, with consequent significant Republican congressional losses, there was increasing economic improvement culminating in one of the greatest economic expansions ever. In case you haven't noticed, the unemployment rate just ticked up a bit, not to mention the ever increasing debt, and the looming expiration of the Bush tax cuts.
JP| 11.2.12 @ 4:57PM
No one in NY outside of Peggy Noonan and Katheleen Parker are impressed with Bloomberg's competence concerning Katrina. Staten Island is litterally in anarchy right now, and the people in Manhatten are furious that the NYC Marathon wasn't canceled. People who lost their homes and are living in hotels are being kicked out in order to cater to wealthy foreign athletes who are arriving. The Mayor and FEMA, who cannot find enough generators to keep a city block in power found 2 huge generators to power Central Park for Sunday's event. There are shortages of food and petrol. But the Dem pols found enough food to keep the foreign athletes in caviar.
Ken (Old Texican)| 11.2.12 @ 5:04PM
RCV.
I won't even discuss with you. You are so confined to your self righteous bubble. You are a upscale troll...no more.
Mike in N.C.| 11.2.12 @ 5:22PM
Care to talk about climate change or do you still have your head up your arse?
Skippy| 11.2.12 @ 6:28PM
It's your ass, and that ain't my head.
Occam's Tool| 11.2.12 @ 5:41PM
Christie and Bloomberg are bullshitting. Things are NOT going well.
RCV| 11.2.12 @ 6:01PM
Given what happened, no one could expect things to go any better than they have.
And, Ken, I've never seen anyone in a narrower, more self-righteous bubble than you in your Texas Ranger costume.
Bob S| 11.3.12 @ 12:29AM
I guarantee ANY Florida governor wouldn't allow such chaos and anarchy to break out. We wouldn't be kissing the president's ass either, like Christie and Bloomberg are doing to cover up their own incompetence. We wouldn't be blasting the president for his slow response like Nagan did either.
Cobalt| 11.2.12 @ 7:04PM
Drudge reports people are defecating in the hallways of apartment buildings.
Waterbourne diseases?
A second storm, a nor'easter is on the way.
Bob S| 11.3.12 @ 12:26AM
Fabulous job? Yeah, people dumpster diving just to eat and long lines for gasoline everywhere is a fabulous job. A-OK.
If there weren't term limits, Bush would've gotten a third term thanks to his FABULOUS job with Katrina.
DRed| 11.2.12 @ 4:07PM
The boys who cried Katrina are back! I thought the gulf spill was Obama's Katrina. Make up your minds.
Artman| 11.2.12 @ 4:22PM
Jeffery, as always you nailed it. Isn't it sublime how the Dems are squirming in light of their unjust attacks on Bush. It's especially delightful hearing Obama order the cutting of red tape (regulations ) to get services rendered. The liberal agenda crumbles before our very eyes.
Mike in N.C.| 11.2.12 @ 5:23PM
Nail it? Lord didn't nail anything.
Mike G| 11.2.12 @ 4:55PM
And now Bloomberg is diverting resources to clean up for the NY marathon. Does the man have no sense of empathy? He's got scads of people who are suddenly homeless, and he's worried about a marathon?? I hope all of the hotels tell him to go to hell, they're not putting homeless people out for a marathon.
Is FEMA demanding a refund for these resources? After all, putting on a marathon surely doesn't fall under FEMA's job description.
DRed| 11.2.12 @ 5:02PM
Well, he is a republican. . .
Warrior| 11.2.12 @ 5:18PM
Bullshit. He was a Democrat before running for Mayor in which he switched parties to run as a Republican. He then changed to party affiliation to Independent. He's always been a liberal.
Mike in N.C.| 11.2.12 @ 5:24PM
You mean he's a RINO?
Skippy| 11.2.12 @ 6:29PM
No, he's a schmuck.
Bob S| 11.3.12 @ 12:24AM
You mean Republican, like Arnold Schwarzenegger was a Republican, right?
Warrior| 11.3.12 @ 11:28AM
Above all, Arnold is a narcissist. He has/had no ability to manage anything, not even his personal affairs. Party affiliation was a matter of convenience. He is comfortable with any group that hands him a microphone and a stage.
Bob S| 11.3.12 @ 12:24AM
Same thing was thought by many New Yorkers, who angrily demanded answers and forced Daddy Bloombucks to cancel the marathon.
Ken (Old Texican)| 11.2.12 @ 4:56PM
an act of God?
Bob S| 11.3.12 @ 12:23AM
Now would be a good time to dip into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, instead of months ago when gas prices were rising and there were rumors going about that Obama would dip into the reserve to boost his campaign. If we had a President that knew how to lead, we wouldn't have such chaos.
Cobalt| 11.3.12 @ 10:38AM
Valerie probably told him not to.