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Brazile: Bush came through on Katrina
CNN ^ | April 25, 2013 | Donna Brazile

Posted on 04/25/2013 1:48:22 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: truth_seeker
Bush is being rehabilitated by democrats, in order to contrast him as “reasonable” versus next nominee who will be “extreme.”

ALL FOR THIS:

THEY ARE SCARED AS HELL SHOULD WE RUN SOMEONE LIKE TED CRUZ IN 2016, THEY ARE CLEARING THE WAY FOR JEB BY SUCKING UP TO THE BUSHES, THEY SEE THIS AS A CONTINGENCY PLAN IF THE DIM-O-CRAT THEY RUN 2016 BLOWS IT, AND IF IT IS BIDEN, HE WILL BLOW IT BIG TIME...

21 posted on 04/25/2013 4:03:09 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: neverdem
I certainly had my, um, differences with GWB, but the accusations leveled at him for the mess after Katrina were the absolute lowest and most vile I had seen. They were all designed solely to cover up New Orleans's corrupt [black] government and its helpless and dependent [black] population.

I still get furious when I even think about it. Bush was, unfortunately, a big-government sort of guy, but the job the media and the Democrats [but I repeat myself] did to smear him as racist and uncaring was shameful.

Brazile is way over-rated. I mean, has she had a job since she lost Gore's election?

22 posted on 04/25/2013 4:09:27 PM PDT by BfloGuy (Don't try to explain yourself to liberals; you're not the jackass-whisperer.)
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To: neverdem

The doofus noted the commission folded in 2010-—3 freeking years ago. You suppose she’s been “decidering “ whether to shoot her mouth off or not? And what do you suppose she wants now? Credibility? I’m guessing it’s a jab at Obamuzzie to get him to lift his own butt a little off the ground. Her whole life is “differences” with the real world so maybe she’ll eventually tell us what’s really on her excuseforamind/


23 posted on 04/25/2013 4:58:17 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Eleutheria5

Thanks for the link.


24 posted on 04/25/2013 5:37:32 PM PDT by neverdem (Register pressure cookers! /s)
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To: colorado tanker
Wasn't that dimwit mayor holed up in some hotel for a couple of days?

IIRC, yes, and they didn't know where to find the mayor of the chocolate city, Ray Nagin.

25 posted on 04/25/2013 5:47:39 PM PDT by neverdem (Register pressure cookers! /s)
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To: Cyber Liberty
Bush opened his library today. Tomorrow it’s back to “Eff you, Bush.”

That's because there was free food there today.

26 posted on 04/25/2013 5:50:30 PM PDT by tsowellfan (www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: GreenHornet
First Donna Brazile, then Ellen Ratner. Did I miss something? Did Hell freeze over today?

The Libs are in the awkward position of having to rehabilitate Bush's record, in order to explain why Obama has retained many of his policies.

I've read a couple dozen articles, across the MSM, in the past few days on the opening of the Bush Library. ALL of them included a couple (sometimes more) paragraphs on how Obama has maintained if not expanded a whole slew of Bush policies that he and the Dems attacked prior to 1/20/2009.
27 posted on 04/25/2013 5:52:00 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: tsowellfan

It’s Texas. There was free Lone Star.


28 posted on 04/25/2013 5:54:38 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: tanknetter
The Libs are in the awkward position of having to rehabilitate Bush's record, in order to explain why Obama has retained many of his policies.

That's extremely astute.

29 posted on 04/25/2013 5:59:59 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: GraceG

Over my dead body!


30 posted on 04/25/2013 6:11:37 PM PDT by sarasmom (The obvious takes longer to discover for the obtuse.)
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To: Christie at the beach

You’re right. Bush was a terrible President in many ways, but he didn’t deserve the blame he got for Katrina.


31 posted on 04/25/2013 6:49:50 PM PDT by Aetius
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To: Christie at the beach

A competent Republican President would have acted when it first became apparent that a major American city with two major seaports was flooding and descending into anarchy.

I cannot imagine Dwight Eisenhower or Ronald Reagan sitting around and waiting for a mayor or a state Governor to phone up before he called the National Guard or sent in Army units to restore order and render assistance.

Instead of taking a direct interest in the events in Louisiana Dubya allowed Michael Brown, his overmatched political appointee at FEMA, to try to handle one of the biggest hurricanes ever to strike the United States.


32 posted on 04/25/2013 7:08:45 PM PDT by Pelham (Without Deportation you have De Facto Amnesty.)
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To: GreenHornet
Looks like it got below freezing at night.

Hell Weather

33 posted on 04/25/2013 7:19:18 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: neverdem

Have any seen his interview on oprah. She asks him about it. He sets the record straight, pretty quickly.

And the hags in the audience sat there in dumb amazement when they heard the guy defend himself and make sense.


34 posted on 04/25/2013 9:02:50 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is Donna Brazile in 2005 Washington Post op-ed:

On Thursday night President Bush spoke to the nation from my city. I am not a Republican. I did not vote for George W. Bush — in fact, I worked pretty hard against him in 2000 and 2004. But on Thursday night, after watching him speak from the heart, I could not have been prouder of the president and the plan he outlined to empower those who lost everything and to rebuild the Gulf Coast.

Bush called on every American to stand up and support the rebuilding of the region. He told us that New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast would rise from the ruins stronger than before. He enunciated something that we all need to remember: This is America. We are not immune to tragedy here, but we are strong because of our industriousness, our ingenuity and, most important, because of our compassion for one another. We are a nation of rebuilders and a nation of givers. We do not give up in the face of tragedy, we stand up, and we reach out to help those who cannot stand up on their own. . .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/16/AR2005091602167_pf.html

35 posted on 04/26/2013 1:09:44 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: neverdem

What so many low-info Americans never came to realize (or were forbidden by the “media” to learn) there’s a protocol for requesting federal assistance, regardless of the magnitude of the disaster. Just as the NYC local government had to request assistance to the state, who relayed the request to the feds, the same applied in the case of Katrina.

What the “media” have oh-so-conveniently ignored all these years is GWB was on the phone FOUR TIMES with then-LA Gov. Kathleen Blanco asking her what the feds could do for her state, and her response each time was “we haven’t yet decided.”

Then Katrina struck, Blanco rushed to every available microphone to blubber about how she got “no assistance” from the Bush Administration, while that feckless POS Ray Nagin did the same in that profanity-laced tirade...ALL WHILE THOSE G*D-DAMNED BUSES SAT IN PARKING LOTS!!!!!!!

Only after Katrina careened ashore and ripped into NOLA, did Blanco finally make the formal request. Once they were allowed to bring the aid and rescue equipment in, frankly I DO agree that “Brownie did a heckuva job” overall. WTF could he do until given the “go?”

THAT’S the part that never made the airwaves. The “media” propagated the lying narrative that Bush didn’t lift a finger to help that city.


36 posted on 04/26/2013 5:57:51 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: ScottinVA

“Just as the NYC local government had to request assistance to the state, who relayed the request to the feds”

I should’ve added... “after 9/11...”


37 posted on 04/26/2013 6:01:22 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: albie

“We have a president in name only right now.”
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Yes but we have a tyrant in reality! He exemplifies all the worst qualities that were ATTRIBUTED to George Bush, arrogance, imbecility, uncaring reaction to catastrophe, self centeredness, etc. etc.


38 posted on 04/26/2013 12:13:57 PM PDT by RipSawyer (I was born on Earth, what planet is this?)
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To: Cyber Liberty
If Obastard had an molecule of grace in him, he’d deflate and fly about the room like a spent balloon.

which reminded me of this:

If Obama were any more thin-skinned, he’d need a reservoir tip. --Dennis Miller
39 posted on 04/27/2013 2:16:26 AM PDT by snuffy smiff (Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.)
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