What Trump Can Learn From Hurricane
Katrina
American Thinker,
by
Peter W. Rosenberger
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
7/24/2020 6:15:05 AM
As President Trump seeks to maintain law and order during upheavals in major American cities, he would be well served to remember the painful lessons of Hurricane Katrina. In a pivotal moment, at a podium in Louisiana in 2005, President George W. Bush chose not to allow Governor Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin to take the full blame for their poor leadership. As leaders do, Bush stepped in to rescue the situation. Yet, rescuing takes on many forms, and leaders often need to look beyond the immediate to see others in need of assistance.
As a Baton Rouge resident, who was also affected by the poor democrat leadership in New Orleans and the state, I regret to tell you that the lesson was not learned. There are democrats in both positions today. I doubt that NOLA will ever elect a republican to lead their city.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/24/2020 7:25:59 AM (No. 488851)
W was a wuss - he never defended himself ....
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/24/2020 7:32:12 AM (No. 488856)
Huh? Peter is advising Donald Trump to do exactly what he is doing. Trump is giving the incompetent democrats enough rope with which to hang themselves and that's exactly what they are doing. Please pardon the racist connotations of rope and hanging. George W. Bush happily accepted the blame from the democrats and kept his mouth shut. He was even blamed for creating the hurricane off the coast of Africa.
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Let the party of a Rats own their self-made hell’s, we don’t want them. Offer to help with their plans only !!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/24/2020 8:05:20 AM (No. 488900)
My first thought was this is a ''dog whistle'' article about Trump having said he was not responsible for the spread of the Corona virus. He isn't, of course, and it would be arrogant of him to say he was. I wouldn't try to stop Fauci from taking responsibility, nor Pelosi. But it was not President Trump. Saying so implies that you think this or any other president could be in office without a cadre of advisors.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
qqi239 7/24/2020 8:08:39 AM (No. 488906)
Exactly my view. Trump should not be saving Democrats from themselves: permanently close/relocate Federal offices from unsafe areas, help when asked and do nothing else.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 7/24/2020 8:16:22 AM (No. 488915)
I am in agreement with the lesson, to a point. While it could be argued that the People of the city and state voted for the fools who failed them and somewhat deserve the results of their votes, it is not that simple. Many people did NOT vote for these idiots. Should the idiot supporters have been left on the roofs of their flooded houses? It's pretty easy to let an individual pay the price for their obvious bad choices. With groups, it's not so easy, especially in disaster conditions.
Where Bush went wrong was allowing himself and his administration to be the whipping boy of the media and dems. They found they could attack him without cost and they needed to do something to win back public support for the next election. The media was unchallenged and emboldened and Bush allowed them to brand him as incompetent.
Trump, an extremely savvy media guy, has seen from the beginning that media is the enemy of Republicanism and Conservatism. He gave them some opportunity to play fair. When it became obvious that they would not, Trump started a policy to expose them and discredit them. It worked. Their credibility is in free fall. Trump lets none of their lies to go unchallenged and tweets out his successes because he knows the media never will.
Now, Trump is making it clear that the mayors and governors are the ones at fault for allowing their cities to remain in chaos. The media's "mostly peaceful" protesters meme is falling apart as fires, injuries to citizens and police, broken windows, and bad behavior is easily captured on video. The people living in the cities are coming forward to demand a resolution and restoration of order wile the dem mayors and governors babble. Yes, the media is still at it but their audience of gullible fools is less and their are alternate forms of information and people KNOW where to find it.
Most of all, Trump is not the patsy that Bush was.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Clinger 7/24/2020 8:56:03 AM (No. 488971)
Trump is on a completely different level that Bush. I am concerned particularly with regard to Chicago that he doesn't have the power to address the things that need to be fixed. Chicago has a small component of a policing problem layered on top of the cultural and structural rot of the welfare state. Sending law enforcement ,marshals, agents might help mitigate the policing layer but that won't even come close to the root. Trump knows that I am sure and I trust that he won't charge into a trap.
When I read the headline the first thing that came to my mind is how when the common people most needed to defend themselves the authorities came to confiscate their guns.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
HotRod 7/24/2020 8:59:12 AM (No. 488975)
President Trump is way ahead of you Peter. Have you not been paying attention? Democrats are continually smacked in the head by their boomerangs.
That's OK Peter, many people underestimate President Trump.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 7/24/2020 9:25:44 AM (No. 489015)
I agree with #3. Also, I don't see rope and hanging as a racist thing, it's a political thing. Only Democrats hanged people just for the color of their skin.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 7/24/2020 9:59:06 AM (No. 489049)
Simple fact Bush was a wuss and Trump is not. President Trump offered now take the offer and money off the table. Let the democrat mayors and governors fix and pay for it. Portland, Chicago and Seattle have to deal with their choices they created defunding police is a huge mistake.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 7/24/2020 11:02:20 AM (No. 489090)
Is there a rule, or law, that requires Federal buildings to be in these major cities?
Could the Federal government simply move operations to another, safer, more welcoming location?
Wonder how the economic impact would affect many who live in those cities by moving them. Particularly those who might suddenly have a very long commute to that job.
Just wondering....
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MDConservative 7/24/2020 12:03:01 PM (No. 489179)
Sound advice...even if largely what PDT is already doing. The trick is to stay the course, let the local and state authorities finally get enough to do something with their own resources, including law enforcement and state national guard.
It fascinates me that those who frequently advocate small government and local solutions jump on these events to demand the Federal government "do something", send in the troops, even start gunning people as "insurrectionists". Sure, why not? Why not abolish local and state governments...let Congress and the President take over local governance everywhere? Is that what people want? And we feared the Obama ammunition horde...those agencies still have their firepower and more, even their partisan leadership. Think of the precedent and its future abuse before committing those forces to the front.
No, the people of Seattle and Portland did not vote for the hordes to descend. What they may have voted for was at least some acceptable level of law and order. And now by their standards they are getting it, along with policies that attract the violent hordes in the first place. As Mencken said, they deserve what they vote for good and hard.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JimBob 7/25/2020 4:26:35 AM (No. 489900)
I live about 200 yards from the water's edge on the Mississippi coast, right at Katrina's 'Ground Zero'. Here, the state and local governments COOPERATED with the Federal government, and the response was SUPERB!
Do not EVER believe that the Katrina response was 'Botched', as the Media loves to say.
In New Orleans, the Democrat Mayor Nagin and Democrat Governor Blanco BLOCKED the Federal government from coming in, and they also BLOCKED the inland Louisiana sportsmen and fishermen -later dubbed 'The Cajun Navy' for their help in other floods in Louisiana and Texas- who hitched up their bass boats and came -on their own dime- to help the people of flooded, below-sea-level New Orleans.
The Democrat politicians let their people rot- trapped on blazing hot rooftops in the hot Southern sun- no shade, no water, no food, no help...... so that they and the Media could bash President Bush.
It seems to me that President Bush was concentrating on helping PEOPLE, not concerned with making a smarmy remark -thought up 15 years later by some scribbler- for political gain.
I do not agree with everything President Bush did, but on the whole, he was, and is, a Good and Decent Man.
When the Crisis -not just Katrina, but also the Muslim Terror Attacks- hit, he did a d@mned good job.
That he 'fell into the trap' shows me that he was thinking about helping PEOPLE, he was not thinking about POLITICS.
It is small-minded and below the dignity of American Thinker to bad-mouth him now for some now-perceived trivial shortcoming -that he did not go out of his way to 'ding the Democrats'- during the maelstrom of activity after Katrina.
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President Trump is a smart man who likely has this figured out. Getting the message past the leftist media is another matter entirely.