LiberalLoather

When The Levee Breaks
(Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant/Memphis Minnie)

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break,
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break,
When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay.

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.

Don't it make you feel bad
When you're tryin' to find your way home,
You don't know which way to go?
If you're goin' down South
They go no work to do,
If you don't know about Chicago.

Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.

All last night sat on the levee and moaned, (X2)
Thinkin' about me baby and my happy home.
Going, going to Chicago... Going to Chicago... Sorry but I can't take you...
Going down... going down now... going down....


I downloaded this tune the day before the levee actually did break in the Big Easy. I didn't listen to it until the next afternoon while I was sitting around probably doing almost exactly the same thing as I'm doing now--blogging. I had been watching The Weather Channel for two days as Katrina approached the Gulf coast. I was well aware, that there was a real possibility of a levee breach. I had watched as the population of the coast fled in anticipation of the storm's wrath. I began to exhale as the hurricane seemed to have passed by the city of New Orleans with minimal damage. Tapping the keys on my keyboard, the television was on across the room as I launched the song on my player and began to listen. While I listened, I glanced up at the tube and saw a live feed coming from a chopper-mounted camera showing the 9th ward flooding.

There were some tapes released yesterday and offered as evidence that "Bush lied, people died". Journalists, foaming at the mouth, knees jerking uncontrollably, decided to spin the "new" revelations in the way they always do. Katrina and its aftermath was all Bush's fault. When the dust settles it will be clear that the tapes tell a different story.

The leftists want the world to believe that because Dubya didn't ask any questions of local leaders that he was not informed as to their needs. Chertoff, the one who probably deserves the lion's share of federal blame, was responsible for asking those questions and informing the president. To say that our president was not engaged and didn't care about possible consequences of the storm is utterly laughable.

I've got to ask--What could George W. Bush have done differently that could have saved New Orleans from the tragedy that befell it?

Then I've got to ask--What could Nagan and Blank-o have done differently that would have saved their own crown-jewel from the trajedy that befell it?

I believe if you rendered these two questions logically and put them on a set of scales you would find that the blame lies almost SQUARELY on the local leaders.

Michael Brown deserves an apology from the nation starting with the president and ending with the sheep who accept the crap the MSM wants to throw at them.