GOP big: Put Rudy in charge in Gulf! (Rep John Sweeney(R))

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_news/story/342855p-292734c.html

Rep. John Sweeney, R-N.Y., urged President Bush to appoint former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani or two former military officials to run the ground response in the Gulf Coast, saying local authorities are not up to the task.

Sweeney suggested Giuliani or retired generals Colin Powell and Tommy Franks could take charge of the much-criticized hurricane relief efforts.

“We owe it to the American people to have America’s best leaders with experience on the ground running this,” said Sweeney. “It’s been painfully obvious over the last four or five days that the circumstances and challenges coming at us are new, are nothing that had ever been anticipated.”

Sweeney said Giuliani proved his ability to lead in a crisis during the Sept. 11 attacks, adding the president should also consider Franks or Powell, men with long military resumes.

Sweeney said Giuliani proved his ability to lead in a crisis during the Sept. 11 attacks, adding the president should also consider Franks or Powell, men with long military resumes.

[liberaliraqvet26]

1. what a load of crap....

just because he is a media whore who exploited our last tragedy he should lead?? fuck him

[RamboLiberal]

2. I like Gingrich smacking W upside the head

From the article:

Gingrich said the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina “puts into question all of the Homeland Security and Northern Command planning for the last four years, because if we can’t respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we’re prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological attack?”

[JoFerret]

3. Thats the LAST thing they need

Rudy is about the most insensitive and incompetent person in the USA. (A little better than Bush - but thats about it.)

[rodeodance]

4. it is bash the local mantra!!!!--Fed is all good, all shall bow.

[halobeam]

5. BINGO!!!!

[NYC Liberal]

18. I've met him, and yes - he is an asshole.

I'd say put him in charge and let people see the true side of the Republican party, but we're talking about people's lives here. No time for that.

[kstewart33]

6. Oh, puhleeesee.

What an act of political desperation.

[longship]

7. Treading on NO and LA toes.

This would be the most insulting thing for * to do. It works like this:

1. Ignore pending disaster.
2. Disaster turns to catastrophe.
3. Ignore catastrophe and appeals for help. Talk about healthcare.
4. More ignore catastrophe and more appeals for help. Go golfing.
5. Public opinion turns sour. Flyover at 10,000 feet and 400 knots.
6. Act (as in--act like you're doing something)
7. Blame the Dem governor.
8. Appoint northerner to fix the mess, insulting everybody involved.

The whole thing is delusional.

[NYC]

13. And he has no experience in this.

So why? What would he be good for? Making money?

[AlGore-08.com]

8. Sweeney is the scumbag who gave the okay to the bogus FL riot in 2000

http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/080502a.html

Bush's Conspiracy to Riot

By Robert Parry

(snip)

The Battle of Miami

On Nov. 22, 2000, after learning that the Miami canvassing board was starting an examination of 10,750 disputed ballots that had previously not been counted, Rep. John Sweeney, a New York Republican, called on Republican troops to “shut it down,” according to Down and Dirty. Brendan Quinn, executive director of the New York GOP, told about two dozen Republican operatives to storm the room on the 19th floor where the canvassing board was meeting, Tapper reported.

“Emotional and angry, they immediately make their way outside the larger room in which the tabulating room is contained,” Tapper wrote. “The mass of ‘angry voters’ on the 19th floor swells to maybe 80 people,” including many of the Republican activists from outside Florida.

News cameras captured the chaotic scene outside the canvassing board's offices. The protesters shouted slogans and banged on the doors and walls. The unruly protest prevented official observers and members of the press from reaching the room. Miami-Dade county spokesman Mayco Villafana was pushed and shoved. Security officials feared the confrontation was spinning out of control.

(More... )


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31074-2005Jan23.html

By Al Kamen
Monday, January 24, 2005; Page A13



(snip)

Some of those pictured have gone on to other things, including stints at the White House. For example, Matt Schlapp, No. 6, a former House aide and then a Bush campaign aide, has risen to be White House political director. Garry Malphrus, No. 2 in the photo, a former staff director of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on criminal justice, is now deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. And Rory Cooper, No. 3, who was at the National Republican Congressional Committee, later worked at the White House Homeland Security Council and was seen last week working for the Presidential Inaugural Committee.

Here's what some of the others went on to do:

No. 1. Tom Pyle, who had worked for Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), went private sector a few months later, getting a job as director of federal affairs for Koch Industries.

No. 7. Roger Morse, another House aide, moved on to the law and lobbying firm Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds. "I was also privileged to lead a team of Republicans to Florida to help in the recount fight," he told a legal trade magazine in a 2003 interview.

No. 8. Duane Gibson, an aide on the House Resources Committee, was a solo lobbyist and formerly with the Greenberg Traurig lobby operation. He is now with the Livingston Group as a consultant.

No. 9. Chuck Royal was and still is a legislative assistant to Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a former House member.

No. 10. Layna McConkey Peltier, who had been a Senate and House aide and was at Steelman Health Strategies during the effort, is now at Capital Health Group.

(We couldn't find No. 4, Kevin Smith, a former GOP House aide who later worked with Voter.com, or No. 5, Steven Brophy, a former GOP Senate aide and then at consulting firm KPMG. If you know what they are doing these days, please e-mail [e-mail] we can update our records.)

Sources say the "rioters" proudly note their participation on résumés and in interviews. But while the original hardy band of demonstrators numbered barely a couple of dozen, the numbers apparently have grown with the legend.

[bluedonkey]

9. He better not

send this damn Y.. down here!
I doubt he would come right now.He might be so inclined when everything is over and it's 'safe'.
SOB

[iamjoy]

17. Rudy Would Be A Carpetbagger! eom

[ElectroPrincess]

10. This is SICK, really *sick* stuff ... Rudy G. is a pontificating POS n/t.

[demo dutch]

11. Put Clinton in charge as least he knows the people there

[struggle4progress]

12. Or we could hang a millstone around Rudy's neck and toss him into the sea.

[TheCowsCameHome]

20. Sure. Waste a perfectly good millstone.

Use an old engine block or something.

[lowreed]

14. NO has a mayor already they dont need Rudolph! n/t

[iamjoy]

15. They Want Rudy In 2008

They want him to come charm Southerners.

This is a set up
"local officials can't handle it, but Rudy did"

But of course, they will have given Rudy the tools, equipment, etc. The requests they ignored when made by Blanco.

[nyhuskyfan]

16. Two totally different situations...

Both disasters, yes. But this involves an entire city and conditions deteriorating over time, mostly affecting the poor. On Sept. 12, everyone was shocked and wandering around in a daze, but they could get where they needed to go and they could find food and water.

Everyone in the NYC area also still had power to watch TV and look at Rudy and listen to him and his instructions. The people in New Orleans don't have electricity.

There are almost no accurate comparisons, other than the loss of human life.

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. Whoa! I thought it said "GOP Big: Put Rudy in the Gulf' I was so excited

I nearly peed my pants.

Another let down.

[YDogg]

26. Heh! Sweeeeet.

[leesa]

21. Rudy? You mean the accomplice in 9-11?? THAT Rudy? Fuckin' GOP

idiots!

[KamaAina]

22. Too late. Ray Nagin is now America's Mayor.

Mr. Giuliani? This is the operator. Your fifteen minutes are up...

[kskiska]

23. Rudy?

Rudy's domanin was several blocks in downtown Manhattan. The rest of the city was business as usual. There was no flooding, blackouts, or fires outside that area. There was looting going on in the shops underneath the WTC, some by cops and firemen.

[susanna]

24. I heard this!

He all but said the Governor of LA and Mayor of NO were incompetent and couldn't handle the problems...all the while, conveniently ignoring the super-dimwit at FEMA (Brown) who keeps doing press conferences to blame the victims and spin his way out of his own mess. I about spit nails when I heard this yahoo going on...funny enough it wasn't lost on me that everyone he mentioned was a GOPer.

[readmylips]

25. Those are poor and black people....no $ there for Guiliani....

Maybe, after the American people donate millions of dollars to the poor, Guiliani will step up to the plate....to steal the money.

[Corgigal]

27. Giuliani LOVED NYC

it wouldn't be the same thing. Give the south to Clinton,

[leesa]

28. No more Republicans in charge of ANYTHING. They are incapable

of leadership.

Guilliani loved NYC so much he was willing to help with 9-11, eh?

[[e-mail]]

30. I second that NO and the USA should demand a DEM

or green or such
fuck the repugs
they are done
they just want a repug hero now
f' them
time for mass protest against the right

[demgrrrll]

29. Yeah terrific, Rudy or maybe we could drop Snake Plisken into NO.

They all make me want to puke. Sorry but I have had it with Republican ideas and suggestions.

[lumpy]

31. Giuliani had emediate response

from the US gov. For Pete's sake there are plenty of other people more qualified then he is. Political BS.

[truthisfreedom]

32. saying "local authorities are not up to the task" after refusing response

to their pleas for help and allowing thousands to die is far beyond insulting.

i hear the death-knell for the cold-hearted rethuglican party. i can feel the end coming. it's near, people... they have no ideas, and no response except the fatherly "we know better." they can't DO anything except drain the Treasury into the pockets of their corporate cronies. they are thieves who are pretending to be in charge, and the moment they are given an opportunity to rise to the occasion, they stumble and fall like bush trying to eat a pretzel and breathe at the same time.

speaking of...once we were one pretzel away from world peace.