about fucking time

[S@M]

Someone got up and stated the bloody obvious:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/20 ... 455544.htm

What a load of bullshit having those with the most vested, biased interests run an inquiry.

Hillary has got balls

[shiznit]

Sweet Jebus, I hope Bush is impeached. Unlikley I know but this will just ruin his rep even more.

[R00k]

Commissions and inquiries all leave a bad taste in my mouth.

I'm more in favor of special prosecutors at this point.

[hate]

Chronology of Bush's FEMA Failure
By Henry Breitrose, Stanford 1/9/05
Sep 3, 2005, 07:03

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January 2001: Bush appoints Joe Allbaugh, a crony from Texas, as head of FEMA. Allbaugh has no previous experience in disaster management.

April 2001: Budget Director Mitch Daniels announces the Bush administration's goal of privatizing much of FEMA's work. In May, Allbaugh confirms that FEMA will be downsized: "Many are concerned that federal disaster assistance may have evolved into both an oversized entitlement program...." he said. "Expectations of when the federal government should be involved and the degree of involvement may have ballooned beyond what is an appropriate level."

2001: FEMA designates a major hurricane hitting New Orleans as one of the three "likeliest, most catastrophic disasters facing this country."

December 2002: After less than two years at FEMA, Allbaugh announces he is leaving to start up a consulting firm that advises companies seeking to do business in Iraq. He is succeeded by his deputy, Michael Brown, who, like Allbaugh, has no previous experience in disaster management.

March 2003: FEMA is downgraded from a cabinet level position and folded into the Department of Homeland Security. Its mission is refocused on fighting acts of terrorism.

2003: Under its new organization chart within DHS, FEMA's preparation and planning functions are reassigned to a new Office of Preparedness and Response. FEMA will henceforth focus only on response and recovery.

Summer 2004: FEMA denies Louisiana's pre-disaster mitigation funding requests. Says Jefferson Parish flood zone manager Tom Rodrigue: "You would think we would get maximum consideration....This is what the grant program called for. We were more than qualified for it."

June 2004: The Army Corps of Engineers budget for levee construction in New Orleans is slashed. Jefferson Parish emergency management chiefs Walter Maestri comments: "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay."

June 2005: Funding for the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is cut by a record $71.2 million. One of the hardest-hit areas is the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, which was created after the May 1995 flood to improve drainage in Jefferson, Orleans and St. Tammany parishes.

August 2005: While New Orleans is undergoing a slow motion catastrophe, Bush mugs for the cameras, cuts a cake for John McCain, plays the guitar for Mark Wills, delivers an address about V-J day, and continues with his vacation. When he finally gets around to acknowledging the scope of the unfolding disaster, he delivers only a photo op on Air Force One and a flat, defensive, laundry list speech in the Rose Garden.

A crony with no relevant experience was installed as head of FEMA. Mitigation budgets for New Orleans were slashed even though it was known to be one of the top three risks in the country. FEMA was deliberately downsized as part of the Bush administration's conservative agenda to reduce the role of government. After DHS was created, FEMA's preparation and planning functions were taken away.

Actions have consequences. No one could predict that a hurricane the size of Katrina would hit this year, but the slow federal response when it did happen was no accident. It was the result of four years of deliberate Republican policy and budget choices that favor ideology and partisan loyalty at the expense of operational competence. It's the Bush administration in a nutshell.



Source:Ocnus.net 2004

[ForM]

A president that wants to lead a probe into himself.

Very intresting.


On a side note a probe from either side, be it the goverment or another group will curtail and jostle up millions of dollors, be it to recent disasters or some other humanitarian reson, for whats already obvious. The world already knows hes a fuckin lunitic.

He cant be re-elected anyway.


Hillary in '08 (cheers, applaudes)

[shiznit]

Anyone remember when Arnold Schwarzenegger hired an investigator to investigate if he sexually harassed any women?

[shiznit]

A president that wants to lead a probe into himself.

Very intresting.


On a side note a probe from either side, be it the goverment or another group will curtail and jostle up millions of dollors, be it to recent disasters or some other humanitarian reson, for whats already obvious. The world already knows hes a fuckin lunitic.

He cant be re-elected anyway.


Hillary in '08 (cheers, applaudes)

But if they find out that Bush was even partly at fault then this would not only ruin Bush's reputation but also the republicans.

Sort of like after Nixon, the people elected Jimmy Carter.

[ajerara]

I'm rooting for a resignation.

[StormShadow]

I'm rooting for a resignation.

good luck with that...

[R00k]

I'm rooting for a resignation.

And Cheney would take over, so things wouldn't be any better - maybe even worse. You know how crazy that bastard is.

Our only hope is for Bush and Cheney to both be impeached. Then, even the next republicrazy in line will have to think twice about trying to pull anything at all. It would probably result in absolutely nothing getting done in Washington for the next 3 years, but I'd much prefer that to what's going on now.

[Don Carlos]

GG HC