The irony; Repukes name their journal after a disaster!

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Repukes name their Journal after a disaster - one that bit them in the ass 78 years ago!

Talk about irony!!

I was reading, “Jesus’ General" this AM. <http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2005_09_11_patriotboy_archive.html#112684413097448633>, and his story on “Jillian Bandes, Coulter Center for Applied Bigotry”.

As usual, very funny.

Then I clicked on the link on the bottom about Cliff May and read his bio. There I find this little snippet: “…(May) also served as the Editor of the official Republican magazine, Rising Tide.”.

OK. Big deal. What’s the story?

One of the best books I ever read (and I’m going to reread it very soon) also happened to be called “Rising Tide” by historian John Barry. Barry, who was on Meet the Press last week, wrote this book on the great flood of 1927 on the lower Mississippi; and here we have and official Puke publication named after a colossal failure by another Repuke administration, Calvin Coolidge (who, like Bush, ignored the plight of millions over a natural disaster). How appropriate.

Love the irony.
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About the book: The book goes into great detail on the political importance of the Mississippi, the creation of the Army Corps of Engineers, the foundation for the eventual disaster, the racist attitudes in the South, the huge power in shipping and finance of the City of New Orleans, the power of the Klan, and the philosophy of the country and the Repuke party that if misfortune fell upon you – you’re on your own!

The flood was immense! No one knows the death toll. The homes of nearly 1 percent of the entire population of the country were flooded. The Red Cross fed 667,000 people for months, some for a year; 325,000 lived in tents. It covered a far wider area of destruction than Katrina ever did. Families had to live in trees for weeks.

The flood sent hundreds of thousands of blacks out of the flooded territory to Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles. The coverage of the flood by the media created the presidential candidacy and guaranteed the election of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, who had been in charge of the rescue effort. It led to the passage of the 1928 Flood Control Act, which was the most expensive bill Congress had ever passed, exceeded only by the cost of the Civil War and World War I. That bill redefined the relationship between the federal and state governments, and for the first time gave the federal government full responsibility for flood control along the lower Mississippi and many tributaries.

The “limited government” of that time felt zero responsibility. At that time, the only help you could get was from the Red Cross; no FEMA, no military, no Centers for Disease Control, no nuttin’! When an earlier yellow fever epidemic struck New Orleans, Public Health Service would only come to New Orleans once the city raised the $250,000 - in advance - to cover their expenses. Not a single federal dollar went to feed, clothe or shelter any of the 667,000 being fed by the Red Cross. It was this flood that forced Americans to rethink.

This is the America today’s conservatives want to go back to, and you can read about Repuke politicians expressing those attitudes on many blogs today.

Ever wonder why blacks vote democrat when it was the “Party of Lincoln” that freed them? Read the book!