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September 05, 2005
The Facts: Real And Imagined
I believe it was Jonathan Swift who said, "It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of what he was never reasoned into." Swift's words have been ringing loudly in my head as I see and hear Left's utterly predictable reaction to the hurricane Katrina disaster. But soldier on we must. The blogosphere does not always come to the correct conclusion (and we never said we did), but in many cases our record is much better than the professionals in the MSM.
Here's another brick in the wall of reality: Mark Coffey at Decision '08 highlights a press release by the Army Corps of Engineers that specifically denies that the levee failure was caused by any funding cuts:
Three major pending projects are in various stages of development: two hurricane protection projects — the West Bank and Vicinity project and the remaining portions of the Lake Ponchartrain project, and the Southeast Louisiana flood damage reduction project. Even if these three projects in development were completed and in place, they would not have prevented the breach and the flooding caused by the breach. Like the levee that was breached, the hurricane protection projects were designed to withstand forces of a hurricane that has a .5% chance of occurrence in any given year. This translates to what is now classified as a Category 3 hurricane.
Emphasis mine.
Mark's done important work finding and publishing this statement; but it will change no one's mind on the Left because their beliefs are psychologically generated. Their hatred of Bush is not due to the suffering of Katrina's victims; it's not even really about Bush himself. Dr. Sanity nails it:
This psychological defense mechanism is referred to as "displacement". One way you can usually tell that an individual is using displacement is that the emotion being displaced (e.g., anger) is all out of proportion to the reality of the situation. The purpose of displacement is to avoid having to cope with the actual reality. Instead, by using displacement, an individual is able to still experience his or her anger, but it is directed at a less threatening target than the real cause. In this way, the individual does not have to be responsible for the consequences of his/her anger and feels more safe. [...]
Now are you convinced that it was Karl Rove who secretly flew down to New Orleans and persuaded Mayor Nagin to delay the evac order?
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