Demand a FLOODGATE special prosecutor

[paineinthearse]

* heading an investigative panel is a joke.

Write to your Congress critters, demand a special prosecutor with full subpoena powers be appointed.

[Horse with no Name]

1. I prefer "Slaughtergate"

It's more appropriate--no?

[norml]

2. I LOVE Floodgate, as the name for this scandal.

We should go with it.

[MsTryska]

3. hell yes. Open the Floodgate!nt

nt

[Mein Bush]

13. How about "Blame-game-gate"?

The blame game when you are trying to head off a blame game!

[ecdab]

4. I agree that we should have an independent

investigation of the poor government response, but can we stop with the whatever"GATE" stuff. This should be a full blown investigation into government malfeasance - the GATE stuff makes sound so trite and easy to write off after everything under the sun has been called "fill in the blank"GATE.

[paineinthearse]

9. "gates" open media doors

I agree it is trite, but I'll support anything legal that facilitates public pressure to appoint of a special prosecutor.

[johnnie]

5. How about op-gate

:shrug:

[norml]

6. I've started a couple of threads off your thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2070679

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2070679&mesg_id=2070679

[paineinthearse]

8. Maybe DU will receive national attention for coining the term. nt

[paineinthearse]

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[SalmonChantedEvening]

7. Floodgate works for me!!

:D

Open it up!!!

[jayctravis]

10. FLOODGATE!

Works for me!!!

[Nothing Without Hope]

11. Floodgate works for me. It's not so much the hurricane as the abandonment

of people in the floods afterwards and the failure to allow maintenance of the levees to prevent the floods before. This isn't weather control (of course), it's ignoring clear warnings and then treating the people of low income as vermin to be wiped out.

[Nothing Without Hope]

12. The House hearings on Floodgate were cancelled; Delay blames only locals

Let's do everything we can to see the soulless slime that passes for the Congressional Repub leadership doesn't get away with burying THIS murderous crime.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/07/katrina.congress /

House cancels hearings on Katrina response

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The House majority leader late Tuesday tried to deflect criticism of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina by saying "the emergency response system was set up to work from the bottom up," then announced a short time later that House hearings examining that response had been canceled.

Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said House Republican leaders instead want a joint House-Senate panel set up to conduct a "congressional review" of the issue.

Tempers flared Tuesday during a contentious closed-door meeting between House members and Cabinet secretaries in charge of directing Katrina relief efforts. A Republican representative stood up and said, "All of you deserve failing grades. The response was a disaster," CNN was told by lawmakers emerging from the meeting.

But DeLay countered that assessment later in a news conference by saying that the onus for responding to emergencies fell to local officials.
"It's the local officials trying to handle the problem. When they can't handle the problem, they go to the state, and the state does what they can to, and if they need assistance from FEMA and the federal government they ask for it and it's delivered," DeLay said.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1759675

[Mein Bush]

14. May I suggest Kenneth Starr!

Bush may then be impeached on some real kinky sex charge!!!