Hurricane Bush

[newbie]

Well, Dubya finally accepted responsibility. A little too late for all the lives that were lost.

http://www.cbcunlocked.com/artman/publish/article_193.shtml

[BHS]

Well, Dubya finally accepted responsibility. A little too late for all the lives that were lost.

http://www.cbcunlocked.com/artman/publish/article_193.shtml

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You'll never see that kind of accountability from the Donk sacks of crap that run Lousianna and New Orleans Parish.

[newbie]

Well, Dubya finally accepted responsibility. A little too late for all the lives that were lost.

http://www.cbcunlocked.com/artman/publish/article_193.shtml

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You'll never see that kind of accountability from the Donk sacks of crap that run Lousianna and New Orleans Parish.

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Actually, Bush had no choice but to take responsibility, given that FEMA reports directly to him. Plus it doesn't help that his approval rating has hit the lowest point of his presidency. Like someone said, Katrina will be his Monica Lewinsky.

As far as the Democrat's accountability, I refer you to what Mr. Nagin said: "My biggest mistake is having a fundamental assumption that in the state of Louisiana, with an $18 billion budget, in the country of the United States that can move whole fleets of aircraft carriers across the globe in 24 hours, that my fundamental assumption was get as many people to safety as possible, and that the cavalry would be coming within two to three days, and they didn't come."

[PocketRocket]

Actually, Bush had no choice but to take responsibility....... Katrina will be his Monica Lewinsky.

But to compare Katrina and Monica is tough, except to say they both blew.

REALLY REALLY HARD.

[crazymf]

Actually, Bush had no choice but to take responsibility....... Katrina will be his Monica Lewinsky.

But to compare Katrina and Monica is tough, except to say they both blew.

REALLY REALLY HARD.

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And Katrina took the house when she left....

[moderateamericain]

Dear MA

Typical of the Bush Republicans to want and take all credit & photo opps when things they perceive in their mind goes right like Bush's photo on that ship saying the War is Over in Iraq. Remember that, what a clown he is. Bush reminds me of Mulroney in some ways, they both will say the most outrageous statements that have no semblance to the truth.

People died, a lot of people died, and all you Republicans want to do is avoid taking any responsibility for the disaster. Pathetic really, Republicans are losing huge amounts of credibility over Katrina, and they are continuing to go blinding marching on following Bush's leadership over the cliff. It looks good on them and I think Republicans are going to be absolutely devastated when the 2006 election results come in.

Bush should apologise, he should have apologised a long tiome ago and taken some responsibility, and he will have to apologise. He has no choice as he is a major screw-up president.

Cheers

Did you even take the time to even read what i wrote? All you have here is your opinion and zero facts.

[BHS]

Well, Dubya finally accepted responsibility. A little too late for all the lives that were lost.

http://www.cbcunlocked.com/artman/publish/article_193.shtml

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You'll never see that kind of accountability from the Donk sacks of crap that run Lousianna and New Orleans Parish.

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Actually, Bush had no choice but to take responsibility, given that FEMA reports directly to him. Plus it doesn't help that his approval rating has hit the lowest point of his presidency. Like someone said, Katrina will be his Monica Lewinsky.

As far as the Democrat's accountability, I refer you to what Mr. Nagin said: "My biggest mistake is having a fundamental assumption that in the state of Louisiana, with an $18 billion budget, in the country of the United States that can move whole fleets of aircraft carriers across the globe in 24 hours, that my fundamental assumption was get as many people to safety as possible, and that the cavalry would be coming within two to three days, and they didn't come."

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It all boils down to how he handles the tv address tonight. If he comes across as willing to take the brunt of the responsibility without further reflection, history will have no choice but to remember Katrina as "Bush's Monika Lewinski".

What Ray Nagin has to say about the disaster is largely irrelevant. His first repsonse was to throw up his arms and abdicate responsibility for anything, which is reflected in your quote. He can't be held entirely accountable, of course - the corruption in government in Lousianna is deep, wide and legendary. Witness the collapse of the police department. Those officers were hired, reviewed, promoted and maintained by the system, and are symptomatic of the problems throughout the system.

[Black Dog]

Has the Bush administration learned the lesson from FEMA that putting political appointees in charge of important initiatives is a bad idea? Evidently not.

"Republicans said Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff and Mr. Bush's chief political adviser, was in charge of the reconstruction effort."

[Cartman]

This whole thing kinda makes me wonder whether there should be some sorta independent body to administer these programs. They should give the President a Senate like ours so that s/he has jobs to "legitimately" give friends for doing as much or as little as they want.

[PocketRocket]

Actually, Bush had no choice but to take responsibility....... Katrina will be his Monica Lewinsky.

But to compare Katrina and Monica is tough, except to say they both blew.

REALLY REALLY HARD.

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And Katrina took the house when she left....

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Nicely put, which reminds me of a joke I heard recently (I know, I'm getting off topic, but sometimes we need to lighten things up a bit)

Joke:

In a recent survey, it was found that 10% of men kiss their wife goodbye when they leave their house.

But 90% of men kiss their house goodbye when they leave their wife.

[Guest eureka]

I have a former fellow workey who I met a year ago whose fourth marriage (to a politician, no less) has broken up. He joked that he has lost 4 wives and three houses.

[Black Dog]

Speaking of the "bridge to nowhere", Senator John McCain raise the idea of "charitable pork" last week: that is, giving up pet projects to help Hurricane Katrina victims.

Vocally oppossed to this idea is Don Young, the Alaska Republican chair of the transportation committee and midwife of the six-year $295 billion transportation bill containing $721 million in projects for Alaska, including $223 million for a bridge larger than the Brooklyn Bridge and almost as long as the Golden Gate, to connect a town with 8,900 people to a town with 50 people and $200 million for another bridge, which will connect Anchorage to a town with one tenant and a handful of homes.

Young's compassionate conservative response? "They can kiss my ear!"

[moderateamericain]

Man some of these so called conservatives get me hot. I wrote a letter to John Mccain (not that he will actually read it) Begging him to run for president. If you go to john Mccains offical website you can find his full speech.

[Argus]

Man some of these so called conservatives get me hot.  I wrote a letter to John Mccain (not that he will actually read it)  Begging him to run for president.  If you go to john Mccains offical website you can find his full speech.

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He DID run for President. The religious right and Texas oil men poured millions into defeating him, including a special team which mocked and ridiculed his military service - some of whom later went on to do the same thing to John Kerry.

[Black Dog]

$1 bn in Katrina relief funds stolen

About $1bn (£542m) in relief meant for victims of Hurricane Katrina was lost to fraud, with bogus claimants spending the money on Hawaiian holidays, football tickets, diamond jewellery and Girls Gone Wild porn videos, the US Congress was told on Wednesday.

The fraud, exposed through an audit by the Government Accountability Office, found a staggering amount of abuse of the housing assistance and debit cards given out by the beleaguered Federal Emergency Management Agency as a way of granting relief to those who lost their homes to Katrina.

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The audacity of the fraud exposed shocked the congressional committee yesterday. As much as 16% of the relief distributed by the agency was lost to fraud, the auditors said. They also said it was likely they were underestimating the scope of the fraud.

"We expected it, but we didn't expect it on this magnitude," Michael McCaul, the Republican chairman of the house homeland security investigations panel, told reporters. "It's an assault on the American taxpayer."

During the audit investigators filed their own bogus claims and used other undercover methods to discover that most of the improper payments occurred because Fema failed to verify the identity of those making claims, or to confirm their addresses.

It's good to see they are doing as good a job at home as they are in Iraq.

[Darth Buddha]

It's good to see they are doing as good a job at home as they are in Iraq.

Removing competent career people and replacing them with political hacks is apparently a Bush administration core value. Whats the net on that?

Put the hack in charge of DHS and FEMA and you get the post Katrina debacle.

They rolled over expert objections in the road to Iraq in both the CIA and the military by sitting on the CIA until they got the "intelligence" they wanted and ousted the new Deputy Director who is acclaimed by all and we got the Iraqi post invasion occupation debacle.

Unfortunately, they've done the same thing with CDC even down to the local level, so the Bird Flu will probably make both of those FUBARS look like a tempest in a teapot. We're gonna DIE at a rate befitting a third world nation, 10% or more, because we aren't prepared, the hacks in place don't know HOW to prepare, and the Bush administration has been so focused on deficit spending to finance a war and cut taxes for the rich that there is no MONEY to prepare. Our neighbors to the North probably get by at a mere 4% fatality rate.

After all, the U.S. can't even manage to procure sufficient vaccines for the seasonal flu while our neighbors to the north do just fine. There is a similar disparity in the reserves of Tamiflu and other medications that will be needed for an epidemic between the U.S. and Canada & Europe.

Since it wouldn't be fair to linlk to technical articles that few laypersons could wade through, check out articles by conservative financial editor Mortimer Zuckerman that point out something conservatives might comprehend, economic impact, and this blurb by ABC news that reveals the Bush administration got in line far too late. Check out the Bush budget that wanted to cut the budget for the first line of defense, the CDC (google "CDC" and "budget cut" and you'll get a plethora of sources) by a whopping 9%!

In other words, when it comes to cronyism costing the U.S. big time, we aint seen nothing yet.