Fox News Sunday w/Chris Wallace

I keep expecting Brit to say "Juan, you ignorant slut!"

LOL!!!

Juan is far too stupid to be on any show, and his incompetence today drifted from comical to disturbing. The pity is, as an NPR DUmmie, we pay his salary.

Sorry don't watch MSM thought someone said that he wasn't on ?

Oh and don't forget her remark about how WRONG the Wasshington Post was about her. It was worth watching her get bug eyed over the questions!

You would think that US Attorney would be investigating the New Orleans Police Department to see if they really had all those cops or where were the cops.

I'm actually embarrassed at his ignorance. He was a couple of years ahead of me at school, and I never considered myself an idiot.

Sorry, a sarcastic "thank you" from Wallace doesn't cut it for me.

He's unable to control the show and should be removed as host.

I do not like that at all. I will not donate to exPresidents anyway, I'd rather go with the Salvation Army.

If anyone would like to express their feelings to Ms. Landrieu, her Washington FAX number is:

202-224-9735

I was reading letters to her at congress.org and someone said, "Are the busses stored in the canals?"

We should all send a fax with these words in big letters.

Oh Brit gives him heck! I loved it! It is good to see Conservatives on the forefront finally getting fed up with this political game the LEFT is playing with this horrific disaster!

Why was Vitter even there? Wallace didn't allow him any time at all.

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I have seen and/or heard the Landrieu-Vitter-Wallace dialogue three times today. Vitter was in Houston and Mary in studio.There may have been problems with the linkup, because at least once Wallace gave the mike, so to speak, to Vitter, and he gave a one word answer. There was dead air while Wallace waited for Vitter to 'extend his remarks." If his failure to speak up was not due to a technical problem, then Vitter needs serious coaching in how to speak up when invited to be the opposition voice to a dem.

Oh Nooo! Mary Landrieu September 8, 2005[]
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_090805/content/stop_the_tape.member.html

TRANSCRIPT excerpts:

LANDRIEU: We know the president said quote, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." Everybody anticipated the breach of the levees, Mr. President, including computer stimulations in which this administration participated. Even the clay figurine Mr. Bill from Saturday Night Live anticipated the breach. His creator, a friend of mine, has used him in public service announcements for over two years, public service announcements, saying this will be the effect if this happened. How can it be that Mr. Bill was better informed that Mr. Bush?

RUSH: "....Bush did not say, "Nobody anticipated the levees would fail," before the hurricane. This is a key thing that you people must know. She took the president's quote out of context. He was talking after the storm had passed and the levees at that point held, the city was dry the second day. Nobody anticipated then that the levees would break. That's what he was talking about. If they had survived the storm, then nobody expected them to break after that, and that's probably true. ....

All right, now, this is painful for me to do, ladies and gentlemen. But once again, a person from the state of Louisiana who has had countless years and opportunities to do something about this, apparently cannot show us the legislation she has presented to prepare these levees for category five.

Remember, these levees were built for category three. Americans are pouring billions of dollars into her state. No thanks to her, by the way. And a thank-you would be nice, but we're not going to get a thank-you in this period, folks, we're not going to get gratitude because the plan is to blame, blame, blame, blame, blame, everything is going wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So in the middle of everything going wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, in the middle of all kinds of incompetence, how can you express gratitude? But Mary, senator, question for you.

Where the hell were you, and where the hell was your daddy, Moon Landrieu, and where was your little brother? They've all run that state, and they've run that city for who knows how long. I want to see the bill, Senator Landrieu, in which you got Senator Daschle and your colleagues to vote for billions of dollars to build a levee system which would stand to cat five.

I want to see the legislation that you proposed. You've been there since the Clinton administration. I'm not talking about money for the levee system. I'm talking about money to build a cat five levee system.

Senator Landrieu, Louisiana is number one in Army Corps of Engineer funding. The Army Corps of Engineers gets more money to spend in Louisiana than any other state in this country (story). Where is the cat five levee system?

It is time to investigate your family, Senator Landrieu. It's time to investigate your little brother, and your Daddy Moon and everybody else, your whole party, it's time to investigate Louisiana to find out why all the money that was sent down there somehow didn't reach the levees.

Senator Reid, I think you need to realize that Senator Landrieu is doing more to turn off the American people than anyone, and that's saying something. She used to angelic compared to the rest of you, but with this, when this gets out, she's doing more to turn off the American people who are giving everything.

They're opening their homes. They are sending dollars. They are sending supplies, they have made it a focus to help out in these last seven or eight days, and to send Senator Landrieu out, and once again try to pass the buck and make this a political thing at President Bush, is not serving your cause.

The other day on Stephanopoulos, she was crying and threatening to "punch out" the president. I guess that didn't get enough attention. I guess that didn't get enough reverberation, and so they had to send her out to say this today, that she's in over her head on this, perhaps too emotionally impacted by it.

But Senator Landrieu, you perhaps should have read your own house organ today before you went onto the floor of the Senate. Stand by and I will read to you relevant facts from a Washington Post story today, that had you known, you would not have gone to the floor of the Senate and made such a fool of yourself.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: ....We need to investigate Louisiana, Mary Landrieu's family, and the Democratic Party down there. From the Washington Post today, here's the headline: "Money Flowed to Questionable Projects -- Louisiana leads in Army Corps spending, but millions had nothing to do with the floods.

Before Hurricane Katrina breached a levee on the New Orleans Industrial Canal, the Army Corps of Engineers had already launched a $748 million construction project at that very location. But the project had nothing to do with flood control. The Corps was building a huge new lock for the canal, an effort to accommodate steadily increasing barge traffic. Except that barge traffic on the canal has been steadily decreasing.

In Katrina's wake, Louisiana politicians and other critics have complained about paltry funding for the Army Corps in general and Louisiana projects in particular.

But over the five years of President Bush's administration, Louisiana has received far more money for Corps civil works projects than any other state, about $1.9 billion; California was a distant second with less than $1.4 billion, even though its population is more than seven times as large.

Much of that Louisiana money was spent to try to keep low-lying New Orleans dry. But hundreds of millions of dollars have gone to unrelated water projects demanded by the state's congressional delegation and approved by the Corps, often after economic analyses that turned out to be inaccurate.

Despite a series of independent investigations criticizing Army Corps construction projects as wasteful pork-barrel spending, Louisiana's representatives have kept bringing home the bacon.

For example, after a $194 million deepening project for the Port of Iberia flunked a Corps cost-benefit analysis, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) tucked language into an emergency Iraq spending bill ordering the agency to redo its calculations," so that the money would get spent.

Can I read this to you again so you understand this? Mary Landrieu cooked the books.

"After a $194 million deepening project for the Port of Iberia flunked a Corps cost-benefit analysis, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) tucked language into an emergency Iraq spending bill ordering the agency to redo its calculations." In other words: Cook the books so that the cost-benefit analysis works, because we want the money.

"The Corps also spends tens of millions of dollars a year dredging little-used waterways such as the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, the Atchafalaya River and the Red River -- now known as the J. Bennett Johnston Waterway, in honor of the project's congressional godfather -- for barge traffic that is less than forecast."

Not only over the five years of President Bush's administration has Louisiana received far more money for the Corps of Engineers civil projects than any other state, 1.9 billion, "overall the Bush administration's funding requests for the key New Orleans flood control projects for the past five years were higher than the Clinton administration's for its past five years.

Lieutenant General Carl Strock, the chief of the Corps, has said that in any event, more money would not have prevented the drowning of the city, since its levees were designed to protect against a Category 3 storm, and the levees that failed were already completed projects.

Strock has also said that the marsh-restoration project would not have done much to diminish Katrina's storm surge, which passed east of the coastal wetlands."

They buried the lead of the story!

I am halfway to the second page of the story, and the lead of the story is that Bush in his five years spent far more on these projects down there, flood control projects, than Clinton did in his last five years.

We also know that the Corps of Engineers gets more money for Louisiana than any other state.

We now have learned that Mary Landrieu cooked the books on the $194 million deepening project that flunked a cost-benefit analysis.

So senator, it seems to me you're going to have a real hard time making the case that George Bush didn't do enough.

It seems to me, senator, you're going to have a real tough time blaming President Bush for this. It seems to me, senator, that what you ought to really be worried about is somebody investigating you and your daddy and every other Democrat that has run that state, that has willfully accepted all of these dollars and not spent them where they were targeted.

And again, Senator, I'd simply like to ask you, where is the legislation that you sponsored to upgrade the levees from category three to category five? Where is it?

Is Bush supposed to have done that, too?

Yeah, everybody's reading all these articles written years ago about the dangers of what could happen, and, yeah, they look awfully prophetic. Well, you could have read them, too. The mayor could have read them. That governor down there could have read them. And you all could have demanded that something be done about the levees, lifting their capabilities from cat three to cat five, but I don't see anybody producing legislation saying, "See? We asked for it, and we didn't get it."

I see you getting more than any other state gets on these types of projects, but I don't know how, senator, you can go from where you are to blaming President Bush for this, and somehow portray yourself as an innocent bystander.

You're a member of the US Senate. You did nothing. ...."

Read the Articles...
(Washington Post: Money Flowed to Questionable Projects)
(AP: Landrieu: Federal Government Failed To Protect American Lives)
(NewsMax: Mary Landrieu: I'll Punch Bush, 'Literally')
(TIME: Mary Landrieu Dodges a Bullet - 08.26.2002)
(NRO: John Berlau: Why the levee problem? Ask the Sierra Club)

Good idea!

Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective.

First, Vitter needs the opportunity to speak.

When did FR turn into an apologist forum for liberal talk show hosts? Chris Wallace/Mike Wallace Get it?

Chris Wallace sucks as a host and should be fired immediately.

One police officer killed himself because when he went home to check on his family, they were all dead.

Perhaps he was a good officer and blamed himself for trying to keep order for others, while his family was dying.

100% Correct

My son had told me she went back to her maiden name in her first run for senator. It had something to do with whatever her married name is. The beief was that she would receive more votes using Landrieu. Any truth in it?

My brother has been a San Antonio police officer since 1980 (when they changed the height/weight requirement, he is 5'5. I am the only tall one in the family @ 5'8) and has been putting in 36 hours shifts since the buses started arriving last week. On last Sunday night at Kelly, USA, 5 of the volunteers cars were stolen. Confiscated by the SAPD have been assault rifles, shot guns, hand guns, drugs, thousands in drug money, ad nausium. You see, when Nagin deserted the people in NO, he also emptied the NO jails (not the prisons)to prey on those he also deserted, and also the registered sex offenders that Louisiana had not been tracking arrived here.

He told our mother about all this and when my mom said, "I'm sorry, I know what you must be going through," my brother replied, "Mom, as bad as you can imagine, you still can't imagine what we are going through."

If a seasoned SAPD officer is having difficulties, can you even imagine what the NO police officers were/are going through. Remember,they also had no food, no water, no rest.

One of her defences of the city's evacuation is that the city's bus drivers are lazy even on a good day.

That was bizarre...so its the president's fault AND the city's lazy bus drivers.

I'm sure the bus drivers are delighted by the indictment.