Live Thread: Bush Speech About New Orleans (9 pm EDT)

www.freerepublic.com | September 15 , 2005

[Howlin]

9 P.M. EDT.

[Republic]

Tonight was conservatism at its finest.

Worthy praise was given.

Compassion and understanding was shown.

The offer of jobs for returning people through tax incentives to companies willing to locate in the area was right.

The offer of 5000 dollars to each person who lost everything, money designated for job training, job searching and daycare was RIGHT.

The idea that the federal money would be OVERSEEN by a federal group the President assigns and NOT the local or state authorities was RIGHT.

The idea that the federal government MUST BE GIVEN authority to move rapidly into a devastated area and not be held up by local and state authorities was RIGHT.

The plan to demand that every single large city in this nation update and or perhaps invent a WORKABLE evacuation plan complete with necesary medical and food supplies in case of weather or terro related castrophy was RIGHT.

This was conservatism...this speech and what it represents was conservatism at its best.

That the those returning who are able to work will be expected to do so, and will be helped with opportunity to find work was exactly RIGHT! RIGHT ON! AND on the RIGHT.

[hole_n_one]

Scarborough's only audience now is the nutty left.

nutty left is somewhat redundant, isn't it?

[ForGod'sSake]

Here in SF, one of the most at risk cities in the country.

Not to worry, the federales will ride to the rescue.

[JeffAtlanta]

From what I can tell -- POTUS hit a grand slam. The democrats are WORRIED.

No fiscal conservatives are worried. Liberals are as excited as can be.

[PatriotGirl827]

That's too funny!

[Dog]

The only US city bombed by its own Mayor.

[somesie]

i'm thinkin' if i lived below sea level i'd be paying flood premiums, no? our last home was in a flood zone and it was required, actually.

[MikefromOhio]

There is nothing quite so lovely as October in Ohio.

You forgot the Buckeyes!! :)

[WestVirginiaRebel]

I thought he was still down in Venezuela with his good buddy Commie Chavez?

[You Dirty Rats]

W is an empty suit.

Pot-Kettle!!

[burzum]

Fox needs someone a lot meaner than Greta to be able to take on Jackson. Jackson knows that Greta won't question him. It is no surprise that Jackson won't appear on the O'Reilly Factor. He'd be torn to shreds.

[pending]

Scarborough has been a shmuck lately. Agreed.

[anglian]

The State prob set em up in trailer homes, ten to an acre.

[msnimje]

Are you old enough to have heard LBJ, kcar? Cause if you are, then you know that this speech didn't sound anything LIKE LBJ.

I knew Lyndon Baines Johnson , Lyndon Baines Johnson was a Friend on mine. You, George W. Bush are NO Lyndon Baines Johnson

[swheats]

"Is abandoning people in their time of need a conservative value now?
"

No way. This is, I believe, where conservatives shine. When we are aware of a problem we create solutions that work better and more efficient.

Now listening to Jesse Jackson. Jesse has been talking for years and he has managed to only help his family. Something's wrong with that. He's done nothing, from my point of view, to build on MLK's legacy.

[SE Mom]

Precisely.

[ohioWfan]

Folks are letting their feelings short-circuit their brains.

Actually, our brains are working better than yours.

There were solutions in this speech to long term problems that are a drain on our economy.

You just didn't hear them.

[MikefromOhio]

ZOT

[Petronski]

I wouldn't give you a billion for the whole shit hole.

You don't have a billion, so why would any of us care?

[Chong]

Oooooooohhhhhhhhhhh Yeeeaaaaahhhhh!!!
(Yes I stoled that from the sick freak Glenn.)