While everyone down here in the States continue to listen to Democrats such as William Jefferson Clinton give erroneous testimony on what Bush did wrong, it seems there are people in Canada with more sense then our own natives here in the great land of liberal basis. Liz found this refreshing post on the aftermath of Katrina. David Warren, of the Ottawa Citizen, nails it when he says,

If something happened up here, on the scale of Katrina, we wouldn’t even have the resources to arrive late. We would be waiting for the Americans to come save us, the same way the government in Louisiana just waved and pointed at Washington, D.C. The theory being that, when you’re in real trouble, that’s where the adults live.

While most of this nations media goes around and blames Bush for everything and neglects to see the fact that major Nagin was the one that neglected a whole lot more, it takes a reporter from Canada to point this out. Oddly enough, you can’t find this article on Ottawa Citizen’s web site, though Google’s cache proves it’s existence. Fortunate for us, TamWill’s site has the entire article for you to read and you get more choice quotes like,

From Democrats and the American Left — the U.S. equivalent to the people who run Canada — we are still hearing that the disaster in New Orleans showed that a heartless, white Republican America had abandoned its underclass.

This is garbage. The great majority of those not evacuated lived in assisted housing and receive food stamps, prescription medicine and government support through many other programs. Many have, all their lives, expected someone to lift them to safety, without input from themselves. And the demagogic mayor they elected left, quite literally, hundreds of transit and school buses that could have driven them out of town parked in rows, to be lost in the flood.

This coming from Canada? Huh? I can’t believe my eyes. Is there hope for our nations media, then? I doubt it, but all the points Warren make are completely true and on the marker. I don’t want to get into the sticky points of those on entitlements, but Republican’s are just as generous as Democrat’s and I think that has been squished from thinking by the media. I also want to emphasize the empty school buses that Howard Dean thinks (by his comments on The View) are not controlled by the City. He really needs to shore up on his civil powers knowledge (Howard: the City owns the school districts, buddy!)

I want to highlight one more point that our Canadian friend knows better then our very own American media, and that’s nation disaster response.

Consult any authoritative source on how government works in the United States and you will learn that the U.S. federal government’s legal, constitutional, and institutional responsibility for first response to Katrina, as to any natural disaster, was zero.

So to all those who can’t remember the three branches of the federal government, how the State’s form our Union of the federal government, and forgot about all that “State’s rights” stuff from U.S. History class, then remember that last quote. G.W. may have done some things wrong, but it wasn’t all his fault like so many are saying and if anything, it could have been a lot worse if he hadn’t done what he did do. Stop with the Bush-bashing and get on with the “take responsibility” problem this country has so developed in the last couple of decades.

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