[don-o]

Don, if we took half the political advice I've seen you give over the years, we'd be the Reform Party.

I swallowed my spit two times to save the Republic voting Republican. I see no reson to swallow a third time.

The amount of expenditure W is proposing will bankrupt this nation.

If he HAD to make this speech, better to speak platitudes and broad generalities.

He is fighting the tar baby.

[RightWhale]

The amount of expenditure W is proposing will bankrupt this nation.

We're already 7-8 trillion in the hole. Float some more bonds, what's another trillion?

[sinkspur]

The amount of expenditure W is proposing will bankrupt this nation.

No it won't. I'm astounded that you are so hysterical over this.

What do you propose? Just say to hell with the Gulf Coast?

[Ramius]

The amount of expenditure W is proposing will bankrupt this nation.

No, it won't. But the sillier thing is to actually have expected that W was going to go on TV tonight and tell the Gulf states that they were cut off from any more federal money. Did you really, honestly expect that? Of course you didn't.

[nascaryankee]

The amount of expenditure W is proposing will bankrupt this nation.

I don't think so. But, I would like to see him go back to D.C. and tell Congress to give up the pork. This money is better spent to rebuild a region than to build a bridge to nowhere.

[Texas Songwriter]

I love President Bush. I think, at heart,he is a good man. But it seems what the democrats could not do at the ballot box, Katrina did for them. Here are a few "Republican initiatives as I recall"

600 billion (minimum) Prescription Drug Bill

200 billion cost of Iraqi was (and rising into the future as far as the eye can see)

60 billion requested by Bush and appropriated and signed in the bat of an eye) with another 140 Billion in proposed programs

All borders open like sieves with 15 million aliens in the country

All of this atop a 2.2 trillion dollar federal budget

Before us, we see much mysery and much American generosity, but should we consider the burdon which is not yet seen but will be born by our children and grandchildren not yet born. We are relegating them to a subsistence of a lowered standard of living to spend so far beyond our means. It is natural for people, Americans, to want to help Americans. It is necessary for our leaders to be visionary and see problems and stem their unbridled destruction before those floodwaters overtake a nation.

It is instinctive to reach out to others and try to aleviate pain. This is a uniquely American trait. With time, all bills are paid, either in money, or in pain, loss and sorrow.

Gird up your loins folks and prepare for an economic ride of your life. The printing presses are already glowing white hot and we stoking the flame. We had 5 million victims of this horrible disaster. The disaster which we will see unfold from Congress and the White House will make 260 million their prey.