It's all part of the Republican Agenda... And it's whos fault it really i

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Some Republicans are upset with Brown. Sounds like Trent is trying to blame this all on a person and not the REPBULICAN AGENDA. I'm sure he and his "friends" in congress/senete see what is over the next hill. If we do the blame game, THE PEOPLE will expect someone to go down. That means hearings, etc.. REAL ONES. If the PEOPLE don't get REAL ones, they KNOW the ony way to get them is to change both Congress & Senete to Demcrats. OUCH! That effects HIS job.

I don't know if we should be doing the blame game near as much as we should be pointing out LOUDLY that "this" is Repbulican Policy realized. "THIS" is what they have been working towards. Less federal government. Just like the qoute on the top of the page.

And this kind of disaster is happening all over the place. Only people don't notice the lives effected. UNLESS it effects them personaly. They just don't know and don't understand it. Never thought they needed to, that is why we hire politicians to "handle" it all.

I want to get Bush & company as bad as the next guy. But they are no more to blame then ALL the REPUBLICANS and their "agenda." If this event had happened after the next presidentual election. With a new fema director, new Homeland Security Leader and New president.. I think the results would be close to the same. The SYSTEM NOW set up isn't REAL government response. OTHERs are suppose to step in and do it.

Just like in 3rd world countrys.

There are 2 issues on the table right now. One, Bush should have let Northern Command do it's job. Along with others. But he WAS to busy playing. So was Rice.

The other, is the new "system". What Bush & Company did.. can't change that. It's done. Slapping with it (and we should) is political hay.

The other... Which is part of the Republican Idea, the "plan".... that opens the doors to getting Democrats elected. Ones that can reverse the trends that the Republicans have put in place.

I think we should do both.. but lean more heavely on the second one. Let the first one drag.. if need be. If people question it.. Just say that if they are guilty.. then they should go to JAIL. Forget Impeachment. WE are talking JAIL TIME.

The Republican Agenda of turning everything over to privization is to save TAX MONEY. What tax money is raised goes to subsidize corporations like Haliburtan. What ever happened to personal responsiblity? It don't extend to Corporations. Just private citizians.

The Republican Agenda is turning us into a 3rd World Nation. From educational opportunities, to Health Care and as we can see... Disaster response.

Very few Republican voters truely understands what the Republican Agenda really means. Oh, they know about the Abortion Issue, the Gays Rights Issues, and that it's a self proclaimed "God's Poltiical Party." But that is about it. And when the Republican Agenda effects them personaly, they don't see it. They don't connect it.

But WE do understand that. As such, These people that we are blaming, Except for Bush and the Head of Homeland Security.. they were doing their JOB as it was at the time. Their job duities changed over the years under Bush. To be inline with the Republican Agenda.

It's the Republican Agenda that is at fault here. And we should point it out. It will save more lives in the long run, then just going after Bush & Company.

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1. The GOP

republicans working daily to Gouge our Poor, aka Rebuplican Agenda.

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4. Don't you think we should be addressing this issue?

People are opening their eyes to Bush.

But do they truely understand big government doesn't mean giving all our money to the poor. It means taking responsiblity, making corporations take responsiblity.

Democrats are about planing for OUR future, our kids future.

Republicans also plan. How to get more dollars in their pockets at the peoples expense.

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2. Yes and no

I agree that in the questions game that there are bigger questions than others. But in all sincerity, Bu$h personally should have given this the attention it deserved.

But you do raise an interesting point that touches on something that I read yesterday at CounterPunch.org. It is the concept that we are now being ruled instead of governed and if you do a Google search for the exact phrase "We are ruled by treason" you will see where I as Virgil have long believed that we are being ruled instead of governed.

But the CounterPunch article said something like "the Republicans, the Democrats, and those above them." I believe the Republicans are a tightly controlled group that must vote and speak the party line or the Party itself will replace them. They are all but robots. I think the Dems as a whole serve the same master as the Republicans and there is no call to return give up rule and to return to govern. I do think that the Dems have some free thinkers, as exampled by Kucinich.

But in all of this mess some power has had to ordered the withholding of aid. The Bataan is the perfect example of some proactive force acting to stop its contribution to the effort. It followed Katrina ashore and was Johnny on the spot, but some force had to say, hold off. There is no sane person that would withhold a hospital ship from service in the wake of such a disaster.

I do not believe WarCriminal ordered the ship to withhold services. What I wonder about is those "above the Republicans and Democrats." The machinery for aid is there and somebody or some force through a monkey wrench into it. That is what I want to find out. Who is really giving the orders? Who is dictating the Republican Party line?

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5. Dick Cheny? Is that you?

Are you mad that Dean pointed out how black people, and the poor and elderly, were disproportionately affected by this disaster when Dean reportedly spoke at the National Baptist Convention of America?

Delaying responsibility for incompetence is part of a mitigation strategy by the Gouge Our Poor republican leadership. Working people understand that when they make mistakes, they're held accountable immediately. They're even held responsible when their bosses and executives make the mistakes. We should hold our leaders to the same standard they repeatedly prescribe for working people.

"You know, it takes a certain kind of immoral audacity to start public condemnation of political enemies when there are still bodies floating in the streets of New Orleans. Blame Bush?"

Yes. The buck stops at his door. He's the ultimately responsible party, not for the storm which no sane person claims was his fault, but for the incompetent response to the storm and its aftermath. For being on vacation while NO flooded, eating cake with McCain, and pseudo-strumming his precious gift guitar. Gouge our Poor Republicans are in control in Congress, they had years to make sure that emergency management was competent and professional, but instead, they expressed party loyalty while Bush gutted FEMA, absorbed it into DHS, and continued to LIE to all Americans when they claimed that we're safer than before 9/11--Yeah, right, Dick--all that's substantially happened is our Constitutional rights were gutted with the Patriot Act and billions have been flushed down the Halliburton private contractor toilet.

I cannot even begin to recall all the incompetence of this 5 year period of time of GW's PResidency. Impeach him. Impeach Bush/Cheny now.

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6. Remember NEWT?

The Clinton Years? The republicans balked and whined the whole time.

American Christians have been lead to believe wrongly that the Republicans are "God's Party."

We are not going to "fix" the type of things that Bush did to the country if the people don't understand TOTALY what went wrong!

Yes, Impeach him and his whole crew. But in order to save the Nation.. we need to explain to them that THIS is the Republican party and what they have been TRUELY voting for.

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7. They hate common people..pure and simple