odd, yet interesting.

ultimately all responsibility falls on his shoulders. He is our Commander in Chief,the Prez.
But at the same time it does not excuse the incompitance of the Mayor of NO nor the govenor of La For not evacuating according to plans.

I aint signing nothing!!!

but it should fall amongst the checks and balances, we have a balance of between the state government and federal government; hence there should be a balance of blame, i feel that he is the bigger man by standing up to this an admitting and trying to help rather than letting dems and reps argue over who is to blame.

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I'm much more impressed with him than his predecesser. At least he has experience in that 'industry' and isn't a political hire. I get enough of that in the city I live near (look at Chicago's political hiring scandals...). Whether it is a good choice for the long run remains to be seen, but he's the right man today.

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The Mayor of NO and the Gov of LA. are the ones that should shoulder the majority of the blame. Bush is taking heat mostly because of the left choosing to use this as an opportunity to gain support for the next pres. election.

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Phuks, from an outsiders perspective, I believe that the Bush administration felt it had to shoulder a large amount of the blame or face political suicide at your next general election. Louisiana is a Republican state and I have no doubts that to deny the federal gov's lack of responsibility would only hurt them in key states later on. The aftermath will go on for years - there's no quick fix solution, politically speaking, for NO's problems and to deny now would hurt the Republicans for years to come.

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The trend was changing. I think this next election is going to be far more interesting than any of the Bush elections.

Actually I'm almost thinking that the midterm elections will be more exciting. The landscape is probably going to really change over and over again for the next couple of elections due to the massive amount of social, political, and military changes we've seen in the last couple of years.

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Perception definately matters more than truth when it comes to issues such as these. In our form of Gov. things work alot smoother when the local and state Gov do their job. The federal level just doesnt do a very good job at getting things done especially in a situation where time is the key. The federal level also does a horrible job at managing money. This is why everyone here is bieng advised to give to charitys and not to FEMA. The media is the problem. They are so far left and they pick and choose what and how they will cover an event.

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It probably will, but in which direction do you see it going?

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I'm not sure. I live in such a polarized state that's I can't tell since I doubt much will change here.

However, I see myself voting a bit more towards the middle or left than I have in the last 6 years or so. I just feel like the country has given the republicans a chance and I have yet to see any real positive results. I'm not saying they couldn't finish the war in Iraq, work on the economy, etc, but maybe a change would spur some results a bit quicker. We're going to have a 1% dip in the GDP and about 500,000 more unemployed people due to Hurricane Katrina alone and I'm really not thinking the Republicans are up for the job of making things right. If they really wanted to help the people they wouldn't have lifted the rule that states contracters have to pay a competative wage. Not only are they not providing for a competative wage, they're providing no bid contracts with guaranteed profit margins. Any employer with this type of power would fleece the government and its workers. These workers who by the way just lost everything but their lives. It's going to cost 4 times as much as it should. They're currently throwing tens of billions towards the recovery without any real accountability. It'll probably cost taxpayers an extra $100,000,000,000 because the goverment was not prepared or had no plan for this type of scenario. How is it possible that the goverment wouldn't have a better plan after the 9/11 attacks? Our post disaster organization skills should be a lot better. What the hell have they been doing? Granted local and state government screwed up a lot, but the federal government should have been saying to themselves, "Hmmm, category 4 hurricane, levees breaking, flooding..., this is probably something bigger than the state and local governments are capable of, lets get in there NOW." Better yet, when there was a category 5 hurrican on a direct path for New Orleans they should have been mobilizing in record numbers.

Fuel prices are at record highs. What is the government's solution? I have yet to see a plan to lower fuel costs or provide for a replacement to the combustion engine.

The war in Iraq was severely undermanned due to this theory that a small force could do the job. They forgot about the post war scene. No police forces and not enough troops. The second they realized they needed more boots on the ground (which was years ago) they should have brought them over within months. The whole Sunni triangle should have been filled with 300,000 soldiers. The insurgancy should have ended a long time ago.

Stem cell research? If the USA falls behind on this it's because of this administration. That will really piss me off.

We currently are appointing a supreme court justice (and soon another) who won't take a stand on abortion. I think the guy sounds sharp as sh1t, but he won't take a stand on abortion? Yes or no buddy, you're going to be on the court for probably 30 years.

Anyways, that's on my mind right now. I'm one of those people who likes change but I'm going to be sore as hell if they put Hilary on the ballot since I can't imagine voting for her.

People are going to ask big questions and they're going to require real answers and not the political bullshit we got nowadays.

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I don't see them having a plan either. That's been the problem for years. However, if they do get a plan...

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So your vote is going to Hillary then, in 2008? [/snicker]

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O come on mozz. You can complain about the media with good reason but don't make such generalized statements. There are left and right media and you can pick out either side to watch.


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Then, for some reason, the capitalist system is failing here because if there's enough demand for a right wing oriented news source, there would be plenty of them.

Or perhaps the demand is not there? I wonder.



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TTs correct. Fox is just about the only non left news agency in the states. Non-left IMO is a very accurate way to describe Fox. All the other big boys like ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN hate Fox and claim that they are radical right. Fox and Drudge are my main sources of info.

As for me, im in the middle. I vote right almost always in the national elections but wouldnt ever vote party just for the sake of being Republican or Democrat. In our state and local elections I always vote the democratic primary and 90% of the time the local officals that I vote for are democrat. This is partly due to our states screwed up Primary crap which I truely hate, but that another story.

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