'My Pet Goat' -- The Sequel

[cortez]

What a great title, <br><br><br><br>----<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>This time, during a catastrophe, the president did not merely dither for seven minutes, but for three days, and his top advisors followed suit. While the media has done a good job in portraying the overall failure of leadership in this weeks hurricane's disaster, it has not focused enough on this deadly dereliction of duty.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>By Greg Mitchell<br><br>(September 03, 2005) -- While a rising chorus in the press has taken the White House, FEMA and the Pentagon to task for performing miserably in their response to the human disaster on the Gulf Coast, few have focused on the most telling aspect of the entire failure. It’s not just incompetence. It’s a shameful lack of concern: The 9/11 “My Pet Goat” dithering on an administration-wide scale.<br><br>Simply stated, the president and his top advisers chose vacation over action.<br><br>While the media has done a good job in portraying the overall deadly failure of leadership, it has not focused enough on this deadly dereliction of duty.<br><br>President Bush, in his weekly radio address on Saturday, said: “In America, we do not abandon our fellow citizens in their hour of need.” But Bush, and his top aides, quite frankly, did just that....<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054581">more here</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.davebeckerman.com/Gallery-Protest/images/Bush-And-Toilet.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=cortez@rigorousintuition>cortez</A> at: 9/5/05 12:07 am<br></i>

[cortez]

Brown pushed from last job: Horse group: FEMA chief had to be `asked to resign'<br>By Brett Arends<br>Saturday, September 3, 2005 - Updated: 02:01 PM EST<br><br>The federal official in charge of the bungled New Orleans rescue was fired from his last private-sector job overseeing horse shows.<br> <br> And before joining the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a deputy director in 2001, GOP activist Mike Brown had no significant experience that would have qualified him for the position.<br> The Oklahoman got the job through an old college friend who at the time was heading up FEMA.<br> The agency, run by Brown since 2003, is now at the center of a growing fury over the handling of the New Orleans disaster....<br><br> ``I look at FEMA and I shake my head,'' said a furious <br><br>Gov. Mitt Romney yesterday, calling the response ``an embarrassment.''<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=100857">link</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[robertdreed]

the straightforward assertion in total defiance of the facts, is what I'm talking about:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>“In America, we do not abandon our fellow citizens in their hour of need.”</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Someone needs to collect the entire list...there's a book there, somewhere. A fairly easy one to write, at that.<br><br>Bonus points for the misdirection, to put up the "America, we..." buffering instead of "This administration..." <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=robertdreed>robertdreed</A> at: 9/5/05 8:09 am<br></i>