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The Best Among Us

Remember when flooding in Louisiana was a massive crisis – when we had a Republican President?

The Cajuns are seeing to their own rescue – 15,000 of them:

They’re known as the “Cajun Navy,” and in recent days they’ve become possibly the nation’s most important neighborhood watch.
Troy Green, from Ascension Parish just south of Baton Rouge, loaded up his boat after hearing the Cajun Navy needed a few good sailors.
He drove to East Baton Rouge Parish where the National Guard had a staging area.
“I am here to help,” he said. “Where do you need me?”
They paired him with a local man and the two spent a full day pulling people — at least two of them in wheelchairs — out of flooded houses.
All while Obama golfed.

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18 responses to “The Best Among Us”

  1. swiftee Avatar
    swiftee

    All we need is a photo of Obmama staring blankly out of his gold cart.

  2. Chuck Avatar
    Chuck

    I’ve been listening to Baton Rouge and Lafayette radio stations online (and checking in on the Baton Rouge Advocate)….one thing I’ve seen and heard a lot of…….churches organizing crews to go out in boats to rescue people. Then as the water recedes, going back to help tear out the carpet, wallboard, etc.

    How come it is always church groups doing this, but never Atheist groups? Has the ACLU, or the DFL, or any hate groups from Madison Wisconsin organized these sort of events?
    The sheriff of….I think it was Ascension Parish, mentioned his Christian faith and how much praying he has been doing. That seems to be a common thread in the south.

    Yeah, Barry. Really there is nothing he could do, but….imagine if GW Bush was President while all of this is going on (this is really serious in Louisiana), and Bush spent the week golfing on Martha’s Vineyard. Fat Michael Moore would make a whole series of movies.

  3. Chuck Avatar
    Chuck

    The follow is from AP. I suppose if you grew up in Indonesia and smoking pot on the beaches of Hawaii, you don’t have a lot of connection to the commoners of southern Louisiana.

    “President Barack Obama did something unusual during his summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard: He went out on the town four nights in a row. After a better part of a decade of using this breezy Massachusetts island as a low-key, quiet summer retreat, Obama has picked up the pace this year. In his final summer vacation as president, Obama has spent almost every night of his escape painting its towns red — so to speak. The stunner came late Sunday when the president assembled his security and press entourage to go out at nearly 11 p.m. It was a move all but impossible to imagine happening in Washington, where Obama’s occasional social outings tend to begin much earlier.”

  4. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    Maybe he was having trouble sleeping.

  5. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    NW,

    Either that or he was trying to figure out which group to villify next.

  6. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Come on, it’s not like he’s got a national security briefing each morning that it might be smart for him to attend with a clear head or anything. Well, technically it is, but he’s been skipping about half of them for years.

    So when that phone rings at 3am, I guess it had better be above the din at the nightclub, eh?

  7. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    When do you propose we’ll hear Kanye pronounce “0bama doesn’t care about black people?”

  8. nerdbert Avatar
    nerdbert

    Actually, having seen FEMA up close and personal in Andrew, I’d have to say that it’s smart for Louisiana to do things the way they’re doing them now. Actually depending on FEMA to Manage in an Emergency is insane. About the only thing they can do well is come in afterwards and write checks.

    And tell me, after seeing how well Barry has managed his namesake of Obamacare, much less his management of IS and Libya, would you really want him involved in your disaster recovery? I think you’d be better off saying thanks, but no thanks.

  9. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Nerdbert; so you’re saying that while Obama hates black people with his plans to “help” them, he’s actually doing Cajuns a favor by keeping the heck out! Since he was campaigning on more or less revoking the 13th Amendment (mandatory national service), this makes sense.

  10. Chuck Avatar
    Chuck

    FEMA isn’t going to be able to do a lot. The damage is so widespread, that the checks per house will be about $7500. Really that isn’t much.
    Now, the local radio stations have been giving a lot of advice on what to do now to save your house. What to tear out now to dry things out before permanent damage is done to the bones of your house.
    Basically southern Louisiana citizens and local gov’t are working now to save houses instead of sitting around and waiting for mother Government from DC to come in and save them.

  11. DMA Avatar
    DMA

    Is Brownie,down there doing his usual heckuva job?

  12. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    Frankly, any home owner living in southern Louisiana should have more than a passing knowledge of what to do to mitigate household damage post-hurricane/flooding.

  13. Dog Gone Avatar
    Dog Gone

    Considering the Trump campaign and other right wing nuts have blamed Obama for the failed disaster assistance of Hurricane Katrina, your post doesn’t surprise me.

    Did you expect Obama to fly down there himself to rescue people? It actually looks like there is a very good organized rescue effort going on; however they continue to get rain, and the event has been described as considerably worse than the problems from Katrina — worse than a once in a thousand year flooding compared to once in a hundred years. The rain levels and flooding are actually WORSE than Katrina in the affected areas.

    I see no evidence that Obama, unlike dubya, has put anyone incompetent in charge of disaster relief or that the feds are not doing what they reasonably can and should — given conservative gutting of the funds they need to do their job.

    You might want to pay attention in particular to what the republican state lege, under a republican governor did to the state funding for flooding. It’s non-existent, pretty much, after they cut everything.

    Look at the blame that should go on Bobby Jindal’s shoulders, and the shoulders of the right winger lege, and the right winger members of Congress.

    Obama can only do what is possible with what he is given to work with for disasters. Republicans are the unnamed disaster here.

    Remember this the next time Ebola spikes, and you find the GOP in congress gutted the funding for research and other anti-Ebola measures in order to underfund the Zika problem.

    This is a clear case of Republicans getting what Republicans pay for — or more precisely DON’T pay for.

  14. Mitch Berg Avatar
    Mitch Berg

    DG

    “Considering the Trump campaign and other right wing nuts have blamed Obama for the failed disaster assistance of Hurricane Katrina…”

    I call bullshit.

    Show me.

  15. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    I see no evidence that Obama, unlike dubya, has put anyone incompetent in charge of disaster relief or that the feds are not doing what they reasonably can and should — given conservative gutting of the funds they need to do their job.

    OK, DG, you’ve got about half of Louisiana as a federal disaster area, and the only federal agency that appears to be involved is the Coast Guard, and you’re not convinced that someone is asleep at the switch? Seriously?

  16. Troy Avatar
    Troy

    Dog Gone wrote:

    “Remember this the next time Ebola spikes, and you find the GOP in congress gutted the funding for research and other anti-Ebola measures in order to underfund the Zika problem.”

    Remarkably full of bullshit, she is.

  17. Bill C Avatar
    Bill C

    Look at the blame that should go on Bobby Jindal’s shoulders, and the shoulders of the right winger lege, and the right winger members of Congress.

    Now just a Dog Gone minute here. Bobby Jindahl isn’t the governor anymore. John Bel Edwards is. This falls on HIS shoulders.

    What? He hasn’t even been in office for very long, so how can you blame him?

    Then how can you blame Rick Snyder (state leader) for Flint’s (municipal) water supply problem after 40-50 years of Democrap leadership (local AND state) in Michigan? Is it the governor’s responsibility to look after EVERY municipality’s infrastructure on day one in office to make sure all catastrophes are averted?

    No, it’s merely because he’s Republican. In your eyes, Every Republican to the right of Susan Collins who doesn’t act like a Democrat is a failure.

    Hypocrisy, thy name is Dog Gone.

  18. Ian in Iowa Avatar
    Ian in Iowa

    Bill,

    For any disaster or failure of government (often the same thing), you have to push the blame upwards until you find a Republican. With lefties, it’s about the intentions, less about the constant, dismal failure.

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