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NOW they get around to it.
The Congress has just voted emergency funds of 10.5 billion dollars for relief efforts dealing with Hurricane Katrina.
An interesting quote, taken from http://www.andrewsullivan.com (a conservative who is willing to admit liberals and moderates occasionally have a point).
"'I'm not saying it wouldn't still be flooded, but I do feel that if it had been totally funded, there would be less flooding than you have,' said Michael Parker, a former Republican Mississippi congressman who headed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from October 2001 until March 2002, when he was ousted after publicly criticizing a Bush administration proposal to cut the corps' budget." - from the Chicago Tribune, noted by Josh Marshall.
The evil imp within says, if only this was happening in August of 2006. We might get some moderates in office, then. Why am I so angry? Listen--Homeland Security is saying "But TWO disasters have hit, first the hurricane, then flooding. It's unprecedented." And so on. Oh, right--it never occurred to you that the most likely reason the levees would break was because of a HUGE hurricane? And what if terrorists released biological agents in three separate large cities? What are your plans, then?
We've all been worrying that there are so many soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq that if attacked, we couldn't defend ourselves--we never considered that they'd send so many troops over, we couldn't restore order in a US city.
And we don't have enough troops to open a third war front in Iran. Are you listening, Congress and Shrub?
Idiots. We're being governed by idiots. I know this won't reach the people who voted for Bush, but IF YOU DIDN'T VOTE, REGISTER, DAMMIT! There ARE choices between better and worse.
An interesting quote, taken from http://www.andrewsullivan.com (a conservative who is willing to admit liberals and moderates occasionally have a point).
"'I'm not saying it wouldn't still be flooded, but I do feel that if it had been totally funded, there would be less flooding than you have,' said Michael Parker, a former Republican Mississippi congressman who headed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from October 2001 until March 2002, when he was ousted after publicly criticizing a Bush administration proposal to cut the corps' budget." - from the Chicago Tribune, noted by Josh Marshall.
The evil imp within says, if only this was happening in August of 2006. We might get some moderates in office, then. Why am I so angry? Listen--Homeland Security is saying "But TWO disasters have hit, first the hurricane, then flooding. It's unprecedented." And so on. Oh, right--it never occurred to you that the most likely reason the levees would break was because of a HUGE hurricane? And what if terrorists released biological agents in three separate large cities? What are your plans, then?
We've all been worrying that there are so many soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq that if attacked, we couldn't defend ourselves--we never considered that they'd send so many troops over, we couldn't restore order in a US city.
And we don't have enough troops to open a third war front in Iran. Are you listening, Congress and Shrub?
Idiots. We're being governed by idiots. I know this won't reach the people who voted for Bush, but IF YOU DIDN'T VOTE, REGISTER, DAMMIT! There ARE choices between better and worse.