[perfect stranger]

bttt

[fabriclady]

Someone needs to remind clinton, he has been Bush bashing today. Anything to get his ulgy mug in front of a working camera.

[Cougar66]

here in NY its been covered. But libs will say it was Bush 41's fault.

[manic4organic]

I think Drudge has been reading Doug from Upland's posts...heh heh.

[Luigi Vasellini]

Drudge was watching C-Span this morning. A caller called in with this juicy tidbit!!!

[Prost1]

We all know Drudge is not an "originalist", but he has an enormous audience and guess what....

The word is out!

[FlingWingFlyer]

This can't be true! We didn't have "global warming" when Willard was President. It was a perfect 68 degrees all year round. It was President Bush who invented "global warming."

Sarcasm/off

[msnimje]

Also 3000 died on 9/11 because Clinton had his balls in a vice and could not pull the trigger to take out OBL.

[Venerable Bede]

The only time the Democrats actually care about the black urban poor are when there are votes to be had. Clinton needs to remember that people who live in glass houses need not throw stones. Don't forget his innauguration-week of festivities in '96 while the genocide in Rawanda was happening. I suppose he was too busy selling America's long-range missile and nuclear technology to the Chinese to take notice of that.

[rineaux]

Hillary will let everyone know that it was Bush Sr who should be held responsible for these deaths. Billy had only been in office for about 2 years so it could no way be his fault.

[SeaBiscuit]

Despite my desire at times to want GWB personally to verbally fight back at the lies from the wicked left (ratblamers/media), I think it's much more effective for others to undertake that task. Good for Drudge.

[nopardons]

bttt

[HighWheeler]

Rush mentioned all this last week.

[I got the rope]

I think Clinton's a POS, but he's not the only one to blame for those deaths. It was all those lily white, liberal, elitist, trust-fund environmentalist with their pet cause of stopping global warming.

http://www.epa.state.il.us/

[Redbob]

"Every right-leaning talk radio station in the country should remind their listeners about this."

WRONG!

To say such a thing is to concede the debate to the Left, having in effect admitted the Federal Government has a responsibility to provide air-conditioning and every other little luxury to all citizens.

[jbstrick]

Drudge replayed the clip with the caller. It WAS sheehan.

[still_learning]

Let's not forget that the 700+ deaths were followed by a government give away of Air Conditioners (most of which were immediately sold at flea markets to raise partying money).

Could we imagine what the press would say if the Bush administration gave away inflatable rafts to the New Orleans poor after the fact?

[Andy from Beaverton]

How many thousands died recently in Europe from the heat? I thought thousands of elderly died in France.

[A CA Guy]

Good for Matt, that was a great point.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Posted before, but once again:

Where was Clinton, Dewitt and FEMA in 1995? During the month of July heat wave of that year in Chicago, in spite of repeated warnings of the impending disaster, all of them stood by and let well over 1,000 (even higher if counting those who were admitted to hospitals and died later) poor, disabled and mostly Black elderly die alone and unaided in one week.

Why did Clinton, Dewitt's FEMA and Chicago Mayor Daley not follow their own heat disaster plan? Why did Clinton and FEMA down play the number of dead? Why were so many of the unclaimed dead stuffed into pine boxes and buried unceremoniously in mass graves? Why was this hushed up in the MSM after several independent studies and resulting reports laid the blame directly upon all of them.

Aftermath postmortem.

http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/pr96/apr96/noaa96-21.html

Picture of mass grave from Slate. (Slate has pulled the original story I was linking to)

http://img.slate.msn.com/media/36/020730_MassGrave.jpg

The warnings:
http://www.emergency.com/heatwave.htm