Gustav Smashes Into Republican Convention
BwaaaHahaHhahhAHAHAHAHAHAaaaaAAAA! (figuratively, I mean)
It could happen. What a cool drama to watch. What if it slams right into NO again?
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Gustav Smashes Into Republican Convention
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Re: Gustav Smashes Into Republican Convention
by dinopello » Sat 30 Aug 2008, 19:26:21
It's a crazy situation! Very dramatic for the election.:shock:
[web]http://hurricane.accuweather.com/hurricane/satellite.asp?reg[/web]
The oil drum probably has the best on the storms' effects.
[web]http://hurricane.accuweather.com/hurricane/satellite.asp?reg[/web]
The oil drum probably has the best on the storms' effects.
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Re: Gustav Smashes Into Republican Convention
by Carlhole » Sat 30 Aug 2008, 19:37:34
We won't see any missteps from Washington this time around regarding any damn killer storm. We will witness Nazi-like efficiency in dealing with it so as to avoid any obvious political fall-out.
If the storm looks to be as bad as Katrina/Rita, then the Republicans will cancel their convention. Emergency efforts will be lauded and contrasted with the previous failure. They will portray the governmental reorganisation, of which FEMA was a part, as unequivocally successful. And then, the re-convened Republican convention will capitalize as much as possible on the just-completed efficient rescue/care of millions of people.
If this storm does another Katrina-like number on New Orleans, that's one city that just became a small town.
If the storm looks to be as bad as Katrina/Rita, then the Republicans will cancel their convention. Emergency efforts will be lauded and contrasted with the previous failure. They will portray the governmental reorganisation, of which FEMA was a part, as unequivocally successful. And then, the re-convened Republican convention will capitalize as much as possible on the just-completed efficient rescue/care of millions of people.
If this storm does another Katrina-like number on New Orleans, that's one city that just became a small town.
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Re: Gustav Smashes Into Republican Convention
by dinopello » Sat 30 Aug 2008, 20:16:52
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'I')f the storm looks to be as bad as Katrina/Rita, then the Republicans will cancel their convention.
Bold prediction, but definate possibility. What would all the people who showed up to Minneapolis do? Riot? But, the theme is "Country First"!
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'E')mergency efforts will be lauded and contrasted with the previous failure.
It's gonna be hard to do much about the impact of offline production and importation. That would affect too many people, I'm guessing, depending on the damage. Big Map
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Re: Gustav Smashes Into Republican Convention
by Carlhole » Sat 30 Aug 2008, 20:27:18
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'I')f the storm looks to be as bad as Katrina/Rita, then the Republicans will cancel their convention.
Bold prediction, but definate possibility. What would all the people who showed up to Minneapolis do? Riot? But, the theme is "Country First"!$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'E')mergency efforts will be lauded and contrasted with the previous failure.
It's gonna be hard to do much about the impact of offline production and importation. That would affect too many people, I'm guessing, depending on the damage. Big Map
Oh, they'll spin this storm tens times stronger than the thing spun in! They'll drench their constituents with a flood of emotionality. And there will be some howling winds blowing with a whole lot of patriotic vainglory!
Republicans will get a chance to show their "caring" side. Nevertheless, everyone will have in the back of their minds the terrible devastation wrought by Katrina, the failure of the Bush Administration to deal with it properly, and the wide-open vulnerability of one of America's chief sources of domestic energy.
It's so interesting to see that Mother Nature has reserved a seat at the Minneapolis/St. Paul convention. But is she really a Democrat?
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