Katrina investigations=IMPEACHMENT. Get hold of the "embarassing emails." It's that simple

[rudy23]

Something is up with Lieberman refusing to investigate, then Brownie coming out the next day, criticizing the White House for trying to rub Blanco's nose in it. (Which they're still doing, not only to Blanco, but to the entire state of Louisiana.

There's a reason * didn't mention Katrina in the SOTU. He wants people to just forget about what happened, and what is continuing to happen. Do you think just maybe there's something in those emails, such as:

*partisanship towards our Democratic Governor and largely Democratic city
*sexism towards our governor
*racism towards the people of New Orleans
*indifference to human life
*opportunism, especially for Halliburton to come in and rebuild
*random sadism and general sociopathic behavior

[rodeodance]

1. bush just does not care and Joe is a lapdog to him

[nickyt]

5. Can't Lieberman just be replaced? This is too insane. n/t

[efhmc]

2. Denying the neccesity of building NO will not make the problems there

go away. Nor will it make Americans forget. As a matter of fact, I have on my "Make Levies, Not War" t-shirt today (which I got on the first anniversary of Katrina in the French Quarter). The manager of the store where I bought the shirt said to tell everyone about their troubles and I promised to do so.

[IWantAChange]

3. Where is the 'liberal' MSM on this??

[blm]

7. Us liberals have been waiting for a 'liberal media' to materialize for twenty years now.

Still waiting.

[RB TexLa]

4. wasting your typing

Nothing will ever be done. It's not just because of a Democratic city or a female governor, it's us. America has never cared about Louisiana and never will. Doesn't matter what party is in the White House or Congress.

[rudy23]

10. I feel like a foreigner in my own country, in "that part of the world" nt

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. Yup, he just wants people to forget about it. Simple as that.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050915-8.html

September 15, 2005
President Discusses Hurricane Relief in Address to the Nation
Jackson Square
New Orleans, Louisiana
8:02 P.M. CDT

THE PRESIDENT:
...

Tonight so many victims of the hurricane and the flood are far from home and friends and familiar things. You need to know that our whole nation cares about you, and in the journey ahead you're not alone. To all who carry a burden of loss, I extend the deepest sympathy of our country. To every person who has served and sacrificed in this emergency, I offer the gratitude of our country. And tonight I also offer this pledge of the American people: Throughout the area hit by the hurricane, we will do what it takes, we will stay as long as it takes, to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives. And all who question the future of the Crescent City need to know there is no way to imagine America without New Orleans, and this great city will rise again.


...

And the federal government will undertake a close partnership with the states of Louisiana and Mississippi, the city of New Orleans, and other Gulf Coast cities, so they can rebuild in a sensible, well-planned way. Federal funds will cover the great majority of the costs of repairing public infrastructure in the disaster zone, from roads and bridges to schools and water systems. Our goal is to get the work done quickly. And taxpayers expect this work to be done honestly and wisely -- so we'll have a team of inspectors general reviewing all expenditures.

...

Our third commitment is this: When communities are rebuilt, they must be even better and stronger than before the storm.

...

Americans want the Gulf Coast not just to survive, but to thrive; not just to cope, but to overcome. We want evacuees to come home, for the best of reasons -- because they have a real chance at a better life in a place they love.

[rudy23]

8. I bet those emails put Brownie's to shame--and where is the media on this?

I know it's impossible to focus your rage on each new day of scandal, but this is criminal what's still going on here. Thank God Jim Webb, and John Edwards mentioned it last night. I hope more Democrats will follow.

If you want to see investigations that cause the public to scream bloody murder, and call for impeachments the NEXT DAY, then we should be having Katrina investigations ASAP. I know Kucinich is going to investigate the contracts, but I want to hear more about the response process. I want to see those emails.

[rudy23]

9. Was Blanco's call for investigations in the national media at all yesterday? nt

[rudy23]

11. Blanco slams Bush for not mentioning Katrina

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_re_us/hurricanes_bush

NEW ORLEANS - Gov. Kathleen Blanco angrily criticized President Bush on Wednesday for not mentioning 2005's destructive hurricanes in his State of the Union speech, and said Louisiana is being shortchanged in federal recovery funding for political reasons.

"I guess the pains of the hurricane are yesterday's news in Washington," Blanco said.

"But for us it's still very real, very real, and it's something that we live every single day," the governor said. "But we will continue to fight, and we will continue to come on, and we will effect a recovery." (snip)

[mzmolly]

12. One persons death for political reasons is indeed a high crime.

And, we should urge our reps to pursue Brown's statements.

[intheflow]

13. Sounds like the colonization of New Orleans to me.

They're screwing people here in Mississippi, too. Just not so publicly since our good-ol'-boy governor was a top DC lobbyist (for the gambling industry, fer cripes sake). You've nailed this one on the head, rudy23. Katrina is another item to add to the war crime sub-list of impeachment issues.

[Stephanie]

14. uh-huh >

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