I can copy the whole thing here because, Hey I wrote it.
Karl Rove in a speech in New Hampshire on June 12 said of democrats: "They may be with you for the first shots, but they're not going . . . to be with you for the tough battles."
As a Democrat, of course I was offended by this statement. I have never served in the military so I will probably never know how offensive this is to democrats currently serving our country in Iraq, or to our democratic veterans.
I can only judge who runs from a tough challenge in civilian life, and here is an example of cutting and running on massive scale:
Just how much of the Katrina reconstruction has Karl Rove accomplished to date?
Check12's diary :: ::
The Shame of Katrina Is Still With Us
James Zogby 4/21/06
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...What makes all this so maddening is the unfulfilled commitments made by President Bush seven months ago. I can't forget his powerful address to the nation delivered against the backdrop of New Orleans' St. Louis Cathedral. In that speech, the President acknowledged that the government had been slow to start in response to Katrina. He promised a massive rebuilding effort to bring New Orleans back to life. Recognizing that African Americans were disproportionately among the city's poor because of a "history of racial discrimination," the President laid out an aggressive program that would not only reconstruct, but give priority attention to the city's poor. Eight months later, the promises seem to have been forgotten, like the garbage that sits uncollected in front of the Ninth Ward's destroyed homes. And Katrina remains a stain on our nation, not only because it exposes for all the depth of our racial and class divide, but the hollowness of our promises to right these wrongs.
From Think Progress:
January 31, 2006
http://thinkprogress.org/...FACT -- KATRINA RECONSTRUCTION HAS BEEN SLOW AND BUNGLED: "
n certain respects, little has changed" in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina, according to the Wall Street Journal. Only one-fifth of the city's original population has resettled. "The Crescent City largely has shriveled to `the sliver by the river,' as residents now call the thin ribbon of neighborhoods near the Mississippi River that didn't flood," and "neighborhoods still are abandoned wastelands of uninhabitable homes and sidewalks piled with moldy garbage."
FACT -- ADMINISTRATION REJECTED RECONSTRUCTION PLAN: The White House rejected a Louisiana reconstruction plan -- the "most broadly supported plan for rebuilding communities," and instead backed $6.2 billion in block grants that Congress provided last year, which Rep. Richard Baker (R-LA) called "unacceptable."
FACT -- KATRINA RECONSTRUCTION FUNDING HAS BEEN TAINTED BY POLITICS: The $29 billion in aid passed last month was tainted by politics: the package "gave Mississippi about five times as much per household in housing aid as Louisiana received," a "testimony to the clout" of Bush's political ally, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R).
Karl Rove has cut and run from the American people. He was never really in charge on Katrina Reconstruction, I think we all know that. This was just another PR stunt perpetrated on the suffering people of New Orleans.
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