Robert Kennedy Politicizes Hurricane Katrina

Apparently Robert Kennedy believes he knows how to pimp a natural disaster.  The nephew of Senator Ted Kennedy writes at "The Huffington Post" that this hurricane is President George W. Bush and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour's fault.

It's a sad commentary on Kennedy's priorities as the many of the dead are not even recovered, let alone buried and he wishes to politicize the issue.

Here's a bitter taste:

Now we are all learning what it’s like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and--now--Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.

Neal Boortz replies:

Our first stop in the Blame America First Hurricane tour is the offices of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  According to Bobby Jr., Katrina is the fault of Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour.  How could this be?  RFK wrote a column in which he said Barbour is reaping what he has sown.  In other words, Mississippi deserves the devastation wrought by the hurricane because of the actions of its governor.  How could one man be responsible for so much destruction?  Read on.

In the warped mind of leftists like Kennedy, hurricanes are the result of global warming.  Apparently when Haley Barbour was the chairman of the Republican National Committee, he opposed the Kyoto protocol (as did anyone with a brain.)  He also says that perhaps the hurricane hit Mississippi the hardest at the last minute because Barbour was the governor.  Gotta love the left in this country.

Boortz adds:

Then we hear from the media in Europe.  The verdict?  In Germany, papers are reporting that Katrina should be a lesson to the United States about global warming.  Even though global warming doesn't cause hurricanes, it's still our fault. We deserved it.  It sure must make the terrorist-appeasing, America-bashing, Euro-trash feel good to sit there and think that.

Typical...I suppose we shouldn't expect anything less.

If Robert Kennedy had any shame he would feel it, but his gleeful blame game while the American south suffers shows a sad, pathetic individual.

Update I:

James Glassman notes:

Indeed, there is no evidence that hurricanes are intensifying anyway. For the North Atlantic as a whole, according to the United Nations Environment Programme of the World Meteorological Organization: "Reliable data…since the 1940s indicate that the peak strength of the strongest hurricanes has not changed, and the mean maximum intensity of all hurricanes has decreased."

Yes, decreased.

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--CK Rairden