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Pelosi: 'September has Become Synonymous With a Lack of Preparedness
yahoonews.com ^ | 9/07/05 | unknown

Posted on 09/07/2005 11:51:56 AM PDT by beyond the sea

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Pelosi: 'September has Become Synonymous With a Lack of Preparedness, Whether in New York or New Orleans'

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Congressmen Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Bennie Thompson (D-MS), and Ed Markey (D-MA) and first responders at a news conference today to discuss homeland security and how America remains vulnerable four years after the September 11th terrorist attacks. Below are Pelosi's remarks:

"Four years ago, our country suffered a terrible attack. This Sunday will mark the four-year anniversary. We remember the many families who were affected by losing their loved ones and their home life. They were devastated. And there were heroes that emerged that day as well.

"At that time, we made some serious and solemn commitments to the American people that we would keep them safe, that we would not be caught off guard, and that those who suffered and died would always be in our hearts, our thought, and our prayers, and serve as an inspiration to us to keep America safe.

"The Department of Homeland Security has declared September 'National Preparedness Month,' a time to increase public awareness about the need to prepare for emergencies. Unfortunately, September has become synonymous with a lack of preparedness, whether in New York or New Orleans. Americans should now harbor no illusions about the government's ability to respond effectively to disasters.

"Four years ago, we lost thousands of Americans, and last week we lost, perhaps, thousands of Americans as well. Our vulnerabilities were laid bare in 2001 by an act of terrorism, and this year by a natural disaster.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 109th; appallingdems; bugeyespelosi; bush; ignorance; katrina; mentallymelteddown; pelosi; raginidiot; silentragincarville; whereisloonycarville
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To: dfwgator

LOLOLOLOL - truth hurts

now if only RINOs would lose primaries...


21 posted on 09/07/2005 11:58:08 AM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: beyond the sea

Strange, I thought that September and all other months were synonymous with her uttering inane comments.


22 posted on 09/07/2005 11:58:34 AM PDT by Sthitch
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To: beyond the sea

She qualifies for the 'c' word.


23 posted on 09/07/2005 11:58:52 AM PDT by Trust but Verify (( ))
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To: beyond the sea

My Dearest, Lovely Nancy;


Piss OFF!!!!!



Affectionately,


A. Bustard


24 posted on 09/07/2005 11:59:03 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Numbers Guy
Is she calling for the Guv and Mayor to resign?

She must have seen pictures of those Beggin' Nagin buses sitting in the water........... UNUSED!!!.

;-)

25 posted on 09/07/2005 11:59:36 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("I was just the spark the universe chose ....." --- Cindy Sheehan (barf alert))
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To: beyond the sea

Funny, I would have thought she had an aversion to Novembers..as in ---We Lost!


26 posted on 09/07/2005 12:00:08 PM PDT by litehaus
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To: beyond the sea
Unfortunately, September has become synonymous with a lack of preparedness, whether in New York or New Orleans. Americans should now harbor no illusions about the government's ability to respond effectively to disasters.

Duh! It's a DISASTER! Gads! Are these people just stupid!~??

27 posted on 09/07/2005 12:00:08 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (If fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime what do freedom fighters fight?)
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To: beyond the sea

Democrats have become synonymous with a lack of preparedness for meeting their constituents' needs.


28 posted on 09/07/2005 12:00:18 PM PDT by Redgirl (I actually voted for John Kerry before I voted against him.)
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To: beyond the sea
And "Pelosi" has become synonymous with idiotic politically-loaded statements, as in:

"Man, you are so full of pelosi."
29 posted on 09/07/2005 12:00:44 PM PDT by Antoninus (Dominus Iesus, miserere nobis.)
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To: rintense

This whole politicizing Katrina is over. Pelosi and Reid are markers for when a story has jumped the shark.


30 posted on 09/07/2005 12:01:17 PM PDT by AmishDude (Join the AmishDude fan club: "Great point." -- AliVertias; ":-) Very clever" -- MJY1288)
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To: Redgirl


Pelosi, like her plastic face, is synonymous for phony.


31 posted on 09/07/2005 12:01:31 PM PDT by Rosemont
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To: angkor
Americans should now harbor no illusions about the government's ability to respond effectively to disasters.

Speaking of disasters....... what was New Orleans before the hurricane and after decades of liberal political control?

32 posted on 09/07/2005 12:01:34 PM PDT by beyond the sea ("I was just the spark the universe chose ....." --- Cindy Sheehan (barf alert))
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To: isthisnickcool

Yes.

They are stupid.

And ya know something, we should stop all the PC stuff on TV and call them that to their faces.

"Is your stupidity genetic, or are you just doing it on purpose?"


33 posted on 09/07/2005 12:01:38 PM PDT by najida (I'm ashamed to share the same chromosomes with Blanco.)
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To: dfwgator

November has become synonymous with Democrats losing elections.



Excellent point...
34 posted on 09/07/2005 12:02:27 PM PDT by Paloma_55
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To: beyond the sea
The House and Senate Dems are screaming about President Bush being on vacation while Katrina was happening. President Bush while on vacation gave the orders to declare NO-LA a disaster area BEFORE Katrina hit, thus triggering FEMA and federal assistance into action.

Where was CONGRESS? ON VACATION! Where was US Rep Harold Ford JUNIOR when the vote for the $10.5 Billion in assistance to the storm victims was being taken......ON VACATION!

Where was nancy pelosi??? ON VACATION!

Now the Dems are screaming about the RED TAPE....They need to point their fingers right back at themselves....THEY put those RED TAPE RULES IN PLACE in the first place!

Puting FEMA or NG tropps inside the expected storm area would have put them and their supplies in danger of being destroyed. They had to be positioned outside the expected storm zone to be able to help the storm victims

35 posted on 09/07/2005 12:02:48 PM PDT by GailA (Glory be to GOD and his only son Jesus.)
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To: virgil
She's crazy, unstable and irrational.

Can't argue with you and that one. For some odd reason I can always imagine her on the giving end of the knife in the old movie Psycho. She just has the look of a human ready to snap and go on a rampage.

36 posted on 09/07/2005 12:03:00 PM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: beyond the sea

Pelosi has Become Synonymous for BoTox


37 posted on 09/07/2005 12:04:16 PM PDT by WoodstockCat (General Honore: "The storm gets a vote... We're not stuck on stupid.")
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To: Rosemont
Pelosi, like her plastic face, is synonymous for phony.

The botox is seeping through to her brain, apparently.
38 posted on 09/07/2005 12:05:08 PM PDT by Redgirl (I actually voted for John Kerry before I voted against him.)
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To: beyond the sea

"Pelosi" has become synonymous with "lack of Neurons"


39 posted on 09/07/2005 12:05:46 PM PDT by msnimje (CNN - Constant Negative Nonsense)
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To: beyond the sea
Pelosi: 'September has Become Synonymous With a Lack of Preparedness

Itzlzha: "Pelosi needs a BIG GULP of STFU!"

One more facelift, and it's Goatee time for MZ. America!

40 posted on 09/07/2005 12:07:08 PM PDT by Itzlzha ("The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote")
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