Yah old news the white house is just pulling arguements out of their asses now.

I could not believe they were blaming the governor! Randi Rhodes just covered it. Infuriating.

BTW it is good to see a little something abut Governor Dean in the news. Cute statement.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1310

Democrats, keep up the good fight of faith, hold on to eternal life! Forgeting those thing behind and pressing on toward the mark of the high calling of God.

Of course Republicans are going to try and spin and blame everyone else but themselves. I think it's pretty clear they haven't learned much after the horrible tragedy of hurricane Katrina. It's a disgrace. Those that don't vote need to wake up, get registered and get out there and vote to hold these failures accountable.

Bottom line: Why does anyone running a state HAVE to call for help when with today instantaneous media, those with the key to bank vault already KNEW what needed to happen?

Bullshit excuses again from the repugnants.

I could not believe they were blaming the governor! Randi Rhodes just covered it. Infuriating.

I predicted this would happen right after Gov. Sebelius came to Greensburg, KS immediately after the clouds cleared.

You would think Bush would at least have some people around him who would reach over, thump him on the head and tell him to wake and get off his ass and help instead of making himself look again like a horse's ass.

Sheesh

And who is really surprised at the response from this administration?! National guardsmen have NO BUSINESS being sent out of the country. Has nobody noticed that the NG is George's draft? Notice that HE didn't go to war because that was why he was in the National Guard in the first place. Personally I think all politicians should have at least one family member in the services in Iraq or Afganistan.

This has me very concerned. I live within 90 miles of the Gulf and very near Enterprise AL. There is no guarantee my house will still be standing by October. And now you're telling me there will be no help? Of course we all learned that lesson from Katrina, didn't we? The lesson of Republicanism is YOYO - You're On Your Own. Now how do you like it?

By the way - if the Republicans are YOYO, the Democrats are WAITT - We're All In This Together.

To Stephanie Taylor: Stephanie, the Kansas Democratic Party has asked me to write a letter of support for Gov. Sebelius so it can be distributed to area newspapers.

I am using the bullet points from your post here that reveal her continual requests for personnel and equipment replacement for 2 years. I am crediting ThinkProgress.org as the source.

I just wanted you to know I want to use that data for this letter.

Thanks

It is my understanding that most national guards are underfunded and using old, outdated equipment. I can understand the Governor not requesting heavy equipment now (if in fact that is the case) if her repeated requests for equipment were denied in the past.

Around the time Bush was running for his first term as President the press was talking about how candidates with experience the private sector businesses had excellent backgrounds for public office - running budgets etc. My perception of private sector businessmen is that many of them are always trying to cut corners hoping that nothing bad happens but shifting blame to other when something bad does happen. These businesses often fail as was the case with Bush. That is not my idea of a good public servant.

I have always been against the war in Iraq. I knew better before the vote for war. The US public and media is largely to blame for the war in Iraq. Anyone paying attention could tell that Cheney and the Republicans were lying about WMD, terrorist ties etc. While they made good arguments about atrocities in Iraq we can't invade ever nation with terrible leaders and Iraq wasn't the worst situation in the world at that time. Even some of the stories of atrocities committed were lies. Although I may be over estimating the wisdom of Congress; I think they just voted for the war due to political pressure and popularity for the war at the time.

The Republicans seem to have an intense disdain against spending US taxpayer dollars on needs within the USA. Instead they prefer going on wild spending sprees to force laissez-faire trade policies (economic genocide) upon the rest of the world. Nothing is noble or altruistic about this war it is for economic control by world dominant corporate interests.

Meanwhile the social, economic, and physical needs of the USA and her citizens are purposely neglect in what republicans term starving the beast. The public they pretend to serve are just inconvenient burdens keeping from serving their true master the huge corporations.

I work in an industry that depends on government assistance in caring for US citizens unable to care for themselves. I also live in the tornado belt which is also affected by ice storms. I am very concerned about the direction government is taking.

I support progressive candidates - real democrats that care about US citizens and the USA. I don't care for democrats that support laissez-faire trade policies (economic genocide) stating that they are democrats because they support gay rights or pro-choice. So far Kucinich seems to be the best candidate the democrats have put forward.