One More LYING REPUBLICAN....Rep. Charles W. Boustany Jr., (R-La.),

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Boustany, a Man of No Principles
Posted by jesselee
Monday, September 5, 2005 at 12:43 PM

Boustany three days ago:

Rep. Charles W. Boustany Jr., (R-La.), said he spent the past 48 hours urging the Bush administration to send help. "I started making calls and trying to impress upon the White House and others that something needed to be done," he said. "The state resources were being overwhelmed, and we needed direct federal assistance, command and control, and security -- all three of which are lacking."
Boustany today:

BOUSTANY: Most of the red tape and problems have been at the state level. I have to say that the federal response has been focused on New Orleans with search and rescue operations which is going very, very well at this stage. But we've had a completely ineffectual state response and this is being borne by the local communities to help now. and I have asked the president to take this into consideration, consider that the state response is completely ineffectual and the full range of social and health care needs needs to be met.
He did this once before on Social Security, and he's only been in Congress for nine months. This was our web ad at the time:

Un-Principled.

UPDATE: Video of today's remarks from C&L.

And for those who missed it, one cannot help but look at Boustany's remarks in this context...

White House Enacts a Plan to Ease Political Damage

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To be clear though, what is most disturbing about Mr. Boustany's remarks is not that he is carrying water for the Administration, but that he is willing to lay false blame at the feet of those in his own state to do so.

http://blog.dccc.org/mt/archives/003439.html

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1. Heard this idiot on CNN, placing the blame at the State level.

This is going to be the KKKarl Rove spin machines talking point for weeks to come. The Feds wanted to take over and install Martial Law and the LA Gov wouldn't let them so they slowed the relief effort. What a bunch of uncaring ASSHATS.

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2. Makes sense that the repugs from that state are trying like hell to spin

it. They are going to lose their seats over this. Many repugs might. They're on top level damage control now. Expect the media to be saturated with repugs trying to blame local govt.