Posted on 09/06/2005 6:05:03 PM PDT by wagglebee
I got this from Power Line. It's another great blog out there and it was also on Free Republic. The Freepers are doing great work on all this. "The New York Times is leading the shameless Bush and Republican bashing with respect to the response to Hurricane Katrina. One of its themes is that Congress didn't pay enough attention to flood control in the Gulf. But Donald Luskin reminds us of this bit of wisdom from the New York Times editorial page earlier this year." If you've been paying attention -- and I don't know how long you can before you have to find something else to do with all this on television 24/7, but -- there has been talk that the Bush administration was presented with this massive $14 billion plan to upgrade the levees and do a lot of work in the Mississippi Delta. It would have taken ten years, and even if it had been approved, the work would not have been anywhere near ready. It wouldn't have prevented the levees from breaking, but at least somebody would have cared and done something, and everybody's been walking around, "Oh, no, Bush vetoed it or reduced it." He didn't veto it, but the Bush administration cut the funding from $14 billion to $2.3 billion, right? You heard that one? So you heard about this big $14 billion plan that Bush slashed to $2.3 billion? Okay, well, good. If you've heard that, then listen to this. Here's the New York Times editorial page earlier this year:
"Anyone who cares about responsible budgeting and the health of America's rivers and wetlands should pay attention to a bill now before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. The bill would shovel $17 billion at the Army Corps of Engineers for flood control and other water-related projects -- this at a time when President Bush is asking for major cuts in Medicaid and other important domestic programs. Among these projects is a $2.7 billion boondoggle on the Mississippi River that has twice flunked inspection by the National Academy of Sciences." Earlier this year the New York Times editorialized against the $2.7 billion program! They called it a boondoggle, because they said it twice flunked inspection by the National Academy of Sciences. So they put this plan together. The New York Times had this agency look at it. "Nah, this thing, it will never work. It's a boondoggle, money down the drain, so to speak." They end up saying, "This is a bad piece of legislation." Earlier this year, the New York Times agreed with Bush. In fact, Bush authorized the $2.7 billion and the New York Times was against a penny of it being authorized. But now, after the fact, guess who has forgotten? The New York Times forget what they editorialized earlier this year, and the rest of the sycophants in the media which follow the New York Times apparently don't know this at all, because apparently now Bush is a skinflint for not appropriating the whole $17 billion. We'll be back in just a second. I guess we are performing a much needed public service here today, folks, and I'm honored to be the purveyor of such information to you.
I couldn't WAIT for Rush to do his program today, and he didn't disapppoint me. He hit a grand slam today; he's always been there for us.
If you're lurking, "thank you..Rush".
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Even helping those few Americans without a computer in their home.
GO FREEPERS GO
Best of all tho, is Tony Snow freeping while he's doing his show.
I've been quoted (in VERY negative terms) by the DUmmies a bunch of times, but that's all I know about.
Damn right! FR needs more mentioning in his stack of stuff. We've got the best news compilations on the internet and we're proud of it!
What's Tony Snow's screenname?
It's Tony Snow. Very original
I'm delighted that Rush is helping to get the word out. Most of his audience are conservative, but it's a large audience and hopefully they will talk to their friends about this. It's very important to defang the MSM slander campaign before people start to believe their lies.
Were it not for Free Republic, talk radio and Drudge, Dan Ratherbiased would have very likely gotten away with his forgery and Bush might have lost the election.
Note: this post was typed on an IBM Selectric, circa 1970.
That editorial should be shoved up the editor's keester at the NYT
BTTT- this is great!
Consider being quoted on DU as a badge of honor.
I signed up there once as wagglebee, about minute after I wrote that Bush was a good president, someone asked if I was the same wagglebee from FR. Before I could answer, I was banned.
I stumbled onto FR by accident. I was doing random searches, I was so sick of the pro-Clinton MSM, that I was looking to see what was out there.
And lo and behold, there was this "downside legacy" link. I clicked onto it, and the rest is history.
If Jim Robinson doesn't get some time of media lifetime achievement award, or a Presidential Medal of Freedom award....even posthumously....
I've seen Gary Aldrich post here before. Even Jesse Jackson signed up once and posted (I feces you not ask JohnHuang2 he'll tell you)
should be "type"
Makes ya proud to be a Freeper when someone like Rush backs you up. I don't think Mr. Rather will ever say anything good about us. Awwwwwwww :-}
I wouldn't loose any sleep over it.....
ping to post #35
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