The Facade Is Beginning to Crack
Major Repubican figures are coing out of the woodwork, for the first time, to criticize the administration vocally.
COLIN POWELL:
"There was more than enough warning over time about the dangers to New Orleans,"
"Not enough was done. I don't think advantage was taken of the time that was available to us and I just don't know why."
(from www.abc.net.au)
Powell also now regrets the speech he made to the UN in the lead-up to the Iraq War, which is now understood to have contained faulty intelligence.
NEWT GINGRICH:
Gingrich has been surprisingly critical of the Bush Administration, ironically arguing for the social role of the government with people (using the word broadly) like Bill O'Reilly, who crassly suggested that it was the people of New Orleans' own damn fault.
“For the last week the federal government and its state and local counterparts have consistently been behind the curve,” he wrote fellow Republicans this week. “The American people overwhelmingly know that the current situation is totally unacceptable,” and for that reason, “it is a mistake to get trapped into defending the systems and processes which clearly failed.” He observes in another memo, “While the destruction was unprecedented, it was entirely predictable.”
JOHN McCAIN
is now in a dispute with the administration over an amendment to the military appropriations bill that would define torture within American detainment camps. As someone who was himself tortured, this is laudable.
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
is up to their necks. Cheney shrugged off a heckler with good humor (or the closest he gets to it), when recently any detractors or critics would have been kept out of earshot. Bush has apparently given up on leading the Katrina inquiry himself, and has realized that Americans want someone with credibility to look into the matter. Over three quarters of Americans want the sort of independent inquiry that the Democrats are calling for. And, of course, FEMA director 'Brownie' has been sacrificed, and replaced by someone with some actual experience.
With Bush now a lame duck (and lets face it, Iraq had already done the job for him, and the withering in the face of Social Security reform did the rest), Republicans are lining up to position themselves for re-election in an America where people want, not ideology, but good stewardship. This is an area where Democrats have, in the last 15 years, held the advantage. Republicans must, between now and the midterm elections, distance themselves from the neocon regime in order to get elected. This is another nail in the coffin of neoconservatism. Americans want levees that do their jobs, not special congressional sessions to deal with individual brain-dead women. Government that takes care of the American people, not giving away tax breaks to billionaires and fighting a war of convenience littered with profiteering, corruption, and ugly scenes of prisoner abuse.
Remember Hurricane Katrina. It was the storm that cracked the teacup of the worst presidential administration in a hundred years, if not in American history.
COLIN POWELL:
"There was more than enough warning over time about the dangers to New Orleans,"
"Not enough was done. I don't think advantage was taken of the time that was available to us and I just don't know why."
(from www.abc.net.au)
Powell also now regrets the speech he made to the UN in the lead-up to the Iraq War, which is now understood to have contained faulty intelligence.
NEWT GINGRICH:
Gingrich has been surprisingly critical of the Bush Administration, ironically arguing for the social role of the government with people (using the word broadly) like Bill O'Reilly, who crassly suggested that it was the people of New Orleans' own damn fault.
“For the last week the federal government and its state and local counterparts have consistently been behind the curve,” he wrote fellow Republicans this week. “The American people overwhelmingly know that the current situation is totally unacceptable,” and for that reason, “it is a mistake to get trapped into defending the systems and processes which clearly failed.” He observes in another memo, “While the destruction was unprecedented, it was entirely predictable.”
JOHN McCAIN
is now in a dispute with the administration over an amendment to the military appropriations bill that would define torture within American detainment camps. As someone who was himself tortured, this is laudable.
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
is up to their necks. Cheney shrugged off a heckler with good humor (or the closest he gets to it), when recently any detractors or critics would have been kept out of earshot. Bush has apparently given up on leading the Katrina inquiry himself, and has realized that Americans want someone with credibility to look into the matter. Over three quarters of Americans want the sort of independent inquiry that the Democrats are calling for. And, of course, FEMA director 'Brownie' has been sacrificed, and replaced by someone with some actual experience.
With Bush now a lame duck (and lets face it, Iraq had already done the job for him, and the withering in the face of Social Security reform did the rest), Republicans are lining up to position themselves for re-election in an America where people want, not ideology, but good stewardship. This is an area where Democrats have, in the last 15 years, held the advantage. Republicans must, between now and the midterm elections, distance themselves from the neocon regime in order to get elected. This is another nail in the coffin of neoconservatism. Americans want levees that do their jobs, not special congressional sessions to deal with individual brain-dead women. Government that takes care of the American people, not giving away tax breaks to billionaires and fighting a war of convenience littered with profiteering, corruption, and ugly scenes of prisoner abuse.
Remember Hurricane Katrina. It was the storm that cracked the teacup of the worst presidential administration in a hundred years, if not in American history.
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