Katrina Speech: Reconstruction Redux
By on Sep 15th, 2005 at 9:29 pm
Katrina Speech: Reconstruction Redux
It must have been easy for Bush’s staff to write this speech. Just pull the text from his speeches on the failed efforts in Iraq –
George Bush on Iraq, 11/14/03:
We will do what it takes. We will not leave until the job is done.
George Bush on the Gulf Coast, 9/15/05:
We will do what it takes. We will stay as long as it takes.
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yep, that one stood out like a sore thumb.
Iraq 2.0 – Halliburton, Bechtel will make billions, workers will be paid minimum wage, the rich will have waterfront homes on land lost by the poor.
September 15th, 2005 at 9:38 pmSOS and tens of millions of Americans will rate the message an A+.
September 15th, 2005 at 9:42 pmits hard work. lol. i love that line.
September 15th, 2005 at 9:43 pm#1 You got it! On both comments.
September 15th, 2005 at 10:26 pmLook on the bright side. At least no one who disagrees with him ever has to sit through one of his speeches.
September 15th, 2005 at 11:09 pmI was hoping that the people wouldn’t allow Bushie to distract the American People from Iraq.
Good job Thinkprogress. The cost of Iraq continues to be the price tag that real Americans scrutinize.
September 15th, 2005 at 11:11 pmDumbya doing an ivestigation is like Maxwell Smart doing it.
Missed it by that much!
I saw how the senators voted on the independent investigation. Buzzflash has the link.
All the Democrats voted yea, except for the one that didn’t vote.
And, as you would expect ALL the repugs voted no, except the repugnican from LA that didn’t vote.
No suprises there.
Buzzflash also has a link to The New York Times article:
NYT’s Brooks revealed that “from Day One,†the Bush White House “decided our public relations is not going to be honest†— why hasn’t he written about this?
It is a good read with links.
Also, Buzzflash has links to interviews of 2 survivors that said they heard a big boom after the hurricane had passed, and afterward St. Bernard’s Parrish began to flood. The head of St. Bernard’s Parrish gave an interview and also said he heard the big boom after the hurricane.
Dumbya doesn’t want an ivestigation into 9/11 (’cause his brother Marvin’s company was in the twin towers 9/10 installing “security devicesâ€. When Marvin’s nanny (not his, his childrens) threatend him about coming forward, she was crushed by her car in early October 2001. Google Bertha Champagne.
September 15th, 2005 at 11:25 pmHey kj, I heard the report of the big boom also. I don’t support an inquiry because we all know the truth anyway.
On 9-11 I watched Farenheit 9-11 again and watched the footage of the towers going down. The towers were definately detonated.
Bushie has attacked our country twice now. What are we going to do about it?
September 15th, 2005 at 11:44 pmHe is a lying son of a B (for Barbara, before you get all shook up. He brought in the generators to run the TV cameras AND TOOK THEM AWAY when he left. Impeach NOW!
September 16th, 2005 at 12:23 am#3. Agree. It’s pretty clear that his favorite line is ” It’s hard work” and “We’re making progress”.
And he will end with “Now watch this drive.”
September 16th, 2005 at 12:48 amHe’s milking his flash cards of successful lines because Rove is back in the driver’s seat, and his kidney stones have passed. That’s why the President is acting like a human being again. Remember now – the operative word here is “acting” because he has a script again, a guidline to follow, tape marks to stand on and the right props (billions of dollars) to move around appropriately.
Remember now – the operative word there is “appropriate” because this guy only throws money at the people he needs, whether it be his donors and the elite corporate power group for the first term, or the devastated poor in the second term, (the plight of whom when ignored was so tragic it actually woke up the press corp and bit W. in the ass). So he’s back on book, chasing the image of what a President should be, acting the part of leader while the emptiness inside still beckons to us from the abyss within, waiting for the crisis to pass so that things ca go back to normal, and the black hole can return. The non-person who can act like a person whenever any hint of his true blank self cracks through the facade.
The Burned Out Paranoid Democrat
September 16th, 2005 at 1:32 amhttp://www.burnedoutparanoiddemocrat.blogpsot.com
#8, Thanks Susan. I asked you some questions in the corrupt establishment thread. I am so glad that some of us here in the U.S. are paying attention and don’t have our blinders on.
I agree, we know what happened. But it still galls me that these people think we can be so easily manipulated. It makes my soul hurt that they value profits over human life. They better hope there is no God, as I am sure he/she is not pleased.
September 16th, 2005 at 1:52 am#9, he really brought generators and took them away?
What an Ass.
I found this and you may think it interesting (although not nearly tough enough)
Who’s in Charge? Karl Rove!
By Dan FroomkinSpecial to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, September 15, 2005; 12:00 PM
All you really need to know about the White House’s post-Katrina strategy — and Bush’s carefully choreographed address on national television tonight — is this little tidbit from the ninth paragraph of Elisabeth Bumiller and Richard W. Stevenson ’s story in the New York Times this morning:
“Republicans said Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff and Mr. Bush’s chief political adviser, was in charge of the reconstruction effort.”
Rove’s leadership role suggests
quite strikingly that any and all White House decisions and pronouncements regarding the recovery from the storm are being made with their political consequences as the primary consideration. More specifically: With an eye toward increasing the likelihood of Republican political victories in the future, pursuing long-cherished conservative goals, and bolstering Bush’s image.
That is Rove’s hallmark.
Rove, Bush’s long-time political adviser and the “architect” of Bush’s ascendancy, was rewarded after the 2004 election with a position at the White House with overt policy responsibilities. But whereas in some previous White Houses, governance took precedence over campaigning once the election was safely over, Rove has shown no sign of ever putting policy goals above political ones. (See my Rove profile .)
Tonight’s speech promises two classic features of the Rove approach.
Bush will take advantage of powerful imagery — the Associated Press reports the speech will be held in historic Jackson Square, with the famous St. Louis Cathedral as a backdrop — and he won’t risk having anyone around who might disagree with him or ask an impertinent question. In fact, the AP says, there won’t be a live audience at all. (And even the journalists covering the event are being told they won’t be allowed to stray from their press vans.)
As for the speech itself, it will inevitably seek to answer any naysaying about Bush by recasting him in the heroic, leadership role he played after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — while advocating a range of measures that are dear to the conservative political agenda.
It will, on the other hand, feature one very unRovian tactic. Typically, it is the Democrats who are blamed for wanting to solve problems by throwing money at them. But tonight, Bush will be the one throwing the money around.
Will it work? Rove has an astonishing track record of success. But at the same time, Bush finds himself today a deeply unpopular president according to the opinion polls, particularly damaged by his lackluster response to the protracted, televised suffering in New Orleans.
And Rove himself has not been at his best of late. Unlike many of Bush’s advisers, who have plausible deniability for his initial under-reaction because they weren’t with him on vacation, Rove was tagging along with the president, blithely touring the West Coast even as the Gulf Coast drowned. Rove is haunted by the possibility of indictment by a federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA agent. And according to Time magazine, he was briefly hospitalized last week with painful kidney stones.
Even many of the president’s traditional allies say Bush — and by extension, Rove — have been off their political game. We’ll know better by tomorrow morning whether that continues to be the case.
If I bother anyone (anyone but skels and trolls) tell me and I will shorten my posts.
September 16th, 2005 at 1:55 amKJLovell
All information is welcome, unless it is racist, hateful or anti-American. You know, all of the troll posts here. Sheesh, sometimes it seems like they have no idea what they are typing, it is so blatantly filled with vile, evil, crap.
If they would only post link to articles that back up the putrid bile they spew, I might consider their point of view, but since there is no rational national news outlet that will print that crap, they never have facts.
It is sorry really.
September 16th, 2005 at 2:24 amSpudge,
That’s because the trolls only post talking points, spin and propaganda posted on the free republic, m. malkin, powerline or one of the other crap factless sites of the right. They also just reprint each others fantasies, so to a nitwit like the trolls that visit here they just believe to be true because they’ve seen it on so many sites ‘they trust’. They’ve also been fed the fantasy of the liberal press – despite the fact that the press is ALL owned by large corporate interests who increasingly put their foot up the a$$ of the reporters and editors to only print rightwing propaganda or what they call ‘balanced reporting’, which means they don’t call these guys liars when they lie, and they give them a credible platform to spread the lies with little or no real challenge.
Couple this with the fact that they so desperately want to believe their fantasy world, that they will ignore every fact that disagrees and selectively parse partial truths to support their preconceptions. It’s truly become a cult movement of the sick, psychotic, murderous, greedy, hateful and stupid…
September 16th, 2005 at 3:13 amWell. at least you know he’s going to stay =)
September 16th, 2005 at 9:03 am“Bush speaks about the devastated Gulf region”
[...now that he's pretty much done devastating the OTHER Gulf region...]
September 16th, 2005 at 9:32 am….”Well I”M not a crook”….(yes you were nixon and so is bush)….RESIGN RESIGN RESIGN…before it’s to late!
September 16th, 2005 at 10:17 amI am not a fan of Bush in the least — “we will do what it takes” way typical Bush formulaic BS.
But—I’ll give him this much, Bush has some amazing speech writers, the speech itself was very good. It doesn’t excuse the slow response on the Federal level, but, I do appreciate that he finally was able to “admit to problems” that need to be addressed. instead of the same old “glossing over” spew.
September 16th, 2005 at 10:32 amI disagree, dumbya’s speech writers simply did a cut and paste from former war speeches and threw in a few flourishes to localize it.
They think they have every avenue covered. They even dressed chimpy in a blue shirt, no tie and rolled up his sleeves. Anyone else notice that unlike the campaign and the so called debates he wasn’t sweating?
A man with a concience sweats when lying. I guess he had his removed since the campaign. He must have crusted over like his parents, being the most hated man on the entire planet. He’ll never feel safe anywhere. Even his buddy Osamma feels safer than him.
September 16th, 2005 at 11:16 amUnfortunately, he won’t resign —- remember gotta stay the course!
As far as trying to portray the ” gee shucks, I’m just like the common man” — he can’t use that one anymore, staying on an extended vacation during the hurricane crisis blew that away. (no pun intended)
Why did he not ask his Bro Jeb (aka the Gov of virtual hurricane magnet Floida), for advise on how to deal with hurricanes??
September 16th, 2005 at 11:47 amthis is an excerpt from w’s katrina speech:
‘So I have ordered every Cabinet secretary to participate in a comprehensive review of the government response to the hurricane. This government will learn the lessons of Hurricane Katrina. We are going to review every action and make necessary changes so that we are better prepared for any challenge of nature, or act of evil men that could threaten our people.’
…learn the lessons of hurricane katrina?
sounds eerily like—learn the lessons of 9/11.
who writes this crap? worse off, who believes this crap?
September 16th, 2005 at 12:48 pm“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?” — Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
Hmm, maybe he forgot to include us older folks too
September 16th, 2005 at 1:07 pmSusan,
Run, don’t walk, to your shrink if you still think that Bush was the mastermind behind 9-11. Quit watching that idiot Michael Moore as well. He is only rotting was is left of your brain. He has made millions off that stupid movie. How much has he given back to society? Very little.
September 16th, 2005 at 1:21 pmRandy your crack on 24 about Susan was a good lead in on attacking the lefties here. Thanks for helping me out showing them what us rightwingers are made of. The snide remark about rotting what was left of her brain is a good example of our superior intellectual abilities. (Always good to throw in a punch with Michael Moore, you sly devil!)
But correct me if I’m wrong, but you want to know what Michael Moore has given back to society, in addition to 7 visits to Iraq to entertain the troops? On Sept. 14 he closed up his New York office and sent his entire staff to New Orleans and set up his own relief effort. He has also raised half a million dollars and sent down over 50 tons of food and water(www.michaelmoore.com). I mean, I’m on your side here, and am just wondering how much Sean Vannity, Bill O’Righty, Rush, Ingraham and all the others on our side have personally coughed up, you know? What say ye, pal?
September 16th, 2005 at 2:27 pmUmmm and where is the donation by the Bush Family??
September 16th, 2005 at 2:42 pmIt’s not like they’re hurting for $$ you know??
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September 16th, 2005 at 3:27 pmEveryone knows carlyle group masterminded 9/11.
You don’t know squat about Michael Moore. I suspect you didn’t even see farenheit 9/11.
FYI carlyle group is owned by the binladens and bush families.
September 16th, 2005 at 9:11 pm#28 – When did you cut and paste your info??? 1999? You’re a little behind the curve, that’s all. Your fave Move-on contributor/sucker, George Soros is heavily into the Carlyle Group. The binLadens pulled their $2M investment out after 9/11 – $2M out of $12B is not a huge ownership interest. I know we have become mathematically challenged in this country, but….
September 17th, 2005 at 2:55 pmMightWrongGoddess,
You forgot to mention the $235 million that was made on the date of 9/11 because of the ‘hedging’ carlyle had done – and the ‘cut’ that the bin ladens got… Oh well, the devil is in the detail, and while its clear you are a devil, you seem to have no aptitude for details…
September 18th, 2005 at 7:09 pmBushie says “we will stay as long as it takes” he means when the “blacks can stand up, we will stand down”.
Rovie thinks up these cute lines for him you know.
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