Katrina vanden Heuvel: No Katrina Hearings? Gotcha, Joe

[marmar]

from the Nation:

BLOG | Posted 02/14/2007 @ 4:13pm
No Katrina Hearings? Gotcha, Joe
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Senator Joseph Lieberman ?, Chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, recently did a one-eighty and said that he will not hold investigations into the disastrous Bush administration (non-)response to Hurricane Katrina. He He said, "We don't want to play ‘gotcha' anymore" and that "looking back… would be a waste of Congress' time."

In an attempt to explain the inexplicable Lieberman's spokeswoman Leslie Philips offered this somewhat bizarre statement: "The senator believes a more productive use of his time and that of his staff is to… ensure that a response to a future catastrophe is better."

Huh? Isn't that the whole point of examining the mistakes that were made and why they occurred? To make sure that we get it right the next time?

In fact, Phillips' statement was reminiscent of something Lieberman wrote in May, 2006 in support of the very investigations he is now dismissing: "Only through a thorough and comprehensive investigation of what went wrong we be assured that the government will know what steps are necessary to get it right the next time." Lieberman also decried "a conscious strategy of slow-walking our investigation in the hope that we would run out of time to follow the investigation's natural progression to where it leads." He accused the White House of ordering witnesses not to respond to questions, and the Departments of Justice, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security of failing to cooperate as well. ......(more)

The rest of the piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?bid=7&pid=166256

[Tin Man]

1. QuidProJoe has zero integrity, zero credibility - his promises are worthless

And gee, what a surprise he would double-cross the interests of his own nation just to give a free pass to his master, Dubya.

Fucking traitor.

[marmar]

2. "And gee, what a surprise he would double-cross the interests of his own nation"

So true. He could give less than a damn. His main constituent is Joe Lieberman.

[Olney Blue]

3. A deal has been struck between Joe and the WH.

This is only the beginning of his betrayal.

[Kurovski]

4. Lieberman sold his soul to BushCo to retain his seat.

I'm tired of being sick at heart over the stunts that are pulled every other minute in DC.

Impeach. Indict. Imprison.

All the corruption is crushing the life out of this nation.

[rudy23]

5. There are impeachable offenses in those "embarassing emails" that Joe won't let anyone touch nt

[rudy23]

6. I'd also like to see an investigation into the smear campaign on New Orleans through talk radio,

cable news, and viral emails.

I want to know where all these horrible chain emails are coming from that are all over snopes.com--from false crime reports to fake rants from famous comedians, to reports of people living the high life on their $2000 of Fema money.

This was organized, and I'd like to see an investigation into propaganda against an American city.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Lieberman is such a career politician, isn't he?

Cover up, cover up, trip up the Democrats, cover up, cover up somemore, trip up the Democrats even more.

What a slimeball. For all the orthodoxy he claims to believe in, he's going to hell if God is his judge.

Isn't there another agency that can order an investigation into the Katrina mess?