Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) accused the Bush administration of perpetrating “ethnic cleansing by hurricane” in Louisana after Katrina, in order to make Louisiana more Republican. It should be obvious that he’s wrong and he’s gone so far over the line of acceptable political discourse that there is no turning back for him.
The local officials in New Orleans had a plan, but it was a shoddy plan that would produce a ghost town. And it did. So if there’s genocide to be found (and there isn’t, regarding Katrina or its aftermath), it’s to be found on New Orlean’s own local elected government. But, there was and is no genocide connected to Katrina in any way, shape or form.
Barney Frank should be held to account for his statement. He should be hounded about it every journalist with access to him.
To accuse the sitting President of the United States of enacting ethnic cleansing on American soil is to accuse the President of the United States of committing a grave atrocity worthy of impeachment and worse. It is to equate the President of the United States with Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and yes, Saddam Hussein.
The atrocity actually committed here is Barney Frank’s shameless assault on the truth. Rep. Barney Frank ought to resign his seat in Congress forthwith. The disgusting statement captured above should mark the end of his political career.
It bothers me that Massachusetts, a commonwealth that lead the initial fight for our independence, continues to elect officials like Barney Frank, Edward Kennedy and John Kerry. It is time to demand that these politicians relinquish their seats in Congress and fade away under the rock they crawled out from.
