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2005-09-07 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Cheaderhead 2005-09-07 11:34|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The 13% that blame Mr. Bush obviously have NO idea how government works.Probably should have stayed in school or it's just the LOONEY LEFT because there's nothing else to BITCH about.These people need to do a 180 and look at their CORRUPT STATE GOVERNMENT!!!!

Posted by ARMYGUY 2005-09-07 12:40|| 2005-09-07 12:40|| Front Page Top

#2 their little pin heads are close to exploding. Worst disaster in the nations' history and they can't pin it (albeit unfairly) on chimpy bushitler. He wins again, Bwahahahaha!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-09-07 12:55|| 2005-09-07 12:55|| Front Page Top

#3 The poll left out the those primarlily responsible for the deterioration after the hurricane, a subset of New Orleanians themselves. Instead of acting as civilized citizens, they made their, and everyone elses, situation ten times worse by engaging in looting (not just food and water) and crime sprees. Instead of banding together to protect and comfort each other and distribute stocks of food, water, and medicine, they reverted to petty theft, banditry and savagery. Shame on them.

Much of the US have been very generous to the evacuees, Texas alone taking over 250,000 of them. Let us hope for the sake of their adopted homes they act better than they did last week. Otherwise they will learn "Don't Mess With Texas" is not just a bumper sticker.

Posted by ed 2005-09-07 13:02|| 2005-09-07 13:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Dems Assail White House on Katrina Effort

Congress' top two Democrats furiously criticized the administration's response to Hurricane Katrina on Wednesday, with Sen. Harry Reid demanding to know whether President Bush's Texas vacation impeded relief efforts and Rep. Nancy Pelosi assailing the chief executive as "oblivious, in denial" about the difficulties.

:-) BDS approaches "Scanners" in intensity - HT to drudge

With much of New Orleans still under water _ and likely to stay that way for weeks _ Bush readied a request for about $52 billion for relief and recovery along the Gulf Coast, and the White House indicated millions more would be needed later. Congressional officials said they expected to approve the next installment as early as Thursday, to keep the money flowing without interruption.

There was no formal announcement of the details contained in the request, although the Associated Press learned that the government plans to distribute debit cards worth $2,000 each to adult victims of the hurricane.

"They are going to start issuing debit cards, $2,000 per adult, today at the Astrodome," said Kathy Walt, a spokeswoman for Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

The cards could be used to buy food, transportation, gas and other essentials that displaced people need, according to a state official who was on the call and requested anonymity because the program has not been publicly announced.

GOP congressional leaders met privately to plan their next step, possibly including an unusual joint House-Senate committee to investigate what went wrong in the government's response and what can be fixed. Establishment of a joint panel would presumably eliminate overlapping investigations that might otherwise spring up as individual committees looked into the natural disaster and its aftermath.

In a letter to the Senate's Homeland Security Committee chairwoman, Reid, the Senate Democratic leader, pressed for a wide-ranging investigation and answers to several questions, including: "How much time did the president spend dealing with this emerging crisis while he was on vacation? Did the fact that he was outside of Washington, D.C., have any effect on the federal government's response?"

At a news conference, Pelosi, D-Calif., said Bush's choice for head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency had "absolutely no credentials."

She related that she urged Bush at the White House on Tuesday to fire Brown.

"He said 'Why would I do that?'" Pelosi said.

"'I said because of all that went wrong, of all that didn't go right last week.' And he said 'What didn't go right?'"

"Oblivious, in denial, dangerous," she added.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-09-07 13:51|| 2005-09-07 13:51|| Front Page Top

#5 No. No. No. That's not how you report it.

OK, take the 18% blaming "the federal government," we can add that to Bush's score since he controls it. We can leave out the 38% who don't blame anyone. That leaves the other 25%. So, here is our headline:

Only 25% blame someone other than Bush for Katrina disaster.

Posted by MSM">MSM 2005-09-07 15:46|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-09-07 15:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Bela Pelosi wants to "personally" punish the FEMA director. Leathers?

Posted by Captain America 2005-09-07 17:51|| 2005-09-07 17:51|| Front Page Top

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