After Katrina, our nation needs accountability
Lloyd Doggett, U.S. CONGRESS
Friday, September 09, 2005
Our hearts and prayers are with the tens of thousands suffering as a result of Hurricane Katrina and the Bush administration's achingly slow response to its assault.
Last week, President Bush sought to explain the tragedy in New Orleans by saying, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." Later, with tens of thousands still stranded without water, food or medicine, he praised the Federal Emergency Management Agency's director as doing "a heck of a job." With so many Americans mired in hellish conditions, such out-of-touch, self-congratulatory cheerleading is no substitute for leadership.
Now Bush has announced that he personally will lead an investigation of what happened. This sounds too much like his resistance to an independent inquiry into 9/11. It is unacceptable to rely upon him investigating his administration. [..] Read it all at: http://tinyurl.com/b5tur
© Virginia Metze
Friday, September 09, 2005
Our hearts and prayers are with the tens of thousands suffering as a result of Hurricane Katrina and the Bush administration's achingly slow response to its assault.
Last week, President Bush sought to explain the tragedy in New Orleans by saying, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." Later, with tens of thousands still stranded without water, food or medicine, he praised the Federal Emergency Management Agency's director as doing "a heck of a job." With so many Americans mired in hellish conditions, such out-of-touch, self-congratulatory cheerleading is no substitute for leadership.
Now Bush has announced that he personally will lead an investigation of what happened. This sounds too much like his resistance to an independent inquiry into 9/11. It is unacceptable to rely upon him investigating his administration. [..] Read it all at: http://tinyurl.com/b5tur
© Virginia Metze
Starmail - 12. Sep, 18:31
