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As far as the spending goes, two days ago I heard Mike Pence talk abut how is efforts to find offsets were a "direct result" of the President's meeeting with Congressional leaders.
And as far as Katrina spending goes, BY LAW the government is supposed to cover 75% of the costs. I suggest that people who are griping need to talk to their Congressional people and get that law changed; the President has sworn to uphold all of the laws, even those he doesn't like.
Does anyone know EXACTLY how much is to be spent? No, because we don't even know what all is damaged yet. Does anyone know how much is going to be covered by the private sector and charities? No, for the same reason.
Has the President done anything that merits this snarky response by Ms. Noonan? No. The three things he proposed in his speech are conservative ways of dealing with a disaster. All of the griping is by people who have other axes to grind and make silly comments like "Bush is trying to buy favor with the democrats." That is ludicrous and I am not accepting such second-rate punditry.
Noonan (which I will call her since she doesn't bother to give the President the courtesy of his title) needs to face the fact that President Bush is his own person, the times are different than when President Reagan was in office, and that President Bush's speechwriter is every bit as good as she was, if not better.
And, by the way, I wonder how come we don't hear from any other Reagan speechwriters, especially since she wasn't HEAD writer. Could it be that they are not interested in trashing the President? Could it be that they, unlike Noonan, understand Reagan's 11th Commandment?
I am off my soapbox now. LOL!