Posted on 12/30/2004 1:20:20 PM PST by Reaganesque
I was just watching CNN's coverage of the tsunami disaster and they had Patrick Leahy on commenting about it. He went to great lengths to state that the President had waited to long to make a public statement about the crisis and that our initial offer of $35 million dollars was not nearly enough. To her credit, the interviewer said that the White House was claiming that the President's critics were unwilling to give him credit for anything he did to which Leahy responded that he would give credit when credit was due.
Leave it to the loser Democrats to try to turn this terrible event into a political issue.
I guess Leaky Leahy, aka Senator Depends, thinks that if Bill Clinton was still President, he would have lifted up his hands like Moses and stopped the water from hitting land.
Dear Sir,
I have never been more apalled in my life than when I heard you on CNN stating that the President of the United States had acted to slowly in the face of the tragedy that is still unfolding in the Indian Ocean region. Of all the low, cheap shots the Democrats have ever sunk to, this is the worst.
You know full well that $35 million is only a starting figure. You know full well that the United States will do every last thing that you "reccommended" in your letter to the President The US has always done so in such disasters and will continue to do so now. When all is said and done, the US will have lead the way in the relief efforts in time, effort and money. We always have. You know this to be true, so for you to try to score partisan political points off of a tragedy of this magnitude is beneath contempt for not only a Senator of these United States but for any sound minded human being.
For once, could you please put aside your party's interests and think of the greater good here? More than 100,000 people are dead and it is feared that as many as a million may be dead and that's just from the wave itself. Sir, the ends do not justify the means. Find your route back to power somewhere else. This is not a time for politics. I appeal to your basic humanity, sir. Please drop the politics and just help.
Yours,
Mark Dixon
My e-mail to him
I pray to God everyday that you choose to retire; since your brain cells apparently already have.
You are so envious of President Bush's popularity, you would say anything just for attention.
You really are simply hurting your own Party by being so petty.
Mmmmm, I see a copywright infringement lawsuit between Timmy the Turd and Mr. Hanky that will rival Triumph the insult comic dog and Pets.com hand puppet.
The Vice President of the United States of America cordially invites you to enjoy marital relations with yourself.
(signed) Dick Cheney
Really? Some BushBasher on here last night was saying that Bush's polls were going in the tank!
Really!
I have wondered if the "stingy" attack on Bush was a pre-emptive to keep the "most admired" off the front pages. Heaven knows the slime media had a lot of practice at keeping stuff off the front pages.
It Depends.
BUMP, well said.
Make your wisecracks. I don't see how anyone can think the U.S. is doing enough. We have so much and these people have so little. And now what little they have has been taken from them by a tsunami. We simply must give all we can.
Thanks for the laugh!
"So Senator, you say President Bush mishandled our response. Now, how do you grade President Clinton's response to the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, when he never visited the site?"
Or, to Rwanda genocide!
Your analysis of democratic behavior is right on target. If they don't change, they'll continue to lose.
You would think that a member of the brain trust that has lost the house, senate and White house in the last few years , would be smarter than that.
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