If you don't believe me about Bush..maybe you'll believe FOX news
Much to the shagrin of Sean (I'm the devil, you can tell by my hair) Hannity Shep Smith and Geraldo find their hearts
See... Bush folded FEMA under the umbrella of "homeland security" and they proceeded to divert all it's funds to Iraq. (See earlier Blog)
Senator Mary Landreau describes the situation and Bush's response... pay close attention to the third paragraph.
Sen. Landrieu said:
Yesterday, I was hoping President Bush would come away from his tour of the regional devastation triggered by Hurricane Katrina with a new understanding for the magnitude of the suffering and for the abject failures of the current Federal Emergency Management Agency. 24 hours later, the President has yet to answer my call for a cabinet-level official to lead our efforts. Meanwhile, FEMA, now a shell of what it once was, continues to be overwhelmed by the task at hand.
I understand that the U.S. Forest Service had water-tanker aircraft available to help douse the fires raging on our riverfront, but FEMA has yet to accept the aid. When Amtrak offered trains to evacuate significant numbers of victims far more efficiently than buses FEMA again dragged its feet. Offers of medicine, communications equipment and other desperately needed items continue to flow in, only to be ignored by the agency.
But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment. The good and decent people of southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast black and white, rich and poor, young and old deserve far better from their national government.
Mr. President, Im imploring you once again to get a cabinet-level official stood up as soon as possible to get this entire operation moving forward regionwide with all the resources military and otherwise necessary to relieve the unmitigated suffering and economic damage that is unfolding.
Phew!
P.S. Haliburton just got the contract to clean up New Orleans!
P.P.S. To ANYONE who thinks I am blaming Bush for the Hurricane.. don't embarass yourself by admitting it in public. What I and everyone else who has a problem with this situation is furious about is Bush's pathetic lack of leadership and pre-planning. Cutting the funding for the Army Corp of Engineers is a choice. Stopping a study on how to deal with a natural disaster like this one..is a choice.
If you think you can blame the Governor of Louisianna and the Mayor of New Orleans... Know this... all but 4000 members of LA's National Guard were sent to Iraq by a presidential directive. They could have been sandbagging the Levee. The President of Jefferson Parish tried to pass a law to direct federal funds to the Levee IN JUNE! The big response from the right seems to be... they should have begged louder! WTF!?!
If you think you can blame the people who didn't leave... know that most of them couldn't. People drown in hospitals. Old people without relatives to take them drown in their living rooms... Remember that! They survived the Hurricane and were killed by the water from the broken Levee... the unfunded levee...the levee with too few National guard soldiers to reinforce it. The Levee that should have been secured before the hurricane season started.
People where told to go to the Superdome and the convention center by the local goverment because the feds where supposed to bring aid there. They did....7 days later.
And if you think no one could blame the president...then I say... If you want to live somewhere where you can't hold your leaders accountable and no one is able to say the emperor has no clothes... then move to Saudi Arabia... or Darfur.
Bush is handling this like he handles everything else.
The Deficit - leverage the future to give tax breaks and don't alter that even when the Fed warns that it will trigger a depression.
9/11 - attack iraq which has nothing to do with Al qaeda while leaving our troops in Afghanistan dangerously exposed and letting Osama Bin Laden escape.
Iraq - No post war plan
Arbusto - you can look up how he ran that company into the ground almost anywhere.
Bush is a professional failure and anyone who defends him at this point is an apologist for the right and will never admit they are wrong no matter how bad these things get.
There is a class of people in this country who view poiltics like it's a professional sport and they will defend their side blindly and..even worse...dispassionately. They are only as angry about these things as they would be about The Packers losing the play-offs. They don't care how it affects human beings. They only want to be right... Where do you think they got their name?
This sickens me.
I can't believe Geraldo and I are on the same side... but I think anyone with a heart is united right now.
And across the water from us with their hands on their wallets... are Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Dick Cheney
Much to the shagrin of Sean (I'm the devil, you can tell by my hair) Hannity Shep Smith and Geraldo find their hearts
See... Bush folded FEMA under the umbrella of "homeland security" and they proceeded to divert all it's funds to Iraq. (See earlier Blog)
Senator Mary Landreau describes the situation and Bush's response... pay close attention to the third paragraph.
Sen. Landrieu said:
Yesterday, I was hoping President Bush would come away from his tour of the regional devastation triggered by Hurricane Katrina with a new understanding for the magnitude of the suffering and for the abject failures of the current Federal Emergency Management Agency. 24 hours later, the President has yet to answer my call for a cabinet-level official to lead our efforts. Meanwhile, FEMA, now a shell of what it once was, continues to be overwhelmed by the task at hand.
I understand that the U.S. Forest Service had water-tanker aircraft available to help douse the fires raging on our riverfront, but FEMA has yet to accept the aid. When Amtrak offered trains to evacuate significant numbers of victims far more efficiently than buses FEMA again dragged its feet. Offers of medicine, communications equipment and other desperately needed items continue to flow in, only to be ignored by the agency.
But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment. The good and decent people of southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast black and white, rich and poor, young and old deserve far better from their national government.
Mr. President, Im imploring you once again to get a cabinet-level official stood up as soon as possible to get this entire operation moving forward regionwide with all the resources military and otherwise necessary to relieve the unmitigated suffering and economic damage that is unfolding.
Phew!
P.S. Haliburton just got the contract to clean up New Orleans!
P.P.S. To ANYONE who thinks I am blaming Bush for the Hurricane.. don't embarass yourself by admitting it in public. What I and everyone else who has a problem with this situation is furious about is Bush's pathetic lack of leadership and pre-planning. Cutting the funding for the Army Corp of Engineers is a choice. Stopping a study on how to deal with a natural disaster like this one..is a choice.
If you think you can blame the Governor of Louisianna and the Mayor of New Orleans... Know this... all but 4000 members of LA's National Guard were sent to Iraq by a presidential directive. They could have been sandbagging the Levee. The President of Jefferson Parish tried to pass a law to direct federal funds to the Levee IN JUNE! The big response from the right seems to be... they should have begged louder! WTF!?!
If you think you can blame the people who didn't leave... know that most of them couldn't. People drown in hospitals. Old people without relatives to take them drown in their living rooms... Remember that! They survived the Hurricane and were killed by the water from the broken Levee... the unfunded levee...the levee with too few National guard soldiers to reinforce it. The Levee that should have been secured before the hurricane season started.
People where told to go to the Superdome and the convention center by the local goverment because the feds where supposed to bring aid there. They did....7 days later.
And if you think no one could blame the president...then I say... If you want to live somewhere where you can't hold your leaders accountable and no one is able to say the emperor has no clothes... then move to Saudi Arabia... or Darfur.
Bush is handling this like he handles everything else.
The Deficit - leverage the future to give tax breaks and don't alter that even when the Fed warns that it will trigger a depression.
9/11 - attack iraq which has nothing to do with Al qaeda while leaving our troops in Afghanistan dangerously exposed and letting Osama Bin Laden escape.
Iraq - No post war plan
Arbusto - you can look up how he ran that company into the ground almost anywhere.
Bush is a professional failure and anyone who defends him at this point is an apologist for the right and will never admit they are wrong no matter how bad these things get.
There is a class of people in this country who view poiltics like it's a professional sport and they will defend their side blindly and..even worse...dispassionately. They are only as angry about these things as they would be about The Packers losing the play-offs. They don't care how it affects human beings. They only want to be right... Where do you think they got their name?
This sickens me.
I can't believe Geraldo and I are on the same side... but I think anyone with a heart is united right now.
And across the water from us with their hands on their wallets... are Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Dick Cheney
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james:
i was just about to message you and tell you i was home at last from my adventures, you beat me to it.
kade:
Well indeed it is. You are the first celebrity I have found on here. What draws you to the SG world?