|| RedState.org Katrina: The Political Hurricane
By: Tim Saler

Democrats want to play politics over the carnage, destruction, and devastation in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. They are using the bodies of those who lost their lives in this tragedy as a rhetorical platform from which to attack the President and everything he stands for. Republicans don’t want to fight about this issue, but when Democrats start firing, we have no choice but to oblige them in their desire for political combat.

The lack of speedy response to this disaster can be summed up simply as this: after decades of Democrats reinforcing the domination of this country by the federal government, we now have a situation where state and local governments no longer have the motivation nor the funding or equipment necessary to take care of the own problems. Many left-wingers are using this disaster as an example of how small government has failed the American people and must be replaced with a gargantuan, overbearing federal government presence to solve all of our problems. If anything, this disaster is the ultimate failure of federal power.

We do not need a larger federal government to solve our problems. We do not need a larger, heavier, and more expensive federal government to go clean up the disaster area in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. We need a smaller government, a more nimble government. We need a federal government that works in conjunction with state and local governments rather than displacing them and instilling in them a mental condition by which they are helpless in the face of crisis. The President shouldn’t need to be in Louisiana right now for Louisiana to be able to take care of its own business.

After decades of Democrats attempting to utterly destroy the federal system of government on which this country was founded, people like Kathleen Blanco and Ray Nagin freeze in the face of disaster. They no longer do what they need to do at the state and local level to help their citizens. Instead, they look for the federal government to come step in and save them. The federal government as our great American mommy has utterly and completely failed us.

The solution is not to make it bigger and stronger, but to put it back in its place and give states and local governments their constitutionally-defined power to take care of their own business. We will never know the number of lives that could have been saved if only we had respected the right and ability of states and local governments to do their job.

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raptor Says:
September 2nd, 2005 at 11:58 am

I have been checking blogs,both left and right.
Overwhemlinglly the left are showing themselves(agin)to be cold-hearted,selfserving bastards.The right are(agin)overwhelminglly showing thier compassion and willingness to help.