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Politics before people - another George Bush legacy or "Karl Rove was playing politics while our people were dying"
I've posted before that President Bush's actions are all political prism tested. How and what can be gained by doing such-and-such prefaces each of his presidential actions. This is not a new political phenomenon, certainly not in presidential circles, but to the depth that it has been carried out all through the Bush Administration has reached new lows. Karl (we don't need no stinkin' morals) Rove is the primary force behind this but the 'decider' owns the ultimate responsibility.
To employ such a method when people are facing the greatest upheavel in modern times in this country is unfathomable. It's simply sub-human, a psychological sickness. Derelection of duty and responsibility comes to mind, albeit not for the first time regarding Bush Inc. To disregard the life-and-death needs of the inhabitants of New Orleans in order to play power games goes to the heart of the matter--in this case, the heartlessness.
Michael Brown is certainly not my favorite person---I wouldn't hire him to manage a lemonade stand in front of my house. But he's experienced that any and all are fully expected to fall on their respective swords for George Bush whenever called upon to do so. I don't think Brown is speaking out because he has any particular concern for humanity or about the next natural disaster and the response to it---he's attempting to resurrect his own soiled reputation. But if what he is saying is true then, as with many other of these type of incredulous Bush Administration episodes, George Bush should be ashamed, leave office, beg for forgiveness and disappear. He is an abomination.
Brown: Politics played role in KatrinaGo here for the rest.
By NAHAL TOOSI
Associated Press
Jan 20, 2007
NEW YORK - Political storm clouds gathered again over the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina as former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown said party politics influenced decisions on whether to take federal control of Louisiana and other areas affected by the hurricane.
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said the partisanship Brown described was "disgusting," while a White House spokeswoman said Brown was making "false statements."
Brown told a group of graduate students Friday that some in the White House had suggested the federal government should take charge in Louisiana because Blanco was a Democrat, while leaving Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican, in control in his state.
Brown, speaking at the Metropolitan College of New York, said he had recommended to President Bush that all 90,000 square miles along the Gulf Coast affected by the devastating hurricane be federalized a term Brown explained as placing the federal government in charge of all agencies responding to the disaster.
"Unbeknownst to me, certain people in the White House were thinking, 'We had to federalize Louisiana because she's a white, female Democratic governor, and we have a chance to rub her nose in it,'" he said, without naming names. "'We can't do it to Haley (Barbour) because Haley's a white male Republican governor. And we can't do a thing to him. So we're just gonna federalize Louisiana.'"
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