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Published On: Sep 17, 2005 02:26 AM
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Published On: Sep 17, 2005 02:26 AM
Craziness
- "We found it absolutely
incredible that the authorities had no way to get there for four or five days,
that they didn't go in and help these people, and we made it in a
two-wheel-drive Hyundai," said Hans Buder, who made the trip with his roommate
Byrd and another student, David Hankla.
OK - I've restrained myself from posting anything
related directly to the hurricane Katrina and the government's response.
But...
UPDATE: FEMA is now banning all reporters from taking any pictures of the dead and is stopping media from entering the city. Bush has announced that he will head an investigation into himself. The repubs stopped all talk in congress relating to the recovery bill. Pat Robertson is making millions off disaster relief. Survivors are being kept behind fences and not allowed to leave.
(NOTE: If you look at any part of this post, make it the pictures at the end)
After seeing the Bush & Co. Public Relations machine kick itself into overdrive, I'm just sick.
Why am I writing this right now?
Because the pentagon briefing is happening and Rumsfeld & Meyers are out in front of the cameras not only spouting the party line, but they have absolved themselves of all blame. According to them, the Fed was there before the storm hit and their response was as close to perfect as is humanly possible.
He said they anticipated the disaster and that the problems are with the local & state governments.
Of course, they finished the whole thing up with the 'we'll figure out what went right and what went wrong later on'
Once again we're getting the 'Don't look here, look over there' misdirection response that has worked so well for them for so long.
BTW: Don't believe a word of what you hear about blaming the state/local gov't, constitutional issues, or whatever other bullshit they are spewing currently. Simple fact is the Governor submitted an official request for assistance before the hurricane even hit. Link to doc below.
Now - remember that you heard it here first:
It's all Clinton's fault!
(they haven't said it yet - but ten bucks says it's coming).
A few other supporting quotes:
- Bush Lied, New Orleans Died: LA Gov. Blanco Asked Bush for Assistance on 8/28 - Read the official request here.
- "They're all very thankful where they find themselves right now." - Dick Cheney
- "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did." - Rep. Richard H. Baker
- The congressman likened their stay to being at camp and asked, "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" - Tom DeLay
- Nancy Pelosi related that she urged Bush at the White House on Tuesday to fire Brown. "He said 'Why would I do that?'" "'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.
- Appearing on the Larry King show on CNN Monday night, former President George H.W. Bush defended his son against criticism for his response to the hurricane disaster, suggesting it was mainly media-generated: "Larry, I think the criticism had been grossly unfair, particularly when they suggest the president doesn't care and all of that."
- "For God's sake, are you blind?," a woman shouts at the head of the federal emergency management agency (FEMA), Michael Brown. "You're patting each other on the back, while people here are dying." -the woman is not a victim of Hurricane Katrina. She is a reporter with US television network MSNBC who is so affected by the misery she has witnessed she can hold back no longer.
- Barbara Bush said today, referring to the poor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, "So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."
- Senator Rick Santorum is criticizing the ones who did not evacuate and wants to 'punish' them (apparently he's never heard of poor, infirm, elderly, handicapped, etc): "I mean, you have people who don't heed those warnings and then put people at risk as a result of not heeding those warnings. There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving."
- "Take whatever idiot they have at the top, give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot." -Jefferson Parish president, Aaron Broussard
- A fracas erupted this weekend after military spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Sean Kelly of U.S. Northern Command noted that his forces were not authorized to aid Katrina survivors until given direction by the President - "The only caveat is we have to wait until the President authorizes us to do so. "
- "Suntanned and relaxed after a vacation so long that it would have shamed a French playboy, Bush reacted with fogged delinquency, as if he had been so lulled by his summer sojourn that he was not quite ready to acknowledge reality, let alone attempt to master it." - New Yorker Editor David Remnick
- "DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies," Dan Buckner said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of Homeland Security.
- "We found it absolutely incredible that the authorities had no way to get there for four or five days, that they didn't go in and help these people, and we made it in a two-wheel-drive Hyundai," said Hans Buder, who made the trip with his roommate Byrd and another student, David Hankla.
- Bob Herbert, New York Times: "Like a boy being prepped for a second crack at a failed exam, Mr. Bush has been meeting with his handlers to see what steps can be taken to minimize the political fallout from this latest demonstration of his ineptitude. But this is not about politics. It's about competence. And when the president is so obviously clueless about matters so obviously important, it means that the rest of us, like the people left stranded in New Orleans, are in deep, deep trouble."
- Loudon Times-Mirror, "Sheriff Steve Simpson and his staff spent 12 hours trying to get the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the State of Louisiana Emergency Operations Center to act. They didn't, and the 20 deputies and six emergency medical technicians–all volunteers–turned around and came back to Loudoun."
- Orlando Sentinel, "up to 500 airboat pilots" who volunteered to help rescue flood victims. "We cannot get deployed to save our behinds," Robert Dummett, state coordinator of the Florida Airboat Association, was quoted as saying. He added that the boaters, who spent thousands of dollars stocking their boats to help in the rescue effort, "are physically sick, watching the New Orleans coverage and knowing that the resources to help these poor people is sitting right in our driveways."
- 'Bush Always Engages in the "It's Not the Time for Blame" Game as He Sends His Minions Out to Blame Everybody Else for His "Master of Disaster" Record. It Usually Scare the Democrats Off, Which Puts Americans at Grave Risk, Because Bush Gets Away Without Being Held Responsible Again and Again and Again and Again. As a Result, Our Lives are at Risk.'
- Jefferson County Parish President Broussard: "I'm not surprised at what the feds say, they're covering their butts. They're keeping the body counts down because they don't want to horrify the nation. It's worse than Iraq, worse than 9-11. They just don't want to know how many were murdered by bureaucracy."
- "For many of this country's citizens, the mantra has been - as we were taught in Social Studies it should always be - whether or not I voted for this President - he is still my President. I suspect anybody who had to give him that benefit of the doubt stopped doing so last week." - Keith Olbermann
- "This is not MY Government. This is not the people's Government. As we have seen now three times, 9/11, Iraq and New Orleans, this isn't a "Government" at all. What used to be a Government is now rotten to the core and the stench is horrific." - AmericaBlog
- "Most chillingly of all, this is the Law and Order and Terror government. It promised protection — or at least amelioration — against all threats: conventional, radiological, or biological. It has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water."
- House Speaker Dennis Hastert dropped a bombshell on flood-ravaged New Orleans on Thursday by suggesting that it isn’t sensible to rebuild the city - "It doesn't make sense to me."
- "If the people of New Orleans and other low-lying areas insist on living in harm's way, they ought to accept responsibility for what happens to them." - The Waterbury, Conn., Republican-American newspaper.
- “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." -U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu
Enough quotes - now, check out what Bush was doing while the disaster was happening:
MONDAY 8/29:
Tuesday 8/30:
Wednesday 8/31:
Friday 9/2:
If you run a blog, please visit the Impeach Bush site and sign your blog up too. It's time for Bush & Co. to go - on his watch we've lost our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two trade centers, a piece of the pentagon, and the city of New Orleans. -Ed
UPDATE: FEMA is now banning all reporters from taking any pictures of the dead and is stopping media from entering the city. Bush has announced that he will head an investigation into himself. The repubs stopped all talk in congress relating to the recovery bill. Pat Robertson is making millions off disaster relief. Survivors are being kept behind fences and not allowed to leave.
(NOTE: If you look at any part of this post, make it the pictures at the end)
After seeing the Bush & Co. Public Relations machine kick itself into overdrive, I'm just sick.
Why am I writing this right now?
Because the pentagon briefing is happening and Rumsfeld & Meyers are out in front of the cameras not only spouting the party line, but they have absolved themselves of all blame. According to them, the Fed was there before the storm hit and their response was as close to perfect as is humanly possible.
He said they anticipated the disaster and that the problems are with the local & state governments.
Of course, they finished the whole thing up with the 'we'll figure out what went right and what went wrong later on'
Once again we're getting the 'Don't look here, look over there' misdirection response that has worked so well for them for so long.
BTW: Don't believe a word of what you hear about blaming the state/local gov't, constitutional issues, or whatever other bullshit they are spewing currently. Simple fact is the Governor submitted an official request for assistance before the hurricane even hit. Link to doc below.
Now - remember that you heard it here first:
It's all Clinton's fault!
(they haven't said it yet - but ten bucks says it's coming).
A few other supporting quotes:
- Bush Lied, New Orleans Died: LA Gov. Blanco Asked Bush for Assistance on 8/28 - Read the official request here.
- "They're all very thankful where they find themselves right now." - Dick Cheney
- "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did." - Rep. Richard H. Baker
- The congressman likened their stay to being at camp and asked, "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" - Tom DeLay
- Nancy Pelosi related that she urged Bush at the White House on Tuesday to fire Brown. "He said 'Why would I do that?'" "'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.
- Appearing on the Larry King show on CNN Monday night, former President George H.W. Bush defended his son against criticism for his response to the hurricane disaster, suggesting it was mainly media-generated: "Larry, I think the criticism had been grossly unfair, particularly when they suggest the president doesn't care and all of that."
- "For God's sake, are you blind?," a woman shouts at the head of the federal emergency management agency (FEMA), Michael Brown. "You're patting each other on the back, while people here are dying." -the woman is not a victim of Hurricane Katrina. She is a reporter with US television network MSNBC who is so affected by the misery she has witnessed she can hold back no longer.
- Barbara Bush said today, referring to the poor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, "So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."
- Senator Rick Santorum is criticizing the ones who did not evacuate and wants to 'punish' them (apparently he's never heard of poor, infirm, elderly, handicapped, etc): "I mean, you have people who don't heed those warnings and then put people at risk as a result of not heeding those warnings. There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving."
- "Take whatever idiot they have at the top, give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot." -Jefferson Parish president, Aaron Broussard
- A fracas erupted this weekend after military spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Sean Kelly of U.S. Northern Command noted that his forces were not authorized to aid Katrina survivors until given direction by the President - "The only caveat is we have to wait until the President authorizes us to do so. "
- "Suntanned and relaxed after a vacation so long that it would have shamed a French playboy, Bush reacted with fogged delinquency, as if he had been so lulled by his summer sojourn that he was not quite ready to acknowledge reality, let alone attempt to master it." - New Yorker Editor David Remnick
- "DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies," Dan Buckner said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of Homeland Security.
- "We found it absolutely incredible that the authorities had no way to get there for four or five days, that they didn't go in and help these people, and we made it in a two-wheel-drive Hyundai," said Hans Buder, who made the trip with his roommate Byrd and another student, David Hankla.
- Bob Herbert, New York Times: "Like a boy being prepped for a second crack at a failed exam, Mr. Bush has been meeting with his handlers to see what steps can be taken to minimize the political fallout from this latest demonstration of his ineptitude. But this is not about politics. It's about competence. And when the president is so obviously clueless about matters so obviously important, it means that the rest of us, like the people left stranded in New Orleans, are in deep, deep trouble."
- Loudon Times-Mirror, "Sheriff Steve Simpson and his staff spent 12 hours trying to get the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the State of Louisiana Emergency Operations Center to act. They didn't, and the 20 deputies and six emergency medical technicians–all volunteers–turned around and came back to Loudoun."
- Orlando Sentinel, "up to 500 airboat pilots" who volunteered to help rescue flood victims. "We cannot get deployed to save our behinds," Robert Dummett, state coordinator of the Florida Airboat Association, was quoted as saying. He added that the boaters, who spent thousands of dollars stocking their boats to help in the rescue effort, "are physically sick, watching the New Orleans coverage and knowing that the resources to help these poor people is sitting right in our driveways."
- 'Bush Always Engages in the "It's Not the Time for Blame" Game as He Sends His Minions Out to Blame Everybody Else for His "Master of Disaster" Record. It Usually Scare the Democrats Off, Which Puts Americans at Grave Risk, Because Bush Gets Away Without Being Held Responsible Again and Again and Again and Again. As a Result, Our Lives are at Risk.'
- Jefferson County Parish President Broussard: "I'm not surprised at what the feds say, they're covering their butts. They're keeping the body counts down because they don't want to horrify the nation. It's worse than Iraq, worse than 9-11. They just don't want to know how many were murdered by bureaucracy."
- "For many of this country's citizens, the mantra has been - as we were taught in Social Studies it should always be - whether or not I voted for this President - he is still my President. I suspect anybody who had to give him that benefit of the doubt stopped doing so last week." - Keith Olbermann
- "This is not MY Government. This is not the people's Government. As we have seen now three times, 9/11, Iraq and New Orleans, this isn't a "Government" at all. What used to be a Government is now rotten to the core and the stench is horrific." - AmericaBlog
- "Most chillingly of all, this is the Law and Order and Terror government. It promised protection — or at least amelioration — against all threats: conventional, radiological, or biological. It has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water."
- House Speaker Dennis Hastert dropped a bombshell on flood-ravaged New Orleans on Thursday by suggesting that it isn’t sensible to rebuild the city - "It doesn't make sense to me."
- "If the people of New Orleans and other low-lying areas insist on living in harm's way, they ought to accept responsibility for what happens to them." - The Waterbury, Conn., Republican-American newspaper.
- “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." -U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu
Enough quotes - now, check out what Bush was doing while the disaster was happening:
MONDAY 8/29:
Tuesday 8/30:
Wednesday 8/31:
Friday 9/2:
If you run a blog, please visit the Impeach Bush site and sign your blog up too. It's time for Bush & Co. to go - on his watch we've lost our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two trade centers, a piece of the pentagon, and the city of New Orleans. -Ed
Posted: Wed - September 7, 2005 at 02:56 PM