Nolan Finley: A conservative distances himself from the neocons

[Bozita]

Nolan Finley is The Detroit News' editorial page editor.

http://www.detnews.com/2005/editorial/0509/11/A17-310046.htm

Sunday, September 11, 2005


Bush's Katrina dawdling should offend conservatives

By Nolan Finley / The Detroit News

It was suggested last week that I turn in my conservative credentials because I thought Michael Brown ought to be fired for the way he bungled the initial response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

If hanging on to those credentials means I have to blindly defend everything President Bush does, then, fine, I'll give them up. That's a bigger job than I want.

If being conservative means I have to turn a blind eye to government mismanagement and incompetence just because a Republican is running the show, then I'll take a hike.

Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, screwed up the response to the New Orleans tragedy. He caught a bad case of the slows. His dawdling and the ineptitude of local and state officials cost lives. Friday, Bush yanked him back to Washington, but the damage was done.

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[SharonRB]

1. I hadn't had a chance to read today's paper yet, but I just went

and grabbed it and read this. It is excellent -- good for Nolan Finley! Thanks for posting. I would have gotten to it eventually.

[pippin]

2. Wow! Another One

abandoning the stinking ship.

[sarcasmo]

3. The winds are a changing.

Nice article, Thanks for the link. Emailed this to my idiot wife who voted for chimp and her right wing warmonger relatives.