[Txsleuth]

Joe Scarborough just "speculated" that over 10,000 may have died in NO...

THEN, he said that is too bad....that 4-5 years ago (coincidently, Bush's length of presidency), it was KNOWN that those levees wouldn't hold, and "the government didn't do anything about it"...then he shook his head.

Ostensibly making a connection between the 10,000 dead, and Bush Administration not fixing the levee....just pitiful, Joe!

You should be ashamed of yourself.

[Miss Marple]

I am beginning to wish that the CIA really DOES have people to take out people like Joe and Nagin. (Not really, but honestly, I am so disgusted!)

[dfwgator]

He'll never be the Republican nominee for anything ever again, that scum-sucking traitor.

[mystery-ak]

Scarborough has been blaming Bush all week...I hate that man..

[spectre]

I heard that! Joe Scarborough has gone over to the dark side...

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[digger48]

They've been spiking Joe's coffee with Kool-aid at PMS/NBC

[OKIEDOC]

Did the race baiter's happen to say what skin color those 6 or 8 dead gunmen might be.

[kcvl]

that 4-5 years ago (coincidently, Bush's length of presidency), it was KNOWN that those levees wouldn't hold, and "the government didn't do anything about it"

Where did all the damn money go that was provided to FIX THE PROBLEM over the MANY, MANY, MANY years the LOCAL OFFICIALS have KNOWN THOSE LEVEES WOULDN'T HOLD?!!!

SPIT!!!

BTW, I EXPECT the President of the United States to PERSONALLY telephone ME when the next TORNADO WARNING in my area is issued. If he doesn't send in the military to rescue my family I will hold him responsible. /sarcasm!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

If they had approved monies to ramp up the levees to withstand a category 5, first thing that would have happened is that people who didn't get their particular project through would have screamed pork; then there would have been a skimming based on who was going to get the contracts, and then there would have been lawsuits by enviromental groups who felt that they weren't saving the wetlands in a serious way.

And still the storm would have come and done its thing, because the lawsuits wouldn't have let them begin by now, and on top of that, NO wouldn't want to divvy up full matching funds, and there would have been a lot of local fussing going on (part turf wars, part wanting a piece of the action, part fiscal conservatives not wanting more debt, and various other interest groups getting their licks in).


Or maybe I'm just getting cynical in my old age.

[Laverne]

I sent him an email earlier...after watching his coverage for a few mintues, when he agreed that the President has a real problem (a deserved one by his account) becuase of the large black population that was "ignored" by the Feds. Joe has become a real media prostitute; he no longer pays any attention to the truth or fact. I have to assume that being a liar and a prostitute are prerequesites for employment by nbc/msnbc (and all the other old media as well).

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" Joe Scarborough just "speculated" that over 10,000 may have died in NO...

THEN, he said that is too bad....that 4-5 years ago (coincidently, Bush's length of presidency), it was KNOWN that those levees wouldn't hold, and "the government didn't do anything about it"...then he shook his head."

When Joe Scarborough was a Congressman and served on the Government Reform and Oversight Committee he sponsored legislation to address the levee problem ... oh wait, I'm wrong.
Scarborough had the power to address the situation while in Congress and did zero.
Scarborough was in Congress longer than President Bush has been in office .

[Diva]

..that 4-5 years ago (coincidently, Bush's length of presidency),It's been know since I was in College in the early 70s that the killer storm (Cat 4 or 5) would destroy the city.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Ummmm... why send money to fix the levees when the levee commission spends it to buy casinos instead of fixing the levee's?

[Arizona Carolyn]

I sent him an email and told him I was very disapointed in him being so intellectually dishonest because I KNOW he's smarter than that.

[Roccus]

I haven't been keeping up with the live threads, they move too fast for me. I just don't know here to pose (or post) this question. We've all heard about NO and that there are deaths and devastation in MS, AL and FL, but what of those that did evacuate in time? These folks are staying with friends, relatives or maxing out their credit cards in hotels. Their lives are gone. Their homes, possessions, businesses and jobs no longer exist! The lms seem only interested in reporting on the lowest levels of society. Are there any plans to assist these good citizens?