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Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

Austin’s Good Fortune is Bad News For New Orleans

Well, despite all the panic gas and water hoarding we went through last night, it appears Rita may not even bring rain showers to Austin, much less the big storms we were expecting earlier, so come on down, ACL folks, the show will go on as planned!
Unfortunately, our good news is at the expense of […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina by Mark

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

Watering Hole Spotted - RINOs Rejoice

Our fearless head RINO the Commissar has suggested a new concept called the Watering Hole, an occasional feature where our intrepid band of ne’er-do-wells might gather around a common concept and pontificate in that way that only RINOs can.
I’m gonna take the lead, and though I won’t be linking to one of my own posts […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina, RINOs / Chillers by Mark

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

Weekly Jackass Number Forty-Four: Ted Rall

Ted Rall is angry. Now, that’s nothing new; Rall is a fine specimen of that breed known as the angry progressive; he’s mad at Bush, he’s mad at America, he’s mad about Iraq, he’s mad about the latest Family Circus cartoon; you name it, he’s hacked off at it.
This time he’s really, really mad, […]

13 Comments » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Weekly Jackasses by Mark

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

Slick Willie Losing His Touch

No doubt you’ve heard by now how Bill Clinton joined in the crowd politicizing Katrina this weekend on ABC’s This Week. A shame, because he had been remarkably fair prior to this. Our good friend Tom Maguire wonders why the ex-President can so clearly see the solution now that he’s out of office, and […]

No Comments » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina by Mark

Sunday, September 18th, 2005

Porkbusters: Taking Katrina Aid to the Next Level

Glenn Reynolds and N. Z. Bear have teamed up for the next logical step after Blog Relief Weekend; rather than whine about how we’re going to pay for the reconstruction of New Orleans, they’re taking action with a new feature called Porkbusters. Bloggers can blog about wasteful spending in their home state, and throw […]

No Comments » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina, Flood Aid by Mark

Saturday, September 17th, 2005

In the Kingdom of the Blind…

…the one-eyed Kossack is king. The despicable Armando gets in a two-fer today: first (and quite predictably) he’s disgusted that Donna Brazile declined to be partisan about Katrina (as Jeff at the Bernoulli Effect notes in this post, it’s amazing how all these small-government conservatives have suddenly popped up in the wake of Bush’s […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina, SCOTUS, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

Saturday, September 17th, 2005

Quick Shots: It’s Too Damn Hot Edition

Well, nothing says Fall like 100 degrees…I’ve about had it with Austin weather…lots of stuff going on today, though (and of course, don’t forget Hitchens/Galloway on C-SPAN 2 tonight)…
Ryan James finds an article where Mike Huckabee, shockingly, lets fly with the ‘C’ word…
AcademicElephant wonders at the mentality that sees a huge natural disaster as a […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina, Mike Huckabee, Linky Love, NY Times/Media Watch, Republican Candidates by Mark

Saturday, September 17th, 2005

Al Gore’s Campaign Manager on Bush and New Orleans

Reading that headline, I’m sure you’re ready for me to rip on some progressive nonsense; perhaps you’ll be as surprised as I was, then, to see this coming from Donna Brazile:
I am not a Republican. I did not vote for George W. Bush — in fact, I worked pretty hard against him in 2000 […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina, POTUS by Mark

Friday, September 16th, 2005

Katrina Relief: Where Will The Money Come From?

Let your voice be heard!…

2 Comments » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina, Flood Aid by Mark

Friday, September 16th, 2005

Not The Expected Reaction

Last night, I linked to Lorie Byrd’s delight at the reaction of the evacuees in the Astrodome to President Bush’s New Orleans speech. Care of the Instapundit (who, not surprisingly, has a ton of good links), we learn the Ian Schwartz has posted the video online. See it for yourself here…

3 Comments » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina, POTUS by Mark

Friday, September 16th, 2005

The WSJ On Hitchens/Galloway

Don’t forget to set your VCRs, DVRs, TIVOs, what have you, to C-SPAN2 at 8:00 central tomorrow for the broadcast of Hitchens/Galloway. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Kimberly Strassel is disappointed, for a debate usually implies at least two participants:
Mr. Hitchens, it should be said, gave it his best shot. Famous for his […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, Hurricane Katrina, Iraq by Mark

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

I Never Thought I’d Say These Words…

…but I agree with Gail Collins (I know, editorials are unsigned…blah, blah, blah…when it’s a New York Times editorial, you can sign it with Gail’s name). Or should I say Gail Collins agrees with me? Whatever…the point is, lo and behold, the New York Times has its verdict on Bush’s speech, and (drum roll)….it’s […]

10 Comments » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina, POTUS by Mark

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

The President’s New Orleans Speech

Quick reactions before I taint my initial impressions with those of other bloggers and columnists:
I didn’t care for the rhetorical bits, and I’m somewhat disappointed that presidential speech writers think they have to always include these little ’speechifying’ intros. Once he got into the substance, though, I think it was a pretty good speech. […]

10 Comments » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina, Flood Aid, POTUS by Mark

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

Top Secret Memo Uncovered

Bummed out because the Kos-DLC fireworks are on hold? Don’t be - Iowahawk has the scoop on the latest brainchild of Joshua Markos Mikos Atrios, the Angels of Indignation. Why, just look at the heavy hitters involved:
…[W]e in the online progressive community have teamed up to form the Angels of Indignation, a new charity […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

Michael Brown: State Effort Was In Complete Disarray

Certainly Michael Brown, until quite recently the head of FEMA, has reason to minimize his own mistakes and failures, but in an interview with the New York Times, Brown makes it clear that Governor Blanco of Louisiana had completely bungled the state’s response to Katrina:
Hours after Hurricane Katrina passed New Orleans on Aug. 29, as […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina by Mark

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

Did Katrina Kill Small-Government Conservatism?

Eleanor Clift certainly thinks it did. Jeff Taylor begs to differ, though, and he uses the well-known photograph of the flooded school buses, and the much-discussed boost in gasoline prices, as pertinent examples:
We know that New Orleans’ infamous municipal and school buses were left to be destroyed at the very instant they were […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina by Mark

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

Carol Moseley Braun: America Is Racist At Its Core

Why is it so difficult to see the difference between race and economic status? Why, a cynic might think certain people intentionally frame all public discourse in terms of race for individual political gain. Thus, we send poor black people to die in Iraq (never mind that the statistics don’t back this up […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

Quick Shots: The Politics of the Personal

Our good friend Clint, at his blog Right Question, examines the politics of the personal as practiced by Howard Dean…
Karl Maher says a certain Republican is looking good post-Katrina…and it ain’t Rudy…
Just because other stories have been grabbing the headlines doesn’t mean Able Danger has gone anywhere; get up to date with the latest from […]

No Comments » - Posted in Jeb Bush, Hurricane Katrina, Donkeys, Radical Islam / GWOT, Linky Love, Republican Candidates by Mark

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

Identity Politics and the Death of Common Sense

Writing in the Washington Post, Dan Froomkin quite foolishly asks if Kanye West was right. West, you may recall, famously embarrassed NBC and Mike Myers by asserting that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people”.
Froomkin has gotten himself in a lather over a poll that appears to suggest Kanye West is right:
The latest […]

7 Comments » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina, Domestic Affairs, Donkeys by Mark

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

Bush Takes Responsibility For Gaps In Federal Response

More importantly, he focused on what the response might reveal regarding our ability to handle other disasters or attacks:
Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government. And to the extent that the federal government didn’t fully do its job right, I take responsibility. I want to know what went right […]