Actually Cokie, I am interested in the "blame game"

[XanaDUer]

You ignorant cow.

Why? Because this disaster is such a monumental failure on all fronts from Bush and Company that I want to make sure it does not happen again.

[MichiganVote]

1. FEMA and Bush deserve blame

[XanaDUer]

4. Notice whenever THEY do something

they don't want to "play politics" or "play the blame game"?

What. A. Joke.

Go glad the guy from NYT is on this panel telling the truth.

[MichiganVote]

17. Yeah, suddenly they get morals and want to play fair

[phantom power]

2. There's defnitely "blame", but this isn't a "game"

for anybody who's paying attention. Apparently Cokie is still in her ivory tower.

[mzmolly]

3. "The Blame Game?" Sorry shills it's essential that we find out WHO was

responsible so we can prevent this from happening again! It's not about blame, it's about accountability. A word Republicans love to use when it comes to other people.

[XanaDUer]

5. Yes, or "personal responsibilty"

Bastards.

[mzmolly]

29. Yep, that one too.

eom

[Bullwinkle925]

6. Isn't it funny that the Administration takes no blame - while Clinton

could do no good?


Damned hypocrites. If Middle-America still buys this load of hose-crap, they deserve the government they have.

[XanaDUer]

9. Ha! Makes me long for the days of the Lewinsky BJ

NO one died. And Big Dog's popularity stayed high.

[Southsideirish]

7. Its called "responsibility" you idjit!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. shrubco all saying 'no fair playing politics' while they go full time

shifting responsibility onto Blanco and Nagin.

[MadeinOhio]

10. Oh please just shutup. It IS politics. Politics so disaster....

Doesn't keep happening. They didn't get any kind of help from this and it shows, your political image is ripped to shreds! :mad:

[Lori Price CLG]

11. Bush's GOP media whores use 'no blame game' as their excuse as...

they are out of excuses, but are still obliged to defend their master.

Lori Price

[XanaDUer]

12. After all, we've been arguing that

cuts to the First Responders would have a catastrophic effect on the rapidity of aid and a response to ANY catastrophe on a local and/or regional basis.

After all, the First Responders are supposed to respond first.

[thinkingwoman]

13. Reframe the blame as "ACCOUNTABILITY"

Dems should volley the "blame game" spin right back between Repuke eyes by saying "It's not about blame, it's about accountability. America deserves answers. There must be consequences for incompetence," etc.

[XanaDUer]

14. Damn straight.

...

[spanone]

15. I heard her bullshit....'no one wants to play the blame game'

fuck her. If it were the dems in control she'd be singing in a different key.

[XanaDUer]

16. I WANT TO.

HOw else to get to the heart of what failed and why.

Oh, I know it's all Bush, his cuts to the wealthy and corportations, and cuts to first responders.

They're call first responders for a reason, Cokie you fucking moron.

[Igel]

18. So far nobody's taken blame.

Even when they've assigned credit.

* is blameless.
Brown is blameless.
The FEMA liaisons are blameless.
Blanco is blameless.
Nagin is blameless.

For some, even every person in NOLA is blameless.

You pick your politics, and all else automatically follows.

[fooj]

19. Actually Cokie...It's not called blame.

It's called taking responsibility!

We should all e-mail her with that response.

[nashville_brook]

26. repukes have no trouble blaming the victim - sure sign of guilt

[lonestarnot]

20. FUCK YOU COKIE, GO SMOKE SOME MORE DOPE!

[Fleshdancer]

21. you know what REALLY PISSES ME OFF about this???

I just watched the idiot from Homeland Security in MTP play the blame game by saying that the citizens should have evacuated and THEN he lectures about how people shouldn't "play the blame game" right now because it detracts from all the work that still needs to be done.

So now I'm PISSED for two reasons:

1. So these rich pompous assholes want ME to believe that it's ok to blame the dead, the poor, the disabled and the babies for not getting out of NO but I shouldn't even think about holding THEM accountable for their complete incompetence? Are you fucking kidding me???

2. They really want me to believe that if I criticize them then they can't get off their already MIA asses and try to do something right for a change? Grow the fuck up and do your job already. I don't have the time, energy, or the liberal compassion to give a fuck whether your bureaucratic ass is offended by my anger. Fuck you.

______

rant complete. thanks for your thread. I really needed to get that off my chest.

[MadeinOhio]

28. It IS about politics.....Racism of politics. Hold them to the fire.....

Politics for sure, demanding accountability as their incompetence only has one relief: Spin! And they will spin themselves over the edge just like with that DSM......

[Name removed]

22. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Junkdrawer]

23. The next time a murderer appears for sentencing, he should tell the...

judge "Judge, I should go free because no one here is interested in playing a Blame Game."

That'll work, right? :shrug:

[madrchsod]

24. cows have a place in the natural good .

please do not equate cokie "i`ll suck or lick anyone for a story" roberts with our bovine friends..remember they are sacred in india

[XanaDUer]

33. True. I apologize to cows everywhere.

...

[magnolia]

25. These people are such hypocrites...it boggles the mind!

On 9/11 they were deep in the blame game before the towers hit the ground. As they should have been. There constant babble did not hold up rescue operations.

If Roberts took her own advice she would be in the gulf area wading in raw sewage rescuing people instead of flapping her trap on MTP!

[progressivebydesign]

27. My republican inlaws were touting the "don't blame!" meme days ago.

must be the new script. It's ONE thing if these people were actually doing something to help while they cry 'no blame!', but most are just protecting Bush's incompetent ass.

[XanaDUer]

31. I can already assume an e-mail has been sent out

with the new talking points.

I assume the it's-their-fault-they-stayed meme is not going over as well as first expected.

XD

[nuxvomica]

30. OK, Cokie. Let's blame people later but fire people NOW!

Brown and Chertoff should be replaced by people who know what they are doing NOW! They are freakin' clueless and this is not over yet. This is what the Democratic leadership should be saying. I would bet there are still some people in FEMA who could step up and take over. How many more people will suffer and die because these political hacks are keeping their jobs? :mad:

[donco6]

32. I'd say blame is pretty critical at this point. eom

[Hell Hath No Fury]

34. As someone who lives in San Francisco...

the number three city of the Diaster Trifecta, you are damn STRAIGHT I want to just who the heck the fuckups were and how to get him run from office before they destroy MY town.

[XanaDUer]

35. But, but, but...

that's playing the BLAME GAME! (gnashing of conservative teeth)

This is what our country has come to folks. Just imagine if Clinton did this.

[thethinker]

36. I blame Cokie

If she, and other media whores, had not been shilling for this Resident for the past several years, we would not be in this situation.

I lost respect for this "ignorant cow" several years ago. Cokie really bought the kool aid. I hope she likes the taste. She has family in NO.

[XanaDUer]

37. Wasn't her dad a Dem Politician from NO?

WTH happened to her?

Maybe they killed the real Cokie and a pod person took over?

:shrug:

[Vinca]

38. Lots of people died and somebody's going to have to pay.

Our job is to make sure it's the ones who are truly responsible. They're expert at floating to the top of the septic tank, but it won't happen this time. America is furious.

[melissinha]

39. I'm with you

they will pay.


But, how can we keep Halliburton from profiting from this disaster? Because the motivation to let things get worse is to feed the Halliburton beast.

I say Blanco should reject Halliburton resonctruction, and say she wants local companies to do it.... give the people of Louisiana the task because they are invested in the state.

[VolcanoJen]

40. Did you hear that snide remark aimed at Al Gore?????

Ohhhh Cokie, I hate you with the intense heat of one thousand burning suns.

She said something about "flying down there and making a political show," I wish I could remember it exactly. She rolled her eyes, and we all know she was talking about President Gore.

She's awful, God-awful. I love when Fareed is on the panel to absolutely smack her into submission.

[greekspeak]

41. How do we contact Cokehead?

I want to write her and have her submit to me in writing how the Blame Game works, because apparently only RW shills know how to play it. What with her being one of America's top RW shills, I assume she knows so much about it that she can referee it. So when are we allowed to play the blame game, whore? Here are the rules as I understand them.

When dems alone are involved, in something, they are automatically guilty.

When pukes alone are involved in something, they are automatically innocent, and any attempt to say otherwise is "partisan politics."

When both are involved in something, like this storm aftermath, we wait until the RW spinmeisters have taken control of the facts and produced their Bizarro world version of events. Then the BLAME GAME begins. And it is all the dems fault. Until such time as said spin has been planned, "it is not time to play the blame game."