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Need fed probe into crisis - Hil



WASHINGTON - With many blaming the growing scope of Katrina's devastation on the Bush administration, Sen. Hillary Clinton called yesterday for a 9/11-style probe into how the federal government responded to the crisis.

"It has become increasingly evident that our nation was not prepared," Clinton (D-N.Y.) said in a letter to Bush asking him to set up a "Katrina Commission."

"The slow pace of relief efforts in the face of a mounting death toll ... seems to confirm that our ability to respond to cataclysmic disasters has not been adequately addressed," she said.

Her call echoed statements of Republicans such as Arizona's Sen. John Kyl, chairman of the Technology and Homeland Security Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who plans a hearing and has said the catastrophe in New Orleans could have a lot in common with a terror attack.

A White House spokeswoman deferred comment to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who appeared on numerous Sunday morning broadcasts insisting there would be time to lay blame later.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_repo ... 3306c.html

Why doesn't someone hold a hearing on How To Get Hilary To Keep Her Mouth Shut!

What a waste of news space.........................

chonsigirl wrote: Why doesn't someone hold a hearing on How To Get Hilary To Keep Her Mouth Shut!

What a waste of news space.........................


:yh_rotfl Good idea!

flopstock wrote: I guess i don't get why it's so annoying when she does it as opposed to everyone else who's doing the same thing...



Granted, it is more annoying...I'm just not sure why. :rolleyes:


I guess it’s because when she an her Co President were in power they resisted attempts to conduct investigations that might reveal mistakes they made. They/she understands what those investigations are all about. She also knows that debriefings and critiques are a built in element of disaster response and that they are used to improve the next response. She, of all people knows that what she is doing is an unmitigated attempt to make political hay on the backs of people who are doing the best they can. Her timing is all the evidence of her motives we need.

canaan wrote: I agree with Clint. But there is something else ... Hearing Hillarys' name makes my eye twitch. Hard to pinpoint exactly why though. This also happens when I hear Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Anyone else have this disorder?
You too. Left eye?

With me it's a form of political turets. I bark obsenities at the TV.

Dems Blast Bush Over Hurricane Response

Sep 7, 7:16 PM (ET)

By TOM RAUMngfu

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats, divided over President Bush's handling of Iraq, are coming down hard on his administration's response to Hurricane Katrina.

Some of the harshest words are coming from 2008 presidential hopefuls. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York ridiculed relief coordinator Michael Brown's suggestions. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards said the hurricane's aftermath underscores the "two Americas" theme of his presidential campaign last year.

"It's piling on time," said Rutgers University political scientist Ross Baker.

Democrats, ready with talking points and working closely, went into full battle mode Wednesday.

Clinton sought an independent commission to study the response and made the rounds of four network morning television shows, taking on Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

"I would never have appointed such a person. I would imagine, I don't think that anybody would. You would appoint somebody who has experience," Clinton told CBS.

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada pressed for a broad investigation that would explore questions such as "How much time did the president spend dealing with this emerging crisis while he was on vacation?"

His House counterpart, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., renewed her call for Brown's dismissal. "There were two disasters last week: first, the natural disaster, and second, the man-made disaster, the disaster made by mistakes made by FEMA," she said.

She told reporters she had urged Bush in person at the White House on Tuesday to fire Brown.

"Why would I do that?" Pelosi quoted the president as saying.

White House counselor Dan Bartlett challenged Pelosi's account as "inaccurate and unfortunate."

As a party, Democrats had spoken with different voices on Iraq. Some Democrats - including Clinton, Edwards and 2004 presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts - had voted to support the Iraq war resolution in October 2002.

Many Democrats were careful in their criticism of Bush's handling of Iraq so as not to appear to undermine U.S. troops or encourage the insurgency.

Democrats also were reluctant to criticize the president as the nation rallied behind him after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Such caution, however, is not a factor in the open season on Bush's handling of the hurricane.

"It is different when you face a foreign enemy on the one hand versus a domestic failure on the other," Democratic consultant Mark Mellman said.

"Democrats see a real problem with the way this administration has handled Katrina, and see real needs that have to be addressed. Everybody is trying to do the best they can to help these victims," Mellman said.

When it comes to Bush's handling of the hurricane, the public is largely divided along political lines.

More than two-thirds of Republicans said Bush is doing a great or good job, according to a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll out Wednesday. About two-thirds of Democrats say he is doing a bad or terrible job.

Republicans have accused Democrats of seeking political advantage in attacking the administration's response.

"While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart," Republican party chief Ken Mehlman said Wednesday in a statement.

MORE: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050907/D8CFN9L00.html

ArnoldLayne wrote: Sorry Clint, but....Thats politics, always has been and it aint gonna change. Democrat or Republican it don't matter,you each tell the public how bad the others are doing. Its called points scoring. Nothing new
I guess that's why I never made it in politics. It's wrong and it is very wrong right now.

flopstock wrote: Put them all together in the same room and Al don't look as sleazy, now does he...:wah:
Al Sharpton or Al Gore?...Ahh it doesn't matter.

Scrat wrote:



AMERICA IS THE WORLDS FIRST BI POLAR SOCIETY!!!!:yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl :yh_rotflthis is why i like you Scrat! ....hillary is as dishonest as the guy she files income taxes with. they would have had to disengage her bleeding fingernails as they grasped the curtains in the white house, if he had been evicted as he shoud have been.

what offends me is hill and i have the same birthday, and some of the same characteristics if you believe in that stuff. except i'm honest.

lady cop wrote: what offends me is hill and i have the same birthday, and some of the same characteristics if you believe in that stuff. except i'm honest.
Another difference? She's true, pure evil, whereas you're just mean. :yh_bigsmi :yh_kiss

BabyRider wrote: Another difference? She's true, pure evil, whereas you're just mean. :yh_bigsmi :yh_kissi can live with that. :sneaky:

lady cop wrote: i can live with that. :sneaky:
And we wouldn't have you any other way!!

BabyRider wrote: And we wouldn't have you any other way!!you make me look like mary poppins! :rolleyes:

JAB wrote: Not only that LC, but you and Bothwell don't stay together for political reasons like Bill & Hill do.True! 10 downing street isn't in our future, i only care about him! and a walk in the country together. you're a smart lady!

lady cop wrote: what offends me is hill and i have the same birthday, and some of the same characteristics if you believe in that stuff. except i'm honest.
Ha! You think you're offended. What do you think "Clint" is short for?

Clint wrote: Ha! You think you're offended. What do you think "Clint" is short for?NOT....NOT....OH NO.....cuban cigars????? :wah: