List Of The Missing...Politicians!

[DistressedAmerican]

Here is a short list of folks that seem to be in hiding:

Dick Cheney
Rudy Guliani
Jeb Bush

Show your faces and answer some hard questions!


Am I Missing Anyone

[Mass]

1. McCain?

[carpetbagger]

17. Had cake with Bush on Monday after landfall.

[TimeChaser]

26. That's just fucking disgusting eom

[Mass]

19. Biden is totally absent.

Not even a note on his website.

[AverageJoe]

2. Yep, you're missing a few

Hillary Clinton
John Kerry
Howard Dean
John Edwards

and most every other Democrat of note, with the exception of the truly magnificent John Conyers.

[katinmn]

4. Howard Dean is one of the few that has spoken out.

The others have sent emails saying send money to the Red Cross. VERY helpful.:sarcasm:

[Greylyn58]

5. Actually John Edwards was interviewed

yesterday on MSNBC, but was interrupted when Shrub gave his mumbling speech before leaving to see the damage. He was very good.

[katinmn]

9. Good. I believe Edwards has something to say.

Not his fault if the media won't cover it. I'm glad at least MSNBC did.

[bvar22]

27. Edwards wrote a GREAT open letter....

...where he reasserted his campaign theme of the "Two Americas". The Working Poor were LEFT to fend for themselves in New Orleans!
It was good!
BUT
E-Mails and open letters are NOT very effective opposition. AFTER the initial crisis and immediate emergency are over, they need to DEMAND FACE TIME in front of the CAMERAS and DIRECTLY CONFRONT the CORRUPTION, BIGOTRY, CRONYISM, and CRIMINAL INCOMPETENCE of the Republican Administration.

Even if they have to settle for the studios of their LOCAL TV Stations, they can DEMAND Camera Time!!!
Most of America won't be reading their E-Mails and Open Letters (and THEY know that!)

[durablend]

10. Well we DID have the DINO on CNN

Whining on how now (or ever) isn't the right time to politicize this. (edit for correction)

Yep, pretty much absent as usual.

[AverageJoe]

16. I'm pleased that anybody is speaking up

I admit that I missed all of the responses you guys mentioned, but I'm still outraged that our Democratic leadership isn't screaming, in one voice, that * is criminally negligent and responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans. I'm also outraged that they are not on the Gulf Coast organizing alternative relief efforts, since the Republican response has been completely ineffective. I know the Democrats don't have the power to force the federal government to act, but they could try to organize private agencies to help more effectively. They could be calling for *'s immediate removal from office. If they are doing these things, then I'm sorry to have besmirched their names.

[globalvillage]

20. They are doing the right thing, IMO.

I have heard from Dean. Edwards was on TV yesterday, and I heard from Kerry four times even though he was in Iraq until yesterday. I understand Hillary has something on her web site, but I have removed myself from her mailing list, so I don't know if she sent an e-mail.
I got e-mail from Jesse Jackson. He has been on TV as well.
Kucinich, Feingold, Clark, Obama, Boxer, Kennedy... have all made statements. I'm sure I've missed many.
The media coverage is about the suffering. Let everyone see what bush* has neglected to do to help these people. We don't need our Dems to point it out, Anderson Cooper and the rest of the msm, for once, and Ray Nagan are doing a fine job of that.
The little kid on TV and the pictures of the dead bodies are more impactful right now. Those images speak louder than anything our Dem leaders can say at this point. The time will come.

[AverageJoe]

22. I respectfully disagree

Our leadership has been silent or tepid on every major evil done by the * administration and many people say that this is the way to go, to let * hang himself, that this is the end for the BFEE. It hasn't happened. I see no reason to believe it will happen now. I understand that this is a horribly sad thing to say, but I believe it. If our leaders don't speak out--forcefully and with righteous indignation--calling for * to be removed from office and indicted for murder, then they are complicit in his crimes.

Even if people do see that the New Orleans debacle is *'s fault, what reason do they have to support the Democrats if the Democrats don't give them a reason to do so? It's not enough to simply belong to a different party than *. Our party MUST grow a spine or we are doomed. And by "we," I mean this nation and this planet.

[globalvillage]

25. I agree. The Dems have to speak out.

But if they do it now, it will just be seen as political posturing anyway, and that won't help anyone.
First, they need to call for help for the victims, which is what they are doing. Sadly, the republican congress and the republican white house have the final word on relief efforts. If congressional dems focus on bashing the admin response now, we will not get the cooperation we need for assistance from the repubs, and a pissing contest right now will only remove the focus from the suffering. I don't like it either, but we have to work with these people. It sucks, but it's reality.
That's why it's so important for Wes, Edwards, Jackson and other dems to take the lead right now in holding bush* accountable. They need to keep the pressure on.
First we have to save the people. Then the Dems all need to condemn the response of the administration.
That's my opinion, and I'm actually torn between my reaction and yours. Maybe I'm wrong, but it's how I see their role right now.
Now, if the msm was not already holding bush* responsible, it would be a whole different story.

[TankLV]

29. It will never be "the right time" - ANYTHING they ever say, no matter how

far distant into the future it is, will be criticized by the repukes. ANYTHING.

I could not care less what the nazi's think or say.

I cannot control or influence what the repuke nazis say or do.

But being a democrat, I can at least influence what the dems say or do - AND I CAN DAMN CRITICIZE these fence sitting, waiting-for-godot vichy spinless missing in action dems who are astonishingly SILENT!

[Mass]

18. Dean, Edwards. and Kerry have spoken.

[AverageJoe]

23. What did they say?

I missed their statments. I hope they were on target.

[katinmn]

3. Cheney is being kept from public view. No one wants to see his

snarling face.

Some have called for Guiliani to take charge of disaster coordination.

Jeb Bush is squeeking in a corner somewhere. Nothing important to say.

I despise them all.

[JohnnyBoots]

6. Cheney is busy counting all his money from the NOLA clean up contracts

[katinmn]

8. Yup. Fucking Halliburton gets a contract.

That is Cheney's "contribution" to the disaster.

[sickinohio]

7. Most Dems?

[DrZeeLit]

12. The Kerry people were in motion before the hurricane struck.

I have received emails with details re helping, especially with housing.

I don't have t.v. so that's all I know at this point.
I would have liked to hear from many, many more.

I can only hope that they call LOUD and LONG for big time investigations.

I want some of those poor souls at the convention center and the superdome in front of the cameras at the hearings. Big time.

I hope somebody's office is rounding up names while they are helping. We need witnesses.

And we need lots of cameras at the hearings.

I hope somebody on our side of the aisle gets vocal soon.

[Totally Committed]

11. Colin Powell?

(Wonder how he feels about this? He never did have that Black Identity thing going on when he was in the administration, but...)

TC

[ps1074]

13. Sec of State Rice

eom

[katinmn]

15. she was out buying hundreds of pairs of shoes

presumably for the victims of the hurricane. :silly:

Nothing this administration does makes any sense.

[boston bean]

14. Bush Jr.

[seemslikeadream]

21. Denny Hastert was at a fundraiser in Indiana yesterday

I heard he was also auctioning off an antique car he owns.


Please if you live in Denny Hastert's district CALL HIM
Ask what he is doing about this disaster

D.C. Office
235 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Batavia District Office
27 North River Street
Batavia, IL 60510

Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Dixon Regional Office
119 W. First Street
Dixon, IL 61021

Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Office Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
9 AM – 4 PM

Geneseo Regional Office
137 South State Street, Suite 336
Geneseo, IL 61254

Phone: [phone]

Office Hours
Thursday
9 AM – 3 PM

[enki23]

24. what the fuck does guliani have to do with anything?

as the mayor mentioned yesterday, press conferences are low on the list of what New Orleans needs.

[DistressedAmerican]

28. He Is America's "DISASTER MAYOR" Remember. I'm Sure The Networks Would

love an interview.

They could ask him to compare the 9/11 response time (already too slow to the completely failed response in the gulf coast.

You have no interest in seeing a reporter put that question to the asshole that got famous being a "disaster Mayor"?