Posted on 08/31/2005 9:03:25 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005 11:32 p.m. EDT Dems Blame Bush Tax Cuts for Flooding
Democrats searching for a way to blame President Bush for Hurricane Katrina are circulating a report that claims the Bush tax cuts and the Iraq war drained funding from New Orleans flood-control projects.
A report Wednesday on Editor & Publisher's web site charged that the Army Corps of Engineers was unable to complete several projects to reinforce the levees around New Orleans because federal funding was cut back.
"The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security -- coming at the same time as federal tax cuts -- was the reason for the strain," E & P claimed, as the Big Easy sunk further beneath Katrina's floodwaters. A top advisor to 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wasted no time seizing on the report.
"The Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war," claimed Mrs. Clinton's former White House media strategist, Sidney Blumenthal.
Writing in Der Speigel, Blumenthal complained:
"A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken."
Before Wednesday was over, other Democrats had begun echoing the same theme.
"As these facts get out, and the American people learn that decisions were made not to fund improvements of the levees because of Iraq, they will not be happy," Washington-based Democratic consultant Chris Kofinis told the Associated Press.
Sen. Frank Lautenberg complained to the AP that the White House should have had troops and supplies on the ground in New Orleans on Monday. "President Bush's wake-up call came awfully late," he groused.
Are there any more words to express how despicable these people are? I am out of them.
-PJ
If Bill clinton wasn't killing people in waco texas getting blow jobs in the oval office, globetrotting around the globe on the feel good tour, cutting the millatary budget which incudes the army corps. riding the dot.com gravy train real things could have been done all the while Sid was on duty
It makes me ill when I hear Lautenberg question this President's judgement and integrity. Lautenberg was involved in one of the most corrupt ballot hoaxes in modern politics which included one of the most corrupt politicians in recent memory, Bob Toricelli (D), it's a joke that he would even open his trap on this one.
and I'll bet the majority of the people still in the flood area believe every bit of these lies.
Hey Sid--still beating your wife?
Ask Teddy how much went into the Big Hole in Boston!
They can't put their politics aside for 10 minutes, even for a disaster of this magnitude, where thousands of their countrymen are dead. Instead of offering sympathy and hope, this is how their tiny minds function.
These people are not Americans. I wonder if they have even the slightest scrap of humanity, for that matter.
Right about that. If their voters are dispersed, there will be no one to take them to the polls.
Landrieu didn't even wait until the storm hit. She was out blaming President Bush on Sunday. Not warning her constituents to evacuate, mind you; blaming the President. Heck, I'm sure she hoped for maximum damage as it would work to her advantage in pointing the finger at the President.
The old saying goes:
Anything that is bad for America is good for the rats
Anything that is good for America is bad for the rats.
The hurricane is bad for America, so guess what? The rats seize on the opportunity to make themselves by inferring that they WOULD have done this levee thing if they were in charge (even though none of them knew what a levee was before this week).
Pity the rat. They live off the scraps of life.
Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu, was one of the first to try and point a finger away from the government of Louisiana.
How many years have the people of Louisiana known that this could happen and how many tax dollars have they spent without fixing the problem? To blame it on Bush now is just a bunch of crap. The blame rests solely on the shoulders of Lousiana's voters and Louisiana elected officials for the last God knows how many years.
They came up with the money to build the Superdome in the middle of a catastrophe waiting to happen.
"Dems Blame..."
This is the Rats defining attribute.
If I recall correctly, Blanco is a close buddy of Landrieu.
Not only that the Dems blame Bush because he used the military to fight a war overseas instead of having them protect us from the inside.
And you can bet that once one Guardsman or Marine kill a looter the Dems will blame Bush because he sent in trigger happy kids instead of trained professionals.
I said this on another thread, my husbands uncle worked for the gov't and he helped draw up all the plans to revamp the levees and according to him none of it was ever implemented and he did it over 18 yrs ago!
But, but they and their buds could make more money on the Superdome!
Amen, I was thinking the exact same thing.
We need to make a new game. We could make a ton of money off of it. Make it like Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon, but call it Seven Degrees of George Bush. I'm confident the Democrats would eat it up. They could blame everything in history on George Bush in seven degrees. I imagine that Rove and Haliburton will be their most used connections.
over at DU everything is caused by Rove, Cheney or Haliburton.
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