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Blame Bush Blanco
I propose a new principle. When you’re a Republican dealing with a Democrat in a time of crisis, you should adopt the old Reagan model for dealing with the Soviet Union: Trust, but verify. As Hurricane Katrina loomed over the... Posted in JunkYardBlog on March 3, 2006 9:06 AM
Popular Mechanics Takes on the Katrina Report
I haven’t looked into the Congressional report on Katrina yet, but I was prepared to find it both unimpressive and unpersuasive no matter what it said. Call me a pessimist, but I haven’t found Congress to be impressive in a...Posted in JunkYardBlog on February 15, 2006 2:42 PM
Democrats Bring Out Their Dead
There is no tactic too low for today’s Democrats. None. At. All. Today’s memorial service for civil rights activist Coretta Scott King — billed as a “celebration” of her life — turned suddenly political as one former president took a...Posted in JunkYardBlog on February 7, 2006 4:59 PM
"Just Because They Have Killed People in a Way that We Hate" **Updated**
Bill Clinton continues his Kafka-esque metamorphosis into Jimmy Carter, urging the Bush administration to strike up a dialogue with Hamas. “You’ve got to find a way to at least open doors,” Clinton told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland...Posted in JunkYardBlog on February 1, 2006 8:57 AM
Recall Blanco
The effort to oust failed Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco kicked off today (campaign web site here): A Republican who says she has never worked on a political campaign filed documents Tuesday launching a drive to oust Gov. Kathleen Blanco, who...Posted in JunkYardBlog on January 10, 2006 5:08 PM
'Good Samaritan' Leads US Forces to Huge Iraq Weapons Cache
A few thousand more IED’s just got taken out of action: ZUWAD KHALAF, Iraq — As the piles of missiles and rockets dug from the desert floor grew, smiles on soldiers’ faces turned to scowls of serious concern. Working on...Posted in JunkYardBlog on December 22, 2005 10:42 AM
"NO MORE CALLS FOR BUSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
That’s what one of LA Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s aides emailed to staff on August 31, 2005. At that moment, thousands of people were stranded in New Orleans as the floodwaters rose. Two days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, thousands...Posted in JunkYardBlog on December 6, 2005 10:15 AM
Blanco's Salvo
The governor of Louisiana released—late on Friday, which is an obvious move to avoid bad PR—about 100,000 documents related to hurricane Katrina. Here’s an AP story about it, which spins most of the story Blanco’s way. That’s no surprise—the AP...Posted in JunkYardBlog on December 3, 2005 11:50 PM
Four Years Ago Today
this blog got started. I started blogging to try and counter the already evident (in Dec 2001) anti-war and anti-American bias in the MSM, and to counter the already evident bias in the liberatarian-dominated blogosphere against anyone who claimed any...Posted in JunkYardBlog on December 1, 2005 8:00 AM
Able Danger is Alive and Well
It just goes without a specific name, and its data mines operations are privately owned. ChoicePoint is famous for being the largest and most sophisticated aggregator of public records on U.S. citizens and residents. The company has built an enormous...Posted in JunkYardBlog on November 14, 2005 12:31 PM
Post-Democrat Collusion in Maryland?
Stephen Spruiell turns over a big rock in Maryland politics, exposing likely collusion between a Washington Post reporter and the figure behind one of the most sought after online identities in the state, an anonymous rumor-monger known only as "MD4Bush."...Posted in JunkYardBlog on November 8, 2005 8:23 AM
Fight Back, Mr. President
We begin at the end of Bill Kristol's call for President Bush to fight back against charges that he lied us into war. Bush once again needs to fight for support for his policies and to draw a contrast between...Posted in JunkYardBlog on November 7, 2005 3:03 PM
Katrina Aftermath: More Local Failure
The Bayou Spin Machine continues, blaming the Feds for being slow to pick up the dead after the storm. It's one more in a long series of cover stories that have successfully framed the storm's aftermath as primarily a FEMA...Posted in JunkYardBlog on October 28, 2005 12:45 PM
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY
Note to self: Come up with some catchy headlines to cycle in and out on these news posts. If Times Select Had Existed Two Years Ago, I Wouldn't Be Able To Write This Post I haven't written much about the...Posted in JunkYardBlog on October 21, 2005 9:28 AM
KATRINA BACK IN THE NEWS
Let's tally up a few things about Louisiana officials and their response to hurricane Katrina. Gov. Kathleen Blanco: Blocked Red Cross and Salvation Army aid from reaching New Orleans residents stranded in the Superdome and convention center. Encouraged looting with...Posted in JunkYardBlog on October 14, 2005 12:24 PM
AND NOW, FOR SOME BADLY NEEDED GOOD NEWS
Katrina won't cost as much as the intial reports said. Initial reports are almost always wrong: As lawmakers ramp up their efforts to cut spending to pay for hurricane relief and rebuilding, they are finding that the total cost promises...Posted in JunkYardBlog on October 7, 2005 9:55 AM
THE NY TIMES ADDRESSES THE ROLE OF RUMOR IN NEW ORLEANS
If your only source for news is the New York Times, you're always the last to know anything unflattering to Democrats or the press. And when the Times finally gets around to telling you about it, there's a good chance...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 28, 2005 11:31 PM
MEDIA SHIFTS BLAME ONTO OTHERS
Yes, I'm playing with Lara Jakes Jordan's shamelessly biased anti-Brown headline from yesterday. But it also happens to be true, in a sense. Check out this story and how it's framed. On Sept. 1, with desperate Hurricane Katrina evacuees crammed...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 28, 2005 1:03 PM
HE'S OUTTA THERE
NO PD Superintendent Eddie Compass has resigned. It's the first thing he has done right since Katrina. Neither Compass nor Mayor Ray Nagin would say whether Compass was pressured to resign. "It's a sad day in the city of New...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 27, 2005 4:03 PM
"Ex-FEMA Director Brown Blames Others"
The AP's notoriously biased Lara Jakes Jordan strikes again, both with that headline and an over-the-top hit piece on kick-him-when-he's-down Mike Brown: WASHINGTON - Former FEMA director Michael Brown blamed others for most government failures in responding to Hurricane Katrina...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 27, 2005 3:17 PM
IS OUR PRESIDENT LEARNING?
It doesn't look like it. After Katrina hit and the media succeeded for a while in blaming FEMA for everything that went wrong, we all learned that FEMA was run by Michael Brown, who had no experience in disaster management...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 21, 2005 1:12 PM
BLOG PLAN TO BE USED FOR LATEST NOLA EVACUATION
Mayor Nagin finally gives in to the fatherly advice of the feds...again. Instead of his original plan to lure residents and tourists back in this week, he's going to get people out of town--using the JYB plan this time. From...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 20, 2005 12:32 PM
IN THE COMING WEEK
we could be treated to the spectacle of New Orleans reopening for about 180,000 residents, only to have to re-evacuate them as yet another hurricane approaches. And no, New Orleans hasn't replaced all those buses yet. Mayor Nagin, do you...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 19, 2005 1:26 PM
INTEL WARNINGS SURROUNDED U.S.S. COLE BOMBING
From President Clinton last month, recalling some information from a previous Cole bombing post: "I desperately wish that I had been president when the FBI and CIA finally confirmed, officially, that bin Laden was responsible for the attack on the...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 17, 2005 12:55 PM
HURRICANE SPIN
The New York Times is nothing if not reflexively leftist. It's trotting out a new anti-Bush line, made up out of thin air, to breathe a little new life into the left's latest media jihad against the Bush administration. And...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 15, 2005 10:05 AM
AND BLANCO MAKES THREE
Bush led the way, then New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin followed up and took responsibility for his Katrina-related failures. And now La. Governor Blanco is also accepting responsibility: Echoing the words of President Bush a day earlier, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 14, 2005 11:03 PM
IMPEACH BLANCO UPDATE
There is now an official Impeach Kathleen Babineaux Blanco blog up and running. I wish them well....Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 13, 2005 9:02 PM
NEW ORLEANS RHAPSODY
This is so well done someone really should record it and get it to AOR stations. Maybe we could get a Rock Star: INXS reject to voice. Dubya's, the one they blame, They're all calling for his head, "There's 10,000...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 13, 2005 1:40 PM
SEN. LANDRIEU: BROWN RESIGNATION NOT ENOUGH
Sen. Mary Landrieu, fresh from melting down like the NO PD during several national television appearances over the weekend, says the resignation of now former FEMA Director Michael Brown isn't enough to solve the relief problems. This blog agrees with...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 13, 2005 11:49 AM
"MEDIA MATTERS": WOO-HOO! OVER HERE, GUYS!
Media Matters for America, the Soros-funded blog dedicated to exposing conservatives in the media, or conservative "bias" in the media, whatever Soros wants them to do for him today, has a fun little round-up about the buses of New Orleans....Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 13, 2005 11:11 AM
THE SALVATION ARMY WAS ALSO DENIED ACCESS TO THE SUPERDOME
Starvation of the poor was Blanco's policy at the Superdome. We already had the Red Cross on the record about that. Now we have the Salvation Army's word as well: The Salvation Army basically said look. We...first of all, both...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 12, 2005 12:57 PM
LAWLESSNESS KILLS
More evidence that encouraging the looting early on after hurricane Katrina cost many innocent people their lives, in the New York Times: As early as Friday, Aug. 26, as Katrina moved across the Gulf of Mexico, officials in the watch...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 10, 2005 5:48 PM
SHOULD MICHAEL BROWN BE DRAWN AND QUARTERED OR MERELY FIRED?
That seems to be the debate around the blogosphere these days. I've got to side with Jeff Goldstein on this. Brown said some horrendous and clueless things in the early days after Katrina, and that alone made him a political...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 10, 2005 11:15 AM
YELLOW SUBMARINES UPDATE
National Review's next cover features the buses of New Orleans. I think it's fair to say that we're now past the stage where we need to keep looking for more buses in satellite photos of New Orleans. That point has...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 9, 2005 12:28 PM
ROUND-UP
FEMA Director Michael Brown, under fire from all directions and dimensions, may have padded his resume to get the job. PunditGuy: Brown has been thrown under the bus. This photo is the best summary yet of the whole bus and...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 9, 2005 9:18 AM
GOV. BLANCOUT'S OTHER EXECUTIVE ORDER
Somebody was in tail-covering mode: EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. KBB 2005 - 31 EMERGENCY EVACUATION BY BUSES WHEREAS, the Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act, R.S. 29:721, et seq., confers upon the governor of the state...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 8, 2005 9:32 PM
RACIAL LOGIC
By Jacob Weisberg's logic, Katrina's aftermath should persuade more blacks to vote Republican: Had the residents of New Orleans been white Republicans in a state that mattered politically, instead of poor blacks in city that didn't, Bush's response surely would...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 8, 2005 5:39 PM
GOV. BLANCOUT'S EXECUTIVE ORDER
I haven't seen too many people discussing this. It's Executive Order No. KBB 2005-18. It puts the Louisiana National Guard Commander, Bennett C. Landreneau, in charge of the Bayou State's emergency prep and response. When you see Mr. Landreneau on...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 8, 2005 4:06 PM
THE CLUELESS HISTORIAN
Celebrity faux historian Doug Brinkley needs to stick to glossing up John Kerry's past. He has no, and I mean no, grasp on the present: "If you had to say one line about this, this whole hurricane is about racism....Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 8, 2005 1:58 PM
STARVING THE POOR WAS BLANCO'S POLICY
Don't take my word for it. Just consult the Red Cross: Acess to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard and local authorities and while we are in constant contact with them, we simply cannot enter New Orleans against...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 8, 2005 12:18 PM
BUSES, LAWYERS AND THE DEAD OF NEW ORLEANS
This is where an overly letigious society finally leads, and may die: legal liability concerns froze both Mayor Nagin and Gov. Blanco's decision-making in the midst of the crisis. Both the mayor and governor consulted their lawyers before making or...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 8, 2005 8:10 AM
BLANCO: LET THEM EAT CAKE
So the Queen of Denial, Obstruction and Delay, Kathleen "Antoinette" Blanco, and her royal staff made multiple decisions to deny the Refugees of New Orleans the security, food and water they needed. Video link above. More from Major Garrett here....Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 7, 2005 9:46 PM
IMPEACH BLANCO
It's becoming clearer by the day that most of the relief problems New Orleans has experienced originate with Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco. She failed to issue orders or even make decisions when it was her job, she consistently bollixed things...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 7, 2005 5:41 PM
GALLUP'S NEW POLL BIASED FOR GOV BLANCO
The new Gallup poll is actually biased in favor of the single individual most responsible for all the problems after the hurricane. The Chief Executive of Louisiana, the Commander of the La. National Guard that Mayor Nagin needed so bad...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 7, 2005 2:30 PM
GHOST PLAN FOR A GHOST TOWN
Chris & I have a new flood-related article up at NRO. UPDATE: One part of this story that has been coming out in the past few days is Gov. Blanco's passive-aggressive, indecisive yet accusatory behavior throughout this entire crisis. I...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 6, 2005 2:44 PM
FEMA
isn't a perfect organization, and I was as uncomfortable as any conservative when it became clear that the Bush administration's domestic answer to 9-11 was to create a big shiny new bureaucracy known at the Department of Homeland Security. But...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 6, 2005 1:29 PM
BLANCO'S FEMA PAYBACK
Hmm...I see we already had a little political battle on our hands before the hurricane: Louisiana officials are stumped. Do officials in our Office of Homeland Security owe the federal government more than 30 million dollars? The feds sent the...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 5, 2005 11:30 PM
ANOTHER STOLEN BUS ESCAPE FROM NEW ORLEANS
A Current Affair host, Arthel Neville (niece of Aaron Neville), reported to Fox correspondent Greta van Susteren (Saturday evening 9/3/2005) that she received a cell phone message from her missing cousin on Friday saying that she was safe and that...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 4, 2005 2:12 PM
THEY HAD A PLAN
They just didn't follow it. So they were planning to fail. By "they," I mean pretty much every government official in Louisiana, and by "plan," I mean a signed-off set of procedures they were supposed to follow in the event...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 3, 2005 1:34 AM
THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS
In go the troops: Gov. Kathleen Blanco said she has asked the White House to send more people to help with evacuations and rescues, thereby freeing up National Guardsmen to stop looters. An additional 10,000 National Guard troops from across...Posted in JunkYardBlog on September 1, 2005 12:39 PM
MARTIAL, MARTIAL, MARTIAL!
Turns out there's been some confusion from news reports and that despite a prison riot complete with kidnappings (Or was it just a little "unrest?"), carjackings, mass looting and a cop being shot in the head by a looter, there...Posted in JunkYardBlog on August 31, 2005 1:08 AM
SPAIN DISSOLVING?
Here's the formula: Put a Socialist in power, screw up your country. MADRID (Reuters) - Speculation swirled on Wednesday that the Basque government could call early elections to revive its stalled plan for virtual independence, as Spain's prime minister came...Posted in JunkYardBlog on February 3, 2005 4:01 PM