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Live Thread: Bush Speech About New Orleans (9 pm EDT)
www.freerepublic.com | September 15 , 2005

Posted on 09/15/2005 4:52:29 PM PDT by Howlin

Edited on 09/15/2005 5:05:17 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

9 P.M. EDT.



TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: bush43; katrinaspeech; rebuildingno
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To: msnimje

Any liberal who gets on TV and says this wasn't a great speech just ain't an American. And who was that weenus on CNN from Time Magazine who started in about how the speech didn't accomplish anything?


1,141 posted on 09/15/2005 6:42:41 PM PDT by zook
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To: Miss Marple; Pukin Dog

Koppel's special before the speech never mentioned all the unused buses.

After the speech, Koppel has a field reporter at the Astrodome complex fishing for anti-Bush comments from the NOLA folks there. The first woman questioned doesn't blame Bush at all, likes him, and says the city and state messed up, and then she references the buses! It was priceless!


1,142 posted on 09/15/2005 6:42:42 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: All

I checked on property taxes in some Parrishes. Scary! Over 10percent, some $130+ per $1,000!


1,143 posted on 09/15/2005 6:42:42 PM PDT by anglian
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To: Black Tooth; Jmouse007
Not only that, the President is going to give the supervision of the BILLIONS of dollars of construction and supervision into the hands of mayor Nagin and govenor Blanko. The result will be; BILLIONS down the toilet.

You guys really should try to KEEP UP with the facts; he's appointed an inspector general to OVERSEE this.

It pays to read FR.

1,144 posted on 09/15/2005 6:42:44 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: zarf
Bush just re-energized the GOP attempt to rip the black vote from the Dems and put a bullet through the unending cycle of welfare dependence.

Fair assessment.

1,145 posted on 09/15/2005 6:42:49 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Barbour/Honore in '08)
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To: Pukin Dog

"On ABC, ... The reporter is so frustrated!

Another home run for Dubya!"

So, now they've gone to elected Dems to try to get some negative comments and it still isn't happening (much). HAHAHAHA - stupid media.


1,146 posted on 09/15/2005 6:42:51 PM PDT by KingKongCobra
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To: Miss Marple
I liked the part where he said he was responsible for the problem, and also for the solution

Miss Marple, you liked what?

President Bush was NOT responsible. The "solution" should not be a federal issue either. If we were a centralized statist nation, then the Federal Government is responsible for each house, block, neighborhood, city, county, state and region. Do you believe we are a centralized statist nation now? Is that why you like it? I disagree with you. Bush should have said the locals at city, parish and county and state levels were responsible for the planning and preparation and event management, and that the Feds were only responsible for FEMA post-event help and assistance.

My stomach could not allow me to watch the full speech as I only can take so much socialism promises, but just one thing...........I assume President Bush did not mention one thing about stopping foreign aid or cutting back on other programs to pay for this reconstruction. Am I correct? If so, what is your reaction to President Bush promising billions without some reduction offset in other programs??? Anyone?

1,147 posted on 09/15/2005 6:43:00 PM PDT by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888 (Bush's #1 priority Africa. #2 priority appease Fox and Mexico . . . USA priority #64.)
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To: Howlin

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1485307/posts


IN KATRINA'S WAKE
Politician caught in tearful lie
Parish prez fabricates claim about feds leaving coworker's mom to die


1,148 posted on 09/15/2005 6:43:01 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: Howlin

Im having a more confidence about this situation than what was expected.

The Dems however will hammer for more taxes to pay for this. I see their field day coming. Especially considering him trying to uplift the poor. That pretty much shamed the dems. I do tend to think that home ownership and small business will NOT help some of these people. It may help some but probably less than more due to their own mismanagement.

I like Haley Barbour. He seems to be handling his state well.


1,149 posted on 09/15/2005 6:43:21 PM PDT by del4hope (Freedom of the Press is not a license to manipulate the public)
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To: patriciamary

Form what I understand, that is the plan. For those that lost everything to this storm.


1,150 posted on 09/15/2005 6:43:22 PM PDT by nascaryankee
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To: cantfindagoodscreenname

That was Dean Reynolds trying every which way to get that whole group of people to say something negative about the President!


1,151 posted on 09/15/2005 6:43:29 PM PDT by Solamente
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To: Howlin
My extended family have lost 7 homes and will rebuild everyone of them with or without the government. I do not want anything to do with Blanco and her gang and if Bush has a brain in his head will avoid local govt at all cost. As far as the levee's are concerned, if the Dutch can do it we can too.
1,152 posted on 09/15/2005 6:43:29 PM PDT by gumboyaya
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To: MikeinIraq

When you add in the hundreds of billions of dollars for pork construction projects and hundreds of billions of dollars for Medicare drugs, and hundreds of billions of dollars for entitlement spending that has not been cut, we are going to have the largest deficits and ever increasing national debt (now some $40,000,000,000,000) and growing.

The dollar will fall. Inflation will rise. People who save and invest will be screwed. This is how nations decline.


1,153 posted on 09/15/2005 6:43:31 PM PDT by tomahawk (Proud to be an enemy of Islam (check out www.prophetofdoom.net))
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To: Mo1

This household turned off Joe a year ago.


1,154 posted on 09/15/2005 6:43:32 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: johniegrad
I'm not sure I have the patience to put up with all the parish assholes.

The fact that you call them "the parish assholes" may be something of an indication.

;)

But good luck, anyway.

1,155 posted on 09/15/2005 6:43:33 PM PDT by aBootes
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To: DevSix

imagine the legal fees. there will be environmental challenges to every project - all litigated, the federal money used to pay lawyers, settlements to plantiffs who win. the lawyers are going to decend on this region like locusts.


1,156 posted on 09/15/2005 6:43:34 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

Bush laid out nothing but a line of pure BS. Mark my words. We can't rebuild NO at the bottom of a toilet bowl. It will have to be filled in. Or a trillion dollars worth of 'super levees' will have to be built to protect it.

What about NO is worth a TRILLION dollars? I wouldn't give you a billion for the whole shit hole.

Bush is a 50 cent politician with poor handlers.

I've HAD it!


1,157 posted on 09/15/2005 6:43:36 PM PDT by mercy (never again a patsy for Bill Gates - spyware and viri free for over TWO YEARS now)
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To: MikeinIraq

Amosmoses=ZOT


1,158 posted on 09/15/2005 6:43:36 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: ncpatriot

I was clapping at the red light. He was great. I wish I heard the whole thing instead of the last five minutes. Probably a good thing too. I wouldn't get any sleep tonight *LOL*


1,159 posted on 09/15/2005 6:43:38 PM PDT by cyborg (I finally got a job today. Thank you God. Thank you Our Lady of Lourdes' prayer petition.)
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To: SE Mom
I ask you again. What was offensive about this post you apparently got the moderator to pull:

We should not be giving billions of taxpayer money to Africans nor billions to rebuild a city that will flood again because it is in an incredibly retarded spot. In a bowl surrounded by water.

1,160 posted on 09/15/2005 6:43:39 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (If fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime what do freedom fighters fight?)
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