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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JeffA who wrote (68037)	6/7/2006 4:35:39 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

The poor Katrina response is mainly Bush's fault. The buck stops with him. Afterall, Nagin had nothing to do with anything outside NO and the terrible lack of response from FEMA spread 1000 miles along the Gulf states. Did he now? So nice try blaming Bush's callous failures on Nagin. But that dog don't hunt at all. Also, Nagin had nothing to do with cutting the levee funding, nor sending the National Guard and Army Engineers and most of their equipment to Iraq. He also was not responsible for the 10,000 mobile homes left sinking in the mud or the rampant fraud and abuse. And he is not responsible for the pisspoor response going on to this day all across the region. Bush is simply the worst president and commander in chief in US history, and also the most dishonest.

To: JeffA who wrote (68037)	6/7/2006 5:30:55 PM
From: Nicholas Thompson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

I agree that Nagin is too interested in looking good than actually doing it, but I also agree strongly with AS that he was a small player in a large storm, and that the real responsibility for effective action lay with Bush, Chernof, Browne and Landrau in that order.

To: JeffA who wrote (68037)	6/7/2006 9:40:28 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 173976

>>>You can try & blame Bush but that just makes you a blind anti-Bush lefty!<<< Sorry. But I think it's clear the American people already have blamed Bush on Katrina, and this had nothing to do with 'lefties.' What you're defending I do not understand as you seem a little late to the table of consciousness on this one.

To: JeffA who wrote (68037)	6/7/2006 9:44:52 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

We should give credit for trying to cheer up the drowning citizens with his guitar solo. TP

To: JeffA who wrote (68037)	6/7/2006 11:05:35 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 173976

Judging Bush on results, you are blind if you still support him, even if you are a conservative. That's pretty plain to see. Forget Bush's rhetoric and look at the proven results regarding the top three issues: Iraq - disaster based on deliberate lies, made us weaker, huge cost, all deficit financed. No plan, no hope of winning, trying to cover up the disaster and claim "good news" in Iraq. Using war to steal the 2002 election and now lusting to attack Iran. Just madness. Never had any business invading in the first place. Helped Al Qaida by doing so. badly hurt our nation by doing so. Meanwhile, five years after 9-11, OBL walks free and terrorism is just as strong if not stronger. Economy - record deficits with no end in sight, low interest rate bubble bursting, allowing huge gas and health care gouging. Flat wages, poor beneifts, poor job security, continued hemmoraging of manufacturing jobs, record consumer debt, huge corporate and billionaire giveaways, massive fraud and waste, huge corruption, no accountability or self-policing. Corruption: Still no self-policing by the incredibly corrupt rightwing. Lies, cheating, bribing and stealing from the top all the way down the line. Yet more and more denial and cover-ups. Indicted felon Tom Delay actually appeared before GOP lawmakers and told them to stick it out, after he's been indicted for felony fraud and money laundering, and is guilty of a lot more than that. Delay remains a spiritual leader of the motally bankrupt rightwing Bushies. and soon this country will be bankrupt if we don't get rid of these weasels.

To: JeffA who wrote (68037)	6/8/2006 12:09:30 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 173976

Bush and FEMA have totally betrayed the Gulf Coast. CNN just did a report on two towns, one in Miss the other in LA far from New Orleans where 6-7 months after the hurricanes the federal government has still not done squat for the victims. These towns and many others just sit there festering like vacant garbage dumps. And these people who suffer and are ignored by Bush (who is happy to send all our money to Exxon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq) are the very people who voted to put Bush in power. Or rather, almost put him in power. He had to cheat and commit gross election fraud to actually get into power. Now correct me if I am wrong, but does Nagin run the federal government? And what did Harry Truman say? "The Buck stops here". That is, on the president's desk. How many photos ops has Bush done in the GUlf versus how many downs have received zero help from the federal government. It's a total betrayal of smalltown America.