Comments on: House Speaker Skipped Katrina Relief Vote to Attend Congressional Fundraiser

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By: Think Progress » 109 Reasons To Dump The 109th Congress

Think Progress » 109 Reasons To Dump The 109th Congress — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:34:04 +0000

[...] 94. House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) skipped a vote on Katrina relief to attend a fundraiser. [Link] [...]

By: alesse

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By: Average TV Viewer

Average TV Viewer — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 22:59:33 +0000

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By: Bobby Head

Bobby Head — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 01:32:02 +0000

Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005 9:07 a.m. EDT Hillary Clinton’s New Fundraising Focus: Katrina

Four days after Sen. Charles Schumer was widely criticized for invoking Hurricane Katrina to raise campaign cash, Hillary Clinton signaled that she would make the Bush administration’s response to the Katrina disaster the new focus of her fundraising efforts.

Speaking Monday at a big-bucks Manhattan fundraiser for her 2006 reelection race, Clinton laced into Bush for the Katrina calamity, blasting what she described as a “total breakdown in leadership” at the White House.

“How could we, as Americans, have let this happen?” she fumed to donors, in quotes picked up by the New York Post. The top Democrat also cited Katrina to undermine Bush’s image as a strong guardian of national security, saying the, “We’ve had four years to fix [our emergency response]” – a clear reference to the just-passed 9/11 anniversary.

The former first lady said that the Bush administration’s failed Katrina response would leave a “deep and lasting scar that we have to look at honestly.”

Clinton has been a leading critic of Bush’s handling of the disaster since Katrina’s first raindrops fell. But yesterday’s event was the first time the former first lady has used the staggering tragedy to raise campaign funds.

It’s not known how much cash Clinton’s Katrina fundraiser netted her campaign.
Nothing like fiddling while N.O. drowns. This old cow has no shame whatever.

By: Bobby Head

Bobby Head — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 01:25:52 +0000

Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s abrupt decision Wednesday night to take responsibility for her state’s inadequate response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster followed an inadvertent confession that was caught on camera where Blanco admitted she blew it.

“I really should have called for the military,” Blanco said, while chatting with her press secretary in between TV interviews. “I really should have started that in the first call.”

Unbeknownst to Blanco, her bombshell acknowledgment was recorded on a network satellite feed, and by Tuesday the clip was getting wide exposure in Louisiana news broadcasts.

In the early days of the Katrina crisis, disaster management experts repeatedly blamed the failure to send in the National Guard for the city’s descent into chaos.

Most observers blamed the White House for the blunder – a misconception that was thoroughly dispelled by the governor’s inadvertent confession.
Some say Blanco’s blooper was responsible for the abrupt change of tone in her speech Wednesday night to the Louisiana legislature.

Where earlier she and her aides had openly blamed the Bush administration for bungling Katrina rescue efforts, Blanco announced: “The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.”

Just as surprising were Blanco’s words of praise for the White House: “I want the people of Louisiana to know that we have a friend and a partner in President George W. Bush. I thank you, Mr. President.”

Well….I guess it’s never too late, is it Gov.?

By: 2bit

2bit — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 15:38:39 +0000

Can you at least blame the hurricane on Bush’s poor policy towards preserving the environment which promoted global warming? I blame him every morning when I burn my toast and when my car doesnt start and …

The rest of the story:
By 4 p.m., Hastert had reached the Capitol, eager to explain his tardiness and to try again to show his solidarity with Katrina’s victims. The Indiana fundraiser, he told reporters, had been on his schedule “for a long, long time.”

“Yes, I went to a charity auction,” Hastert continued. “I took one of my cars and sold it for tens of thousands of dollars. And that money will go to hurricane relief efforts.”

By: Mel

Mel — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:29:30 +0000

You guys think that you know everything but you don’t. Hastert is a great kind hearted man. He had to come how to deal with thing that we need him for in Illinois. This should have been dealt with by Louisanna. With 9/11 things went well b/c of good local goverment. I am sick of people that think that the president and congress can fix everything with a flip of a switch. They approved the funding for the disater agencies and State goverment can do THEIR JOB. You want to blame everyone else what have YOU DONE!!! Illinois farmers are in serious trouble, the drought we have had have wiped out most of our farms.and out highways and transportation needs attention. We needed OUR CONGRESSMAN HERE!!!!!And he was here in my town He visted all of your towns and spoke of what he was doing for us. We have farmers here that have worked there whole lives and have lost everything. We go through the same hoops the huricane vitcims are. I feel awful about New Orleans. The mayor of New Orleans should have better leadership skills!!!!!!!!!!!! Mayor Juliana was what kept New York in order.Illinois Law markers are also working on opening vacant colleges and buliding to help shelter and repair lives of victims, we still have are own problems to deal with. You hear one side of one issuse and based your rampages on nothing shame on you. Who cares if it was able to make it to a fundrasier for a friend when he was in the area. These guys get paid very little compared to entertainers and sports players, most doctors lawyers and CEO make alot more and get time off. He has a family and children.

By: Dixie Belle

Dixie Belle — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:06:08 +0000

And these guys run the country.

By: Hagar

Hagar — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 23:57:09 +0000

You bunch of losers are always looking to bash Bush about everything. Louisiana has a Democrat Governor, New Orleans has a Democrat Mayor, and the 2 Senators are Democrat. Put the blame where it belongs. These Democrats have done nothing to help the situation. The Governor wouldn’t let Red Cross and Salvation Army in to help.

By: MIghty Mike

MIghty Mike — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:14:47 +0000

I don’t see what everyone’s all worked up about (sarcasm!)

… this is just COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM AT WORK!

By: KJ Lovell

KJ Lovell — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 04:28:44 +0000

#21, he fails to see: You cannot restore something that never existed.

By: Siobhan Kolar

Siobhan Kolar — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 02:25:14 +0000

Looking up the latest on Speaker Hastert, my 14th District congressman I found your posts. Here is a website with more information on Camp Casey’s tour:www.fvc4pnj.org. Also check out AFSC Chicago for all Chicagoland locations for the Camp Casey bus tour ending in Washington from Sept. 24-26. We have to hold Hastert and all of them accountable, what choice do we have?

By: KJ Lovell

KJ Lovell — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 16:48:27 +0000

Frederick….. I NEVER stop telling the dumbya supporters about their family history, hyprocracy and their evil to the core current deeds.

I tell it often, I tell it LOUDLY!

I grab every dumbya supporter and I don’t stop until THEY ARE TOTALLY DE-PROGRAMED. THEY ARE LIKE MOONIES.

So far, I have educated about 1000 people. But, that is only a fraction of the mis-guided, ill-informed people that need to be de-programed.

I AM BEING VIGILANT… (sarcasm)

I AM BEING PATRIOTIC…

By: Bobby

Bobby — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 16:27:50 +0000

#20 One convert – 51 million to go.

By: Frederick Martello

Frederick Martello — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 16:00:44 +0000

Like Spugeboy, my Mom and other elderly relatives were all for Bush Jr., I never could understand how they were all so screwed up on every single issue that came along. Then I discovered what was wrong, one day while visiting, I heard my aunt say to Mom, “That O’Riley! He tells it like it is boy!”
“That’s right,” said my Mom,” just like Rush Limbaugh on the radio.”
“No wonder you two are are so screwed up,” I said. “You’ve been listening to that pretentious phoney O’Rilely, FOX! and Limbaugh, the pill popping hypocrite!”
That’s when I started faxing them all these “Think Progress” Pages from the net! Exposing both of their media Guru’s of Gak! ” But this time is different! While talking about Katrina, I heard my Mom launch into an Anti-Bush tirade that would make Air America’s Mike Maloy proud! Afterwards I heard all about the Fox/CNN on site reporters, Anderson from Fox, and Jack Kafferty of CNN. Both of have finely grown a set and rebelled! awake at long last! The clip of Anderson tearing into Bill O’Riley is priceless! Likewise, Jack Kaferty moment of truth on CNN!! Maybe, just maybe this Republican, hard right, pseudo religious train has begun to come off the damn rails.
BUT….. already Karl Rove’s spin factory is wisting the story, blaming the Victims! And you can be sure that by election day,next Novembe, half of these moronic Bush supporters will all have been twisted back into Rove’s bullshit! We could stop them, but only by not letting them get away with a single manipulative statement or action. But look as I may… the Democrats are once again SILENT. As the Right cranks up the propaganda, cranks out the lies, and points the finger of blame back on the very people who we, as a nation, have let down in front of the whole world! Meanwhile every Democratic Congressional and Senatorial office I have gotten in touch with, have all said just about the same damn thing… “Now is not the time to point the finger, and engage in Politics.” CAN YOU BELIEVE THESE SPINELESS PEOPLE who consider themselves Leaders!
WHAT HAS BECOME OF OUR DEMOCRATIC PARTY? Are they that terrified of Bush and co.? Or just another bunch of crooks and liars waiting in the wings?! There! I feel better now….
Thanks…

By: Hank

Hank — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 13:05:07 +0000

Ah, #21, if only that were true. But the country is a dictatorship: Repug Administration, Repug House and Senate, and Repug Supreme Court with is now going to get even worse with two more zealots headed that way. Who’s going to hold him responsible? Pelosi? She’s too busy kissing his ring. Dean? He is too busy saying dumb thinks on TV. Kennedy? Who’s listening to that old dinosaur.

If the country won’t hold him responsible for his inaction on 9-11, bungling the capture and defeat of Osama in Afganistan, getting us into an unnecessary and useless second war in Iraq, lieing to congress, presenting false documents to the UN, allowing the outing a CIA agent, the looting of our treasury by Halliburton and others, tax deals for the energy companies and super rich, Karl Rove, Tom DeLay and on and on…

I’m sorry to say that I’m not hold my breath for ANYONE to hold this dictator government accountable for anything.