Lunatic Fringe
According to PPP, “And one final note from Louisiana- he may have been 3.5 years away from the White House when the storm hit, but slightly more repugicans in the state blame Barack Obama for the handling of Hurricane Katrina (29%) than do the shrub (28%). 44% don’t have an opinion either way.”
Many repugicans have apparently selectively blacked out all memories of the shrub’s junta, and have assigned anything that happened after 2004 to Barack Obama. I don’t know what’s more disturbing. The fact that more repugicans blame Obama for something that wasn’t in office for, or the idea that 44% had no opinion on the question.
The question itself was interesting because it wasn’t measuring who repugicans in the state blame for the response to Katrina. What the question was really measuring was the depth of the Obama hate in the state. How far were repugicans willing to break from reality in order to blame President Obama for something that he had absolutely nothing to do with? The answer was pretty far.
A sizable number of Louisiana repugicans were more than willing to rewrite history in order to blame Obama.
The repugicans love to claim that Obama blames the shrub for everything, while ignoring the fact that the raging tire fire of an economy that Obama inherited belonged to the shrub, but in this case it is clear that repugicans are willing to blame Obama for every bad event that has ever happened in American history. If repugicans could blame Obama for the Great Depression, they certainly would.
Instead of accepting and coping with their failures, repugicans have created an alternate reality. Due to the collective reinforcement provided by repugican political dominance, red states have taken this a step beyond and have created an alternate universe where Obama is to blame for everything the shrub did.
The repugicans are stupid. They are firmly in denial of facts and reality. While Bobby Jindal destroys everything that the disasters natural and man made haven’t, repugicans have decided Barack Obama is to blame for everything.
John Edwards was right. There are two Americas, but they aren’t divided by wealth. The two Americas are separated by the acceptance or rejection of reality, and 73% of Louisiana repugicans are denying themselves a lot of reality.
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Of course all sane people know who to blame for the lack of response to Katrina is ...
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