Who benefits from Katrina?
POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Thursday, September 15, 2005 17:06
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But in the last couple days things have gotten pretty messed up. When I read the title of this thread yesterday morning, I was not looking forward to the content. I'd assumed that this would be the inevitable "If we don't minimize the reality of our losses to Katrina, the terrorists are winning" post. But it wasn't. I'm very relieved that the admin. and it's apologists have yet to use Katrina to market their favorite show, The War on Terror. It gives me hope that the unavoidable reality of Katrina will bring their 4 year old house of canards (couldn't resist ) tumbling down about their heads.
While the administration has not figured out how to blame the Katrina heartbreak on the "global war on terror" (I'm sure they're working on it), Dubya just can't hold it in and keeps making 9/11 references (not since the events of 9/11 has this country . . .)
I take heart that he's taking (rhetorically, anyway)responsibility for the shortcomings of his administration. I suppose it'd be too much to ask for him to resign over it though . . .
To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. --Robt. Heinlein
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Originally posted by R1Z:
I take heart that he's taking (rhetorically, anyway)responsibility for the shortcomings of his administration. I suppose it'd be too much to ask for him to resign over it though . . .
If he denied responsibility at this point, he'd be making a mistake- he'd look like a jerk. By taking some responsibility, he looks like the caring thoughtful man he isn't.
"You're doing a heck of a job, Brownie!"
I won't forget that garbage.
Chrisisall
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Typical of you left-wingnut Bush-haters! If he denies culpability, he's evil! If he accepts responsibility, he's evil!
No matter what he does, you have a license to dislike him now, right???
Right-wing Pro-Bush Chrisisall from another dimension
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Umm...that'd be a yes.
Now go back to your own gorram dimension, we got enough nuts on this world, thank you.
The REAL Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
If he denied responsibility at this point, he'd be making a mistake- he'd look like a jerk.
Well, it never stopped him in the past! Chris, Bush has been denying any and all responsibility since he came into office. He's never even made a mistake that mattered. His gang talk disparagingly about "the reality based community," remember? All us losers who think you have to keep reality in mind when making policy? Well, that's exactly what Bush is gonna have to do for the forseeable future, at least where Katrina and her aftermath are conserned. This is a major, major blow to this administration's image. And that's all they have!
HKCavalier
Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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Quote:Proper soundbites, hat tricks and new crisis' have proven to work well in the past, let's hope the memory of this event and it's mishandeling is not deleted or dumped in the recycle bin.
Originally posted by HKCavalier:
This is a major, major blow to this administration's image. And that's all they have!
And PRAY for a Democratic Presidential candidate with intact lumbar, thorasic and cervical regions.
I really hope Bush Inc. can't spin their way outta this. Finally some consequences for lies and mis-management....on this issue, anyway.
Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
And PRAY for a Democratic Presidential candidate with intact lumbar, thorasic and cervical regions.
I'll settle for one with an intact testicular function, metaphorically speaking, that is.
-F
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Yeah, lol, it comes down to the same thing, eh?
Balls and Spine brigade Chrisisall
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The Navy hired it (Halliburton} to restore electric power, repair roofs, and remove debris at three naval facilities in Mississippi. The company will also do damage assessments at other naval installations in New Orleans. Joe Allbaugh, former head of FEMA (and Bush's campaign manager before that) is registered to lobby for Halliburton's Brown Root subsidiary, and he hurried down to New Orleans to get things rolling.
Halliburton made the news recently when Bunnatine Greenhouse, a civilian manager at the Pentagon who oversaw the Corps of Engineers contracts, lambasted a multibillion contract between the Corps and Halliburton as an example of ”the most blatant and improper contract abuse I have witnessed.” She was demoted for “poor performance.” (after years of exemplary performance ratings)
The Project on Government Oversight, a Washington nonprofit, reports the government is opening up the contracting spigots by authorizing rules that permit government procurement officials to forget bidding procedures and authorize deals on their own say-so of up to $250,000. Normally they can only go as high as $2,500....
And on Thursday, Bush signed an executive order permitting federal contractors working on hurricane related deals to pay wages at below the prevailing rate due to the “national emergency.”
www.villagevoice.com/news/0538,ridgewayweb,67874,2.html
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Congress probes hurricane clean-up contracts
...Companies winning work include US contracting giants Bechtel and Halliburton. Halliburton, formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, is facing questions for allegedly overcharging on work done in Iraq. The Department of Defense was criticised for awarding Iraq reconstruction contracts to these two companies without competition.
observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1567081,00.html
Quote:www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/09/05/hurricane_track_record/index_
"... {Brown} helped deliver Florida to President Bush by efficiently responding to the Florida hurricanes." A FEMA spokeswoman denied the report at the time. Floridians had good reason to be grateful. In the summer of 2004, FEMA handed out... nearly $30 million to residents of Miami-Dade County to replace TVs, computers and microwaves, even though that county suffered little or no hurricane damage.
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Please don't think they give a shit.
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Originally posted by SignyM:
"... {Brown} helped deliver Florida to President Bush by efficiently responding to the Florida hurricanes." A FEMA spokeswoman denied the report at the time. Floridians had good reason to be grateful. In the summer of 2004, FEMA handed out... nearly $30 million to residents of Miami-Dade County to replace TVs, computers and microwaves, even though that county suffered little or no hurricane damage.
Disgusting. In other words, Bush couldn't benefit from Katrina enough to justify timely action.
HKCavalier
Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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