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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan B. who wrote (66428)	9/4/2005 9:13:44 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

dupe

To: Dan B. who wrote (66428)	9/4/2005 9:14:03 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Danny Boy, you seem to be a serial apologist for the chimpistration. The nation doesn't agree with you. The chimp stayed on vacation bicycling while this storm approached, and was at a fund-raising event strumming guitar in San Diego after it hit. The idiot he had in charge of FEMA was a former horse lawyer who'd been fired from his last job for incompetence, and had no experience in disaster management previous to that. Bush is getting blamed, and rightly so. Here's our fine leader on Tuesday: therandirhodesshow.com As a former Texan who's seen through Bush for a long time, it gladdens my heart to see him exposed as the sociopath he is. I hope the remainder of his term, if he's allowed to finish it, includes being forced to pull our troops out of Iraq, reverse his tax cuts for the rich, and just generally choke on his own spew. I live in the reddest of red states, yet, in my paper today I see near universal condemnation of the national response, and the chimp. I LOVE it!

To: Dan B. who wrote (66428)	9/5/2005 2:22:20 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

NY Times Ed Board: Fairweather Flood-Control Fans NRO ^ \| 9/2/2005 \| NRO media.nationalreview.com Yesterday the New York Times editorial board wrote a fire-breathing editorial that for almost 24 hours ranked as the "most-discussed story" on Technorati and the "most e-mailed article" on nytimes.com. The board wrote that "George W. Bush gave one of the worst speeches of his life yesterday." Instead of "consolation and wisdom," the President offered "a long laundry list of pounds of ice, generators and blankets delivered to the stricken Gulf Coast." The board went on to offer a long laundry list of angry accusations. The editorial board doubted that Bush "understood the depth of the current crisis" — unlike the wizened board, which had been following the crisis on CNN. The editorial built up to this penultimate paragraph: While our attention must now be on the Gulf Coast's most immediate needs, the nation will soon ask why New Orleans's levees remained so inadequate. Publications from the local newspaper to National Geographic have fulminated about the bad state of flood protection in this beloved city, which is below sea level. Why were developers permitted to destroy wetlands and barrier islands that could have held back the hurricane's surge? Why was Congress, before it wandered off to vacation, engaged in slashing the budget for correcting some of the gaping holes in the area's flood protection? Good question. Maybe because Congress listened to the NY Times editorial board in April of 2005: eurota.blogspot.com Anyone who cares about responsible budgeting and the health of America's rivers and wetlands should pay attention to a bill now before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. The bill would shovel $17 billion at the Army Corps of Engineers for flood control and other water-related projects — this at a time when President Bush is asking for major cuts in Medicaid and other important domestic programs. Among these projects is a $2.7 billion boondoggle on the Mississippi River that has twice flunked inspection by the National Academy of Sciences... [snip] This is a bad piece of legislation. Lesson: Don't listen to the NY Times editorial board.