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Dems Assail White House on Katrina Effort
Breitbart.com - Just The News ^ | September 7, 2005 | JENNIFER LOVEN and DAVID ESPO

Posted on 09/07/2005 11:17:46 AM PDT by TexasGreg

WASHINGTON

Congress' top two Democrats furiously criticized the administration's response to Hurricane Katrina on Wednesday, with Sen. Harry Reid demanding to know whether President Bush's Texas vacation impeded relief efforts and Rep. Nancy Pelosi assailing the chief executive as "oblivious, in denial" about the difficulties.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: baltimoredemorats; bugeyespelosi; demoratcorruption; demorats; friendsofterrorists; inspiringpost22; katrina; katrinademocrats; naysayers; nitwits; tworagingidiots; whimperingreid
At the end of the article Pelosi (D - Idiot Land) says

She related that she urged Bush at the White House on Tuesday to fire Brown.

"He said 'Why would I do that?'" Pelosi said.

"'I said because of all that went wrong, of all that didn't go right last week.' And he said 'What didn't go right?'"

"Oblivious, in denial, dangerous," she added.

No, Pelosi ... what the Feds did went right ... it was your Democrat Governor and Mayor who screwed up and need to be fired by the People. Sadly, their constituency is mostly made up of sheep ... so no correction will happen.

1 posted on 09/07/2005 11:17:47 AM PDT by TexasGreg
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2 posted on 09/07/2005 11:19:38 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Jamie Gorelick is responsible for more dead Americans(9-11) than those killed in Iraq.)
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To: TexasGreg
When San Francisco goes down, which it will, I can predict that with certainty, this Pelosi woman is going to be very angry that planes were not on the way before the tremblers started.

BTW, now is the time to abandon San Fran, and get the refugees out of there, not later when all the roads are busted up, there's no water, and poisonous clouds of asbestos from ruined bath-houses endangers the environment.

3 posted on 09/07/2005 11:20:03 AM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again?)
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To: TexasGreg

No, Pelosi ... what the Feds did went right ... it was your Democrat Governor and Mayor who screwed up and need to be fired by the People. Sadly, their constituency is mostly made up of sheep ... so no correction will happen.
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Yes, but radical leftists like Nazi Pelosi and Dingy Harry, are VERY dependent on the votes of LIBERAL SHEEP!!!


4 posted on 09/07/2005 11:20:23 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: All

That's it, you rabid donkeys. Just keep on spewing.


5 posted on 09/07/2005 11:21:47 AM PDT by Sister_T (Starve a RINO!!!)
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To: TexasGreg; All

Gallop Poll - 13% blame Bush

After night and day pounding of the blame-Bush mantra - Americans can see the truth - and it's just the kook left who is driving the media .. {sigh}.


6 posted on 09/07/2005 11:22:12 AM PDT by CyberAnt (America has the greatest military on the face of the earth.)
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To: TexasGreg


7 posted on 09/07/2005 11:22:41 AM PDT by frankjr
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To: TexasGreg

Since when does a President get blamed for a hurricane and a flood? The Democrats are still searching and haven't reached the absolute bottom yet.


8 posted on 09/07/2005 11:24:15 AM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: TexasGreg

Pelosi and Dean placing blame without the facts or at least ignoring them. The Dems are digging themselves into a hole...again. Will they ever learn?


9 posted on 09/07/2005 11:24:25 AM PDT by frankjr
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To: TexasGreg
As soon as the requirement is gone, I'll stop posting this. Until that time...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477607/posts

...or directly via...

http://tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1026

Also a good one to read -
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478273/posts

Idiot Leftist Boob alert!

Idiot Leftist Boob alert!
10 posted on 09/07/2005 11:25:37 AM PDT by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: TexasGreg

The Dems have to protect their own. The best part is that it isn't working.

Hopefully people will remember the lefty screw-ups next year at the polls.


11 posted on 09/07/2005 11:25:39 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: TexasGreg

Keep it up, San Fran Nan...nobody likes a whiner.


12 posted on 09/07/2005 11:25:39 AM PDT by My2Cents
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To: TexasGreg
Dems Assail White House on Katrina Effort


All units, all units! we have a breach, Dem'rat loose in sector "B"!
13 posted on 09/07/2005 11:27:06 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: TexasGreg
Pelosi = \!/

Reid = (*)

14 posted on 09/07/2005 11:29:22 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Liberals preach comity and practice calumny.)
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To: TexasGreg
Some months ago...


15 posted on 09/07/2005 11:31:15 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi (Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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To: TexasGreg

The Dems still don't get it.


16 posted on 09/07/2005 11:31:25 AM PDT by KenmcG414
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To: muawiyah

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. . . now is the time to abandon San Fran . . .
<<

Sadly, I did. My family has been there since the 19th century, but I just couldn't bear to see such a beautiful place ruined. I will fight to the death to keep them from my new home.


17 posted on 09/07/2005 11:33:42 AM PDT by noblejones
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To: frankjr

Good picture of Nazi Pelosi -- her plastic surgeon told her that if she had one more facelift, she would have a goatee!!!


18 posted on 09/07/2005 11:34:37 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: TexasGreg

These douchebags get more disgusting every day. Loathsome, ignorant, loudmouth jackasses. And those are their good qualities.


19 posted on 09/07/2005 11:34:39 AM PDT by Mr. Keys
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To: TexasGreg
Joel K. Bourne, Jr.

Photographs by Robert Caputo and Tyrone Turner

The Louisiana bayou, hardest working marsh in America, is in big trouble—with dire consequences for residents, the nearby city of New Orleans, and seafood lovers everywhere.

It was a broiling August afternoon in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Big Easy, the City That Care Forgot. Those who ventured outside moved as if they were swimming in tupelo honey. Those inside paid silent homage to the man who invented air-conditioning as they watched TV "storm teams" warn of a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Nothing surprising there: Hurricanes in August are as much a part of life in this town as hangovers on Ash Wednesday.

But the next day the storm gathered steam and drew a bead on the city. As the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people evacuated to higher ground. Some 200,000 remained, however—the car-less, the homeless, the aged and infirm, and those die-hard New Orleanians who look for any excuse to throw a party.

The storm hit Breton Sound with the fury of a nuclear warhead, pushing a deadly storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain. The water crept to the top of the massive berm that holds back the lake and then spilled over. Nearly 80 percent of New Orleans lies below sea level—more than eight feet below in places—so the water poured in. A liquid brown wall washed over the brick ranch homes of Gentilly, over the clapboard houses of the Ninth Ward, over the white-columned porches of the Garden District, until it raced through the bars and strip joints on Bourbon Street like the pale rider of the Apocalypse. As it reached 25 feet (eight meters) over parts of the city, people climbed onto roofs to escape it.

Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.

When did this calamity happen? It hasn't—yet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched. The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist attack on New York City. Even the Red Cross no longer opens hurricane shelters in the city, claiming the risk to its workers is too great.

Rest of the story

The corrupt democrat machine in La. all knew what could happen and failed to protect their citizens..

They should all be going to jail for murder and maleficence in office

imo

20 posted on 09/07/2005 11:34:56 AM PDT by joesnuffy
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To: TexasGreg
Of all the Members of Congress, Nancy Pelosi has a better understanding of what went wrong in New Orleans than any other. Hold your fire. I don't mean the "understanding" that she demonstrates in the comments quoted here. No, I mean in her personal background.

Nancy Pelosi grew up as Nancy D'Alesandro in Baltimore, Maryland. (For a brief period, I was a next-door neighbor.) Her father, Tommy D'Alesandro, Jr., was Mayor and presided without indictment or conviction over a corrupt urban political machine. Her brother, Tommy, III, beat charges of rape (as a young man) and several for corruption (as Mayor).

In short, Nancy (D'Alesandro) Pelosi well understands corrupt urban politics, in which much money is stolen, incompetent people wind up in public office, and challenges can be turned into disasters because of that corruption and incompetence. Lastly, though the faces of the D'Alesandro Machine were mostly white, it worked hand in glove with the black organizations in the black districts.

So, as I said, Pelosi DOES understand the situation in New Orleans. And, if she told the truth, she would blame Mayor Nagin. But she can't do that, because she would be rejecting her own background and blaming her own father and brother.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "The Constitution is Finished: Not the US One, the Atlanta One"

21 posted on 09/07/2005 11:35:00 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Mayor Nagin is personally responsible for 6 times the American deaths as the Iraq War.)
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To: TexasGreg




Inspiring, aren't they!?

22 posted on 09/07/2005 11:37:41 AM PDT by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: TexasGreg

And Oprah wept......


23 posted on 09/07/2005 11:37:59 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I hear the Vonage music playing.....woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoo....)
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To: EagleUSA

"she would have a goatee!!!"

I catch your drift, and that is not a pleasant visual.


24 posted on 09/07/2005 11:39:17 AM PDT by frankjr
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To: TexasGreg


25 posted on 09/07/2005 11:42:26 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi (Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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To: TexasGreg

What about "stopping the politics of personal destruction?"


26 posted on 09/07/2005 11:44:15 AM PDT by GianniV
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To: Grampa Dave

27 posted on 09/07/2005 11:44:43 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi (Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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To: frankjr
Will they ever learn?

The Rats will STEP IN IT AGAIN & AGAIN! Stepping In Poop

28 posted on 09/07/2005 11:45:19 AM PDT by jslade ("If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried." (Seminole Cty, FL))
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To: TexasGreg
Another reason I will not be giving a single penny to the relief effort. Below is one of the prime reasons I refuse to give any money:

Democratic Underground has been raving about the rap lyrics below. Notice how this ass implies that anybody that supports Bush doesn't like black people (bold and italics). Not one f***ing dime from me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've had it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please spread this around so others can determine if they reall want to help such ungrateful scum.

Public Enemy front man Chuck D has written a new song addressing the natural disaster in New Orleans, Alabama, Mississippi and the issues that surround the region ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. In “Hell No We Ain’t Alright,” Chuck D sends a barbed message to government officials, the media, the military and even the Hip-Hop nation. The lyrics for the song were written on Sept. 2, the same day Kanye West rapped the treatment of African Americans suffering in the catastrophe live on the NBC television network. The rapper reportedly recorded the track over Labor Day weekend and is expected to distribute it shortly. Chuck D and Public Enemy have been long running activists in the rap community. Below are the lyrics to “Hell No We Ain’t Alright,” as written by Chuck D.

“Hell No We Ain’t Alright”

New Orleans in the morning, afternoon, and night

Hell No We Ain’t Alright

Now all these press conferences breaking news alerts

This just in while your government looks for a war to win

Flames from the blame game, names? Where do I begin?

Walls closing in get some help to my kin

Who cares?While the rest of the Bushnation stares

As the drama unfolds as we the people under the stairs

50% of this Son of a Bush nation

Is like hatin’ on Haiti

And setting up assassinations

Ask Pat Robertson- quiz him.... smells like terrorism.

Racism in the news/ still one-sided news

Saying whites find food/

prey for the national guard ready to shoot

‘Cause them blacks loot

New Orleans in the morning, afternoon, and night

Hell No We Ain’t Alright

Fires, earthquakes, tsunamis

I don’t mean to scare/ Wasn’t this written somewhere?

Disgraces all I see is black faces moved out to all these places

Emergency state, corpses, alligators and snakes

Big difference between this haze and them diamonds on the VMA’s



We better look/ what’s really important

Under this sun especially if you over 21

This ain’t no TV show/ this ain’t no video

This is really real/ beyond them same ole “keep it real”



Quotes from them TV stars drivin’ big rim cars

'Streets be floodin,’ B/ no matter where you at, no gas

Driving is a luxury

Urgency

State of emergency



Shows somebody’s government

Is far from reality....

New Orleans in the morning, afternoon, and night

Hell No We Ain’t Alright

I see here we be the new faces of refugees

Who ain’t even overseas but here on our knees

Forget the plasma TV-ain’t no electricity

New worlds upside down-and out of order

Shelter? Food? Wasssup, wheres the water?



No answers from disaster/ them masses hurtin’

So who the f**k we call?--Halliburton?

Son of a Bush, how you gonna trust that cat?

To fix s**t when help is stuck in Iraq?



Making war plans takin’ more stands

In Afghanistan 2000 soldiers dyin’ in the sand



But that’s over there, right?

Now what's over here is a noise so loud

That some can’t hear but on TV I can see

Bunches of people lookin’ just like me…
29 posted on 09/07/2005 11:45:52 AM PDT by Codeflier (Implement Loser Pays)
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30 posted on 09/07/2005 11:47:55 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi (Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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To: TexasGreg

The Dems see this issue as fading. Otherwise they would have continued to remain silent while the media and RINOs carried their water.


31 posted on 09/07/2005 11:48:57 AM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
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To: alessandrofiaschi

Great summary.

Ted Kennedy survives due to the left media which enabled his coverup of manslaughter.


32 posted on 09/07/2005 11:49:42 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Jamie Gorelick is responsible for more dead Americans(9-11) than those killed in Iraq.)
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To: TexasGreg

33 posted on 09/07/2005 11:50:41 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi (Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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We need the video of Pelosi saying that. I don't know where they were, but Hastert and a couple of others were standing behind her. When she went off on her tirade about Michael Brown, Hastert and the others vey sloooowly moved out of the camera shot.

It was classic.


34 posted on 09/07/2005 11:51:13 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: TexasGreg
"Dems Assail White House on [insert issue here]"

The Democrats are a party based on complaint without a single constructive idea among the lot of them.

The idea that an entire political party can become so completely eviscerated intellectually is scary, frankly.
35 posted on 09/07/2005 11:52:58 AM PDT by Antoninus (Dominus Iesus, miserere nobis.)
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To: Corin Stormhands; All

36 posted on 09/07/2005 11:53:01 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi (Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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Pox on the Democrats AND THE CAR THEY DROVE UP IN!! America is tired of voting these people out of office.. but we will do it again and again and again. The DNC offers nothing, they plan nothing, they spend other people's money and belly ache because there isn't any more. They have no agenda, and no cause except the blame game and GET BUSH!! Pox on the Democrats. To Hillary...you are to blame for the Hurrcaine that destroyed the south because you voted for setting the federal government up the way it is. What have you done Hillary????????????? Did you get down there to do anything but run back up to Washington and play the blame game???? Pox on the Democrats. The DNC is an utter and total failure. They are on the way out....sooner rather than later. Lets all help them leave!!!!!BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


37 posted on 09/07/2005 12:00:01 PM PDT by cousair
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To: TexasGreg
Same stuff, different day. Utterly bereft of any ideas or solutions themselves, all the political left is capable of is shamelessly attacking those who are actually doing something.

God, but these Marxist demagogues are scum. Absolute scum.

Doom on them all.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

38 posted on 09/07/2005 12:56:34 PM PDT by Joe Brower (The Constitution defines Conservatism. *NRA*)
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To: TexasGreg

We're supposed to trust Pelosi on what Bush said to her? Right.


39 posted on 09/07/2005 1:00:40 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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We're supposed to trust Pelosi on what Bush said to her? Right.

What I want to know is ... why is she listening to her Bush?
40 posted on 09/07/2005 2:50:39 PM PDT by TexasGreg ("Democrats Piss Me Off")
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