Posted on 07/09/2005 9:02:49 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Friday she was "outraged" that President Bush hasn't spent more money to beef up security on New York City's mass transit system in the wake of Thursday's train bombings in London.
"I'm absolutely outraged by the failure of the administration to release the [rail security] funding that Congress approved last year," the top Democrat complained.
"We are woefully behind where London and other subway systems are because London does have the video surveillance," she fumed. "I just don't understand what the holdup is."
Even before the smoke cleared in London, Clinton was on the attack, ripping Bush in a statement posted to her official Senate web site on Thursday:
"It is imperative that the millions of New Yorkers who travel on trains and buses know that our tunnels and facilities continue to operate with the highest security operations in place. The President’s budget calls for a $50 million cut in funding for rail and transit security this year, which is clearly a step in the wrong direction."
Mrs. Clinton vowed to continue to press the White House to get the job done, saying, "I will work to ensure that we provide the resources needed to meet our rail and transit security needs."
her and the jackass she road in on........
And that really stopped them, didn't it?
No security system is going to stop someone from carrying a bomb onto a subway. And if it did, they would just go into a movie theater or pizza parlor. The money would be better spent enforcing immigration laws, infiltrating mosques, and profiling and detaining fundamentalist muslims.
She's got big plans.
I believe she's whining about her enemies the VRWC. She needs Federal $$$ to build prisons and keep conservatives off NY buses and trains.
BTTT
I am outraged that She woke up breathing this morning, should be a crime for air to be wasted on the like of her.
It's been pointed out that:
a) NY didn't use all the security money they'd already been given
b) NY mass transit is covered under another huge appropriation - something like $600 billion.
Liars can always make figures lie. Demagoguery thy name is hitlery.
I'm sick of Hillary's phoney outrage -- especially when she does everything she can to block every measure and appointment the President proposes. Bah! Humbug!
Hillary can always pimp out her hubby to get the funds!
"The money would be better spent enforcing immigration laws, infiltrating mosques, and profiling and detaining fundamentalist muslims."
AMEN!
bump!
And the perfect storm I've predicted continues to brew
Yesterday on Rush's program - this transpired:
He played a clip of Clinton's comments and then his own comments and those of Chertoff.
CLINTON: We got an assurance from Secretary Chertoff that this would be a high priority, that it would be included when the president's budget came for homeland security. But the fact is, the president's budget calls for a $50 million cut in what we appropriated last year. Last year, although Chuck and I wanted more money and the Senate unanimously passed a bill for $570 million, we got $150 million out of the Congress.
RUSH: All right. So I just want to set this up. This is the day that al-Qaeda attacks London, and Hillary Clinton can't wait to race to the microphone to rip George W. Bush on the homeland security budget in this country.
Now, I understand she's got to run for reelection in New York in 2006, and this will play in New York. But this is not going to play in America. Yeah, I think it will play in New York, Mr. Snerdley. He's disagreeing with me.
Well, what did I see? A story the other day that some of the money -- I better not speculate. I can't remember. See, we gave somebody some money and they didn't spend it all and they came back. It was? Okay. It was New York. We gave them a whole bunch of money that they didn't spend, and we were threatening to take it back and we did take it back because they were not spending it.
But the point is, the day that al-Qaeda hits London, when ostensibly everybody is concerned about how they're dealing with the aftermath in London and trying to buck everybody up over there, what do the Democrats do but make a beeline for the microphones to just tar and feather George W. Bush.
Now, it may play in New York but this is not going to play in establishing Hillary Clinton as presidential. This is not what the American people want to hear. She can sit around and moan all day long about budget cuts in the homeland security department for New York and at the same time people can say there hasn't been an attack in New York since 9/11.
Now, Katie Couric had Chertoff on the program today, on the Today Show, and she took what Mrs. Clinton said and turned it around as a question to him. She said, "Is that appropriate, Mr. Secretary, a $50 million cut, given what happened in London yesterday and what happened in Madrid before that?"
CHERTOFF: I think that really understates the amount of money in the budget that's available for rail security. In fact, the president's budget talks about a dramatic increase in infrastructure protection, $600 million that would be available for rail security. It talks about billions of dollars in urban security initiatives, and part of that is available for rail security.
In fact, one of the big points of the president's budget has been to move to a risk-based funding effort, and that risk-based funding effort will take account of the vulnerability of mass transit, and consider our other vulnerabilities as well. So I think actually the president's budget is a very strong budget, not only on mass transit security, but on security across the board.
RUSH: So Chertoff has just explained why Hillary is wrong and he doesn't want anybody else complaining about it. Chertoff's good.
But then,hasn't The Former Twelfth Lady been pretty much continuously outraged since she began studying the philosophy and tactics of Saul Alinsky back at Wellesley College?
F%$K hillary and the horse she rode in on. What a communist b^%tch
The friction of her two thighs is a known forest fire hazard.
Mad..Fat...plus.....NYC is always touting their own....
why don't they do it????????????????? The Clintons could lead the way for financing and all the rest....it may be
the impetus to put Hillary in the Drivers seat...
Biden, Kerry, Edwards would serve on the Committee
to get it done right!!!!(snicker time)...Jake
I really don't think i could survive even 4 years of this, I really don't. The irony here is just sickening.
I would move to Aruba before subjecting myself to this wench's rule.
Thought it was Hitlery and her friends like Kleagle Byrd to put together a budget that would include her pet projects. If there's little or no money, it's her fault.
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