Did you hear that crybaby Republican on Anderson?

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He said it was not time to play the blame game, but certainly the time would come when all the questions that are being asked will be appropriate to discuss. AND THEN he said that the problem was IN FEMA's bureaucracy; and that there were things that went right. Specifically he said the private sector did things right and the military response was right!!! Sure, it only took them five days to organize!

Don't be fooled, DUers, the Republicans are going to try to blame FEMA's failure on Federal dependence instead of look deep into what they did to FEMA since 2001 which caused the delays!

[neuvocat]

1. So in that case FEMA never did anything right

and that includes ANY emergency before Katrina. You're probably right though, and basically their campaign will be run on the slogan "Blame the locals."

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9. They want to take down the Dem locals and FEMA too!!!

They seem to forget that the Republicans were in charge of FEMA!! They're responsible for the bureacratic miscommunications. It was a deadly mistake to allow state righters to take control of the Federal government. That's only part of the problem. The other part is that they only know how to communicate with each other through secret handshake. Only those who are part of the club get access to federal assistance.

[AX10]

2. The GOP always cries when they don't get their way.

The GOP allowed New Orleans to be RAPED. Bush is at fault.

[Nite Owl]

3. And then they will say

it needs to be privitized which is what they want to do with everything. Government is bad, government can't handle things but their business buddies can do it all.

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12. This is exactly what they are leading up to.

Unbelievable. They find ways to capitalize off their own incompetence.

[emulatorloo]

4. Bush 3 point comeback plan

1. Throw money at NO, with no concern of how to pay
2. Blame those mean ole Democrats
3. Cut Rich Peoples Taxes

<snip>
By late last week, Administration aides were describing a three-part comeback plan. The first: Spend freely, and worry about the tab and the consequences later. "Nothing can salve the wounds like money," said an official who helped develop the strategy. "You'll see a much more aggressively engaged President, traveling to the Gulf Coast a lot and sending a lot of people down there."

The second tactic could be summed up as, Don't look back. The White House has sent delegates to meetings in Washington of outside Republican groups who have plans to blame the Democrats and state and local officials. In the meantime, it has no plans to push for a full-scale inquiry like the 9/11 commission, which Bush bitterly opposed until the pressure from Congress and surviving families made resistance futile. Congressional Democrats have said they are unwilling to settle for anything less than an outside panel, but White House officials said they do not intend to give in, and will portray Democrats as politicking if they do not accept a bipartisan panel proposed by Republican congressional leaders. Ken Mehlman, the party's chairman and Bush's campaign manager last year, told TIME that viewers at home will think it's "kind of ghoulish, the extent to which you've got political leaders saying not 'Let's help the people in need' but making snide comments about vacations."

The third move: Develop a new set of goals to announce after Katrina fades. Advisers are proceeding with plans to gin up base-conservative voters for next year's congressional midterm elections with a platform that probably will be focused around tax reform.Because Bush will need a dynamic salesman to make sure that initiative goes better than his Social Security proposal, advisers tell TIME there is once again talk of replacing Treasury Secretary John Snow. There are no plans to delay tax cuts to pay for the New Orleans reconstruction or the Iraq war, and Bush is likely to follow through on his vow to veto anticipated congressional approval of increased federal funding for embryonic-stem-cell research.

<snip>

more at:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1103581,00.html

[pretzel4gore]

5. do the nazipoos all think with one brain?

mygod, the punks are interchangeable with hateradio hosts or callers, or editorialists in the majority of papers...they all have the same fixed idea and all say the same thing.....they spew mental fecal matter, all the time, all the same..
they're the bushborg...lol

[RallyInDC]

6. to the GOP: SHUTUP!!!!!!! we're coming to clean out all the corruption...

to hell with the corporate contractors!!!!

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CARED ABOUT ONE OF US!!?!?? ABOUT ONE OF THE PEOPLE?!?

fuck em! and to hell with those far-right apocalypse now idiots.

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13. Hi and welcome to DU.

[donheld]

7. Now Is Precisely the Time for Finger-Pointing

By Arianna Huffington, AlterNet
Posted on September 9, 2005, Printed on September 12, 2005
http://www.alternet.org/story/25216/
Here's one for the Hypocrisy Hall of Fame: At the same time the administration is putting Karl Rove's "pin-the-blame-on-the-locals" plan into effect, President Bush told reporters gathered at a cabinet meeting today, "I think that one of the things that people want us to do here is play a blame game. We've got to solve problems. We're problem solvers. There will be ample time for people to figure out what went right and what went wrong. What I'm interested in is helping save lives."

How noble. A week and thousands of lives too late... but noble. He makes it sound as if anyone interested in trying to figure out what went so horribly wrong in the aftermath of Katrina is somehow impeding the recovery. As if we can't help the victims and analyze the debacle at the same time. As if any time spent by reporters ferreting out the truth -- and by Congress overseeing -- would otherwise be spent tossing sandbags on the levee, disinfecting the Superdome, or driving evacuees to Houston.

As if those seeking answers will have blood on their hands.

That's certainly the ominous rhetorical tack being taken by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. He's all about moving forward, and not looking back (which isn't surprising given how many corpses he'd see in his personal rear-view mirror). "What would be a horrible tragedy," he said, "would be to distract ourselves from avoiding further problems because we're spending time talking about problems that have already occurred." Gee, Mr. Secretary, I thought that was called 'learning from your mistakes.'

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15. I agree with Arianna.

If we wait, it will just give them time to formulate a plan, or spin a lie.

[dogday]

8. This is not a game. So stop saying that we are

playing a blame game. This is serious, deadly serious. Nothing funny or amusing about it. This is a strong point we need to get out. Republicans might think it is a game, but we take what happened very seriously, and the situation needs looking at now while it is fresh in our memories....

[Maggie_May]

10. Yes it is time to play the blame game

People died!! I hate this Republican bullshit. Bush didn't even apologize for this blunder. The command and chief of the United States was on vacation when he new a category 5 was going to hit. His own staff was afraid to let him know he was going to have to cut his vacation short. The buck stops in the White House.

[RallyInDC]

16. no shit, and thousands are still dying...and the iraq war is still making

it all much worse, and draining money. and thousands of bodies are being hidden. it adds up!

[OregonBlue]

11. I heard all of that. It was definately a heads up for where they plan to

go with this. Military and privatization. Get rid of FEMA, put military and private companies, under the direction of Homeland Security, directly in charge.

God, it just gets worse. I keep trying to ignore the possiblity that the slow response was planned but, there's so much evidence building and their "fixes" seem so planned/canned.

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Yep.. they love to break the public sector so they can switch us

to the private sector.

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[The Backlash Cometh]

19. The private sector: A place where white males can be as

incompetent as they like, because they can displace the blame to others and keep all the profits for themselves. No accountability.

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. Ayuh. Makes my stomach churn

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[DinahMoeHum]

17. The GOP - The party that says government doesn't work. . .

and then they get elected and prove it.

:kick:

[applegrove]

18. For a WH that always has a scapegoat at the ready - "blame game"

is the most hypocritical thing they have ever said. They constantly blame people who have never done anything.