Re: Does it Help? We still have a problem. All will be well when Nagin fights for his share of the blame.
Empty Rhetoric Both GW and Gov. Blanco (and Mayor Nagin in the near future) have accepted responsibility (read: blame) for the poor governmental response (at all levels) to Hurricane Katrina but this is empty, hollow rhetoric since NO ONE LOSES THEIR JOB or suffers any discernible damage!! (except FEMA's Mike Brown - and he had no business running FEMA in the first place) This is certainly nothing new (remember Pres. Clinton invoking Christ-like images with his "I feel your pain" mantra which he repeated entirely too often to be believable) but unfortunately the American voter doesn't demand better.
Re: Empty Rhetoric You're right. I thought this nonsense reached a peak with Janet Reno claiming/proclaiming responsibility for the Waco tragedy. It's since seemed a humdrum, pro forma ritual.
Re: Re: Empty Rhetoric Right, and Clinton was nowhere to be found when it came to taking responsibility for that (or anything else for that matter). When the federal troops kidnapped Elian Gonzales at gunpoint in the middle of the night, Clinton said -hey that was Janet's idea.
Re: Re: Re: Empty Rhetoric That's understandable when you remember how much trouble he got last time he'd told someone where to stick a Cuban.... -=Steve=-
Re: The Buck Stopped Here! Or Truman. Nixon said, "The buck stopped the audiotape." Or something like that.
Money Of course, send the 100,000,000,000 dollars to Halliburton. MSNBC said New Orleans could become a money pit and bad as the Big Dig.
Re: Money MSNBC had an article yesterday saying investors are rushing in to buy real estate with expectations all of the government money that will be going into NOLA will cause a boom. People could actually come out ahead if they collect their insurance settlemnt and then sell their trashed house. Those with undamaged houses will be the big winners. Prices could as much as triple. A friend of mine owns an undamaged house in NOLA. He retired from the Navy there and has been renting his house ever since. He is going to do well out of this. Many of the poor that left are already saying they aren't going back since some of them have gotten new jobs and others don't think they will have anything to go back to since they expect their neighborhoods to gentrify. From out of the ashes (sludge) rises a pheonix......
Send the money to the UN... They have the experience working with corrupt regimes and can (this time) structure the proper kickbacks (transactions) to another corrupt entity (LA/NO politicians) without getting caught so they can properly profit while their constituents continue to suffer... William
