"We are not sure he knows what he is getting into."

[BurtWorm]

That's funny. I am POSITIVE he never knows what he's getting into.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/09/16/gop/index.html
Cracks

You expect to hear Democratic criticism of the Karl Rove-George W. Bush production in Louisiana...

What you don't expect to hear -- or at least you didn't until Bush's poll numbers began to make him look like a political liability -- is Republicans speaking out critically about the president's response to Katrina and his plan for rebuilding the Gulf Coast. But open your newspaper this morning, and that's exactly what you're going to see.

...


Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn -- last seen working a crossword puzzle during the confirmation hearings for John G. Roberts -- bristled at Bush's plan for a $200 billion reconstruction effort. "I don't believe that everything that should happen in Louisiana should be paid for by the rest of the country," Coburn told the Times. "I believe there are certain responsibilities that are due the people of Louisiana." South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint chimed in that "throwing more and more money without accountability . . . is not going to solve the problem."

...

Why are Republicans, who have spent the better part of five years marching in lockstep with their president, suddenly going sideways on him? Part of it is the president's unpopularity, and part of it is that Bush is -- relatively speaking -- a short-timer. He needs to put on a big show of helping the Gulf Coast to recover from his stumbling performance in the early days of the disaster, but he'll be enjoying his retirement on Trent Lott's new porch by the time the bill comes due. Members of Congress will have to deal with the financial ramifications down the line -- especially if they ignore them now -- and they aren't necessarily happy about picking up the tab then to get Bush out of a jam now. As one senior House Republican official tells the Times, "We are not sure he knows what he is getting into."

-- T.G.

[SCDem]

1. gotta love Jim DeMint

--Jim DeMint chimed in that "throwing more and more money without accountability . . . is not going to solve the problem."

He voted against an independent investigation into the aftermath of Katrina.

He supports abstinence only education - where is the accountability and fidelity of successful abstinence only programs to back that up.

Jim DeMint the man that considers those making less that $75,000 are the poor and non tax paying citizens.

Whatever Mr Demented.

[Daphne08]

2. Why didn't they bitch about

first destroying and (the plan for) rebuilding Iraq?

They don't see the hypocrisy of THAT? We can rebuild Bagdad but not part of America?

[Child_Of_Isis]

3. "suddenly going sideways on him?"

Because they believe that their tax money is going to help the poor. A very big no no.

[applegrove]

4. Rove will use the time to study people and decide what wedges

to drive between the various groups. Look for renewed rumours of compensation for African American descendants of slaves to start circulating again.