Disgusting.
Disd you expect any less of them?
It is disgusting. I can't remember the atmosphere being so poisoned.
How long before the left accuses Bush and Rove of somehow seeding the clouds to cause this, to take the attention off of Cindy Sheehan, or for some other insane reason? The left is absoultely unhinged, and has been for some time.
So much for politics stopping "at the waters' edge".
This sort of cravenness is why the Democrats have been, are, and will continue to be losers.
A city the size of NO can't come up with 35 Million?
The author of this article is a complete asshat. Everyone has known for decades what the levees around New Orleans are built to withstand. How convenient that this disaster occurred during Bush's administration, so that this fool of a writer can blame him for the fact that New Orleans was built in a swamp 300 years ago.
Fair or not, everything gets blamed on the guy in charge.. Bush can deal with this handily by announcing some emergency funding for MS, LA and GE.. and be presidential surveying the damaging.
You mean Bush hasn't cleaned everything up yet? What's he waiting for? The liberals will try and use this event to say that Bush isn't helping enough. I guess Bill and Hilary will be touring the area even before Bush to show that they are more interested and compassionate. You have that woman governor and senator from Louisiana, both Democrats, on TV crying and showing how compassionate they are. This is tragic and I'm sure many of you love the South like I do, but let's face it, when you build on the coastline you are vulnerable, when you don't evacuate you are vulnerable and it has become the federal government's (meaning all US taxpayers) responsibility to bail out all these places, not expecting state and local governments to do anything. Of course the rebuilding is good for the economy, so always look for a silver lining.
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The citizens of New Orleans knew that this day could come at any time and if they get the chance to rebuild this day could (and will) come again at any time.
If you don't like it, get your ass out of the way.
Everybody locally needs to pay for their own darn levees.
This is the key line, everything else is spin.
Note how small an amount of money this is. The city of New Orleans itself could have paid for this easily if it had bothered to -- it's about the cost of building six miles of freeway. Chicken feed on the scale of city or state governments. Blaming the federal government for not footing the bill, as if no one else closer to the problem could be bothered to pay for it, is ridiculous.
The left wing bloggers are having an orgy over all this crap.
All together now...
IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!!!
Mark
bush's fault! wow that was quick.. why am i not surprised.
You can watch the Dems beg for their scraps of face time on the news, latching onto the latest craze so that they're not forgotten.
For example, see Al Sharpton suddenly realize that he's not been in the news lately, see Al run to Crawford to get his face back on the tube, let's all remember that Al's still relevent.
Robert Kennedy is a footnote in a long line of footnotes, today he's blaming the hurricane on Global Warming and Global Warming on Republicans. He's crying "Remember me, I was somebody's son, I'm important, listen to me".
With any politician, but especially those that make their living blaming others, the need exists for a new forum every couple of months to get back in the news and rally the followers. After all, without a cause, their entire existance is meaningless, and their money is gone.
Being in the Philly suburbs, I just HAD to post on their thread. The Daily News is the "Enquirer" of Phila. so don't expect much from the people who read it.