Sometimes Folks Expect Too Much, Then Get Partisan About It

It almost never fails - an "Act of God" happens that we do not like and you get a lot of people complaining rather than taking part in making things right. And then they use it as a political weapon to bash the other party, even though politics have nothing to do with it.

Take the case of this latest snowstorm that socked the east coast. New Jersey's Governor Christie happened to be on vacation at Disneyworld when it rammed up the east coast and buried several states. And before the snow had even been cleared from city streets, partisan liberals were slamming Christie for not returning immediately.

For those knuckleheads I would remind them of two things:

1) Christi could not have returned. All flights and trains had been canceled. The only way he could have returned would have been to snowshoe 1500 miles. But heck, don't expect that to deter partisans from taking cheap shots.

2) Even if Christie had been in Newark, there is nothing he could have done that was not already being done by the people who were hired to deal with such things.

I might add that liberals would be well advised not to make too big an issue of Christie not canceling his vacation to return. After all, Obama was also on vacation as DC was getting hammered, and he did not return, either. Neither one could.

For partisan troublemakers who prefer to divide the country rather than work together, the facts do not matter. To them, all that matters is THEIR agenda. They do not care about you, me, or the country. They care only about themselves.

They did the same thing with Katrina. They bashed Bush for not acting sooner. It did not matter to them that the feds could not intercede without first being invited to do so by the governor of Louisiana because of state sovereignty. And she refused to invite them until it was too late. But did they blame her? No - they preferred to blame Bush, strictly for political purposes.

I hope my readers are more sophisticated and honest than those partisan morons. I suspect you are, or you would not find my posts of interest.

In instances where politics actually play a part in a crisis, then by all means, fire away. In NYC politics has played a part, mostly because of the unions and a mayor who appears to only want to be mayor of part, not all of NYC. But even though he may not have been a big help, the fact remains that the storm was not by his design. Lack of preparedness was.

Go ahead and nail someone for what they do or do not do that affects the outcome. But don't become a moron by lambasting them for something beyond their control.

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