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Thursday, September 08, 2005
A new low
Sen. Smilin' Norm Coleman (R-MN) is a pathetic, soulless bastard, but even he is capable of plumbing new lows in the face of tragedy:"Have I got an earful? You betcha," said Sen. Norm Coleman, Minnesota Republican, who said he heard about it from voters at Minnesota's state fair this weekend.
But even as Republicans promised investigations, they made it clear that the first failure was at the state and local levels, where governments are charged with preparation and the first response to disasters.
"I'm a former mayor," Mr. Coleman said. "The leadership starts at the local level. I didn't see the local mayor. I didn't hear from the mayor."
His focus on state and local officials was echoed by Mr. Bush, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and top congressional Republicans, who said the federal response fell short because, in Mr. Coleman's words, "the federal officials didn't do a good enough job of filling that void fast enough."
Smilin' Norm has not been paying attention. I don't blame him for not reading 3WN, but what about the 20,000 news reports Google finds? What about this:
As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters - his own are exhausted after working around the clock for a week - a battalion of highly trained men and women sat idle Sunday in a muggy Sheraton Hotel conference room in Atlanta.
Or this:
[Ray Nagin:]I've got 15,000 to 20,000 people over at the convention center. It's bursting at the seams. The poor people in Plaquemines Parish. ... We don't have anything, and we're sharing with our brothers in Plaquemines Parish.
It's awful down here, man.
Or this radio interview?
Nagin has been everywhere begging for help. To pretend otherwise is a new obscenity.
3 Comments:
CP makes the prediction that you will be knee deep in Bernie Kerick and Guliani by the end of the week.
cp
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8:56 AM
I said it yesterday, and I'll say it again: The screw up bozos from Herr Bush on down will skate on this one. The spin will be unbelievable; Brown will get a Presidential Citation for his fine work; and the public will buy it.
UFB!!!!!!!
By , at
11:04 AM
What can we say? Bernie Kerrick will be on Lou Dobbs tonight. Let the NYC Mayor-related marathon begin!!
cp
By , at
1:14 PM
