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Kerry blasts Bush on federal response to Hurricane Katrina
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/092005/brief4.html ^
| September 20, 2005
| Jonathan Allen
Posted on 09/20/2005 5:26:00 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) unleashed a furious attack on the Bush administration at a Brown University speech yesterday, upbraiding the presidents response to the hurricane that recently devastated the Gulf Coastand tying it to what he sees as other flaws at the White House.
This is the Katrina administration, read prepared remarks posted on 2004 Democratic presidential nominees website, www.johnkerry.com. Katrina is a symbol of all this administration does and doesn't do, read Kerrys script, portions of which were included in an e-mail to supporters that ended with a fundraising appeal.
Michael Brown [Bushs former emergency-management director]
is to Katrina what [former Iraq administrator] Paul Bremer is to peace in Iraq; what [former CIA Director] George Tenet is to slam-dunk intelligence; what [former Deputy Defense Secretary] Paul Wolfowitz is to parades paved with flowers in Baghdad; what [Vice President] Dick Cheney is to visionary energy policy; what [Defense Secretary] Donald Rumsfeld is to basic war planning; what [House Majority Leader] Tom Delay [R-Texas] is to ethics; and what George Bush is to Mission Accomplished and Wanted Dead or Alive.
In a brief interview, Tracey Schmitt, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, called Kerrys pitch for cash repulsive.
In a news release, she said, John Kerry's attacks on President Bush's efforts to assist the victims and rebuild the Gulf Coast don't come as a surprise. Armchair quarterbacking on tough issues has never been a problem for Senator Kerry. The American people have pulled together during a difficult time and Democrats efforts to politicize this tragedy are unsavory at best.
Kerrys speech is the latest salvo in a political battle over accountability that has pitted the parties against each other in Washington and federal officials against their state and local counterparts in the Gulf region.
While Kerrys speech may play well with the Democratic base, Sarah Binder, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor at George Washington University, said the senator has a tough challenge to pin blame on Bush.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Louisiana; US: Massachusetts
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To: alessandrofiaschi
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:28:29 AM PDT
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: The_Victor
3
posted on
09/20/2005 5:30:02 AM PDT
by
sawmill trash
(You declare jihad ... we declare DEGUELLO !)
To: The_Victor
4
posted on
09/20/2005 5:30:26 AM PDT
by
alessandrofiaschi
(Is Roberts really a conservative?)
To: alessandrofiaschi
"Kerry the creep" is the nation's #1 monday morning quarterback. Who cares what he says?
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:32:08 AM PDT
by
KenmcG414
To: sawmill trash
Wasn't he in Vietnam ? I think so, but that was over 30 years ago. I guess he has done anything significant since then.
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:34:09 AM PDT
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: alessandrofiaschi
Don't you know who I am?
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:35:13 AM PDT
by
maggief
(No 'luffs)
To: alessandrofiaschi
Does he have a secret plan?
To: The_Victor
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:36:36 AM PDT
by
alessandrofiaschi
(Is Roberts really a conservative?)
To: alessandrofiaschi
Been thinking that Nagin, also known as Fagin, and JeffinKerry are so similar.
Can't make a decision.
First they're for something then they're against it.
Didn't the senate vote FOR aid to Katrina area?
So now Kerry's AGAINST the aid?
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:38:25 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(MAJ. TAMMY DUCKWORTH ~ A NATIONAL TREASURE)
To: BulletBobCo; maggief
They all have a secret plan...
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:38:57 AM PDT
by
alessandrofiaschi
(Is Roberts really a conservative?)
To: BulletBobCo; maggief
They all have a secret plan...
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:39:08 AM PDT
by
alessandrofiaschi
(Is Roberts really a conservative?)
To: OldFriend
What's the difference... Nothing, they both are "proud" Democrats!
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:41:45 AM PDT
by
alessandrofiaschi
(Is Roberts really a conservative?)
To: alessandrofiaschi
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:42:54 AM PDT
by
maggief
(No 'luffs)
To: alessandrofiaschi
Kerry? Kerry?........ Nope. Doesn't ring a bell.
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:43:06 AM PDT
by
WasDougsLamb
(Sick of the free use of the race card)
To: BulletBobCo
I wish he would share it with us this time.
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:45:49 AM PDT
by
satchmodog9
(Murder and weather are our only news)
To: alessandrofiaschi
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:50:40 AM PDT
by
GaltMeister
(“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”)
To: alessandrofiaschi
"
In a news release, she [Tracey Schmit] said, John Kerry's attacks on President Bush's efforts to assist the victims and rebuild the Gulf Coast don't come as a surprise. Armchair quarterbacking on tough issues has never been a problem for Senator Kerry. The American people have pulled together during a difficult time and Democrats efforts to politicize this tragedy are unsavory at best. "
I believe Tracey has summed it up quite well.
No surprises here from the resident American traitor in chief, J. Effin Kerry. Just more indications that the enemies of the United States, namely the Democrat Party, are alive and well and still spewing their vile venom.
May it continue to devour them.
I'd have evacuated from this here New Orleans, but I couldn't let go of this here sign.
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:53:35 AM PDT
by
G.Mason
To: satchmodog9
Sometimes I like to reage again some previous post, like this. Zogbism...
Here
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:54:36 AM PDT
by
alessandrofiaschi
(Is Roberts really a conservative?)
To: satchmodog9
Sometimes I like to read again some previous post, like this. Zogbism...
Here
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posted on
09/20/2005 5:54:43 AM PDT
by
alessandrofiaschi
(Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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