Posted on 09/16/2005 12:23:21 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
From: McLaren, Ellen [mailto:Ellen.McLaren@mail.house.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 7:07 PM To: Mamaux, Lale; McLaren, Ellen Subject: Wexler: Bush Exploits Tragedy and Dodges Real Inquiry
September 15, 2005
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Wexler: Bush Exploits Tragedy and Dodges Real Inquiry
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(Washington, D.C.) - Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) issued the following statement in response to President George W. Bush's address tonight from New Orleans regarding the federal government's post-Hurricane Katrina rebuilding efforts:
"It is disgraceful that President Bush, after dropping the ball in one of the most devastating catastrophes in this nation's history, has unconscionably decided to join Congressional Republicans in exploiting this tragedy and pushing a divisive right-wing agenda on communities desperate for federal assistance. As selfless Americans across the country offer heartfelt assistance and hope to millions of Katrina victims, the President's real priorities and motives have been exposed.
"Instead of assisting the needy and poor, as he is claiming to do, this President has decided to short-change the working class and to weaken environmental laws but shamelessly decided not to extend Medicaid to Katrina survivors. I only wish President Bush had used the same expediency in deploying federal assistance and troops to affected areas as he did in revoking Davis-Bacon, thereby striking the already-low prevailing wages in the ravished Gulf States. And now the President has chosen to make New Orleans a test-tube city for conservative ideology by promoting vouchers for low-income housing and public schools. The victims of Katrina needed support in preparing for the disaster, they needed the strength of the federal government in the immediate aftermath, and they will need a great deal more than partisan ideology as they rebuild. The one thing they do not need is to be made into a right-wing tabula rasa.
"As we undertake the enormous task of rebuilding, we must examine what went wrong in the federal government's planning process prior to the Katrina and the botched recovery in the immediate aftermath. It is critical that an independent, unbiased commission - similar to that which took place after 9/11 - investigate the federal, state and local responses to Katrina.
"I am deeply disappointed, but not surprised, that President Bush did not announce his support for an independent Katrina Commission. As the commander in chief of an Administration that rarely takes responsibilities for its failures, it is the clear that President Bush and Republicans are concerned more about political fallout from Katrina than about an honest assessment. We do know that if we leave the investigation to a panel seemingly chosen for its political bias, we guarantee that we will not learn anything from the tragedy of Katrina. America will be in no better position to respond to a disaster of this magnitude in the future, and that is unacceptable."
Congressman Wexler is a senior member of the House International Relations Committee and is a member of the House Judiciary Committee.
I guess what you have to say is important. After all, it's in capital letters.
Maybe, Mr. Wexler should do some deep thinking about how the majority of those folks got that way in the first place.
Thats like a 40-50 somethings hangout. But the beach is cool on weekends. Cityplace in WP is better I think, as is Bayside in Miami.
Wexler, Kerry, Clinton, and so many others cannot continue this much longer without even the dumbest of sheeple from figuring out that THEY are only interested in the political gain to be had from this tragedy while the President goes about solving problems.
This douche is my parent's congresscritter and regularly wins with margins of 75%-80%. My dad was telling me about this earlier today and what an a-shole Wexler was when he had the office directly below my father.
Regards,
GtG
PS A little HTML goes a long way!
Nobody will run against him....it's funny..I remember in 2000 when some guy ran against him and he got 28.5% of the vote and didn't spend a dollar on advertising...28.5% just because he was NOT Wexler.
Imagine if the GOP actually put a candidate in there that they cared about.
And the blacks in Boca Raton, his district, are WALLED IN one area....I forget what it's called but it's a WALLED CITY so te fancy white folk doesn't have to see them.......I just remmebered...it's called Pearl City!!!
We had an independent commission for 9/11. They left out Able Danger. Why spend millions of dollars for the truth to be buried???
This was the same guy that got called on the carpet by Reid and Pelosi for offering an alternative to Bush's Social Security plan.
He actually said we need to RAISE TAXES.
Thanks Mr. Wexler, but your credibility is DENIED.
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