I thought the info. on the following site was pretty interesting
The Responsible Irresponsible President - One Thousand Reasons http://www.thousandreasons.org/
I couldn't copy and paste it here for some reason.
Anyone see Ted Turner on Letterman? I thought he had some pretty interesting ideas. I'd rather listen to Ted than Bush.
[/i]I finally got it to copy but there is more info. on the site.[/i]
The Responsible Irresponsible President by One Thousand Reasons
He wants to have it both ways, accepting responsibility when it serves his political interests, and behaving irresponsibly when it, serves his political interests. This is about the hurricane, of course, and George Bush’s belated admission that the federal government might have done something a little bit wrong in its woefully inadequate response to hurricane Katrina, the storm that has so far led to the tabulation of 800 bodies. And it is also about the cleanup and reconstruction, which Bush promised to buy with federal dollars, but without raising taxes.
Being responsible and irresponsible at the same time is a neat trick even for a politician. For five years we’ve watched his irresponsible side, first with gigantic tax cuts for the wealthy, then with his inattention as the terrorists were planning 9/11, then with more tax cuts for the wealthy, then with the squandering of lives and treasure to invade Iraq, a country that was under the thumb of US and UN forces and was therefore a threat to no one. In a more general sense we have watched helplessly as Bush gutted environmental protections, chipped away at labor unions and other working-class Americans. We watched as he imposed unrealistic -- and, yes, irresponsible -- requirements on public education, as he reduced federal participation in financial aid for higher education, and as he pushed more and more of the social responsibility of government down to the state and local levels, governments that were forced to cut service after service as their funds were cut and their responsibilities increased.
America has never had to endure such an irresponsible president. I dare anyone to list his accomplishments. I dare anyone to claim that America has been strengthened in any way by his bungling, ineffective, and irresponsible leadership. If that’s what you call it. He reads speeches, most of them eloquent enough to hide their true intent, which is to turn back the clock on America to the age of pollution and corporate rule, to the age of iron and fire when only the strongest survive and the weak are left to drown in their own shit.
But George Bush has accepted responsibility “as far as the federal government failed in its duty.” Political expediency required it, of course -- his poll numbers are in the cellar, as are Republicans’ in general -- and so to believe that his admission of guilt is anything more than cynicism is the height of gullibility. He is not contrite. He is not sorry. Let the 800 dead float about for five days in an incomprehensibly vile soup of oil and sewage and sludge. Let ten thousand bureaucrats stand helplessly by as the country’s worst disaster ever unfolds before their eyes on CNN. And George Bush is responsible. It is his mess, his complete and utter inability to do anything but read teleprompters that led directly to this. If you want leadership, find a leader. If you want responsibility, find a responsible man or woman and put them in charge. But don’t expect the most irresponsible president in history to carry us anywhere but to the same sorry fate of those 800 in New Orleans. Surely we will all be floating face down, if not in water, then in debt, if not in debt, then in the toxic chemicals his friends spew forth from their industries. We will all drown in the world’s ridicule and derision. We will all, ultimately, come to regret him.
astonamous,
[/i]I can't imagine what it would be like here in Salt Lake City. We have a hard time getting out of town on a long weekend.[/i]
). in theory the superdome as a safe place for a few hours or a day, was a good idea. but then the levees broke.
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