Posted by
PDX Dave on Saturday, October 27, 2007 10:04:35 PM
While the
Santa Ana winds were still blowing hot and strong (as they have for hundreds of thousands of years) and the Southern California fires were at their worst, Democrats from coast to coast were throwing political fuel on the fire.
Democrat California Lieutenant Governor
John Garamendi claimed during the height of the natural disaster that President Bush had no business coming to California, that the fires were the result of Bush-caused global warming, and that the California National Guard were unable to respond because they were in Iraq. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Cal.) echoed the ludicrous lie that California's National Guard were all in Iraq and thus unable to help fight the fires, while Harry Reid declared the origin of the fires as global warming, hoping to inject the political hysteria of that lie into the tragic event.
So you'll understand why I laughed so hard today, I almost fell out of my chair when liberal L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez
sanctimoniously declared,
"You knew it had to happen. The moment firefighters began to
get an edge on the fires, pundits, bloggers and other gasbags couldn't
wait" to use the successful outcome for political purposes.It's amazing that Lopez's ludicrous assertion that '
Republicans are starting the politicization of the fires' could be squeezed in sideways on that newspaper, amid the insane declarations of fact that the fires were caused by global warming, and snide references to Katrina and the self-serving nature of Republicans concerning their response.
Later in the same piece, Lopez endorsed the fringe belief that the alleged lax response to Katrina was based on a racist agenda to make blacks suffer..... but let's be clear.... it's the Republicans who are using disaster as political fuel. According to the view that Lopez signs off on, the quick response to the California fires was because of all the rich white folks living there....
Someone please hand Lopez a tissue as he weeps uncontrollably over the crime of politicizing a natural disaster.
PDX Dave
Behind Enemy Lines in Portland, Oregon