Even though perfect honesty would have him pointing out the obvious failures of Dem's in positions of power and the juxtaposition of these loser Dem's with the GOP governor of Mississippi just to start.
Posted on 09/13/2005 8:31:40 PM PDT by bobsunshine
President Bush yesterday said he takes personal responsibility for the federal government's stumbling response to Hurricane Katrina as his White House worked on several fronts to move beyond the improvisation of the first days of the crisis and set a long-term course on a problem that aides now believe will shadow the balance of Bush's second term.
...he has dispatched his top strategist, Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, and other aides to assemble ideas from agencies, conservative think tanks and GOP lawmakers to guide the rebuilding of New Orleans and relocation of flood victims. The idea, aides said, is twofold: ensuring that the federal response comports with Bush's conservative ideology, and preventing Katrina from swamping his second-term ambitions on Social Security, taxes, and Middle East democracy-building.
..the White House was working yesterday to suspend wage supports for service workers in the hurricane zone as it did for construction workers on federal contracts last week, administration and congressional officials said. This possible move, described by administration officials as being under debate, already provoked preemptive Democratic protests.
...At tomorrow's speech, the president is to outline his vision more comprehensively than he has to date. A top aide said he will stress that New Orleans officials will dictate how the city will be rebuilt, but also make plain the reconstruction should reflect his vision of government -- including reducing regulatory obstacles and emphasizing entrepreneurship over big government, the aide said. He will discuss plans to provide health care, education, jobs and housing assistance to flood victims, another aide said.
...the Bush administration and congressional GOP leaders are working on proposals to encourage business investment in the devastated areas and test conservative ideas such as portable benefits for evacuees who want to reestablish in new locales, low-tax business zones and waived environmental regulations.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Has there been even a hint of Nagan or the governor taking any personal responsibility for problems? Character comes out at times like this.
Even though perfect honesty would have him pointing out the obvious failures of Dem's in positions of power and the juxtaposition of these loser Dem's with the GOP governor of Mississippi just to start.
Libs are never liable
Great idea for rebuilding New Orleans: sell it to the United Nations for their new headquarters.
No but I'm sure they will step forward and agree that Bush should Take Responsibility For Failures Of Response and that they were at no time at fault.
Nagin has moved to Dallas, Texas, bought a home, and enrolled his kid in school there. He isn't moving back to N.O.
So, the federal government will take over New Orleans and remake it in a new image?
As much as it sounds like fun, I don't know if I like the idea of the federal government being so involved in what should be a state and local effort.
I would be ashamed if the federal government said they had to come in any rebuild MY community. But then again, my community hasn't spend decades living as wards of the state.
"Neither is even mentioned in the article. This article points to the Fed Gov to be in control of rebuilding NO and this has the Dems crazy."
I love New Orleans... it's irreplaceable- I want to see it rebuilt.
But damned if I want to put to billions of dollars in the hands of either the current state or local officials.
Calling Karl Rove on the courtesy phone.
Calling Halliburton on the courtesy phone.
He's on nightline. He says he didn't have enough drivers. Not really taking responsibility. No.
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;
If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings -- nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run --
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!
You're absolutely correct.
All they'll say is, "See....I told you it was his fault....not ours."
Thanks for the tip - tuning into Nightline.
Unless we have a police a state that truly enforces evacuations, there will always be people who will stay behind.
I am concerned that what we may end up seeing is something like the post-911 Airport Security overkill... anytime thunder showers are imminent, out will come a govt-imposed exodus.
The federal gov't has no business using the national treasury (what treasury, we are broke) to rebuild a city in a hole, down by the river......
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