Bush's new "Opportunity Zones" sound like the same old profiteering that's been going on in the Iraqi "reconstruction." Who better to put in charge of the whole scam than a man suspected of leaking the identify of hundreds of CIA agents during the time of war? Rove has proven his worth to this administration. He will lie, cheat, and even commit treason if it will further their political and financial goals.

Profiting off the suffering of others comes naturally to some. You'd almost think they look for opportunities to fail, so their poltical contributors can benefit financially from fixing the messes they make.

I loved Bush's speech. He sounded like LBJ declaring war on poverty. Only problem is that he thinks his rich friends are the ones who need a helping hand...and Rove will see that they get it....billions and billions of dollars in graft and overcharges. I can't imagine the amount of kickbacks those minority firms will have to pay to get a piece of the action.

Shame on Bush -- again. Shame on the Christian Right who support this corrupt President.

Was the President's speech a Roveian/ Hughesian ploy to get past the negative media, a mere media publicity stunt? Or the President, for the first time really mean what he is saying? Rove, the father of Republican propaganda machinery, heading the reconstruction effort, tells a story that doesn't bode well for the people of the three states! Time alone will tell. Let us see where this whole reconstruction effort is in 3 months when the media diverts its attention and the country gets engrossed in the next sensational story!

We do not know yet if people affected by the hurricane will be benefiting from the reconstruction effort or not. We know this for sure, the swindling son of Halliburton has already started seeing the rewards! Guess where the VP will be after the end of his term!!!

When I hear George Bush saying "New Orleans will rise again" I think of the saying "the south will rise again" meaning the civil war isn't over etc. Maybe I'm over analyzing it, maybe I'm just sick of this administration and their Klu Klux Klan way of doing things.

I heard some people called Bush's expensive plan new New Deal; it is an insult to FDR. FDR took over the Great Depression and fixed it and he responded to the World War II. All these are not problem caused by his leadership or under his watch.

Bush's expensive plan is to fix the problem directly and indirectly caused by his failed leadership. He didn't respond to this disaster in a timely and effective fashion; his poll rating went so low that he had no choice but to repair his image and his presidency by imposing on us this expensive plan. In addition, if he didn't produce this man-made distraction--Iraq War in the first place, he should have the resource and focus to resolve many domestic issues--including strengthening the levee. As a result, we don't need to pay such a heavy price to fix the damages caused by the hurrican. The problem is that at the end of day; it is us the people who have to bear the price a failed presidency produced.

FDR's New Deal is a sincere and comptent President's plan to lead the country going through a hard time. FDR didn't produce this hard time for us; but to lead us to recover from the hard time.

Please don't confuse FDR's New Deal to Bush's New Disaster.

I have created a new word!

Halliburtonous:

1. (adj) Pertaining to or describing the corruption wihin government or institutions that benefit from the corruption of George W. Bush et. al. (see Karl Rove; see Tom Delay)

2. (adv) Pertaining to or describing measures and actions taken by George W. Bush resulitng in "coincidental" or otherwise benefit to said corrupt institutions. (see Halliburton; see Karl Rove; see Tom Delay.)

Please use it as much as possible!

Another meaning for Halliburtnous: revolving door; where Dick Cheney came from and where Dick Cheney will go to.

YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE THIS> Just was watching c-span2 and I hope they run this again today...Weldon was blasting the omissions of the 9/11 commission....Mind you, Weldon is a Republican, but Weldon is a good American wanting accountability and very upset over the disappearance of information regarding Atta and Al Quaida...so what is this about Raytheon and Mr Burton???!!! Does this mean that the deleting of a warning could have prevented those towers from coming down?!!!! 3000 people are dead and this could have been avoided???
Feel like I am in some twilight zone. So much for runaway shops and defense of the American People!!! My God, what next?
so sad....this is truly tragic...

After the Civil War, reconstruction of New Orleans was put in the hands of Gen. Ben "Spoons" Butler. Spoons- from the silver he and his men are alleged to have stolen. He gave many of the contracts to the mills of Lowell Ma., the town both he and I were born in. Gen. Butler happened to own these mills. He happened to get very rich.
What do you think? Karl "spoons" Rove?
Only Civil War buffs would get it.

Karl "spoons" Rove or Dick "SPOONS" Cheney?

Bush's speech: IF you are good at math look at this.

9/11 speech + Iraq speech + all of the press conferences - real compassion - truth on how we will pay for the reconstruction = the 20 minutes waste of T.V. time

Karl Rove... he is the one responsible for pushing the Bush policy.

The Bush policy has increased poverty, decreasing the middle class, cut social programs that would help all of the Americans, massive spending, murder the innocent Iraqi pregnant women and children, allow increase high fuel prices, corruption, scandal, suppression of information, regulating the media, suppressing rights of all black Americans, suppressing the living conditions of the poor especially the minorities, lies.

To all of you right wingers are watching this did you know it took 4 days for Bush to respond, the Secretary of State and VP was on vacation? If you guys really care about this country, then you really should agree that Karl Rove is a bad idea, just like Brown. What does Rove know about reconstruction? He is a political advisor. Open your eyes.

Couldn't have worked better if the current Administration had planned it. We can leave Iraq now, as soon as the 14 bases, the jails and prisions are built. The Friends of the President can become richer reconstructing the Gulf Coast without the problems of Iraq. It will increase his standing and they also finally can get rid of all of the programs they dispise. Who can argue with funding homes for the poor. Be ready to fight for Headstart, Job Corps, and the environment again.

The duties of the president are provided in Art. II Sec. 1 Cl. 8, to "faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States" and to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" to the best of his ability.

He is ultimately RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY FAILURES OF HIS SUBORDINATES OR FOR THEIR VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION and the rights of persons committed by them.

It is not necessary to be able to prove that such failures or violations occurred at his instigation or with his knowledge, to be able to lay them at the feet of the president.

It is sufficient to show, on the preponderance of evidence, that the president was AWARE OF
MISCONDUCT AND INCOMPETENCE ON THE PART OF HIS SUBORDINATES, AN FAILED TO DO ALL HE COULD
TO REMEDY THE MISCONDUCT, INCLUDING TERMINATION AND PROSECUTION OF THE SUBORDINATE AND
COMPENSATION FOR THE VICTIMS OF HURRICANE KATRINA OR THEIR HEIRS.

He is legally responsible for knowing what everyone in the executive branch is doing.

The victims of natural disaster and the many, many failures of FEMA and the president to take action when requested by the Army Corp of Engineers to the Govenor Blanco requesting help to prevent loss of life and property, which was ignored by this administration, is more than enough to justify impeachment and removal from office on grounds of dereliction of duty.

To these we could add the many suspicious incidents that indicate covered up crimes by federal agents - incompetence, ineffective management that resulted in the deaths,
children, and greed of others who knowingly protected the wrongdoing by the president.

Many of those grounds survive today only in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and include such

things as DERELICITON OF DUTY, MORAL TURPITUDE, CONDUCT UNBECOMING which can ADVERSELY

AFFECT GOOD ORDER AND DISCIPLINE AND BRING DISCREDIT TO THE PERSON, HIS OFFICE, HIS
ORGANIZATION, AND HIS COUNTRY.

FAILURE GW BUSH - GROUNDS FOR TERMINATION - PROFITS OVER PEOPLE

The duties of the president are provided in Art. II Sec. 1 Cl. 8, to "faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States" and to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" to the best of his ability.

He is ultimately RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY FAILURES OF HIS SUBORDINATES OR FOR THEIR VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION and the rights of persons committed by them.

It is not necessary to be able to prove that such failures or violations occurred at his instigation or with his knowledge, to be able to lay them at the feet of the president.

It is sufficient to show, on the preponderance of evidence, that the president was AWARE OF
MISCONDUCT AND INCOMPETENCE ON THE PART OF HIS SUBORDINATES, AN FAILED TO DO ALL HE COULD
TO REMEDY THE MISCONDUCT, INCLUDING TERMINATION AND PROSECUTION OF THE SUBORDINATE AND
COMPENSATION FOR THE VICTIMS OF HURRICANE KATRINA OR THEIR HEIRS.

He is legally responsible for knowing what everyone in the executive branch is doing.

The victims of natural disaster and the many, many failures of FEMA and the president to take action when requested by the Army Corp of Engineers to the Govenor Blanco requesting help to prevent loss of life and property, which was ignored by this administration, is more than enough to justify impeachment and removal from office on grounds of dereliction of duty.

To these we could add the many suspicious incidents that indicate covered up crimes by federal agents - incompetence, ineffective management that resulted in the deaths,
children, and greed of others who knowingly protected the wrongdoing by the president.

Many of those grounds survive today only in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and include such

things as DERELICITON OF DUTY, MORAL TURPITUDE, CONDUCT UNBECOMING which can ADVERSELY

AFFECT GOOD ORDER AND DISCIPLINE AND BRING DISCREDIT TO THE PERSON, HIS OFFICE, HIS
ORGANIZATION, AND HIS COUNTRY.

FAILURE GW BUSH - GROUNDS FOR TERMINATION - PROFITS OVER PEOPLE

impeach,

still say w had to leave his hobby horse as a wanna be cowboy to be a wanna be president. impeaching w does not stop the likes of rove. return w to his hobby horse in crawford to resume being a wanna be cowboy, then impeach rove. problem addressed.

I have had friends get mad at me because they do not want to believe our government can be this corrupt. They say we will vote them out in the next election, but I fear what will happen between times.Tonight I write with a heavy heart. This government has been irresponsible, this government has been corrupt, this government has put people into positions of power and authority, with out any heed to their abilty to be able to do the job. The job was to protect the people from death. People died because our government was on vacation, because our government was on vacation! People died because our government did not care! You cannot sugar coat this. Why did congress shoot down a non partisan, independent investigation of what happened? My friend said tonight when we were arguing, why have I not heard about the Downing Street Memos that you are always talking about. I want to scream because we are living in the Twilight zone the world is a mess!

The Bush Adminstration has spent over 200 billion dollars on "Home Land Security" since 9/11. They have promised the American people greater security and denounced the "liberals" as being weak on defending the Country. Since Katrina. we have found that Bush and Karl Rove have failed in this promise and in fact should be held to answer in the criminal courts. This is evidenced by the deaths of the poor and weak in New Orleans and the deaths of over 1,900 soliders in Iraq. If Clinton can be impeached over oral sex Bush should be impeached for failing to protect the American People.

I am asking the leaders of the Democratic Party to make clear that it is simply unacceptable politics to put Karl Rove in charge of reconstruction post Katrina. We have already seen too much harm, too much suffering, too many deaths caused by inexperienced political hacks placed in jobs that should have been assigned to professionals. The victims of Hurrican Katrina have suffered enough.

They are already being slandered by every negative stereotype imaginable by those who run the plays called by Rove. His genius is spin. The only "reconstruction" he is interested in is the resurrection of Bush's damaged reputation and approval ratings.

It is not enough to stand by and wring our hands. Our leadership needs to be proactive and demand a skilled professional to oversee the reconstruction effort.

It's The Bush Reconstruction plan sponsered by Haliburton and Dick Cheney's Fat Wallet. What a Joke. Haliburton is getting the main contract . Does this surprise you? it shouldn't because it's George W. Bush's Father Freinds in the white house. You know America today as I as know it is no longer "we The People" it's "We the Corporations" because when corporations have the control of the government anything is up for sale including our soverignty. Europe does not have this problem because they have smart leaders that are not easily sold off by corporations unlike the United States government.

So Karl Rove is in charge of "helping" the victims of Hurricane Katrina, huh? Now we know which side God is going to help.

-written by a religious, liberal Democrat (believe or not, there IS such thing)

At this point I simply hope that our Democratic Party is not so mired in the corruption itself, or so blackmailed, or so scared, that they can still provide protection to the people of this nation from the pirates currently in control. I have doubts, because the current majority was not voted in, but rather forced on us, piece by piece, right beneath the nose of these elected Democrats. Our seats were stolen, our voters intimidated and killed, and now Admirality Law is slowly being forced on us. It is horrid, It is treasonous, and it is immoral.So what say you, Governor Dean? How far will you go to protect us, the true majority, against this idiot minority who is destroying us? What will change in 2006? In 2008? Will our shreded constitution still exist in 2006 or 2008, or will we all be living beneath martial law, in some extended Bush Opportunity Zone, within "The Reconstruction Effort"???

It's a shame the residents of New Orleans didn't have their duck-tape handy. This kind of indispensable advice could only be the culmination of the Department of Homeland Security's watchful eye on municipalities risk assessment and disaster planning processes (definitely not by 3M's campaign contributions to the Republican party).

We should be slaughtering the Republicans in the polls right now, 12% + is good, but it isn't good enough for all the troubles the Republicans have. Get on the television and start slamming them. It's obvious Bush loves waddling in corruption. Go after him on the talk shows about him giving out no-bid contracts, how he put Karl Rove, the biggest criminal in the White House in charge of Hurricane Katrina, then go after him for refusing to sit down and get a plan for Social Security. 2006 Must be the Democratic Revolution (1994 was the year the Republicans took over the senate and house and it was because of "Hillary Care"} We need to go after the Republicans Dangerous Social Security plans, that is our "Hillary Care" we need to tell the American people the dangers of giving them another republican congress. Go after them. Hunt them down at every corner. You cannot win unless you play like they play, But we have to do it ethically. Make Strong Attacks on your opponents, but do not Malign the facts in anyway.

I don't believe any longer that there is a true two party system in this country. I don't believe that any of these ridiculous stuffed shirts care about any of us. I would welcome anyone to prove to me otherwise.

I sent my letter to the CIA. Bush isn't going to solve this one. Heck, Bush cant read this one. Now Republicans will say that last bit was partisan. I'm just saying if you say "Is our students learning?" you can't even graduate from Sesame Street. So how'd this guy get into Yale? Anyway, the CIA needs to plug the leak and we have to keep at them to do it. Democrats ought to be Bush's shadow and call him out on this wherever he goes.

It's an opportunity zone, for his cronies. just like his Ownership Society. We are not the owners and we will not get any opportunities.

Putting Rove in charge of reconstruction is making sure the regular cronies get the money, not the people effected by this disaster. It is the typical Republican response to anything. Make sure their cronies get most of the taxpayer's money. You would think our Washington Democrats who can get in front of the TV camras, would be screaming their heads off about this. Guess they are too occupied with their normal activity. Setting around and looking at Bush's poll numbers. His numbers can reach single digits and that won't get people to vote Democratic. They don't seem to understand that we have to give voters a reason to vote for Democrats. We have to have solutitions and I don't hear anybody except Wes Clark, that offers any plan for anything. It's like our Washington leaders are afraid to open their mouths against Bush and his gang. They just peck around the edges and are missing the golden chance to take him out politically.

I signed up to this site to participate out of pure frustration. I've been ranting and raving for 3 weeks now over Katrina and the incompetents in the White House (of course that's not counting all the other ranting and raving I've been doing about those dolts for the past 5 years). At the same time I'm angry at my Democratic party. The only elected officials with a regular voice in the media who seem to have no hidden agendas (i.e. presidential aspirations or far to left of center, as in TK) are Reid, Pelosi, Frank (who was amazing on the Natl Press Club a few weeks back) and Dean. I know there are others with strong voices. But I think I make my point. I can't be the only Democratic citizen out there as tired of the posturing of Hillary, Biden et.al. and the careful dancing around issues and trying to figure out if it's ok to come on strong ... WITH SOME NEW IDEAS AND POLICIES!!!! Are our elected Democratic officials not listening? Where are the ideas of the think tank people? We need politicans who will take risks with bold plans and some major straight shooting honesty. We don't need any more whining. And believe me, I'm one of the biggest whiners I know and I'm tired of it.

Secondly, I can't count how many times over the past 3 weeks I've said to whoever is around (usually my poor husband) that it's clear as water (unpolluted, of course) that editorial policy of the major tv and newspaper outlets is coming down from the board room of the corporate conglomerates that own them. You can call it paranoia or you can call it pure deduction. Just check out MediaMatters.com and see for yourself. The point is, our Democrats have to be better and smarter. And they have to be more centrist than leftist. It hasn't just been the extreme right that has polarized our country, our extreme left has made significant contributions to that misery we're living in now. The Democrats should be leading 80% of the American population now because that many of us are either getting screwed now or are going to get screwed real soon if these maniacs continue to control the dialog (if one could even call it that). Enough said.

Barica
Jesus was a liberal

Well it is clear that Bush is definitely responsible for the weather, as this blog has so eloquently pointed out.
Look at this new Hurricane he started today,
it may even go into his home state.
Maybe Rove is a surfer and wanted some big Waves.
Hope that this new storm gets some rain to New Mexico, we need it.
I hope that Bush can provide some great snow for the ski season too.

Barica
Try WesPAC. There is another choice other than the Washington bunch and he makes sense in what he says.Our Washington crowd are afraid to take on anybody and let every oportunity slip away. If they had any nerve, Bush's ratings would be next to nothing right now and our ratings would be going up. We have to give people something and that means doing something and that means someone will be mad. Who cares if every Bush criminal gets mad? If you aren't willing to put something on the line for America, your nothing but an empty suit.

modemocrats,

Rove will never be sacrificed by the "Bush" Administration. He knows too much.

The only way he will be brought to justice is via the Fitzgerald inquiry.

If he lands in jail, he will meet the same fate as Jack Ruby. (Note: Lee Harvey Oswald was completely innocent, whereas Jack Ruby knew almost as much then about JFK's demise, as Rove knows about "Bush Die-nasty" skeletons in the proverbial closet.)

Rove can only be taken care of in one of two ways!

well it appears that Bush truly can control the weather, as his newest hurricane is now a Cat-4;
this should bring around any disbelievers who think that nature isn't controlled by Bush.
I sure wish he'd send some rain to Northern New Mexico, we really need it.
I think because we were Kerry voters in the last go round, we are suffering a drought.
Let that be a lesson to all.

Why has everyone forsaken Ted Kennedy?
He is the most obvious man to take back the White House.
Who could beat him?
He has the name, the pedigree, and the experience.
Go TED!

I’ve seen a lot of calls for impeachment of the President. Please, fellow democrats, let’s think this thing through. When Nixon resigned because he was going to be impeached, we found out all we really need to know about impeachment. He had already lost his VP due to corruption, so we got Ford. In this case, if Bush were impeached, we’d get Chaney. Even if Chaney were not available for some reason or we were also able to impeach him, we’d get Hastert. While Ford was at least respected on both sides of the aisle, Hastert is a disaster waiting to happen! He doesn’t even seem to understand why New Orleans should be rebuilt! So to me, talk of impeachment is a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. It is a mouse that is roaring. We need not to lose focus on the next elections.

To that end, we are already letting Bush co-opt our issues. What else would you call his LBJ sound-alike speech? But we need to see all current and potential Democratic Congressmen and women and Senators out every day pounding the policies of the current administration, and warning that Republican ideology is the cause. We should start with the many missteps of the administration: mishandling of the war, invoking the suspension of Davis-Bacon, giving out sweetheart deals in terms of no-bid, cost-plus contracts to their cronies, assigning the Traitor, Karl Rove, the President’s Obfuscater-in-Chief, any part in the reconstruction of New Orleans, and on and on. We need to insist on a totally independent investigation to study the mismanagement of the New Orleans crisis. We need to demonstrate the mismanagement of the entire Department of Homeland Security, from the top down. I, for one, do not feel as safe as I was before 9/11, let alone safer. It’s scary how incompetently they performed. Even Trent Lott said that Brown acted like a private instead of a general. So why is Chertoff still there when he just acts like a lieutenant at best! We need to demand full disclosure of the qualifications for management for every person in charge of the highest at least three levels of Homeland Security. We must demand that FEMA be put back the way Bush found it, as a cabinet level agency headed by professionals with credentials in disaster preparation and relief. We need to make clear that the US treasury is not just a paymaster for political patronage jobs.

We REALLY need to explain our theory of economics. The Republicans coined or adopted the phrase “trickle down” or “supply side” economics a long time ago to explain their theories; what do Democrats have to explain our approach to economics. I like to call it “bubble up” or “demand side.” We need to define it for undecided or independent voter: it is that Democrats believe that if you give the masses a living wage for a hard day’s work, if you tweak the bottom levels of the economy just a tad, the results will bubble up throughout the entire economic system. Companies will be scrambling to hire more people to meet the new demand for goods and services. Wages will raise naturally due to companies competing for the workforce instead of workers competing for the jobs. There will be a new confidence and feeling of hope throughout the country, which reflects in the stock market, etc., etc., etc. It’s what we saw in the Clinton administration. We need to name it and define it, because the Republican say that we do not have a program or any suggestions on the economy that aren’t disastrous, and WE HAVE NOT NAMED OUR PRINCIPLES. Then we also need to demonstrate to undecided voters why “trickle down” doesn’t work. We need to tell the people what they already know: that power corrupts. That human nature is such that once a person gets the taste for money and power, they tend to get greedy. That “trickle down” theory may sell a lot more RVs, and trips to Greece for birthday parties, but it also leaves a lot of room for those with money to exercise their nimble little, sticky fingers. Hence the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It’s what you’re seeing in the Bush administration.

Then we also need to start speaking truth with one voice: WE HAVE TO STOP EATING OUR YOUNG! A few days ago former President Clinton was on several of the Sunday morning talk shows. The primary purpose of the interviews was purportedly to talk about his Global Initiative, but, of course, it was also an opportunity to do some of the things I just mentioned. So what did I see on Democratic blogs but brother and sister Democrats criticizing Clinton. They literally cussed him out and called a traitor for consorting with the enemy. The man does a very altruistic and humanitarian thing, trying to raise money for those caught in the tsunami, and he is accused of consorting with the enemy by appearing with the Bushes. And all I can see is that one Clinton is worth more than ten Bushes where it comes to guiding the ship of state. Furthermore, how constructive is it to attach a sinister motive to every act of altruism done by our elder statesmen in the spirit of our own generous humanitarian principles INSTEAD OF TAKING OWNERSHIP OF THOSE ACTS. Have we become so jaded that we cannot recognize good works for good works sake? Why aren’t we instead asking the voters why only democratic former presidents seem to be out there doing the statesmanlike thing, working to make the world a better place, while the Republicans busy themselves with golf and riding around on their ranches and jumping out of airplanes and giving high paid speeches.

If we cannot or will not refrain from criticizing our own, and we remain so timid about exposing everything that the administration is doing that is not in the best interest of the general populous, we will only confuse the electorate and WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO WIN ELECTIONS. The Katrina disaster should be the starting shot for the 2006 campaign. Democrats, including potential Congressmen and Congresswomen and the Democrats and potential candidates in/for the Senate need to speak up loud and clear, because I have not heard nearly enough from them yet, although I have heard from both of our past Presidents. Democrats need to stop accepting that the term “liberal” is a dirty word, and stop rejecting people in our party who believe in common sense moves to the moderate middle of the road. The middle of the road is not a betrayal; it is an honest effort to find common ground from which to govern, to distinguish between what you can do and what you want to do, and try to reconcile both. The painfully real alternative is not to govern, because you can’t get elected, so you just grouse and complain about everything with no real power to change things. Democrats should be tired of this! You saw a real political genius at work with Bill Clinton, and that’s what caused him so much trouble with Republicans. They were afraid not to tarnish his reputation, because he was such an effective leader and his policies were working. Since they have always cared more about what happens in the bedroom than what happens in the boardroom, they had no compunctions about exploiting his weakness, a proclivity for sex outside his marriage. That was truly unfortunate for Bill, for Hillary, for Chelsey and for the party. The revelations didn’t do anything good for the country, either, but one thing remains true…that none of the scandal had anything to do with the policies and principles by which Bill Clinton guided the ship of state. While other Presidents have had the same fault, some even worse, both Democrat and Republican, the loyal opposition had previously always used a great deal of discretion, feeling that hitting below the belt, so to speak, would not be good for the country. Since that was such an effective tactic, they are now slinging mud everywhere, thinking it will bounce off of them and stick to any Democrat that gets in their way. To make matters worse, Democrats seem cowed by this, unable to sling back with gusto, for fear they will be perceived as too aggressive, or, heaven forbid, obstructionist. Ladies and Gentlemen, we are dealing with a Republican party without any principles now. We are truly at war now. We need to learn to fight more effectively now. In the words of West Wing, we need to “raise the level of public debate in this country.”
We need to win back the Congress and the Senate with winning principles and policies that reflect what’s good for most of the people most of the time.

Media reports indicated that, when President Bush finally got to New Orleans that Friday after Katrina hit, he was confronted with person after person who told him of the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of FEMA and the Homeland Security Dept. It was reported that the President just shook his head in disgust, turned to an aide and said, no doubt through clenched teeth, “Fix it!” So inept were his appointees that the President himself had to step in and do their jobs and issue orders to get things turned around. Our motto should be ”Just fix it!” Thanks for listening.

I wrote some lyrics for an old classic song expressing my feelings about the current administration. I would like nothing better to assist in a regime change.

Based on the the House of the Rising Sun
by the Animals..

The House of the Risin Scum

There was a house in New Orleans
They saw the Risin' Scum.
Been the ruin of a many a pol boy,
Thank God, that Bush is one!

My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new bluejeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans

Now the only thing The president needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time we'll be satisfied
Is when he's gone and done.

------ organ solo ------

Oh mother tell your children
Not to vote for Bush's sons
Spend your lives in poverty and misery
In the House of the Rising Scum

Well, I got one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain

There was a house in New Orleans
They saw the Risin' Scum.
Been the ruin of a many a pol boy,
Thank God, that Bush is one!

dear fellow americans....hold your hand over your ass....bush and company is rebuilding norleans....
remember the alost 9billion dollars stolen from iraq funds when bremer held the checkbook....it's going to happen again.
damn them all, the greedy bastards

dear fellow americans....hold your hand over your ass....bush and company is rebuilding norleans....
remember the alost 9billion dollars stolen from iraq funds when bremer held the checkbook....it's going to happen again.
damn them all, the greedy bastards

Yea, your president is a worm, a puppet.
No self-control of anything he does.
His advisors hold his dick when he pisses.
You know what?
He likes it, and so do millions of Americans.
We all have an agenda to pursue, and he is getting his fathers.
Lock, Stock, and Barrel.
It will do no good to bitch about it.
Stop going to protests then staying at the Hilton afterward.
Get involved in the political game in a big way.
Let your friends know how you feel, and make them listen.
Not just your democrat friends but your republican friends.
You must make the republicans being hypnotized by there beliefs, their parent’s beliefs
Understand that all is not well.
There are so many examples out there.
Study one subject and be an expert on it.
Never let someone persuade you your wrong, shout it out.
If you want to change a mind, even a presidential mind, just do it with participation,
Not a rant!

Well, the DNC must be regaining power over the weather, as Bush's hurricane was thwarted from the destruction that he obviously wanted.
The hurricanes are his latest plan for driving up oil and gasoline prices to make the Kerry voters cringe at the pump.
Let's get behind the Ted Kennedy movement, and send a true leader to the White House.

A long time ago it seems there was a saying that applies to Bush. "You can tell the stature of a man by the company he keeps". I am so sorry to see this great nation of ours taking the path that it has. Falsehoods, Smear, Covering up. Good thing we dont go after them as we did the Mafia.

Yes, agreed.

Time to impeach "dubya the crap-weasle".

So what if cheney gets the job next. It's one less spoke in the wheel of republican terrorism. I do not think our country can stand another 3+ years of dubya's assault on the poor & middle
class. Get rid of dubya, then proceed with dick, then that fat-ass hassert. Get rid of them all. You know, after gbush1 it took Dems 8 years to fix our country. gbush2 is in for eight, it is going to take at least 8-16 years for the Dems to fix this monkeys screw-ups.

Voter fraud in 2000. Voter fraud in 2004. Money-grabbing fat F***'s taking everything they can from us. 33% of mine and my friends paychecks every week, and dubya wants me to give more? How much did our gov. waste so far on homeland security, and for what? Stuck in a war we will never win. Wasting money on the war on drugs. Refusing to listen to scientist who tell them what is happening to our planet, no wonder our kids are stupid. They probably believe that they will not make a difference in the world. Don't buy gas if I don't need it, WTF??? Does my government think I buy stuff I don't need.

I did not care about what Bill did with his "private business". It did not affect my country. My biggest problem with Bill is that he may have concided too much to China - a communist country, and we are still conciding too much to them.

Screw the 2 party system, it is not in America's best interests. I agree with the person who said that the stuffed shirts don't care about us. If they did they would stop voting themselves raises, take a temporary salary cut to help fund the necessary programs to help the less fortunate that need to be helped, and start focusing on issues that better America. We are becoming a pathetic nation that needs help from 3rd world countries. America has lost it's way and it just may be too late.

And no matter what, I still would rather live here than any other place in the world, and consider myself fortunate that I was born here. We just need to find our way again. Please Howard Dean, Please find a way to save our country from becoming a 3rd world state.

-Griff

hooten,

I'm wondering if you applied the same principle "You can tell the stature of a man by the company he keeps" to Bill Clinton. I bet not.