Kamkam's busy campaigning, Joe's on the beach; maybe we can ask George Bush to help?
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That Was Then, This Is Now
In Memories of Hurricane Katrina, I contrasted press coverage and Democratic Party hysteria over Hurricane Katrina, which effectively destroyed George W. Bush’s second term and contributed to the Democrats’ 2006 election victories, with the muted (if not altogether silent) reaction to Hurricane Helene and the vastly more problematic governmental response thereto.
It is a theme worth returning to. On CNN, Scott Jennings makes the point effectively:
Joe Biden was at the beach when the hurricane came ashore. VP Harris was raising money w/ celebrities before staging a plane photo op. I promise you if a Republican were in the WH there would be no political restraint, just as there was none after Katrina. pic.twitter.com/K8LjX6Sd6U
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) October 5, 2024
Hinderaker:
Joe Biden is one step away from the obituary column, and no one has ever in her life relied on Kamala Harris to get anything done. The world takes it as a given that anything that is done in response to Helene will have nothing to do with our president or vice president. Or FEMA.
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The press has tried to deflect attention from the Biden/Harris administration by blaming global warming for Hurricane Helene and the flooding in North Carolina, despite the fact that neither hurricanes, nor severe hurricanes, nor floods have increased in recent years. In fact, one of my relatives who lives in Asheville, North Carolina, tells me that virtually the exact same flood, maybe worse, occurred in 1916.
