SOTU: The White House Is Set To Repeat Its Mistakes After Katrina
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SOTU: The White House Is Set To Repeat Its Mistakes After Katrina
Bush said: “As we recover from a disaster, let us also work for the day when all Americans are protected by justice, equal in hope, and rich in opportunity.”
FACT — WHITE HOUSE STONEWALLING KATRINA INVESTIGATIONS: Congressional investigations into the administration’s inadequate response to Katrina have stalled because the “Bush White House is now refusing to turn over Hurricane Katrina related documents or make senior officials available for testimony.” [MSNBC, 1/26/06]
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I didn’t hear him apologize for his response to Katrina.
January 31st, 2006 at 9:59 pmBush will never admit that he made mistakes in dealing with the Hurricane Katrina aftermath! He was on vacation and oblivious to people drowning in New Orleans!
January 31st, 2006 at 10:04 pm“There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to see anything but failure. Hindsight is not wisdom and second-guessing is not a strategy.”
January 31st, 2006 at 10:21 pmSeems odd to me? I thought all Americans were “protected by justice, equal in hope, and rich in opportunity.â€
January 31st, 2006 at 10:34 pmIf they weren’t, is it possible?
Did anybody catch Mary Landrieu go over and hug Bush?
She is the same one that told CNN “Now is not the time for asking questions.” Which lead Anderson Cooper to get pissed and ask “So when is the time for asking questions.”
Wouldn’t surprise me to find out that she knew Bush was going to hold off help until more people were shipped away from there homes.
January 31st, 2006 at 10:50 pmWow. Wish I’d known this and done my homework like you guys before I’d live-blogged it.
Good work, dudes. Keep it up.
January 31st, 2006 at 10:58 pmSOTU: Same old Republican spin, but this year more criminals in this “administration” were caught. Bush caught in spying, cronies, Katrina, Abramoff, environment,etc. The list goes on and on. He makes me very uncomfortable. He was more liked when he was drinking and sniffing. Now, most of the world hates him. Landrieu, to me, is just another Bush-loving hack.
January 31st, 2006 at 11:45 pmAs dismal as it is to think about, I wonder if the disaster in New Orleans regarding Katrina could be just the beginning of many such hurricanes to impact New Orleans — and America — next year and in the coming years.
After all, hurricane intensity and frequency is increasing, damage is increasing, and elements in our government which are supposed to help protect us aren’t getting any better.
February 1st, 2006 at 12:56 amThanks for all of your insightful posting this evening. It’s enlightening (sarcasm) to know it was a pack of lies. But then what would you expect from this guy.
February 1st, 2006 at 1:00 amIs anyone actually surprised? I for one am most certainly not. In Bushworld, when things go right, you claim all the credit for success regardless of how many other people may have helped you (did anyone else happen to notice the way that Bush made references to WWII which made it seems as though we overcame Hitler entirely on our own without much participation to speak of from Britain and Russia?). In contrast, when things go wrong, vehemently deny any responsibility whatsoever and blame anyone you possibly can. As far as I can tell judging by typical Bush administration policy, the aforementioned quote from the SOTU can only be considered true if you insert the word “Republican” in between the words “all” and “Americans”.
February 1st, 2006 at 1:12 am#4 Great words if this was spoken in 1799.
The Katrina disaster was lacking intracommunication, cohesive first response teams, poor leadership, mounting in fighting, racism and unbelievable government finger pointing to name a few.
Katrina documents are incomplete, shoddy and full of malfeasants. The report of what they currently want to do with New Orleans is more complete.
February 1st, 2006 at 2:01 amBush probably thought he could escape having to discuss Katrina at any length by ‘charitably’ bringing up Coretta Scott King at the beginning of his speech.
I am pretty sure he can kiss that whole 2% of blacks that voted for him last time.
Well, he can count on JC Watts, Condoleeza Rice, Alan Keyes and all of the black people at Fox News (Republicans only).
I suppose black people that love FOX NEWS should know this about one of their hosts: TONY SNOW
Fox News host tied to white supremacist group, anti-King site
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As yesterday’s revelation that a Fox network television affiliate promoted a white supremacist organization leads to greater scrutiny of the group, it has emerged that a Fox News host is also tied to the same organization. While perusing another site hosted by Stormfront.org, blogger IntoxiNation discovered material written by Fox News radio and television host Tony Snow.
Snow, then a columnist for Detroit News, wrote a piece slamming Kwanzaa, which is currently hosted by a website dedicated to discrediting Martin Luther King, Jr.
The site, MartinLutherKing.org, at times attempts to mimic one devoted to promoting King’s work. However, when one clicks on the link titled, “Death of the Dream: The day King was shot” they will come across this:
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65. (book reviews) Jon Meacham 01/19/98 Newsweek, Page 62 January 6, 1964, was a long day for Martin Luther King Jr. He spent the morning seated in the reserved section of the Supreme Court, listening as lawyers argued New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, a landmark case rising out of King’s crusade against segregation in Alabama. The minister was something of an honored guest: Justice Arthur Goldberg quietly sent down a copy of Kings account of the Montgomery bus boycott, “Stride Toward Freedom,” asking for an autograph. That night King retired to his room at the Willard Hotel. There FBI bugs reportedly picked up 14 hours of party chatter, the clinking of glasses and the sounds of illicit sex–including King’s cries of “I’m f–ing for God” and “I’m not a Negro tonight!”
Note: What is not mentioned in this article is that Martin Luther King was having sex with three White women, one of whom he brutally beat while screaming the above mentioned quotes. Much of the public information on King’s use of church money to hire prostitutes and his beating them came from King’s close personal friend, Rev. Ralph Abernathy (pictured above), in his 1989 book, “And the walls came tumbling down.”
Other portions of the site tie King’s efforts to communism, and equate the civil rights movement as a whole with support for Israel, presented in an arguably anti-semitic context by author and famed Klansman David Duke.
Snow’s dissection of Kwanzaa takes a strange turn, focusing eventually on war crimes in an attempt to argue that African-Americans should not celebrate their cultural heritage:
Go to Kenya, where I taught briefly as a young man, and you’ll see endless hostility between Kikuyu, Luo, Luhya and Masai. Even South African politics these days have more to do with tribal animosities than ideological differences.
Moreover, chaos too often prevails over order. Warlords hold sway in Somalia, Eritrea, Liberia and Zaire. Genocidal maniacs have wiped out millions in Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia. The once-shining hopes for Kenya have vanished.
Detroit native Keith Richburg writes in his extraordinary book, “Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa,” that “this strange place defies even the staunchest of optimists; it drains you of hope …”
Richburg, who served for three years as the African bureau chief for The Washington Post, offers a challenge for the likes of Karenga: “Talk to me about Africa and my black roots and my kinship with my African brothers and I’ll throw it back in your face, and then I’ll rub your nose in the images of rotting flesh.”
Tony Snow currently hosts The Tony Snow Show on FOX News Radio and Weekend Live with Tony Snow on the Fox News Channel. It is unclear if he or his publisher granted permission for use on the Stormfront site.
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February 1st, 2006 at 5:11 amTo quote the trolls; “I you have nothing to hide…”
February 1st, 2006 at 7:58 amBush will never admit that he made mistakes in dealing with the Hurricane Katrina aftermath! He was on vacation and oblivious to people drowning in New Orleans!
Comment by Jay Randal #2
Jay,
Why should he when he has no potent opposition, the media in his pocket, and a “crackerized” electorate…
Accountability truly is for the little people…
…and fortune does truly favor the BOLD!
…as long as we’re willing to sit back and take it in the a*s the criminal Bushite regime, and al Cracker America is going to stick it to Progressive (fence sitters)…
What happened to Cindy Sheehan is bad enough, but the people’s response is sickening…
This woman lost her only son for a lie, and the right wing traitors jab their stubby, red fingers in her tearful eyes; while the rest of us sit back and do nothing…
I have lost what little respect I ever had for the zombies (on both sides of the aisle) of this terminally ill dis-Union…
February 1st, 2006 at 9:11 amAs yesterday’s revelation that a Fox network television affiliate promoted a white supremacist organization leads to greater scrutiny of the group, it has emerged that a Fox News host is also tied to the same organization. While perusing another site hosted by Stormfront.org, blogger IntoxiNation discovered material written by Fox News radio and television host Tony Snow.
Figures. Oreilly, Rush, Coulter are basically political ‘Shock Jocks’
February 1st, 2006 at 10:26 am(Yawn, ‘Reality’ NEWS) ‘Blame Game’ books written by so called Intellectuals that are nothing but single minded self serving rationalizations based on enmity and political propaganda
Reply to post 14 big papa > I agree with most of what you say > the arrest of Cindy Sheehan, for wearing a undershirt with number of KIA in Iraq, was rediculous! If I had been at the address and saw her treated that way, then I would have walked out on Dubya’s blather! It is obvious that Bush knew she was there and wanted her removed before he started his speech! Any excuse would have been used to eject her!
February 1st, 2006 at 10:27 am16, agreed
Cindy Sheehan was never intended to be allowed to stay.
February 1st, 2006 at 10:36 amAs George W. Bush praised the sacrifice of our troops in a war with no moral cause (a war created in the minds of economic terrorists) Cindy Sheehan was being processed by law enforcement for “unlawful conduct” after she cleared Capitol security prior to attendance at GW’s 2006 State of The Union address.
As George W. Bush praised the future of technology and research as the hope for America’s future generations, children were sleeping in hotel rooms and trailers after having been displaced by the worst natural disaster in our country’s history. Many more will awake this morning unable to break the cycle of disdain and moral righteousness put in motion by conservative sects of our society. No child left behind indeed. It is all relative – how disadvantaged do you have to be to be at the back of the pack that isn’t getting left behind.
As George W. Bush spoke of all his desire to better these United States of America my patriotic instincts thought only of impeachment; if this is getting better, I want no part of it. And – perhaps even more disturbing – is the inept elected leadership that has failed to protect “OUR” interests in light of one administration’s seemingly self destructive course.
Today is another day of mourning for families of our lost troops. It is another day of sadness and hunger for families unable to buy groceries. It is another day of helplessness felt by many for many reasons. Our leaders – on both sides of the aisle – have failed us miserably, criminally and morally.
My stomach sickens at the failure of “OUR” government to provide its citizenry with the simplest of sustenance and security while we provide billions of tax dollars to secure a nation engaged in an ethnic and religious civil war.
Tomorrow will be the same. It is the fault of every US citizen. It is the fault of inept and misguided leaders. But, despite the desperate times that require desperate reaction I do not fear that it has all gone beyond fixing.
It is our duty to demand accountability from our leaders and to take responsibility for the votes we do (and do not) cast. Take pride in your life, the lives sacrificed on our behalf, and the power you wield with your mind.
Engage your neighbors, your friends, your foes, your family – not with anger – but rather with an open heart, an open mind and most importantly an open dialogue that will lead us to better times and a history to be proud of.
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February 2nd, 2006 at 7:23 amThese people (Republicans) don’t give a Sh-t about poor blacks in New Orleans becuase they typically don’t vote for Republicans. If this is so called Middle America the response would have been immediate and never ending. Why should the President care about these people, it’s no sweat off his back. The people who voted for him don’t care about those less fortunate than them because alot of them are selfish, and biggoted people who don’t like blacks. Not that they need to either, that’s their right as Americans.
If the Republican Party was so open, why aren’t there any Black Republicans in Congress? They had JC Watts who was a fool to be a Republican and he wisely left congress. If they’d stop being so hostile to issues concerning blacks, they’d get more of their vote. I was sitting at work eating me lunch oneday, listening to my white co-workers voice negative opinions about blacks. And I thought to myself, what fools, they focus this hate on blacks naturally without thinking. During the entire lunch not one of them mentioned 9-11 and how the Arab Muslims had attacked us, not Americans. This didn’t come as a surprise to me, because I said on 9-12 the terrorist were trusted because they weren’t black. That’s how they got thru security and were able to do all of the planning including training on how to take off in a plane without landing it. The flight school owner who let Muhamad Atta and the other two terrorist stay at this home would have never done the same for 3 black men he didn’t know.
So anyone who is suprised by the lack of response and support for Katrina victims shouldn’t be surprised at all. An Arab or other foreign person is more welcomed in this Country than I am and I served my Country in the US Military for over a decade. That’s just the way it is and unfornately always will be. The others are welcomed in the small towns and into the family with open arms, while the black man is watched, hounded and treated as a fifth class citizen in his own land. Don’t try to tell me it’s not true, I’ve seen KKK members outside my military base and been told I’m not welcome into my wife white family. The funny thing is that my brother-in-law’s wife is Arab and she was accepted without reservation. That’s America for you!
February 2nd, 2006 at 1:54 pmyeah ,but what will bush do for the kids?????????
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February 5th, 2006 at 1:41 pmhellooooooooo any body there???!!!
February 5th, 2006 at 1:44 pmanyone who is suprised by the lack of response and support for Katrina victims shouldn’t be surprised at all.
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