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Bush Ignores America's Poor and Distressed, as Gas Prices Soar, Lack of Leadership Kills
by Gerhard Kauldtaup Friday, Sep. 02, 2005 at 1:24 PM

As President Bush's 100th vacation was rudely interupted by the needs of his subserviant and disenfranchised citizens, suffering from an abject lack of leadership and response to the worst natural disaster to hit this country, Oil Company executives and Dick Cheney were giving high fives to the prospect of enduring fuel shortages and higher gas prices. The illegal War For Bush's Oil could not have done so much for corporate America. Even Bill Clinton must be happy at the opportunites presented for his wife's fundraising efforts. Let's not forget the opportunities to rollback environmental regulation to build more polluting refineries and to suspend pro-labor contracting laws. Even now, Bush the Emperor surveys his servants from the luxury of his fuel guzzling tax-payer owned and funded 747 flying circles over the desperate and dying. Republicans say "let them be" and turn their backs to the prospect of rebuilding their homes and city. First we destroy Iraq, now we can begin the destruction at home, or at least allow it to continue as The Emperor ignores all scientific evidence and thumbs his pointy nose at the real and imminent threat of Global Warming. This is the Night Before The Emperor's Fall !!

Twas three days after Katina and all through ranch, The first family was loungin’ under a shady tree branch.

The twins had been packin’ to head off to school, Like Paris and Nikki – they too, are so cool.

With Laura just smilin’ and him in his hat, They had just settled down for their 351st vacation day nap.

When on the TV there came such a noise,
That the First Dude soon was puttin’ away his brush clearin’ toys.

The news was disturbin’ and so mentally rackin’, That BushyBoy knew that his ass must be packin’

The dead and the dying were surely a site, That he’d have to head for DC before the fall of the night.

More bowlegged than John Wayne he arrogantly strode, To Air Force one – the steel steed that he rode.

“Now get me the BushyBoyz and me them quick, For I can’t think a lick without my mentor - Big Dick.”

“Call Rums-failed, call Cheney, call Condie to start up the spin, And bring in ol’ Clinton to placate the Dems and we surely will win.”

And in taxpayer luxury he started to fly, To survey the Gulf Coast from unparalleled comfort way up in the sky.

After seeing the devastation below and out yonder, He called for a scribe as his mind continued to wander.

“Tell the people below it won’t much longer, and we’ll rebuild their towns and they’ ll be so much stronger.”

Afterall, Marie Antoinette said ‘let them eat cake’, I say “Let them eat all the Ho-Hos and Twinkies those poor folks can take’.”

We’ll send ‘em $10 billion - which of course is a crock, Afterall that’s only a few weeks of budget for the War in Iraq.

Let the bleeding hearts and taxpayers pick up rest, For we still have many more wars for our army to test.

“And tell Cheney to write-up another new batch, Of Halliburton no-bid construction contracts.”

And putting a finger up inside of his nose, He turned to Condie and said “This really blows”.

“My term is near over and I’ve already been martyred, and now comes this shit and now I’ll have to restart it.”

“This pisses me off – oh, why’d this happen to me, Now it fucks up my place in presidential history.”

“Damn those poor whites and uppity blacks, Why couldn’t they walk out with just the clothes on their backs.”

“’Feed me’ they whine – oh get a life guys, Can’t you see we have at least a handful of choppers workin’ the skys.”

“And Billy Oh’Really – and my guys at Faux News, Have the teams of crack troops searchin’ for just two women - BooHoo.”

“Oh dear lord please cut me a damn break, Or another year of vacation I’ll be soon forced to take.”

And when the masses awake from their KoolAid induced Hell They will not vote for Bushes or Republicans, as well.”

So dear friends the end is in reach,
Because after this the shrub we’ll impeach!

So True ---
by Garcia Chilitete Friday, Sep. 02, 2005 at 5:37 PM

THAT's JUST PLAIN WRONG
by 99 Saturday, Sep. 03, 2005 at 9:32 AM

Oh, that's right, EVERYTHING is George Bush's fault. Laughable. Things did not even begin or show any promise of beginning to improve until the federal government got there, thanks to the Bush administration. Maybe if the Democratic Mayor and the Democratic Governor of Louisiana woudl have reacted to the known threat of hte Cat 5 Hurricane by mobilizing the National Guard (something that the Governor has to do) prior to the Hurricane, and if the Mayor would have issued a transort order along with his evacuation order, and if the State of Lousiana and its leaders had been leaders you wouldn't have this horrible situation.

But go ahead, use this as another opportunity to advance your own wrongheaded political agendas in the face of human suffering. That is the historical character of the leftist movements.

Learn the facts. Analyze the situation without your political jaundice. get better solutions.

absolutely
by one very angry person Saturday, Sep. 03, 2005 at 9:34 AM

Thank you for posting something that expresses the outrage I felt on watching the images from New Orleans yesterday. Even the TV anchors were angry. If ever Bush showed his true colors then this it. I am disgusted by the total neglect of the sick, the elderly, the poor, the stranded, children, all in desperate need. I am revolted by the photo op that the Bushites tried to turn this goddawful mess into yesterday. I hope this is a wake-up call for America. Because if this doesn't do it nothing will. Get angry people, get really angry.

do something
by BrandonUS Sunday, Sep. 04, 2005 at 9:50 AM

more directly...
please read and incite appropriate action.

http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/4299_comment.php

idea
by ** Monday, Sep. 05, 2005 at 11:51 AM

We need a nationwide display of anger at the Bush administration for the way the people of New Orleans have been treated, expressed through some kind of visible symbol. I'm not talking manufactured "ribbons" sold for charity, I'm talking like a red armband or something, made from whatever you have...

and here is my answer to your letter, mr moore
by Sarah Thursday, Sep. 08, 2005 at 4:56 PM

Dear Mr. Bush:

Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.

***Well have you ever thought that it is because we all have been voting for bigger and bigger government these days? The more government the more paperwork and the more necessary "go aheads" each fanction of goverment needs to get anything done...yeah, we might as well be socialist like Cuba, Michael, your favorite place...oh but wait, Im sure it would have taken twice as long if it were that case! Besides, why is Bush's job to get the helicopters. There are local leaders down there who were also doing NOTHING to get people mobilised. ***

Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?

***Well first of all, its up the Governor of the City to mobilize the National Guard...and guess what Michael, he is a DEMOCRAT! I guess things are just slow moving in the "BIG EASY"! Guess what, our National Guard soldiers are now in New Orleans, and, it is in fact a WAR ZONE because there are so many there, with boundaries, curfews, and plenty of no man's land***

Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!

***Well, why dont we just stop the world for the weather, Michael, besides, why are you so obsessed with George Bush anyways, its like you want to f*ck him up the ass or something? Should all of America stopped what they were doing and sat there sucking there thumbs while the hurricane was passing over? Oh wait, better yet, I guess America should have sent in Reserves BEFORE the hurricane got there, only making it more crowded and more difficult for people to evacuate...oh wait, you didnt know people were told to evacuate well before the storm came...oh, sorry you missed that fact!***

I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?

***Yeah, what the hell could anyone do? Its called, the WEATHER***

And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!

***Well Michael, I thought you would like a budget cut in ANYTHING related to the army, since you hate the army so damn much...***

On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.

***Yet again, my point from earlier...does the president need to stand over the rubble acting like Big Brother from 1984? "Bow to me you poor weaklings!" Like I said, the local governments werent doing anything till Bush got there...so what!***

There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.

***Oh dont even make it in to an environmental issue, that is clearly SO misleading! Thats what all you silly greens love to do. The Tsunami, now the Hurricane. well guess what, Category 5 Hurricanes were much more prevalent in the past than they were now. They were much more prevalent prior to the 1850's, prior to Industrialization...queer, eh?***

No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!

***First an environmental issue, and now a RACE issue? Well what if they were CHinese? Im sorry, but because those people are blue over there, we have to rescue them first...its not a race issue, Michael, its about how leaders in the area didnt make use of any resources prior to the storm. They could have made an evacuation order. People could have piled on to school busses. And the local government could have issued the need for the National Guard sooner, because they are the ones who need to make that order!***

You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.

***You hang in too, Mr. Moore. Keep blaming the government, that is too big and too large and too confusing for you to even understand, obviously! Keep splicing your footage in your documentaries so that they practically look like dubbed over kung fu movies. Keep praising even larger governments in Cuba that have oppressed free thinkers for decades. Keep accusing one person for everything that goes wrong in the world. And I highly encourage you to accuse Global Warming for every natural disaster...including earth quakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, typhoons"

And just stop blaming in general. If you hate America so much then move to COmmunist Cuba. Have you ever been to a Communist country? I have, its SHIT! You wouldnt even be able to write this e mail. But thats what you are, you are a freaking communist who has no faith in individuals. And guess what Michael, it is NEVER the government that has saved the world, saved America, saved anybody. It is people, Americans, individuals who are going to rebuild New Orleans and take these countless numbers of poor people into there homes, feed them, clothe them, and give them a place to sleep and a glint of hope for the future! I dont need Big Brother, and I surely dont need you!

Yours,
Sarah Hatton

Yours,

Michael Moore

well said
by well said Friday, Sep. 09, 2005 at 12:43 PM

Isn't it interesting that the raw sewage of the Left, that so loudly proclaimed that "Bush is notisBy the way, I don't think Moore wrote that, but one of his butt mining groupies did.

not so well said
by well said Friday, Sep. 09, 2005 at 12:45 PM

Let's try this again....

Isn't it interesting that the raw sewage of the Left, that so loudly proclaimed that "Bush is not my President", all of a sudden isBy the way, I don't think Moore wrote that, but one of his butt mining groupies did.

one more time
by well said Friday, Sep. 09, 2005 at 12:46 PM

Let's try this again....

Isn't it interesting that the raw sewage of the Left, that so loudly proclaimed that "Bush is not my President", all of a sudden is their President when it comes time to ask for a man with a bullhorn to take charge?

By the way, I don't think Moore wrote that, but one of his butt mining groupies did.

really not well said at all
by NOLA Friday, Sep. 09, 2005 at 7:17 PM

Whether or not we accept him as our president is not the point. The point is that he has control of our tax dollars and as such he is answerable to us as to why they weren't used faster and better and a whole lot earlier.
For evidence that the White House and the cost of the War in Iraq were largely responsible for what happened last week, see this article (and others - Google it):
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001051313

I'm glad ylou finally managed to get that posting right though.

Get it right
by nola contendre Monday, Sep. 12, 2005 at 12:22 PM

The Katrina response is not Bush's fault.

Divine Right(wingnuts)
by St. Augustine Monday, Sep. 12, 2005 at 12:44 PM

But aren't Dubya and God buddies? Couldn't he have asked his friend Jay-sus to send the hurricane to punish the Islamiacs?

Left(itties)
by Valind Tuesday, Sep. 13, 2005 at 12:23 PM

So are you suggesting that the Hurricane was brought on by a spiteful and vengeful God in retribution for some sins of man. Maybe that will teach then to cut out that Mardi Gras debauchery.

Seriously, if you want to have any serious discussion of hte failings of hte governmetn in response to the Hurricane Katrina then look at all processes of the government in response. You need to examine how the local N.O. government abandoned its most helpless citizens - failed to issue the evac order in time - failed to provide transportation out of the threatened area - failed to request federal assistance and involvement with significant lead time. Look at how the absolutely clueless govenor of LA shrugged off federal assistance - attemtped to keep humanitarian aid out of the affected city to avoid having more people come to the city - failed to have a distaster response plan in place. Look at how a bloated and ineefective bureacracy such as FEMA hobbled itself with red-tape in responding - how a guy like Brown could even get a job like this in the first place. Look at the enormity of the disaster and develop corrective measures to avoid this again, rather then engaging in useless political sniping.

The politicalization of this catastrophe is juvenile and unhelpful. It seems that anytime anyone talks about the Hurricane Katrina somehow every sacred Leftist cause manages to get airtime (the war in Iraq, poverty, federal fuding of healthcare, Halliburton, etc.).

It just goes to prove that the fact remains that the Left has no solutions. Only complaints.

Documents Reveal Extent of Fumbles On Storm Relief
by Wotan Tuesday, Sep. 13, 2005 at 12:48 PM

SO TELL ME JUST HOW DID THIS WELL CONNECTED REPUBLICAN LAWYER WITH A RESUME PADDED LIKE A WONDERBRA FIND HIS WAY TO A HIGH LEVEL GOVERNMENT JOB? YOU CAN BET IT WASN'T JOHN KERRY WHO HIRED HIM. THOSE REPUBLICANS ARE SOOOOOO GOOD FOR AMERICA.

TELL ME AGAIN HOW SO LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WITH LIMITED RESOURCES SHOULD BE HUNG OUT TO DRY ON THIS DISASTER. FIRST IT IS ISLAMIC EXTREMIST TERRORISTS WHO ATTACK A CITY AND KILL 4,000 PEOPLE. THEN IT IS REPUBLICAN EXTREMIST POLITICIANS AND CRONIES WHO IGNORE AN AMERICAN CITY AND KILL 10's OF 1,000's OF PEOPLE.

SOMEONE CALL DUBYA AND TELL HIM TO PRAY TO HIS GOD FOR FORGIVENESS, BECAUSE I CERTAINLY HAVE NONE LEFT FOR HIM. HE IS MORE INTERESTED IN APPOINTING ANOTHER REPUBLICAN LAWYER TO BE SUPREME SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SO HE CAN FURTHER ROLL BACK THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND MINORITIES THAN HE AND HIS ADMINISTRATION ARE CONCERNED ABOUT SAVING THE LIVES OF THOSE MINORITIES. HEY DUBYA, YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY BLACK AMERICA DOESN'T VOTE REPUBLICAN AND NEVER WILL --- LOOK IN THE MIRROR. YOU CAN TRY TO KEEP US DOWN BUT YOU CAN'T KEEP US STUPID AND ON YOUR PLANTATION.

THE REPUBLICAN SLAVE LORDS ARE DONE. IF A HOMELESS WINO FROM PLAQUEMINES PARISH RAN FOR PRESIDENT ON THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET IN 2008 I AM CERTAIN HE WOULD BEAT OUT THE YOUNG EMPEROR"S SUCCESSOR.
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By ROBERT BLOCK
September 13, 2005

WASHINGTON – As the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency stepped down yesterday, government documents surfaced showing that vital resources, such as buses and environmental health specialists, weren't deployed to the Gulf region for several days, even after federal officials seized control of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

Michael Brown, a Republican lawyer who has headed FEMA since January 2003, resigned just 72 hours after he was reassigned from his post spearheading relief operations on the Gulf Coast. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had dispatched Mr. Brown back to Washington to oversee the government's response to other disasters -- a move that was widely viewed as temporary given that Mr. Brown had been blasted for his handling of the Katrina crisis.

"What I hope my going does is get the focus off of me and put more on the role of ... FEMA and the federal emergency-response system," Mr. Brown said in a telephone interview. "That's why I made the decision to resign. I am a big boy and I can go on and do other things, but the more I was there fighting with the media, the more it became a distraction for FEMA and the response effort as a whole, so it was time for me to go."

President Bush spent the day touring sections of New Orleans and coastal Mississippi. Late yesterday, after Mr. Brown's resignation became public, the White House installed R. David Paulison, who heads FEMA's emergency-preparedness force, as FEMA's acting director. Mr. Paulison, a career firefighter with 30 years of fire-rescue services experience, is a former chief of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department, a fact that should assuage critics who complained Mr. Brown had no emergency-services background.

Separately, internal documents and emails from FEMA and other government agencies dating back to Aug. 31 and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show the extent to which the federal government bungled its response to the hurricane. The documents highlight serious deficiencies in the Department of Homeland Security's National Response Plan, a post-Sept. 11 playbook on how to deal with catastrophic events. Mr. Chertoff activated the National Response Plan last Tuesday by declaring the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina an "Incident of National Significance."

The plan, which was rolled out to much fanfare in January, essentially enables Washington to move federal assets to the disaster without waiting for requests from state officials. It then funnels help from all federal agencies through a single point of contact -- usually the secretary of homeland security -- a reform demanded after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

In one instance, federal environmental health specialists, who were charged with protecting both rescue workers and evacuees, weren't called in by the Department of Homeland Security until Sunday -- 12 days after the Occupational Safety & Health Administration announced it had teams from various agencies standing by ready to assist. Even now, with mounting evidence of environmental problems, the deployment is being held up by continuing interagency wrangling, according to officials at the National Institutes of Health, which also is involved in the effort.

Homeland Security officials said that when Mr. Chertoff declared Katrina a nationally significant event, all provisions of the National Response Plan -- including ones for health and safety -- were activated. "This is the first test of the NRP and we will have lessons learned," said Valerie Smith, a department spokeswoman.

In addition, FEMA's official requests, known as tasking assignments and used by the agency to demand help from other government agencies, show that it first asked the Department of Transportation to look for buses to help evacuate the more than 20,000 people who had taken refuge at the Superdome in New Orleans at 1:45 a.m. on Aug. 31. At the time, it only asked for 455 buses and 300 ambulances for the enormous task. Almost 18 hours later, it canceled the request for the ambulances because it turned out, as one FEMA employee put it, "the DOT doesn't do ambulances."

FEMA ended up modifying the number of buses it thought it needed to get the job done, until it settled on a final request of 1,355 buses at 8:05 p.m. on Sept. 3. The buses, though, trickled into New Orleans, with only a dozen or so arriving on the first day.

Hours before FEMA realized that it needed buses, Jonathan L. Snare, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA, said he was prepared to offer the full resources of the agency to help protect the safety and health of workers responding to Katrina.

Health and safety experts play an important role by testing the environment at a disaster for toxins, disease and pathogens. They then advise rescue workers about needs for protective clothing for themselves as well as for the people they are trying to move from harm's way.

The National Response Plan gives OSHA responsibility to coordinate efforts to protect and monitor disaster workers and victims from environmental hazards.

But the part of the plan that authorizes OSHA's role as coordinator and allows it to mobilize experts from other agencies such as NIH wasn't activated by FEMA until shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday. The delay came despite repeated efforts by the agencies to mobilize.

Attempts by officials at NIH to reach FEMA officials and send them briefing materials by email failed as the agency's server failed.

"I noticed that every email to a FEMA person bounced back this week. They need a better internet provider during disasters!!" one frustrated Department of Health official wrote to colleagues last Thursday.

By Friday, experts and officials from NIH, the Department of Labor and the Environmental Protection Agency began to make frantic calls to the Department of Homeland Security and members of Congress, demanding that the worker-safety portion of the national response plan be activated.

No reason has been offered by either FEMA or the Department of Homeland Security for the delay in activating OSHA's role.

Some Homeland Security officials are already starting to acknowledge significant weaknesses in the national response plan, which was completely disregarded at times during the crisis.

"We at the department are not well prepared, and unfortunately, recent history has shown that that's the case," Lee Holcomb, the department chief technology officer told a breakfast meeting of Information Technology executives on Wednesday in Washington.

It doesn't help anyone or anything
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Q: What is Bush's position on Roe vs. Wade?
by Guy Hiverarette Wednesday, Sep. 14, 2005 at 2:33 PM

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Q: What is Bush's position on Roe vs. Wade?

A: He really doesn't care how people get out of New Orleans.

CARPETBAGGING SOB
by Garcia Chilitete Thursday, Sep. 15, 2005 at 3:51 PM

"His like the world has never seen from the days of Cain or of the forty thieves in the fabled time of Ali Baba. Like the wind, he blows and we hear the sound thereof, but no man knoweth whence it cometh or whither it goeth. National historians will be in doubt how to class him. Ornithologists will claim him, because in many respects he is a bird of prey. He lives only on corruption, and takes his flight as soon as the carcass is picked. He is no product of the war. He is a "canker of a calm world' and of peace, which is despotism enforced by bayonets. His valor is discretion; his industry perpetual strife; and his eloquence 'the parcel of a reckoning' of chances as he smells Out a path which may lead from the White House to a custom house, a postoffice, the internal revenue bureau, or perchance, to either wing of the Federal capitol. His shibboleth is 'The Republican Party.' From that party he sprung as naturally as a maggot from putrefaction. Wherever two or three or four negroes are gathered together, he, like a leprous spot, is seen, and his cry, like the daughter of the horse leech, is always, Give, give me office. Without office he is nothing; with office, he is a pest and public nuisance. Out of office he is a beggar; in office he grows rich till his eyes stick out with fatness. Out of office he is, hat in hand, the outside ornament of every negro's cabin, a plantation loafer and the nation's laze-rone; in office he is an adept in 'addition, division and silence.' Out of office he is the orphan ward of the administration and the general sign-post of penury; in office he is the complaining suppliant for social equality with Southern gentlemen."
(Norwood.) This is a splendid picture in general of the carpet-bagger during the days of reconstruction."

The Village Voice
Mondo Washington
Notes on Cashing In After Katrina
Bush takes responsibility for hurricane foul-up, sorta. Halliburton, others, take the cash for real

by James Ridgeway
September 14th, 2005 2:27 PM

WASHINGTON, D.C.-While George Bush promises to take “responsibility” for the disastrous government response to Hurricane Katrina, his friends and former colleagues are racing to cash in on the storm. First out of the gate was Cheney's old firm Halliburton.
The Navy hired it to restore electric power, repair roofs, and remove debris at three naval facilities in Mississippi. The company will also do damage assessments at other naval installations in New Orleans. Joe Allbaugh, former head of FEMA, is registered to lobby for Halliburton's Brown Root subsidiary, and he hurried down to New Orleans to get things rolling. (More on how to cash in here.

Halliburton made the news recently when Bunnatine Greenhouse, a civilian manager at the Pentagon who oversaw the Corps of Engineers contracts, lambasted a multibillion contract between the Corps and Halliburton as an example of ”the most blatant and improper contract abuse I have witnessed.” She was demoted for “poor performance.”

The Project on Government Oversight, a Washington nonprofit, reports the government is opening up the contracting spigots by authorizing rules that permit government procurement officials to forget bidding procedures and authorize deals on their own say-so of up to $250,000. Normally they can only go as high as $2,500. In the past, federal funds released under such discretion have gone for such things as escort services and breast implants.

And on Thursday, Bush signed an executive order permitting federal contractors working on hurricane related deals to pay wages at below the prevailing rate due to the “national emergency.”

THE REAL STORY
by John Galt Friday, Sep. 16, 2005 at 7:54 AM

It was nothing but Politics over Duty. I think all of Mayor Nagin's pomp and posturing is going to bite him hard in the near future as the lies and distortions of his interviews are coming to light.

On Friday night before the storm hit Max Mayfield of the National Hurricane Center took the unprecedented action of calling Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco personally to plead with them to begin MANDATORY evacuation of New Orleans and they said they'd take it under consideration. This was after the NOAA buoy 240 miles south had recorded 68' waves before it was destroyed.

President Bush spent Friday afternoon and evening in meetings with his advisors and administrators drafting all of the paperwork required for a state to request federal assistance (and not be in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act or having to enact the Insurgency Act). Just before midnight Friday evening the President called Governor Blanco and pleaded with her to sign the request papers so the federal government and the military could legally begin mobilization and call up. He was told that they didn't think it necessary for the federal government to be involved yet. After the President's final call to the governor she held meetings with her staff to discuss the political ramifications of bringing federal forces. It was decided that if they allowed federal assistance it would make it look as if they had failed so it was agreed upon that the feds would not be invited in.

Saturday before the storm hit the President again called Gov. Blanco and Mayor Nagin requesting they please sign the papers requesting federal assistance, that they declare the state an emergency area, and begin mandatory evacuation. After a personal plea from the President, Nagin agreed to order an evacuation, but it would not be a full mandatory evacuation, and the governor still refused to sign the papers requesting and authorizing federal action. In frustration the President declared the area a national disaster area before the state of Louisiana did so he could legally begin some advanced preparations. Rumor has it that the President's legal advisers were looking into the ramifications of using the insurgency act to bypass the Constitutional requirement that a state request federal aid before the federal government can move into state with troops - but that had not been done since 1906 and the Constitutionality of it was called into question to use before the disaster.

Throw in that over half the federal aid of the past decade to NO for levee construction, maintenance, and repair was diverted to fund a marina and support the gambling ships. Toss in the investigation that will look into why the emergency preparedness plan submitted to the federal government for funding and published on the city's website was never implemented and in fact may have been bogus for the purpose of gaining additional federal funding as we now learn that the organizations identified in the plan were never contacted or coordinating into any planning - though the document implies that they were.

The suffering people of New Orleans need to be asking some hard questions as do we all, but they better start with why Blanco refused to even sign the multi-state mutual aid pack activation documents until Wednesday which further delayed the legal deployment of National Guard from adjoining states. Or maybe ask why Nagin keeps harping that the President should have commandeered 500 Greyhound busses to help him when according to his own emergency plan and documents he claimed to have over 500 busses at his disposal to use between the local school busses and the city transportation busses - but he never raised a finger to prepare them or activate them.

This is a sad time for all of us to see that a major city has all but been destroyed and thousands of people have died with hundreds of thousands more suffering, but it's certainly not a time for people to be pointing fingers and trying to find a bigger dog to blame for local corruption and incompetence. Pray to God for the survivors that they can start their lives anew as fast as possible and we learn from all the mistakes to avoid them in the future.

If we want to truly find he “truth” and resolve the failures of government, ten we must start looking at he facts and move away from the unabashed attempts to continue the assault on President Bush. The attacks on Bush would not be so distracting and inappropriate if it were not for e fact that a cultural has developed on the left in America to assault President Bush over every real an perceived problem in America or the world. We will hear much about President Bush’s failure to disregard the law and the Constitution in an effort to pick up the slack line left by other areas of government, but we will hear little of the offensive political opportunism that is so quickly characterizing the hurricane response.

Please pass this on so the World will know another point of view.

Good idea
by ** Sunday, Sep. 18, 2005 at 3:28 PM

Good post John. I wish everone would get off of this "Dubya Caused Global Warming and he hates Indonesian Immigrants" bullshit and look at the fact that the N.O. government and that in LA FAILED! The truth is that if you are poor and stupid you WILL ALWAYS get the short end of the socioeconomic stick. Most likely it will be the people and institutions that you then put the most reliance upon that will F you up the perverbial. Face it, the Democrats in America have been pimping on the Blacks for the last half century.

Hey "**"
by !!! Sunday, Sep. 18, 2005 at 9:47 PM

...it's "proverbial" not "perverbial" bro. And you're talking about the stupid people getting what they had coming. By the way I didn't quite follow the logic of your comment - maybe I'm too stupid. But at least I can spell!

Hey "!!!"
by ??? Monday, Sep. 19, 2005 at 6:17 AM

Oh great, another sharp tongued and insightful response about someone else's inability to spell. OOOHHH, you showed him just how smart you are (or stupid he is). Oh, the intellect. Can you write a term paper for me?

Bad spelling aside, I don't think the logic of **'s post is dificult to follow. He appears to be saying that all of this tace politics around the Katrina tragedy is useless, misguided and inaccurate. I certainly didn't see that he was saying those people got what they deserve in any way (but maybe you did f you are part of the race politics game). The comment merely seemed to be that these people end up in a bad situation and it is complicated by the FACT that they are predominantly poor and uneducated. THE FACT IS that society really does not give a crap about the poor and uneducated. Oh sure, we like to say "here have some subsidized housing, a few food stamps, education grants and a welfare check" just so the rest of society and our politicians can feel like they actually care. It makes our politicians feel warm and fuzzy.

But as was pointed out, these same politicians who scream the loudest about racial injustice are usually the ones who benefit most from racial injustice. If we all woke up one morning and black America became self-reliant, began to shun the culture of hate and dependence that has enslavened Black America, and was no longer outside of the political mainstream, then politicians like Jesse Jackson, John Conyers, Al Sharpton, Chuck Schumer and a bunch of others like them would be out of work and without donors. So as long as there is a solid racial discontent in America, the race hate mongers of the left will have a job (so is it not in their own interest to foment such race hate).

and what about leadeship
by cajun panther Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2005 at 9:59 AM

oh quit the politics already. where was the leadership of the mayor and the governor? louisiana is notoriously corrupt and run by ignorant monkeys. mayor nagin is a total fuque-up. first he runs for high ground himself. he leaves the buses in the parking lot when he could have saved thousands of people. then he and blanco condemn the poor of the big easy to hell in the superdome.

f them.

the icing on the cake is when nagin tells everyone to go back and start rebuilding just as another hurricane is barreling down on the gulf coast. what a dangerous asshole !

let's all quit getting so worked up over making bush look bad and being willing to ignore the facts and endanger the lives of the people in the hurricane delta. fema told nagin and blanco to get everyone out the first time. then they told them not to send people back yet, with no water, no comminucation, and weak levees. blanco refused federal aid the first time. now she is conspicuously absent from the leadership on the clean up. but she was front and center on the blame game.

let's think about the victims of this tragedy before everyone starts in on the bushbashing bandwagon. my gess is that bush will come out of this looking pretty much like a good leader. because neither negin or blanco are doing anything but looking like dangerous idiots.

let's see
by OH WATAGERKAYAM Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2005 at 7:46 AM

Let's see just how things go with hurricane Rita. It should be a good comparison. Let me see -- New Orleans: nothing but democrats and poor black folks who could use a good bath -- Texas: oil companies, cowboys, white folk and Ken Lay. Anyone what to make a bet on how it might be different?

we will see why Bush should be impeached
by you aren't a jerk with that post Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2005 at 9:14 AM

As a leader, George Bush was a flop, and I feel betrayed!

Some of more less enlightened and conservative friends (yes, I have a couple and they tend to live in the burbs) have been sending me long, detailed e-mails about the government's response to Hurricane Katrina. They are all designed to place the blame on New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin and Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, while exonerating President Bush. These messages have certainly been impressive and revealed previously unknown facts. After reading them, I acknowledge the timelines of what happened, when and who knew what, and when and who signed what and when. My friends are right that state and local government were the first lines of defense -- and they failed. This represents a systemic failure of government at all levels.

While their details are valid and their points well made, these are merely the facts. Facts usually matter far less than perception, and perception is often reality.

In times of national crisis, the people of the United States look to the president for command, reassurance, and hope. They want to see someone who stands tall, takes charge, tells them the truth, and makes them feel like they are better people than they are. Ronald Reagan was a master at this, as was Franklin Roosevelt, despite the fact that he couldn't stand at all. Harry Truman won respect with the adage, ''The buck stops here," because ordinary people acknowledged and respected that position. John F. Kennedy convinced us that we really could go where no man has gone before.

In this crisis, George W. Bush failed the perception test. As columnist Charles Krauthammer says in the Sept. 9 Washington Post, Bush was ''late, slow, and simply out of tune with the urgency and magnitude of the disaster." For whatever reasons, Bush did not realize the magnitude of the disaster, make it his first priority, and take visible action. He did not give the American people confidence that someone competent was in charge and about to make things better. While he may indeed have taken action and signed orders during this time makes no difference. These things are not visible to the American people. What does matter is that he was in the wrong places at the wrong times. He said the wrong things in the wrong tone of voice. He demonstrated -- consistently -- the wrong emotions.

The perception is that he let the American people down, and we as a nation are very unforgiving of such a perceived betrayal.

Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco are indeed much to blame. But in the national arena, they are irrelevant. The person who does matter is George W. Bush, and that it why he is drawing so much ire. Those of us in the other 49 states look at the situation in Louisiana and worry that our state could be next. Not for the same kind of disaster -- this was very specific to New Orleans -- but that is also irrelevant. Tornadoes, flooded rivers, tsunamis, earthquakes, terrorist attacks, erupting volcanoes, the Asian bird flu -- all offer opportunities for the next catastrophe. And we wonder if it will hit us and how well our government will serve us. What we saw in New Orleans reassures no one.

If the next catastrophe could hit any one of us, we want a real leader in charge. If Hurricane Andrew helped to take the senior Bush out of the White House, Hurricane Katrina does not augur well for his son's party.

My friends should not be shocked, perplexed, or angry about the rage directed at President Bush. It's as natural as it is inevitable, and no amount of analysis, no army of facts, no timeline of events can overcome the dismay that permeated America as we watched his performance over the last several weeks. I do not believe he can recover from this. He will certainly go on to other things and do his best to put Katrina's impact on his presidency in the past. But emotions are strong, and betrayal is not easy to forget.

Bush Sells Louisiana Back to the French
by Twig And Berries Thursday, Sep. 22, 2005 at 4:41 PM

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BATON ROUGE, LA. – The White House announced today that President Bush has successfully sold the state of Louisiana back to the French at more than double its original selling price of $11,250,000.

“This is a bold step forward for America,” said Bush. “And America will be stronger and better as a result. I stand here today in unity with French Prime Minister Jack Shiraq, who was so kind to accept my offer of Louisiana in exchange for 25 million dollars cash.”

The state, ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, will cost hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild.

“Jack understands full well that this one’s a ‘fixer upper,’” said Bush. “He and the French people are quite prepared to pump out all that water, and make Louisiana a decent place to live again. And they’ve got a lot of work to do. But Jack’s assured me, if it’s not right, they’re going to fix it.”

The move has been met with incredulity from the already beleaguered residents of Louisiana.

“Shuba-pie!” said New Orleans resident Willis Babineaux. “Frafer-perly yom kom drabby sham!”

However, President Bush’s decision has been widely lauded by Republicans.

“This is an unexpected but brilliant move by the President,” said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. “Instead of spending billions and billions, and billions of dollars rebuilding the state of Louisiana, we’ve just made 25 million dollars in pure profit.”

“This is indeed a smart move,” commented Fox News analyst Brit Hume. “Not only have we stopped the flooding in our own budget, we’ve made money on the deal. Plus, when the god-awful French are done fixing it up, we can easily invade and take it back again.”

The money gained from 'The Louisiana Refund' is expected to be immediately pumped back into the rebuilding of Iraq.

Ahahahahahaha!
by Tears Inmyears Thursday, Sep. 22, 2005 at 5:06 PM

Thanks for the laugh!

As they say on FR, somebody owes me a keyboard!

Ahahahahahahaha!

Any Pork In A Storm
by cajun panther Friday, Sep. 23, 2005 at 6:21 PM

Much of the massive aid being sent south to hurricane victims has already gone astray and will likely continue to get lost given LA's lack of leaders. This week, police officers found a treasure trove of disaster relief items in the home of Cedric Floyd, the chief administrative officer for the New Orleans suburb of Kenner.

Officers said they filled a large pickup truck four times with the purloined merchandise discovered in Mr. Floyd's home. Items included cases of food, clothing and tool sets intended to help in the reconstruction of homes. Mr. Floyd is one of only several city workers that are likely to be charged with pilfering.

Federal officials are also concerned about the dangers of less blatant diversion of resources in Louisiana, a state of traditionally relaxed ethical guidelines. Last week, Jim Bernhard, a major financial backer of Democratic Governor Kathleen Blanco, resigned his post as chairman of the state's Democratic Party so he could take complete charge of the Shaw Group, a construction company. That firm just won a $100 million contract from the federal government for Hurricane Katrina repair work. "You can expect a lot more politically-connected people to do well by doing good down here," says Quin Hillyer, an editorial writer for Alabama's Mobile Register.

a question
by just wondering Friday, Sep. 23, 2005 at 7:41 PM

Has that rotted beached whale Moore commented on the useless Democrap mayor Nagin? You know, the one who sent the cops to Vegas in the middle of the shit going down?

Where's the pictures of the school buses sitting in water?

Pork - America's Other White (or dark) Meat
by Petunia Sunday, Sep. 25, 2005 at 10:48 AM

Katrina clobbered Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, but hardly a strong breeze hit places like Missouri, Pennsylvania or Utah. That technicality hasn't prevented these and 38 other states from being officially declared states of emergency by their governors. Such a declaration allows states to become eligible for federal aid -- the same aid that most American taxpayers naively believe is to rebuild New Orleans and other ravaged cities on the Gulf Coast.

Under a 1988 law called the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, if a state is declared a "disaster area" by the president, the federal government is required to pay at least three-quarters of the reconstruction costs for public infrastructure. The White House says "in extraordinary circumstances -- like Hurricanes Hugo, Iniki, and Andrew, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the terrorist attacks on September 11 -- the law commits the federal government to cover between 90% and 100% of the cost." It pays for things like housing, food, infrastructure, financial aid, small business loans, debit cards, etc.

So now states and their governors and congressmen are lining up at the federal trough to get some of the free slop. Many of these "states of emergency" are requesting reimbursement for the costs of caring for evacuees, even states with only a few hundred families. This is the new altruism: Take in an evacuee and get a seven-figure or eight-figure reimbursement check from Uncle Sam. But what's worse is that farm states are pleading for substantial relief for Midwestern corn and soybean farmers, because shipments of grain down the Mississippi River were disrupted by Katrina. Farmers in Illinois, Missouri and parts of Iowa want drought relief under the Stafford Act.

Northeastern states want $800 million or more in reimbursement for the high cost of home heating oil. Katrina is the gift that just keeps giving for several dozen states. And now you finally know why some analysts believe Katrina relief could cost $200 billion.

All of this means that if New Orleans wants any of these reconstruction funds, it had better get in line. Oink. Oink.

What Katrina Has Shown Us
by Valind Sunday, Sep. 25, 2005 at 7:31 PM

Among the pictures from New Orleans were lots of heart-rending shots of displaced mothers and children, but few of fathers and husbands. Liberal critics say Hurricane Katrina ripped aside the veil on America's extreme poverty. What it really ripped aside was the veil over the collapse of family, particularly among inner-city blacks, that lies at the heart of poverty.

Nothing should be too much to ask when addressing the plight of the disadvantaged evacuees of New Orleans. President Bush has offered an ambitious package or hope, opportunity and ownership. The displaced victims, the victims whose lives have been traumatized by this disaster should get every form of aid possible -- except, that is (apparently in the mind of the Democrats in Congress), assistance that might help give them more control over their lives. We now see that the most controversial parts of the Bush aid package for New Orleans are the ones that attempt to free the poor from the tentacles of government bureaucracy. President Bush wants to give the unemployed personal accounts to assist in their job search and create a $500 million program to fund school vouchers for displaced children to attend private schools. Even though the current political climate is premised on the notion that no one should say 'no' to any Katrina-related program, but Democrats will attempt to veto these proposals in the Bush aid program.

If it is bad, then Bush Did It
by Toupee Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2005 at 12:52 PM

Why are blacks in America on thepolitical fringe? Not because of racism. More likely it is because of cultural political marginalization by black America and its leaders.

Louis Farrakhan became the latest civil-rights demagogue to accuse government officials in charge of Katrina relief of saving whites at the expense of blacks. In a speech recently in Charlotte, NC, to promote his "Millions More March," Mr. Farrakhan said one of the New Orleans levees was intentionally "blown up" to divert flood waters from white to black neighborhoods. "I heard from a very reliable source who saw a 25 foot deep crater under the levee breach," he said.

Sounds like the minister's friend is Mr. Magoo. It's takes a lot of explosive power to make a crater that big, and the explosion would have knocked the levee and surrounding buildings sky-high. Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City bomb left a crater 28 feet in diameter. He used the equivalent of 4,000 pounds of TNT. Blowing a 25-foot deep crater in solid earth would take a whopping 200,000 pounds of TNT, according to University of Washington explosive simulations. An IED that size gets noticed in an urban neighborhood, as does the caravan of trucks needed to haul it in.

Mr. Farrakhan spreads rumor in fertile ground. Gallup found that blacks overwhelmingly think race played a role in the slow rescue and blame President Bush -- not local, state and federal agencies -- for it. Whites don't share this view. This issue has the potential to live a long life as folklore among blacks, so the administration would be well advised to work hard showing it's not true.

Note also that along with racism accusations, the global warming boogeyman is getting traction. Environmentalists say it fed Katrina's fury. This disaster may be the first convergence of these two liberal favorites, which, summed up, make the delightful if wholly unsupported case that George W. Bush's policies promote human misery.

Of course it is Bush's Fault
by Garcia Chilitete Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2005 at 5:42 PM

Not only has he stacked his administration with incompetents, Bush himself is incompetent and it has been glaring from the start of his first term. The only thing more amazing than this administration's incompetence is the unwillingness of too many Americans to admit it, or worse, being in denial that the clusterfuck is all really happening. This is by far the most incompetent group of yahoos to run the show in my lifetime and I'm afraid America will be paying dearly for it for decades to come. It's so disturbing I can hardly bring myself to even watch this clown on the TV let alone listen to all the propaganda coming out of Faux News and talk radio. Really folks, the nation was already in trouble before Katrina and Rita. These recent events only magnify the incompetence and corruption already in place. It's such a shame that we have to endure even one more day let alone another 3 years.

New Orleans Has Always Been Broken
by cajun panther Thursday, Sep. 29, 2005 at 1:56 PM

Former FEMA head Michael Brown committed obvious failures in his response to Hurricane Katrina. But what really angered members of the Louisiana congressional delegation during a hearing this week was when he dared to put some of the responsibility for the failed evacuation of New Orleans on Louisiana's "dysfunctional" government. He noted that the city's mandatory evacuation order did not lead to the use of hundreds of city buses that could have taken people to safety.

William Jefferson, the New Orleans congressman last seen commandeering a military vehicle in order to rescue suitcases from his home in a cordoned-off neighborhood, was particularly caustic in his response to Mr. Brown. "I find it absolutely stunning that this hearing would start out with you, Mr. Brown, laying the blame for FEMA's failings at the feet of the governor of Louisiana and the Mayor of New Orleans," he roared.

Mr. Jefferson has reason to not want to discuss New Orleans' long-corrupt and incompetent political management, which clearly failed its residents last month. He himself is under federal investigation. Last month, the FBI searched his home and car as part of a probe into allegations he had misused his office. Among items found in his freezer were piles of cash. The congressman immediately played the race card, denouncing the federal government's decision to convene the grand jury in his case in "white" Northern Virginia.

Leaving the city of New Orleans even less of a leg to stand on was the performance of its police force, much of which disintegrated during Katrina. Yesterday, police Superintendent Eddie Compass suddenly resigned even as his department was preparing to hold disciplinary hearings for 259 police officers who had left their posts without permission during the storm. Originally, over 500 officers were said to have been deserters, but the FBI is discovering that many of them fact didn't shirk their duty -- because they didn't exist. An investigation is uncovering evidence that many were "ghost" employees put on the payroll by others who pocketed their paychecks.

None of this surprises New Orleans residents, who have seen more than 50 police officers go to prison in the last dozen years, two of them to death row. When one police district was caught altering its crime data last year, the now-departed Chief Compass said: "I don't need an outside agency coming in. I think we have proven that we are capable of taking care of our own house." Clearly that's not the case. Here's hoping the federal aid flowing into the city includes some requirements that the local police force be rebuilt from the ground up.

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A FEW THOUGHTS ON N.O.
by Jorge Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005 at 5:29 PM

(Someone was going to say it, and George Carlin says it well.)

George Carlin on New Orleans

"Been sitting here with my ass in a wad, wanting to speak out about the bullshit going on in New Orleans. For the people of New Orleans... First we would like to say, Sorry for your loss. With that said, Let's go through a few hurricane rules: (Unlike an earthquake, we know it's coming)

#1. A mandatory evacuation means just that...Get the hell out. Don't blame the Government after they tell you to go. If they hadn't said anything, I can see the argument. They said get out... if you didn't, it's your fault, not theirs. (We don't want to hear it, even if you don't have a car, you can get out.)

#2. If there is an emergency, stock up on water and non-perishables. If you didn't do this, it's not the Government's fault you're starving.

#2a. If you run out of food and water, find a store that has some. (Remember, shoes, TV's, DVD's and CD's are not edible. Leave them alone.)

#2b. If the local store has been looted of food or water, leave your neighbor's TV and stereo alone. (See #2a) They worked hard to get their stuff. Just because they were smart enough to leave during a mandatory evacuation, doesn't give you the right to take their stuff...it's theirs, not yours.

#3. If someone comes in to help you, don't shoot at them and then complain no one is helping you. I'm not getting shot to help save some dumbass who didn't leave when told to do so.

#4. If you are in your house that is completely under water, your belongings are probably too far gone for anyone to want them. If someone does want them, let them have them and hopefully they'll die in the filth. Just leave! (It's New Orleans, find a voodoo warrior and put a curse on them.)

#5. My tax money should not pay to rebuild a 2 million dollar house, a sports stadium or a floating casino. Also, my tax money shouldn't go to rebuild a city that is under sea level. You wouldn't build your house on quicksand would you? You want to live below sea-level, do your country some good and join the Navy.

#6. Regardless of what the Poverty Pimps Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton want you to believe, The US Government didn't create the Hurricane as a way to eradicate the black people of New Orleans; (Neither did Russia as a way to destroy America). The US Government didn't cause global warming that caused the hurricane (We've been coming out of an ice age for over a million years).

#7. The government isn't responsible for giving you anything. This is the land of the free and the home of the brave, but you gotta work for what you want. McDonalds and Wal-Mart are always hiring, get a damn job and stop spooning off the people who are actually working for a living.

President Kennedy said it best... "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

Thank you for allowing me to rant.

"George Carlin says it well"
by forgery Friday, Oct. 14, 2005 at 3:40 PM

Nessie is in good company.

good company
by Harry Hay Saturday, Oct. 15, 2005 at 12:03 AM

Not until you make the maggots gag, asswipe.

BATTLE HYMN F THE BUSHIES
by Garcia Chilitete Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005 at 3:47 PM

BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLICANS

Mine Eyes have seen the bungling of that stumbling moron Bush; he has blathered all the drivel that the neo-cons can push; he has lost sight of all reason 'cause his head is up his tush; The Doofus marches on

I have heard him butcher syntax like a kindergarten fool; There is warranted suspicion that he never went to school; Should we fault him for the policies - or is he just their tool? The lies keep piling on.

Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'! His wreckage will live on.

I have seen him cut the taxes of the billionaires' lone heir; As he spends another zillion on an aircraft carrier; Let the smokestacks keep polluting - do we really need clean air? The surplus is now gone.

Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'! Your safety net is gone!

Now he's got a mighty hankerin' to bomb a prostrate state; Though the whole world knows its crazy - and the U.N. says to wait;

When he doesn't have the evidence, "We must prevaricate." Diplomacy is done!

Oh, a trumped-up war is excellent; we have no moral bounds; Should the reasons be disputed, we'll just make up other grounds; Enraging several billions - to his brainlessness redounds; The Doofus marches on!

Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'! THIS .... DOOOO .... FUSS .... MAR...CHES....ON!

Just like Good 'ol Boy Tom Delay
by Gerhard Kauldtaup Friday, Nov. 18, 2005 at 2:35 PM

Subject: The Wisdumb of Tom DeLay

Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:55:28 +0000 All--From a faculty member of a prominent Catholic university: Subject: The Wisdumb of Tom DeLay
1) "So many minority youths had volunteered...that there was literally noroom for patriotic folks like myself." -- DeLay explaining at the 1988 GOPconvention why he and vice presidential nominee Dan Quayle did not fight inthe Vietnam War.

2) "Now, tell me the truth, boys, is this kind of fun?" -- DeLay to threeyoung Hurricane Katrina evacuees at the Astrome in Houston, Sept. 9, 2005.

3) "I AM the federal government." -- DeLay to the owner of Ruth's ChrisSteak House, after being told to put out his cigar because of federalgovernment regulations banning smoking in the building, May 14, 2003.

4) "We're no longer a superpower. We're a super-duper power."-- DeLay,explaining why America must topple Saddam Hussein in a 2002 interview withFox News.

5) "Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes."
--DeLay, March 12, 2003.

6) "I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think theConstitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church." DeLay, in a radio interview, Feb. 10, 2004.

7) "Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 anhour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist. Fortunately, suchfamilies do not exist." -- DeLay, during a debate in Congress on increasing the minimum wage, April 23, 1996.

8) "Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causesof youth violence are working parents who put theirkids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birthcontrol pills." -- DeLay, on causes of the Columbine High School massacre,1999.

9) "I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States. I am not a government employee, I am in the Constitution." -- DeLay, in a CNN interview, Dec. 19., 1995.

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