This President should accept responsibility and resign!

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 10:20pm

This is the 50th thread about George Bush.

We deserve answers. He has given us and the victims no answers. He should explain to the citizens of the United States why he, as President, did not take the aggressive action necessary to prevent further suffering.

He should apologize for squandering American lives and resources in Iraq at the expense of the citizens of Mississippi and Louisiana.

He should then resign.

[Plum]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 10:26pm

And leave us to the tender mercies of Dick Cheney? Oy.

[kjklo]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 10:26pm

If he didn't resign after the revelations that there were no WMDs, and if he didn't fire Rumsfeld after Abu Ghraib, then I think you're barking up the wrong tree. The Bush administration is not the place to look for or expect accountability as it's normally understood.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 10:28pm

brdlwyr - I agree. It'll never happen, but I agree.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 10:29pm

I know that we do not want Cheney. (He would probably abdicate.) I hope and pray that this becomes the post Katrina mantra.

[Plum]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 10:31pm

This President breaks the mold. And I don't mean that in a good way. The next election will be downright fascinating.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 10:32pm

It will not be devastating. This is the end of conservative and lack of compassion government!

[Plum]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 10:35pm

We'll see. I'd be surprised if the next President wasn't a Republican or a very flexible Democrat like Clinton, but I'm starting to entertain that possiblity. How strange.

Posted: 9/2/05 at 10:37pm

brdlwyr, are you drunk?

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 10:39pm

No, not yet Jose. Even Joe Scarborough is pissed!

[Plum]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 10:41pm

I love drunk posts! But normally they can be spotted by their finger-mashing typos and garbled syntax.

Posted: 9/2/05 at 10:42pm

Drunk posts can be fun. Plum, we agree. Yippee!

Brdlwyr, you sound drunk eventhough you appear to be typing well.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 11:03pm

The news and failure of this administration has my fingers working fervently.

Posted: 9/2/05 at 11:09pm

A woman who was being interviewed "I think we're going to die here...." she broke down and started crying.

This is so upsetting.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 11:31pm

The hurricane brought about political winds of change.

[Yawper]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 2:48am

In Case of Emergency (July 2004)
http://www.ohsep.louisiana.gov/newsrelated/incaseofemrgencyexercise.htm

"A hurricane packing winds of 120 mph and a storm surge that tops 17-foot levees slams into New Orleans, killing an untold number of people and trapping half the area's residents in attics, on rooftops and in makeshift refuges in a variety of public and office buildings.

Parts of the city are flooded with up to 20 feet of water, and 80 percent of the buildings in the area are severely damaged from water and winds.

...Terry Tullier, director of the city's Office of Emergency Preparedness and the only city official in attendance Monday..."


Hurricane Pam Exercise Concludes (July 2004)
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=13051

"The exercise used realistic weather and damage information developed by the National Weather Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the LSU Hurricane Center and other state and federal agencies to help officials develop joint response plans for a catastrophic hurricane in Louisiana...State resources are adequate to operate shelters for the first 3-5 days"

and tonight's kicker:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/02/lkl.01.html

LARRY KING: Joining us now in Washington is Marty Evans, the President and CEO of the American Red Cross. She traveled with the president today. The Red Cross is not in New Orleans, why?

MARTY EVANS, RED CROSS PRESIDENT AND CEO: Well, Larry, when the storm came our goal was prior to landfall to support the evacuation. It was unsafe to be in the city. We were asked by the city not to be there and the Superdome was made a shelter of last resorts and, quite frankly in retrospect, it was a good idea because otherwise those people would have had no shelter at all.

We have our shelters north of the city. We're prepared as soon as they can be evacuated, we're prepared to receive them in Texas, in other states, but it was not safe to be in the city and it's not been safe to go back into the city. They were also concerned that if we located, relocated back into the city people wouldn't leave and they've got to leave.

KING: Marty, everyone looks at themselves when they're working in some kind of tragedy. Is the Red Cross examining itself saying could we have done more?

EVANS: Larry, we're always looking at that and, you know, in this particular case it's the largest disaster we have ever done in the history, 125 years of the Red Cross and we are determined to do more and more and, in fact, we are.

We're sheltering just under 100,000 people right now. We're gearing up to shelter even more people. We have people sheltered in nine different states, 275 locations, so we will continuously look at what we're doing, see if we can improve it.

And, the other thing I would say is that we're breaking new ground. We're setting up new systems and processes that get rid of the bureaucracy and make it easier for people.

KING: Reverend Jesse Jackson last night was in New Orleans. Tonight he is in Baton Rouge. When you were critical last night, Jesse, some in the administration followed by saying this is not a time for criticism. That may be later but not now. How do you respond?

REV. JESSE JACKSON, RAINBOW-PUSH COALITION: Well, that's ridiculous. I mean the Red Cross' absence in New Orleans, the high point of the crisis is a disaster. It is a sin. We had no real plan for rescue and relief and relocation.

Last night we went into New Orleans to get -- with ten busses to take out 450 students from Xavier who had been on the bridge for three days and the painful part was we had to leave people who -- the human chain around the busses because they had been there four days and no plan to rescue them.

And then today we went back into New Orleans again on I-10 the causeway and there were like 6,000 people with seven busses. No bus had been there today and wonder why because across the street were 150 empty busses that had no place to take them, so no plan for rescue or for relocation. More people may die from lack of rescue and lack of food and water than from the flood itself. The people have not been very well served.

KING: Marty, how would you respond?

EVANS: Well, Larry, we were asked, directed by the National Guard and the city and the state emergency management not to go into New Orleans because it was not safe. We are not a search and rescue organization. We provide shelter and basic support and so we were depending, we are depending on the state and the agencies to get people to our shelters in safe places.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 3:45am

speaking of republicans for president, I think I (a hardcore liberal, except on a couple issues) would vote for John Mccain before just about anyone else.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 9:41am

This President has never accepted responsibility for anything that has gone wrong with his administration, and lets face it, whats gone right? He will never resign, though he has failed the country miserably. He won't be impeached, though it would be justified, because Republicans hold congress.

Any other ways to get rid of him?

Updated On: 9/3/05 at 09:41 AM

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 10:21am

This was in the Republican Chicago Tribune:

Ex-officials say weakened FEMA botched response

By Frank James and Andrew Martin
Washington Bureau
Published September 3, 2005


WASHINGTON -- Government disaster officials had an action plan if a major hurricane hit New Orleans. They simply didn't execute it when Hurricane Katrina struck.

"It's hard for everyone to understand why buttons weren't pushed earlier on," Castleman said of the federal response.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509030220sep03,1,5525666.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true