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  • Bush Hating 101
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s hard to imagine that all things bad with america and americans can be personified by one person " George Bush ". All I can say is the more you rant and rave that only the president is at fault and to blame for an "act of God ", the more apparent and ridiculouse you cry babies appear. All I can say is listen to reason or no one will hear your stupidity. Why not throw away another election or any chance at one.
    Consider this. 1) The moron that released the prisoners into the Superdome, (…)

  • Hurricane Katrina should invalidate the right of George Bush to appoint Supreme Court Justices
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is impossible for me, as it is for most Americans, to watch the horror and suffering from Hurricane Katrina and not feel physically sore, pained, bereft, empty, heartbroken. And angry.
    The Katrina tragedy should become a watershed in American politics. This was when the usually invisible people suddenly appeared in all the anguish of their lives — the impoverished, the old, the infirm, the kids and the low-wage workers with no cars, TVs or credit cards. They showed up on America’s (…)

  • Cynthia McKinney censored in congressional record- Is someone afraid of the word IMPEACHMENT?
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rep McKinney Special Order Censored??? By Rep Cynthia McKinney
    I mentioned the word impeachment on the House Floor Thursday late afternoon, but I don’t see it in the official Congressional Record transcript. I was chided by the Speaker that it was out of order to question the President’s motives. I didn’t question motives, I questioned actions: from lack of actions on Katrina to cutting the budget of safety net programs, to rewarding the rich to the detriment of all the rest of us. This (…)

  • Bush signs executive order Cancelling Minimum Wage in Katrina zone
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President signs executive order allowing contractors to pay below prevailing wage in affected areas.
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush issued an executive order Thursday allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage.
    In a notice to Congress, Bush said the hurricane had caused "a national emergency" that permits him to take such action under the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act in ravaged areas of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and (…)

  • Bush’s Cavalier Attitude Contributed To Magnitude Of Hurricane Disaster
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush’s Cavalier Attitude Contributed To Magnitude Of Hurricane Disaster John Hanchette September 06, 2005 Olean, NY - Scientists might well start researching the question: Are questionable reactions to foreign crises, wars, hurricanes and the economy genetic? The degree to which George W. Bush’s presidency is mirroring his father’s, and magnifying it, seems to indicate the answer is a ringing YES.
    While Dubya’s dad tended to respond a bit more rapidly when huge crises developed for the (…)

  • Tough Decisions Elude President
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tough Decisions Elude President Bill Gallagher September 06, 2005 Detroit - "Keep the damn federal government off our backs and out of our lives!" That’s been the battle cry of conservative Southern politicians for generations. The cry was usually code for their opposition to civil rights. In rural areas of the South, the federal government was despised for sending revenue agents to break up their beloved moonshine stills and forcing the locals to buy taxed booze. They hate government, (…)

  • Police force citizens from their homes, shoots their dogs
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ST. BERNARD PARISH, La. - "All Our Visitors Bring Happiness," reads the wrought iron sign on the front column of Albert Cousin’s 102-year-old Victorian house.
    Not Wednesday.
    Sheriff’s deputies in body armor and holding rifles came to try to force Cousin and other residents of St. Bernard Parish to get out of town.
    For the past few days, residents have found comfort in food and water brought by units of the Georgia National Guard, who arrived Labor Day weekend. The roughly 160 members (…)

  • How Bush Blew It
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bureaucratic timidity. Bad phone lines. And a failure of imagination. Why the government was so slow to respond to catastrophe.
    A woman walks in the flooded streets of the 9th Ward of New Orleans
    By Evan Thomas Newsweek
    Sept. 19, 2005 issue - It’s a standing joke among the president’s top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news? Warm and hearty in public, Bush can be cold and snappish in private, and aides sometimes cringe before the displeasure of the president of the United States, (…)

  • Senate committee wants input on NOLA reconstruction
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Take the power and money out of the hands of FEMA and Halliburton/Bectel and give the money to the PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS to decide how to rebuild and who will rebuild!!
    Urgent! Senate committee wants Katrina input - deadline TODAY 9/11
    The Senate H.E.L.P. Committee (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) has been requesting input on Katrina reconstruction. The deadline was changed from Friday 9/9 to Monday, 9/12 (but presume 9/11, by the end of today) to allow more input. . It’s a great (…)

  • Pelosi Supports Anti-Fraud Commission on Katrina
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    For Immediate Release Sept. 11, 2005
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced today that she supports forming an anti-fraud commission to oversee government contracts issued in response to Hurricane Katrina:
    "Congress is rightly spending billions of dollars to help the people and businesses of the Gulf Coast who have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. To ensure taxpayers’ money goes to those in need, not to fraudulent contractors, we must establish an (…)