NW Wingnuts Get Angry Over "Daily Chaos" Diary

My good friend Archerhouse, who was responsible for the LIVE trial diaries last May during the election contest lawsuit here in WA, wrote a diary this morning entitled: It's Not Bush's Fault: Wingnuts Defend the Administration on Katrina.

He crossposted it to our own blog, the Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog, which both he and I write for, among others. (He would have diaried this response, but because we're at 1 A Day right now he asked me to. I have not used mine yet).

Well, it seems the local wingnuts have taken notice. This appeared at the top of one of their sites, our local Drudge imitator:

FEELING THE LOVE:

NPI RESPONSE TO ORBUSMAX, NW CONSERVATIVES: "Locally, we have our own crew of wingnuts who are playing defense... It's good to see the administration's lapdogs against the wall for a change..."

CROSS-POSTED AT DAILY CHAOS...

ORBUSMAX TO NPI: THANKS AGAIN FOR MAKING MY POINTS FOR ME... BY THE WAY, HOW'S YOUR WEB TRAFFIC?

More of their response below the fold....

We have some interesting comments in our comment thread, thanks to the links. A sample:

WmScott: I am glad to see you lefties continue to insist that the Federal Government is responsible for everything. Democrat controlled state and local governments are certainly not to blame.
If only the Republicans (Bush) had ordered all those incompetent state and local Democrats to do their jobs instead of standing around wringing their hands and crying, "if only George Bush would tell us what to do"!
What we have is a failure to understand who failed to do what needed to be done.

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P Scott Cummins: How about answering the question you quote me asking, or is that too much to ask? I did not insult you, demean your opinions, or call you names. Can you engage in political discourse without sounding like a conversation in a middle school hallway? For the record, I also said this: "Those that wish to criticize would be advised to roll up their sleeves and help out. There will be plenty of time for talking later. For sure we should learn the lessons... but petty, bitter acrimony will only hurt you in the end - not Bush..."

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IDGAF: "I do know one thing: it's good to see the administration's lapdogs against the wall for a change".
Nahhh. You at NPI have me on the floor laughing! Laughing at your continued delussional, idiotic, uninformed, unintelligent attempt to place blame of the travesty that followed a disaster on GWB. It is so funny because you so-called "progressives" are so completely void of ideas, solutions, plans, rational arguments or even a single candidate who posses any of these things, that you would stoop to this level of evaluating something that not a one of you are even remotely qualified to do. You are yet once again expediting the implosion of liberalism and the irrelevance of the modern day Democratic party

Seems that archerhouse touched a raw nerve with that post - oh dear. This was the update he added to his original post:

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UPDATE: Hello, Orbusmax visitors! Hope you enjoyed the commentary. I was surprised to get the link after reading this:

What I have decided to do is rather than get mad or start launching a war of words with people that are simply exposing their pure hatred of the President, I am going to focus even more on linking and posting "the other side of the story", and make sure that ALL information regarding recent current events is made available.

Not engage in a war of words? Focus even more on the "other side of the story"? Well, it seems you've failed already.

By the way, web traffic looks pretty good.

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I guess we here at "Daily Chaos" are more effective than we thought! Isn't it interesting how they tell us we need to answer their questions, but they won't answer ours? Like archerhouse said, no accountability or responsibility unless a Democrat is in office. In that case, pile on.

This is the thread link, if you want to read more.

•  Thank god for Daily Chaos

  This is the most sanity I've heard in this fiasco.  Gore has shown that he can get a plane and pick up displaced persons fater than FEMA.  Now tell me that BushCo is doing his job?  The media got their faster than FEMA. Keep on them this is good - recommend.

  by libbie on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 02:47:09 PM PDT

•  Just ignore "the other side"

  because it's not even a side anymore.  It's just a bunch of rednecks and millionaires, Jesus freaks and racists all trying to cling to the one last vestige of relevancy they have left in modern times: George W. Bush.  They will defend Bush even if he gets out a pistol, puts on a viking helmet and marches around in his underpants shooting poor people.

  by Magnus Greel on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 02:50:19 PM PDT

  •  A different type of weapon, but

    his policies do kill poor people...poor fighting a useless war in Iraq and poor dying by probably the thousands during the hurricane and in the aftermath...the dying will go on for some time in both cases.

    Now, as to the viking helmet and the underpants...not sure, but very possibly...he likes dress-up.

    by trinityfly on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 03:11:20 PM PDT

•  it's nice that someone has decided

  to tell the "good news" about new orleans.
  memo to scott: some people are perfectly capable of rolling up their sleeves & talking at the same time.

  by rasbobbo on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 02:51:21 PM PDT

•  I wonder if they read...

  ..georgia10's damning diary about the National Response Plan, which makes it 100% clear, beyond any doubt, that the federal government had primary responsibility as a result of Bush's declaration of a state of emergency before Katrina hit.

  Either the Bush administration failed to carry out that plan at all, or they botched it. Whichever it was, anyone who tries to lay primary blame at the feet of state and local authorities is wrong. Absolutely wrong. So wrong that they might as well be on another planet.

  Bush defenders have to resort to basically ignoring reality and making up lies at this point. That's all they've got. They consistently refuse to acknowledge the feds' own rules and plans and chains of command here, hoping that we'll all allow the wool to be pulled over our eyes. Not this time.

  by eugene on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 02:55:33 PM PDT

•  I wouldn't engage

  the right wingers any more than I'd engage a flat out drunk in an argument.  

  by nupstateny on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 03:05:35 PM PDT

•  web-wide RW meme, "bush-haters"

  see it everywhere i go. they call any criticism of the idiot "bush-hating," as if that label washes away the criticism for his incompetence and negligence.

  it is apparently a concerted effort to defend their assbuddy in the white house since they can not discuss the facts.

  In the words of Homer J. Simpson,
  "Facts are meaningless.  You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true."
  

  by kuvasz on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 03:05:56 PM PDT

  •  I've noticed this meme as well.

    Basically it allows those on the right to reduce any factual statement to rhetoric, so they don't have to  address any of the points being discussed.  Not only is it a very paranoid view of the world, but it's also very authoritarian as it expressly forbids anything that contradicts ones ideology.

    by Philoguy on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 03:41:39 PM PDT

•  Our supposed lack of ideas

  When will they wake up and realize that we have a ton of ideas (contrary to the claim of their latest nationwide talking point- the only one they are left with since they can't defend themselves anymore), but they just never hear our ideas because our ideas never get any mainstream media airtime.  

  Bush's war, negligence, and budget cuts are directly responsible for this tragedy.  There is no getting around the facts (I repeat this now because I figure these misinformed, hateful twits will read this thread).  And his only IDEA (they supposedly have so many while we have none!) is to save himself politically with lies (that the right-wing mass media will likely parrot) that it was all Blanco and Nagin's fault.  Despite that Blanco and Nagin were officially begging for help long before the righties claim they were.

  by DemDachshund on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 03:16:58 PM PDT

•  One small comment about wingers

  Nothing is Bush's fault, everything is Clinton's fault.  I guess that means that only Dem presidents actually do anything or have any responsibility while in office.

  by bitterguy on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 03:28:14 PM PDT

•  Michael Brown

  didn't hire himself.  Bush did.

  by LimosineLiberal on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 03:46:39 PM PDT