Right wing talking points for tonight's speech by Bush in NOLA

[RSchewe]

* America and the Gulf Coast are recovering from one of the greatest natural disasters this country has ever faced.

* Tonight President Bush will talk about how there is some optimism that we can see as we move forward. We’re going to build a better Gulf Coast, a better New Orleans and we’ll work with local officials to make sure that happens.

* This will be a massive funding effort at every level of government. We shouldn’t just look at government - we’re seeing private charities, and the American people’s enormous compassion.

* There were breakdowns of communication and planning at all levels of government - federal, state and local levels. It is very critical we learn why those breakdowns took place in the first place.

* Many parts of this will be chalked up to the fact it was one of the worst storms our country has ever faced. But there were things in a post-9/11 world that our government at all levels should be doing better and President Bush more than anybody else wants to find out why it took place and how it took place to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

* Bottom line now is all levels of government must take responsibility. This President is taking responsibility and what we have to do now is look forward.

* Senator Frist and Speaker Hastert have indicated that Congress will conduct a thorough investigation modeled after some of the most serious investigations that Congress has ever undertaken: the 1973 Watergate Committee, the 1987 Iran Contra Committee, the 1994 and 1995 Whitewater Committees and the 1997 Campaign Finance investigation.

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http://thinkprogress.org/katrina-speech-tps/

[Sunkiss BlueStar]

1. More reason for me

not to watch. These people did not die because of a break in communication. They died because as usual fuckwad you got "on with your life". 5 days asshole 5 fucking days


:grr:

[Jawja]

4. I feel the same way, Sunkiss BlueStar.

All of the initiatives in the world can't bring back the dead in NO who would have been saved had Nero's Dept of Homeland Security and FEMA had actually been READY (after 4 YEARS) to respond to any disaster.

His failure to act amounts to criminal negligence (as does the unheeded attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on 9/11/2001) and he should be REMOVED FROM OFFICE!

:thumbsdown:

[LSparkle]

2. * "more than anybody" wants to find out why ...

This EXCEPTIONAL numbskull is ALWAYS more XYZ than anybody -- NOBODY wants to get to the bottom more than him ... I am SICK of them all trumpeting him as some sort of saint who wants NOTHING MORE than to get to the truth, while ALL HE DOES IS LIE!!!!!!

And he's TAKING RESPONSIBILITY? I didn't exactly hear that -- it a qualified half-accountability moment. And since when should it be a STUNNING development when AN ADULT MAN IN POWER TAKES RESPONSIBILITY? This should not be a big deal, and it wouldn't be if we had a REAL, TRUE LEADER running things.

[BillZBubb]

3. "President Bush more than anybody else wants to find out ..."

Yep, and OJ wants to find the "real" killer.