Lieberman and Susan Collins call for Bipartisan Investigation

[RamboLiberal]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050902/pl_nm/weather_katrina_senate_dc

Two key U.S. senators said on Friday they will open a bipartisan investigation into what they described as an "immense failure" of the government response to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Sen. Susan Collins (news, bio, voting record), a Maine Republican who heads the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (news, bio, voting record) of Connecticut, the panel's top Democrat, said they plan to begin an oversight investigation next week when the full Senate returns from a summer recess.

"We intend to demand answers as to how this immense failure occurred, but our immediate focus must and will be on what Congress can do to help the rescue and emergency operations that are ongoing," the senators said in a joint statement.

"It is also our responsibility to investigate the lack of preparedness and inadequate response to this terrible storm," they said, adding that it was "increasingly clear that serious shortcomings in preparedness and response have hampered relief efforts at a critical time."

[DODI]

1. I guess my calls yesterday worked!

For once Joe, thank you.

[rodeodance]

7. good, but wonder if it will have 2 phases like the 9/11 had--in which the

second phase---accountability phase-has still NOT been taken up.

[LittleClarkie]

2. Joementum gets a cookie. And I wish Collins was a Dem

Joe doesn't get many cookies. But he gets a cookie today.

[William769]

3. Oy vey.

[Melodybe]

5. Well isn't that just wonderful fucking shit heads!

[LittleClarkie]

8. Was that directed at me?

Or at two people who are calling for the right thing, regardless of what you might think of them.

[aquart]

4. Take care, babies. Lip service won't do.

Someone has to offer up blood.

[tk2kewl]

6. bipartisan whitewash if joe shmoe is running the show

[Larkspur]

9. Hope Joe does a better job than he did with leading the Enron

investigation. He dropped the ball on Enron, so I expect him to drop the ball on this investigation or to put all blame on the Mayor of New Orleans.

[leesa]

10. Oh shut up! Holy Joe...anything you are involved in is a waste of time.

Couldn't you spend your time better by getting some of your rich friends to pry open their pocket books and use your frickin clout to get rescue operations going?? Fuck your bipartisan showmanship!

[Neshanic]

13. Your pals needing cover? Call "Coverman". He will help you out

and help you spread the blame, and then write a big fat book that everyone will forget about.

Gow does he show his face in public in his state?

[CityDem]

11. Do we really need another worthless commission

We already know who caused this problem. Begin the impeachment proceedings instead of wasting our time with some worthless commission.

[Mass]

12. Sure, as soon as you can convince Delay to start the procedures\nt

[Davis_X_Machina]

14. That's two Republicans...

...so it can't be a bipartisan call.

And Collins is bull-teats useless. Sen. Susie Creamcheese is dumber than a bag of hammers.

[Robeson]

15. Since it is black Americans who are suffering in droves, ....then it...

...should be the Black Congressional Caucus who conducts the official investigations. Anything less, will be an attempt to "white" wash.

[Slit Skirt]

16. white wash...ommission commission

just like 9/11