Let's see the President's opponents and the media (sorry for the redundancy) argue that an impediment to swift aid should be kept in place.

I believe his father did the same thing in response to a disaster. I don't think Clinton ever did.

Unfortunately it is only temporary.

Melissa - it is clear 1 week on, even with mounting evidence of local and state bungling, the media and Dems will continue to put all the blame on Bush. Hopefully the public will see right through it.

But wait a minnute! What about Gannon-gate?? What about Richard Clarke's crushing testimony?? What about Valerie Plame?? What about all those explosives at Al-Quaqaa?? What about the Air National Guard??

I been harping on it, now we start to see it. The DeMSM's have utterly lost the cardinal ability to "pick your battle's wisely". They have assumed that an attack that succeeds is good, one that fails is nuetral. It is NOT nuetral, it costs them ammo in political capital and credibility of seriousness, and now, when they really COULD sink their teeth in, fairly or not, they can't, because they have dulled their incisors on stupid, penny-ante, nickel and dime foolishness.

Katrina response is not foolish, but no one is listening any more.

You guys think the Dem's have the MSM? Man, where do you guys all live, in a special home or something?

It takes money to manipulate media; money that the Dem's don't have. Not to mention the conflict of interest that arise when most television is sponsored by some of the worlds largest companies, and most major media companies are operated by some of the wealthiest companies/businessmen in the world.

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Here's another fine example of Mr. Bush not knowing which end is up. He will, no doubt, rescind this decision when it is pointed out to him that no one at Halliburton will be willing to work for less than "the prevailing or average pay in the region".

Mellisa,
The Bush administration seems determined to keep an impediment to swift aid in place. Michael Brown still has his job.

AWW,
I hate to tell you this (not) but the Dems are part of the public, and we are seeing through it. People who can't see the truth of the matter should just ride their Arabian Horses off into the sunset (supplied by the view through their rose collered glasses.)

Looks like somebody has an endless loop of F9/11 playing in his head. There are perfectly good pharmaceuticals for OC disorder. Thank God for the scroll feature.

Gotta love the attack of the cut n' paste bandit. Anonymous, of course.

JAG --

You're approximately one half hour behind the news. Brown is out.

Seeker-

Halliburton has employs 3000 people in La. They'll get what they got before. Both Halliburton and KBR have ongoing contracts with DOD and Interior, they'll get waht they contracted for. Truth is good, seek it fully.

Posted by: Randy at September 9, 2005 2:05 PM

JAG:

Sure, Brown should have gone last summer after he presided over the horrible Federal response to all those hurricanes in Florida. I mean, you remember all the stories about the thousands dying, the aid that never got there or got there too late, the endless Congressional hearings on how FEMA went in the toilet after Clinton, Bush golfing while people were losing everything they had.

And it's not like he ever had to be confirmed. Bush just appointed him with no scrutiny at all. Right?

Lack of Bush Eloquence Imperils Hurricane Victims

by Scott Ott 9/01/05 WWW.Scrappleface.com
(2005-09-01) --

Fears increased today among hundreds of thousands of refugees from the hurricane-ravaged gulf coast as they faced a Labor Day weekend with little hope of an eloquent speech from President George Bush.

As today's New York Times editorial indicated, the president "gave one of the worst speeches of his life yesterday, especially given the level of national distress and the need for words of consolation and wisdom".

Instead, the president devoted his first major post-Katrina address to laying out what the federal government is actually doing to help with disaster recovery.[...]

If you'd like to hear some honest-to-goodness screeching, check out Kevin Drum at the Washington Monthly.

I think the Chinese use that sort of bile in old medicinal remedies.

In response to Rick T, Kevin Drum and the Washington Monthly citizens would have you know that it was all politics (of course) that led 'Brownie' and FEMA to throw money at the Florida hurricane victims. It was in no way shape or form good policy to get in quick, distribute food, water, ice, and aid checks, it was all scheming to get GWB re-elected. Why, the graft and corruption from these hurricanes wrought terrible harm to the Republic, though Florida seems to have done okay.

I wonder what their response would be if one was to ask them whether it's okay to throw money at the Katrina victms just as was done in Florida.

"I believe his father did the same thing in response to a disaster. I don't think Clinton ever did."
I think I read somewhere that Clinton used non-union labor to construct his Presidential library/massage parlor.