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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: paret who wrote (702279)	9/17/2005 11:41:56 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"It was back in 2000 that Mr. Bush, in a debate with Al Gore, bragged about his gubernatorial prowess "on the front line of catastrophic situations," specifically citing a Texas flood, and paid the Clinton administration a rare compliment for putting a professional as effective as James Lee Witt in charge of FEMA. Exactly why Mr. Bush would staff that same agency months later with political hacks is one of many questions that must be answered by the independent investigation he and the Congressional majority are trying every which way to avoid. With or without a 9/11-style commission, the answers will come out. There are too many Americans who are angry and too many reporters who are on the case. (NBC and CNN are both opening full-time bureaus in New Orleans.) You know the world has changed when the widely despised news media have a far higher approval rating (77 percent) than the president (46 percent), as measured last week in a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll."

To: paret who wrote (702279)	9/18/2005 5:44:47 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

The numbers I have heard to build a proper levee system comparable to that the Dutch have is $14 Billion. Using hindsight, of course everyone wishes that had been done. But, its pretty hard to pry that kind of money out of Congress AND THE STATE (as in those projects its a joint affair) when nothing like this ever occurred before. Hopefully, an adequate levee system will be constructed even before the rebuilding of the low lands occurs, if it ever does. jdn