Democrats Demand Answers.
The Associated Press is reporting that the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate are demanding answers for the Bush administration’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina.
As GOP congressional leaders met in private to plan their next step, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are calling for a wide-ranging investigation into the administrations handling of the crisis. Senator Reid said the investigation should ask, “How much time did the president spend dealing with the emerging crisis while he was on vacation?” Reid also asked if Bush’s month-long vacation had any effect on the federal government’s response.
At the new conferences Pelosi chastised FEMA Director Michael Brown, saying Bush’s choice to head the agency had “absolutely no credentials”. Pelosi went on to discuss a conversation she had with the president, when she urged him to fire Brown.
“He said ‘Why would I do that?’” Pelosi said she responded by saying “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?’” Pelosi added that Bush was “Oblivious, in denial, dangerous.”
As GOP congressional leaders met in private to plan their next step, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are calling for a wide-ranging investigation into the administrations handling of the crisis. Senator Reid said the investigation should ask, “How much time did the president spend dealing with the emerging crisis while he was on vacation?” Reid also asked if Bush’s month-long vacation had any effect on the federal government’s response.
At the new conferences Pelosi chastised FEMA Director Michael Brown, saying Bush’s choice to head the agency had “absolutely no credentials”. Pelosi went on to discuss a conversation she had with the president, when she urged him to fire Brown.
“He said ‘Why would I do that?’” Pelosi said she responded by saying “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?’” Pelosi added that Bush was “Oblivious, in denial, dangerous.”
posted by Alva Goldbook at 12:21 PM
2 Comments:
Miami,
people are overwhelmingly demanding answers from the Federal government, not the locals. But, as ALWAYS, you amoral sorry son of bitches will blame everyone before you blame Bush. It is as if you love Bush more than you love your country.
What money? It was the BUSH administration that CUT the funding for the levees by 80%.
The Mayor DID evaculate the people out of New Orleans. 75% or more of the people left BEFORE THE STORM HIT.
Under the evacuation plan, the Superdome was set up as the excape plan of last resort. After WWII we were able to air drop tons and tons of supplies into Berlin, with the Russians looking to take our operations down. Why not the same WITHIN OUT OWN BORDERS?
This is the worse natural disaster in our nation's history (another first for this administration) and he didn't even bother to get off of vacation for TWO DAYS. Condi Rice was busy ignoring aid offers as wide as from Israel to Sri Lanka because she was too busy shopping for SHOES.
dick cheney was too busy buying fansy real estates to get off his heartless ass to do anything.
They WANTED New Orleans gone so Halliburton could get more of YOUR TAX DOLLARS to rebuild a Disneyland version of one of the world's most treasured cities. And you have the audacity to lay the blame ANYWHERE but this criminal heartless son of a bitch squatting in the White House?
Nixon at least had the dignity to resign for his criminal behavior. Will Bush?
And there you are watching Bush..oops Fox news. If you believe their tripe, then I have a bridge to sell you.
And what about the school buses? Who's going to drive them? The school bus drivers had already been evacuated from the city. How are you going to fuel the school buses? With pennies from heaven? Where are the school buses going to go? How are you going to get scared frightened people organized enough to board them? How many people would have gotten out of the city if all these questions were answered? You'd be lucky to get a few thousand at best.
Secondly, school busses are designed to hold CHILDREN, with no luggage, or supplies. They city LOWER TO THE GROUND than Greyhound busses, making them pretty much USELESS.
I have had several issues with the army corps of engineers because in many places around the country they are inept. However, their funding was cut by 80%. what the hell else were they to do?
Those environmental groups, if they had been listened to, might have SAVED new orleans. Due to coastal building (which Bush had ramrodded down along many of our coasts) erosion had resulted in a loss of land mass. South of New Orleans they are losing about 20 feet a year. Had the outlet of the river been properly enginnered, and coastal building BANNED (as the environmentalists have been screaming about) the setiment from the river would BUILD UP the coast line, creating WETLANDS. For port and coastal cities, the best natural defense against a hurricane is WETLANDS, as it is the best defense against storm surges. In other words, those 30 feet walls of water could have been just 5 or 10 feet, making the city still largely habitable. Instead people are drowning with water up to their neck in their attics, in water that is so polluted with oil, lead, and bacteria that it will take them years to rebuild.
"A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait."
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe-
I believe I have an idea of what a portrait of miamimiami must look like.
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