Posted on 09/20/2005 5:26:00 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) unleashed a furious attack on the Bush administration at a Brown University speech yesterday, upbraiding the presidents response to the hurricane that recently devastated the Gulf Coastand tying it to what he sees as other flaws at the White House.
This is the Katrina administration, read prepared remarks posted on 2004 Democratic presidential nominees website, www.johnkerry.com. Katrina is a symbol of all this administration does and doesn't do, read Kerrys script, portions of which were included in an e-mail to supporters that ended with a fundraising appeal.
Michael Brown [Bushs former emergency-management director] is to Katrina what [former Iraq administrator] Paul Bremer is to peace in Iraq; what [former CIA Director] George Tenet is to slam-dunk intelligence; what [former Deputy Defense Secretary] Paul Wolfowitz is to parades paved with flowers in Baghdad; what [Vice President] Dick Cheney is to visionary energy policy; what [Defense Secretary] Donald Rumsfeld is to basic war planning; what [House Majority Leader] Tom Delay [R-Texas] is to ethics; and what George Bush is to Mission Accomplished and Wanted Dead or Alive.
In a brief interview, Tracey Schmitt, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, called Kerrys pitch for cash repulsive.
In a news release, she said, John Kerry's attacks on President Bush's efforts to assist the victims and rebuild the Gulf Coast don't come as a surprise. Armchair quarterbacking on tough issues has never been a problem for Senator Kerry. The American people have pulled together during a difficult time and Democrats efforts to politicize this tragedy are unsavory at best.
Kerrys speech is the latest salvo in a political battle over accountability that has pitted the parties against each other in Washington and federal officials against their state and local counterparts in the Gulf region.
While Kerrys speech may play well with the Democratic base, Sarah Binder, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor at George Washington University, said the senator has a tough challenge to pin blame on Bush.
That post is a keeper.
Another Lib/Dem tragedy whore. But wasn't he in Vietnam?
I wonder if its like when you "pledge" money to PBS just so they can get back to the Monty Python episode. You really don't intend to mail the check, it just makes you feel better that you even thought about it.
I am sure Mama T was all wacked on Goofballs and Gin.
We should have listen to him. As it turns out, JK's Secret Plan 54-K that he mentioned mysteriously before the Election dealt with a hurricane hitting New Orleans. He knew all along what to do and how to do it. The onle problem with Plan 54-K is that it required the unanimous consent of the UN Security Council to implement, and it was mandatory that the vote take place in Cambodia during the Christmas season.
Wonder what this pathetic woman is doing these days?
What is written on the kid's head? Looks sorta like, "Moron"?
Bush Offering a Hand Up, Not Handouts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1487340/posts
go to post #9 to see an INCREDIBLE video/music of Katrina!
Elsie: that is just sad. It is hard to believe, but impossible to ignore, the level of entitlement that liberals have given some groups of minorities. They have just been conditioned to stand there with a hand out, refusing to help themselves, and honestly believing that the world owes them an living.
Makes me think of my mom's old saying: "God helps those that help themselves."
I drive through some more "ethnic" parts of Hartford, CT and I am amazed at the way some people just walk around and just throw garbage at their feet and walk on. The numbers of people standing around, flashing lights at me or giving other signals meaing "drugs for sale" is apalling. The number of abandoned buildings is frightening.
I thank the liberals for this attitude.
There are lots of local stories about people offering their summer cottages etc. to the evacuees.
How many of Kerry's mansions has he made available to them?
What an easy job Kerry has...running around criticizing. I'm just so impressed.
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(This is from a guy here in Houston who went to volunteer his time to help the hurricane victims.)
There are so many pictures like that of Kerry and Heinz where he is touching her or kissing her and she looks like the hair is standing up on the back of her neck and her skin is crawling.
Have you read Cal Thomas' column in yesterdays paper??
Or this??
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1487838/posts?page=50#50
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