Blanco: Bush's speech shows hurricanes were 'yesterday's news'

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Blanco: Bush's speech shows hurricanes were 'yesterday's news'
The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Gov. Kathleen Blanco angrily criticized President Bush on Wednesday for not mentioning 2005's destructive hurricanes in his State of the Union speech, and said Louisiana is being shortchanged in federal recovery funding for political reasons.

"I guess the pains of the hurricane are yesterday's news in Washington," Blanco said.

"But for us it's still very real, very real, and it's something that we live every single day," the governor said. "But we will continue to fight, and we will continue to come on, and we will effect a recovery."

Mayor Ray Nagin echoed Blanco's disappointment at Bush's omission of New Orleans' recovery from Hurricane Katrina, but he cautioned against reopening political rifts that developed after the storm.

"We're 18 months into this thing. I'm tired of complaining and bellyaching," the mayor said. "We're going to take whatever nickels we have, whatever pennies we have, whatever dollars we have, and we're going to stretch it, and we're going to make this recovery work."

[rodeodance]

1. nice to see that they made it a Headline. shameful WH!!

[tippy44]

2. Mississippi settled with insurance company State Farm has

agreed to pay about 600 policy holders now and some 3500 are still in the mix. Wonder if Trent Lott had not been among those filing suit if anything positive would have resulted. MS, Lott, Barbour etc...can get this done for MS but the Dems in LA are catching hell getting anything done for the poor and the blacks in LA. I say it's political punishment. Class and racism is still alive and well in the US and permeates all major corporations, insurance companies, banks, and social institutions.

[catgirl]

3. Actually Trent Lott has been a critic...

of the insurance companies, but that's
because his house was damaged & he's
so close to the situation. He is the only
reublican that I've seen who has spoken
out.

I hope Blanco's words are heard this
time. I don't really like Nagins defeatist
attitude as far as getting more help. I
doubt the citizens of New Orleans would
agree with him. They need money more than
anything! There are major problems across the
board including housing, serious stray animal
problem, security issues, a campaign to attract
workers (especially teachers), and so on.......
Why would Nagin just give up on getting
outside help? He's letting these assh*les off
the hook.

Go Blanco!!!!

[OHdem10]

4. Since we have accepted Conservatism

as the ideology of America, Personal Responsibity means
Americans the great individualists take care of themselves.
I got mine, you get yours. It is the responsibilty of each
person to take care of him or herself and family.

Conservatism produces a society in which a small number of
rich and less well off to poor. The Rich are not willing
to pay taxes to aid the rest of society. The poorest
states in the US are the most Conservative. There are
Conservative Democrats as well as Republicans.

Conservatism is much more than guns ,gays, God, and abortion.
These issues very cleverly hide the economics of Conservatism.

[hadrons]

5. I would like to see Blanco run on how Bush fucked Louisiana up, but sadly ....

most southern Republicans (mind you, I'm narrowing this to southern Republicans, not all Southerns) seem to like it when Bush does this to them

[OHdem10]

6. The Businesses(Small & Large)

were taken care of IMMEDIately after the storm.
Yes, Business needed help. But a bit of
fairness please.

Being Pro Business is fine but too often especially
in Southern States being Pro Business means ignoring
needs of citizens.

[Spangle]

8. It's Excused and rationalized

that by helping the business get back on their feet, they will be able to employee people, who will in turn be helped because they were able to get a job.

What is missed, is that the business got a free lunch. The lowly person had to work for his. What is assumed, is that if it happened to 'them', then they would be the smart ones who were able to get the few said jobs created. It's the dumb, lazy people who don't get the jobs. Hence, don't really deserive a handout.

[nodehopper]

7. George Bush doesn't care about black people

[Spangle]

9. Actually, he doesn't care about poor, unpowerful nobodies

THey are no benifit or help to him. They can't donate NOr they can't do wonderful business deals, etc. So they are useless yesterday, today and tomarrow.

The minority issues totaly hides the reality of the true Republican thinking. It allows poor white people to think that their needs, thoughts, ideas are being represented. When, they are not. They are considered the same. It's why the 'radical right" was able to generate such a following of 'poor white folks' by focusing not on what the GOP really does and stands for. But by making it seem that the GOP was God's party.

Anything and everything is game. To keep the eye off the ball.