I say problem, and so does Doug Powers:
Since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf coast, federal government programs gained an unlikely critic: Democrat politicians. Some Republicans are also joining in, but Democrats criticizing the federal machine is the shocking political equivalent of Michael Jackson dangling his baby from a balcony.
From Hillary Clinton on down, Democrats, who have rarely met a government program they didn't like, have been crawling out of the woodwork complaining about how the government failed the people. Will their accusations and admissions of massive government failings finally put a bullet through Hillary's utopian dream of national health care? Quite the opposite.
When Hillary and company say the government failed, they have actually stumbled on to a legitimate problem – but even a blind nut finds a squirrel once in a while. Before you think Democrats are finally starting to "get it," consider the reason the problem is being brought to our attention: so they can apply their solution. These programs simply aren't adequately funded, nor are there enough of them.
As evidence of the coming onslaught of illogic, Eleanor Clift has become one of the first pundits from the left to pick up the ball and run toward the wrong endzone. What Democrats are now saying is simple: The era of big government is over – the era of really, really big, colossally stupendous government has just begun.
And now we have a Democrat blaming the lack of Federal funding for preventing Mayor Nagin from using those school buses:
It was the Bush administration's fault that hundreds of city school buses weren't dispatched to evacuate the hurricane-battered residents of New Orleans two weeks ago before floods swamped the city, Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu said Sunday.
Asked on "Fox News Sunday" why New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin failed to follow the city's evacuation plan and press the buses into service, Landrieu blamed Bush administration cuts in mass transit funding."Mayor Nagin and most mayors in this country have a hard time getting their people to work on a sunny day, let alone getting them out of the city in front of a hurricane," she said. "And it's because this administration and administrations before them do not understand the difficulties that mayors . . . face."
The Democrats will never get it. What are you going to do, get paid for driving a bus, or get the same money by going on welfare? The Democrats just can’t say it…personal responsibility. Instead they blame others as the MSM helps parrot their lies.
