Rove: Bush Administration ‘Fulfilled’ It’s Katrina Responsibilities

The fat weasel should be behind bars, instead of being given credibility for chasing its tail.

Why is this man STILL making a living spreading B.S. He should be in jail. God knows he has enough of our tax money from the time he was GW’s butt buddy.

Youn should know that it is something or someones fault never the person who really made one of the biggest blunders of his time in office…..

Rove is precisely correct: First-responder responsiblity for natural disasters like Katrina lies with local officials. Nagin and Blanco failed utterly: Remember those pictures of 250+ schoolbuses sitting idle in a New Orleans that Nagin could have mobilized, but didn’t? The responsibility for mobilizing the National Guard and asking for Federal assistance was Blanco’s: the Feds can’t just march in, and if they had, Bush-haters would have screamed “Gestapo!” — anything to fit the narrative that Bush is wrong on absolutely every issue. Bush in fact alerted southern-state governors to be ready for what was coming. Blanco failed. And don’t forget that when informed about her responsibilities re: the National Guard, she tried to cover up by lying that she had called for them, when she had done no such thing.
Lois Chepenik: Good strategy: “I won’t listen to anything that Rove says, and then I will declare everything he says to be wrong.”

It is the US Government’s job and obligation to monitor a deadly situation and come to the immediate rescue of people whose lives are in danger when a local government fails. Bush did not respond because a large Democratic base was involved with a DEmocratic Governor. If a Republican base and GOvernor had been at risk the US government response would have been immediate. Our previous Government’s political alliances were much more important than people’s lives and they should have been severely prosecuted for ineptness and apathy to people’s suffering. Johnny El.

There is a distinct role that the state and federal governments play.Gov.Blanco and Ray Nagin did not ask for help until it was obvious that they were in over their heads.the government responded in an appropriate manner once it was clear that the governor did not execute her plans appropriately.As a distinct difference,last year prior to hurricane Gustav,Gov.Bobby Jindal executed a well organized plan,and as a result, the rest of the country was not aware of the extent of the damage that was caused because residents evacuated where it was appropriate and help was supplied where it was needed.The comparison between the way Gov.Blanco and Jindal handled the hurricanes was like night and day.

Kim,
It was Jindal who just this week admonished the FEDERAL govt. for Katrina disaster. He didn’t say the disaster was the fault of the state govt.
Republicans need to get their stories straight. One contradiction after another.
Rove, “state govt failed, Jindal ,No Federal Govt. failed.
LOL

As a Republican, it is indeed sad to see the transformation of a clever political tactician into an apologist for his incompetent boss (Bush): indeed Rowe’s comments can be classified as political dementia: He was (past tense) clever enough not to wade (pun intended) into the ” Brownie you are doing a great job” morass of Katrina FEMA support etc etc etc.

Karl. Did you clear this information with Rush? He supports Jindal big time…even liked his speech where he blamed the federal government bureaucrats.
Don’t you know he is the face of the GOP while you are just the a..h…. of the GOP?

this week is the one “talking head” show i regularly watch, online or on tv. please don’t debase it with a scheming criminal like rove again. i really did have to turn off the show half way through the round table, one of the features i most enjoy.
i can listen to will, i can listen to pat buchanon, i can listen to cantor. i am not afraid of contrary ideas, but i want ideas, not attempted thought manipulations.

There is plenty of blame to go around. The FEMA director was inept when Katrina hit. But Mayor Nagin did nothing to get his people out of harm’s way. Blanco did not act quickly enough either.
I was formerly from Lake Charles and had to go rescue my mother after she had been evacuated. The hurricane devastated Lake Charles, but it was the broken levee in New Orleans that did the damage there.
Federal money had been poured into New Orleans for years to politicians there to fortify the levee and replace the aging pumps. However, corrupt politicians in New Orleans used those funds for some thing… for frivolous things.
The FEMA temporary homes, which we passed while driving down there to help my mother get back into her damaged Lake Charles residence were just seen sitting weeks later in large empty lots.. going no where. That was another government rip-off. Somebody got rich by selling all those FEMA trailers to our government. They sat there empty and just broke down. No foundation or structure to support them.
Three and a half years is long enough for the National Guard to patrol or do what ever they do. The corruption there is just so great, it’s sad. And I have relatives in Metarie and in Lake Charles. My mother suffered a heart attack from the stress of the evacuation and her health went really downhill after that. She died a year ago. For her, the evacuation was the beginning of the end.

Karl Rove is a soft, gooey, doughy, pathetic little weenie. He is adorable, and loads of fun to laugh at.

Brownie did a heck uv’a job – a true qualified professional just like all the Bush appointees (look how well they rebuilt Iraq!).

This is the second time Rove has undersestimated a Katrina.
First the hurricane, then Vanden Huesel.
Katrina Vanden Huesel stared into Rove’s eyes today and put him in his place. She knocked him down harder than hurricane Katrina did New Orleans.
Please ABC…, let’s see more Katrina.

For all of you who thought it was wrong of ABC to have Rove on…, I totally disagree.
It’s time someone like him should be held accountable for his crimes. As long as they have guests like Katrina Vanden Huesel, he will be exposed as the fraud he is.
Today was a marvelous day!
(I love You Katrina Van Huesel)

Republicans are much like practicing alcoholics…it’s always someone else’s fault, never their own!!!

Yes, Katrina was fantastic–stayed on topic. “Oh, call me Karl.” What a bunch of garbage. Thank God she didn’t bite on that one. In no time, Rovie would be telling everyone that they are fast friends–the liar he is.

Is Rove mad? He uses the “letter of the law” in a situation where even the right words may have helped. The law got Bush elected. You can’t tell me the law is written to cover all circumstances. Not every event may fit within the particularly narrow categories that these lawyers place them. For Rove to say Bush did all that was required under the law is a cop out and didn’t help the people of Katrina. That sounds like passing the buck to me. Washing your hands of a situation under Bush’s interpretation of the law does not make him a good leader. A good leader would have found a way to help regardless. You can’t tell me there isn’t some loopholes they can sneak through. They’re experts at finding them.

The main responsibility for Katrina was with the Mayor and Governor. The feds probably should have moved quicker when it was obvious that the one’s responsible weren’t getting the job done, but it is ridiculous to lay all, or even the majority of the blame on Bush. People seem to forget this, but we are supposed to be the United States of America, not the Federal Government of America. We’re also supposed to take responsibility for our own well being, not lay down and wait for Uncle Sam to take care of us. We all knew about the storm well in advance and it was common knowledge that the levees and pumps were not maintained properly – can you say evacuate? The biggest problem with Katrina was the existence of a large population that was totally dependent upon the government for all of their needs and don’t have a clue on how to take care of themselves – a situation that will only get worse with the current administration.

No, it was the Army Corps of Engineers responsibility to make the levies stronger and higher. They asked for the funds, but Bush and his Congress were too busy spending money to destroy Iraq. Shore up the levies, all would have been saved–for a fraction of the cost before the disaster.

I totally agree with Karen. Republicans are such hypocites. For a party that continuously spouts off about responsibility and accountability I find it odd that they are never ever responsible or accountable for anything. It is always someone else who is to blame for whatever the problem might be.

Demsgreat: You are so wrong. Plenty of federal money had been sent to New Orleans to repair the levees and them money was used for other purposes by the corrupt politicians years before Katrina hit. What part of this don’t you understand? Over the first five years of President Bush’s administration, Louisiana had received far more money for Corps civil works projects than any other state prior to Katrina. The politicians used those monies for pet projects and not to rebuild or strengthen the levees.
And how insane if this. New Orleans was built below sea level. It will always be a flood waiting to happen. How would you like to live in a sunken bowl essentially surrounded by a large lake and the Gulf of Mexico, protected only be a levee of dirt and essentially giant sump pumps who can have power failures.

Well Fran, Mike Foster was governor leading up to Katrina. So, that means he was a part of the Republican power at the time. In conclusion, as a Republican, he failed to meet his fiduciary obligations. Sounds like a typical Republican–corruption no doubt. If you come back that he was a Democrat before turning Republican, don’t forget that in the South, Democrat=Dixiecrat=Republican.

There he is again, bullying away in his dominating orange tie. Like was said above: I don’t watch TV anymore because the shows are not about conversation or discussion but political manipulation and people talking and shouting over others. Who needs added tension from the media in their life! Can we return to at least one plain old news program, just reporting it not trying to make it?

Karl Rove should be in jail for his crimes not appearing on TV. Why anyone would believe a word this man says is beyond me. The Bush administration showed themselves to be incompetent and corrupt at everything they did. Just yesterday I was just reading that the New Orleans FEMA Office has not distributed the funds properly and in most cases not at all to help the area. President Obama has sent someone to New Orleans to look into this matter. FEMA is just one of the incompetent departments that Bush had no clue about.

Thats alright Mr. Liar Rove, you arrogrant Worthless Criminal, we’ve got your Number, and in time, we’ll have you every way but sideways ! The Patriot Hour Web Site has it in For you ! Your a Criminal and you’ll be held accountable, maybe not in in a Federal Court, but somebodys court, and it’ll be a court you wish you were never in – MINE !

Privileged-character Rove should be talking, but not on This Week. A couple of congressional committees eagerly await the benefit of his recollections and insights about timely and important matters — under oath, in front of cameras and witnesses.
No surprise, then, Rove is johnny on the spot when ABC calls but a nose-thumbing no show when Congress summons him.
A segment about that would’ve been ever so much more useful and informative than giving Rove a national audience for more self-serving spin.

Seriously? Our country is screwed, judging by the totally ignorant statements and “there should only be a democratic party” comments on this blog.
Really? No opposing views on the news? Yeah, that’s great. Rove should be in prison? What crime has he committed? No, not what crime in your petty mind, but what actual CRIME has he committed?
Basic heirchy of a disaster: Local government (city, county) to State to federal. When Iowa flooded in 2008, the LOCAL government moved to sandbag, put out warnings, etc, the STATE government mobilized the national guard, and THEN after that, they called the feds when it was deemed necessary. Katrina was no different; the problem was, the state and local government failed. Period.
Partisan hatred will get you no where, and that’s all that I see on this blog. The attitude of democrats in the white house, congress, and everywhere else is that republican and conservative views do not matter because they didn’t win the election and don’t hold a majority; I hate to break it to you, but 50% of the US hold conservative or republican views – to say our views don’t matter is to disenfranchise half of the country.

As a Republican Moderate that voted for Obama, I continue to be amazed at the arrogance and narrowness of the Conservative Republicans views- while they preach patriotism and care for our country and it’s citizens , they have bombarded us daily with hate and such nastiness that I find incredulous. To what end this rhetoric is suppose to lead, I am unclear;but this group, lead by Rove & Co.,destroyed this country;never have our “leaders” taken us down a path that served so few and failed so many. To stand and do anything but apologize is mind numbing and they are gearing right now to ensure Pres. Obama fails- they will start by creating one crisis after another; sucking all of the time and energy out of the new administration; they will create these stall tactics while saying they are looking out for the American people and the children’s future;don’t fall for it! Next, they are definitely going to attack every day , anything and every thing with 2010 elections in mind, to try to take away some support for a run at 2012 Pres. elections. Don’t fall for it;they do not have anyones interest in mind other than own “narrow” (think racist,elitist,snobbish,superior)point of view. Life in America under the Republicans is like being “on the plantation”. Trickle down my ass!!

Not only is Rove out of touch but….anybody here that supports Rove and the republican party the same party that has screwed up and ruined our great nation is either a paid blogger, delusional or stupid. Why should Rove and the republicans get rewarded for screwing up America from Iraq to this financial mess? Isn’t that like rewarding CEOs with huge bonuses even when they screw up the company. Sure let’s reward the people that screwed things up. Who’s stupid enought to do that? A fool, idiot, moron, masochist, lobbyist? I could add more but you get the picture.

Ok, I goofed and cited a clause added post-Katrina that apparently was added to make the intent of the law less ambiguous.
Nonethess, my original point stands–the law (even pre-Katrina) authorizes the President to take actions even if the Governor has not acted. (Think about it–what if the Governor and successors are all dead as part of a disaster? Would any sane person argue the Feds could not help until a new Governor was elected?)
Unfortunately, that makes the citations a bit lengthy to post in this format–just go read the act for yourself, in particular noting that the President *may* declare disasters based on a Governor’s request, but implicitly may also declare them without a request, and that federal assistance is predicated on a state having initiated emergency action, not explicitly on having made a request for help. Unless of course you’re looking for reasons NOT to rescue drowning people.
Moreover, Rove’s entire defense completely ignores the point that the real time for action was BEFORE Katrina, when scientists were screaming from the rooftops that better levies were needed. But scientists, and in general people who deal with facts, were of course never given the time of day by Bush. So we’ve had to live through a miserable laundry list of screwed up federal actions and inactions since “no one could have predicted” the disasters and realities screamed from the rooftops by hundreds of experts for years or even decades.

Like him or not, and I don’t particularly, but he’s SPOT on with regards to who’s fault the lack of response was before (and I’d argue DECADES before), during and after Katrina.
AT what level of Government did the authorization for the rezoning of swamp lands into residential use occur, and the subsequent approvals of the construction of homes WELL below sea level?
Oh yeah, and then the collection and expenditure of all of the property taxes that were collected on those properties on everything EXCEPT emergency response planning?
No, the FEDERAL Government is the LAST in the long line of failures in Katrina… the beginning of that line of incompetence STARTS with the city council and the mayor, continues through parish elders, then to the Governor, then the state’s elected representatives in Congress, and only THEN does it land on the President’s desk.
New Orleans was a DISASTER waiting to happen, and it did. If you want to place blame, go back to the initial approval of a residential building permit in swampland, and the GREED that accompanied that decision.

New Orleans got wet. Okay very wet. The hurricane actually hit Mississippi. Greensburg KS got 95 % wiped out two years ago. Guess which town has rebuilt with the least amount of federal aid and improved their community at the same time. The people of Greensburg did in two years what the people of NO have failed to do in four years with far less money.
So why do you nimrods blame Bush???

George – You finally had a program other than “I love Obama” and old black head couldn’t stand it. You need to report the news, not make it, and you do. You are so in love with Obama that you would probably lay down your life for him. You are pathetic as is your program. I was with a group of 600 people Sat. night and not in Washington and the discussion was how ABC had lost all touch with reality and people actually hate you and Charles Gibson for what you did in this last campaign. You did not post fairly, accurately and Geroge Will and the rest only what to hear what they want to hear. They can’t stand the truth. Now, I am pretty sure this will not get posted becasse you would not want anyone to know what you, Carvill (the idiot), Begala (worse) and you do all the time to keep Obama in the limelight. Would it be possible foryou to write another book “How I love Obama” and the lies you told to get himebn elected. After all you wrote a book on Clinton.

Why do we listen to Rove and give him air time? He is the biggest liar in history. Why not prosecute him? I cannot understand the Republican party (which I have been a member for 20 years) selects him or Russ Limbaugh to be a spokesperson? Is that all we can come up with? I listened to Rush on t.v. at the cpac meeting and I was appaled at the venom he spews against our new president. What happened to giving him at least 100 days before we crucify him. He is so disrespectful of someone who was elected by the people. If he is the future of our party…my resignation is in the mail.

I never cease to be amazed by the blindness of partisanship. Those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it. NOL is still on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico which is prone to hurricanes. You can’t even bury caskets under ground because of the water table and yet NOL zoning still allows building homes below sea level. And yet hundreds of thousands of people live in these homes and further have made no preparaton themselves for evacuation or self-rescue when the inevitable hurricane comes and floods them. The images of the throngs sitting on their butts outside the convention center complaining that no one was taking care of them punctuates where the blame should lie. If you live below sea level in a hurricane area, listen to the news and get out when you have several days notice. If you don’t get out, do a little preparation to take care of yourself. These people are largely the same ones that don’t take personal responsibility even when the storms aren’t blowing.

George, all partisanship aside, why do you continue to put Rove on your show?
Aren’t there Republicans with a better performance track record, more intellectual heft and certainly greater demonstrated integrity, to schedule instead?
Certainly there are. But you persist.
Do respond to this question. You have a responsibility to your viewers to do so.

I don’t always agree with Katrina, but yesterday, she was absolutely stellar. I could tell that Rove was out of his element and was getting angry. She matched him point for point and totally delegitimatized his tired and prefunctory arguments. Bravo, well done.

who cares what this bloated cheap carnival huckster says.
He’s a sad reminder of the past.
Welcome to the Age of Reality and Reason.

As usual, he chooses his words such that what he says can be argued to be correct, even as he ignores reality and deflects responsibility for the things they could have done and did not do. And of course, he ignores the simple reality that people died in New Orleans while journalists were on the ground to watch it unfold — all the while wondering where the help was. Sure, the feds plucked some people from rooftops (this is when Brownie was doin’ a heck of a job) but we expect them to do more than the minimum required under the law when Americans are in trouble. He may have found a way to explain this situation away and forgive himself, but most Americans have not forgiven nor forgotten.

Rove lies. He lies often and with authority. What he says is not true, and thus to argue against it is to play to his strength, i.e., his willingness to lie without reservation or moral compunction.

If you’re going to invite criminals to your guest panel, at least show the viewers the courtesy of questioning them of their criminal activity while they are there first; and be sure to get a real answer. Then, please, by all means move on to the other panel questions.

I have watched This Week for years and been impressed at the quality objective reporting. I have listened carefully to those representing opinion I do not support – that is a dialogue. But I was shocked, sickened, and angry that Carl Rove was on your show yesterday. He should be indicted, along w/ alot of others. A disgusting human being. Why do you think Carl Rove is time worthy, let alone speak? I’m so disgusted.

Hey George, unlike some people on here who say that having Mr. Rove on was a waste of Air Time, however I find it amusing that he is still showing his face in public considering how the public in general feels about him and the Republican party at the moment!
Republicans can yell all they want but in order to get their message across someone has to be listening!
Republicans ya know you had the ball in your court, and you F…ked it up! The party of Fiscal Responsibility and less Government, and Spending went out the window, it was nothing but one great big party for 8 yrs out of 16 yrs, one great big spending spree! The problem is you spent it on absolutely nothing, at least nothing that helped this country move forward. Now we have bailouts coming out of our a$$es and why? You can blame it on the last Dem. President in the 1990’s, but might I remind you that you the Repubs were in the majority back then!
Now if this was say a year to a year and a half down the road with the new administration I could understand the rhetoric if there is not a slight change in the economy. But as always you yell about nothing, the usual Republican shallow attitude! Like our new president you are just showing you as well don’t have substance, just a lot of hot air!
As far as Katrina is concerned there is a lot of blame to go around, from the local to state and federal gov.
As far as people listening to Rush Limbaugh well it just says a lot about you!

That’s right this country does still have alot of Republicans in it, and will continue to do. We are not going anywhere. The funny thing is you libs have nothing of any importance to say. All you do is call people names and spew your nasty hatred. Grow up and get your heads out of your rear ends. If you guys don’t like it you need to move out of the country and join all the stupid Hollywood people that were SUPPOSEDLY leaving when George W was re elected.

NO! I am DONE with Mr. Bush and his former lackeys trying to ‘spin’ their own version of the truth with regard to Katrina and my government’s mess afterward. I lived in New Orleans. I was exiled from New Orleans. I still live in New Orleans.
Go ahead, mention the Coast Guard one more time you fat @#$!. For your information, it is the Coast Guard’s mission to respond and act without a directive from ‘on-high’. Search and Rescue is their J-O-B, and they excel at it, just as they responded and excelled here in New Orleans in August 2005. I will never be able to fully express my gratitude to the men and women of the United States Coast Guard.
Now, If the rest of our government ‘mucky-mucks’ had pulled their heads out of their @$%#$ to do the same kind of J-O-B, instead of worrying about fashion, ‘tsk-tsking’ as they flew over my stricken city in their gazillion dollar airplane, my life today, along with thousands of others, might resemble something close to normal. That it does not, 3 and a half YEARS later, will be studied by sociologists and historians well into the next century.
For whatever it is worth, it is comforting to know that the truth is not anything that comes from Karl Rove, or any other of Bush’s lackeys, but DO NOT INSULT ME, SIR, nor any of the fine members of the Coast Guard. I am rebuilding my own life, no thanks to you and yours. It may take me longer, and I may, in fact, never fully recover, but it will be no thanks to you or your kind. It sickens me that I have to listen to your blubber at this late date. Go to &%@$.

How funny, m, I listend to parts to the Republican meeting with Rush and Couleter speaking and all I heard was name-calling and spewing nasty hatred. So, it’s OK when a Republican does it? Seems to me as if the GOP has the patent on toxic politics with a trademark on character assasination. Maybe it is just that the Republicans can dish it out but they can’t take it.

Folks, for the record, I am white, and owned my own successful business here in New Orleans. My home was trashed by looters, and my business went under because its market was scattered across the country. Welfare never entered the picture for me, or for many thousands of others. Put that and the race bait away, folks. Katrina and its aftereffects affected everybody, regardless of race or socio-economic statues.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE – Do not have Karl Rove back on your show. I watch ‘This Week’ every Sunday and he ruins the show for me. He was rude, talking over everyone and shouting to be heard when we don’t want to hear anymore from him. Eight years was enough!

Isn’t there a jail cell waiting on him somewhere.

coufplayer, Thanks much! I wish your relatives the best. Had some friends who used to live here drive to New Orleans this past weekend. They settled where Katrina took them, in Memphis, and this was the first time they were able to even come back. I know, and miss, so many. Thanks again.

Why is the voice of the Bush administration still getting air time? We had to endure eight years of those insular, head-in-the-sand, it’s-my-way-or-you’re-not-American conceited, self-absorbed, divisive tax-and-spenders. Do you not realize we are sick of them? Sick of Rove? Enough. We have suffered far too much for far too long because of Rove. Do not have him back on the show. I will not watch again if he is invited back.

What’s wrong with this picture? Karl Rove being interviewed on a ABC when he should be in jail for failing to appear before Congress after being subpoenaed. And we claim to be a law-abiding nation?
Again, what’s wrong with this picture?

The Borgen Project has some good info on the cost of addressing global poverty.
$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$550 billion: U.S. Defense budget

As a long time viewer of This Week I join many other posters in asking that you do not invite the likes of Carl Rove to join discussions on the round table. I enjoy civil debate of different views, which is generally the hallmark of This Week. Sunday’s broadcast was a great disappointment since Mr. Rove’s presence turned the discussion into a cable-worthy shouting match. I look forward to being educated, not harangued by a boorish political operative. If repeated, this “new” aggressive confrontational approach is sure to drive away your viewers.

dave m-what I am saying is for everyone to grow up. All this stuff is crap. So no I am not crying that is not fair because both sides do it. All the hatred has to stop. It is suppose to be okay that we have different opinions, thats what makes the freakin world go around. Imagine if we are all a bunch a mindless democrats that want the touchy feely stuff, that taxes Americans to death. I work hard for my money and I be damned if I am going to be taxed to death to pay for people that don’t want to get off their butts and get a freakin job. By the way, George Bush isn’t President anymore, move on.

Karl Rove is evil — CNN and moveon.org told me so, must be true.

Rove has read the novel 1984. Perhaps we all should take it out again and read it over. Sometimes seems to be his handbook.
“He who controls the past, controls the future…”-from the novel 1984, by George Orwell

Rove will always be a con-man. He makes his living telling lies. This is what he does. Unbelievable for “This Week” to validate a con-man’s performance.

I don’t really understand why ABC is asking Karl Rove anything except why he keeps thumbing his nose at congress and ignoring the fact that he has had more than one request for him to testify about what was going on in the Bush Administration. That should be the ONLY question he is being asked at this point and he certainly should not be being treated like a celebrity pundit.

Rove is a G.D. Liar
How past Presidents have responded to hurricanes:
President: Nixon
Danger: Category 5 Hurricane Camille (August 1969)
Area: About the same area as that affected by Katrina
Response: Nixon prepared the National Guard in advance, ordering rescue ships from Tampa, FL and Houston, TX to stand waiting along with over a thousand regular military, 24+ helicopters to assist the Coast Guard and National Guard about as soon as the hurricane passed.
President: George H. Bush (the first)
Danger: Category 5 Hurricane Andrew (August 92)
Area: Florida
Response: In the middle of a re-election campaign,
Bush ceased campaigning the day before the hurricane, went to Washington, and assembled one of the largest military forces ever mustered on U.S. soil. Seven thousand National Guard and 22,000 regular military were sent in with the necessary equipment shortly after the hurricane passed through.
President: Clinton
Danger: Category 3 Hurricane Floyd (September 1999)
Area: Virginia and Carolinas
Response: Meeting with China’s president Jiang in New Zealand, Clinton immediately declared the hurricane-affected areas as federal disasters, allowing the military and National Guard to move in and help. Clinton flew home immediately, one day BEFORE the hurricane hit, to help coordinate the rescue.
President: George W. Bush (the second)
Danger: Category 5 Hurricane Katrina (August 2005)
Area: Gulf Coast
Response: Bush was on vacation, riding his bike for two hours on the day before the hurricane lands. On the day Katrina landed, Bush attended a birthday party for John McCain. The levees began to crack. While emergency 1.5-ton sandbags were ready to be placed to steady the levee and absorb water, there were insufficient numbers of helicopters and pilots to set them before the levees break.
Nagin, the mayor of NO, pleaded for federal-level assistance and got none. Bush went to San Diego to play guitar with a country singer and end his vacation early — but not until the next day, because he had tickets to a San Diego Padres game.
National Guard troops are down about 8,000 members because they are in Iraq with much of the needed rescue equipment.

Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin are to blame because they did nothing to over-rule George Bush and bring the National Guard home. If they would have killed Bush, many more people might have survived Katrian. Kathleen Blanco should have taken what Guard troops she had left and taken Bush hostage so she could have brought the troops and resorces home. Killing Bush, Cheney, and Rove would have been the best course of action. It would have saved thousands of innocent people’s lives. Our entire nation would have been better off without these scumbals, no question about it.
We still have worthless representatives that make noise about holding Rove accountable for his crimes, but they lie just like Rove. Nothing will ever be done to him for what he has done to this country. Damned traitor.

Why anyone would even ask his opinion on anything makes me shake my head. He has no credability and his opinions make no impacat on me or anyone who has seen what he has done in the Bush administration. Unfortunately, no one is brave enough to prosecute him.

Yeah… sure… Rove’s a good Christian… NOT. He and the republicans could CARE LESS about people, and instead worship the almighty dollar! Yet the Money loving republicans have somehow conned the Christians that Christ cares about money too. If you think for a minute that adminstration gave one thought to the human part of the Katrina tragedy, then you too have been completely brainwashed.

“I would pay thousands for the honor of executing him, after a guilty verdict by way of a fair trial”.
Posted by: Frank
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Very nazi of you.

If you were as disgusted to see Rove on TW as I was, watch out…David Gregory might have him on Meet The Press.
And as far as his comments on Katrina, Rove is correct if one follows the letter of the law. But is that what we want from the federal government in a crisis? Scott McClellan said it best in his book What Happened…the federal government is the fail safe to compensate for breakdowns at lower levels. Standing on the letter of the law in this case is ridiculous, and is a testament to Rove as a person.

OT comment — if you’re going to put it in big letter, it better be right. Your headline reads “Rove: Bush Administration ‘Fulfilled’ It’s Katrina Responsibilities”.
“It’s” is the abridgment of “it is”. It is not the possessive for of it. Used in this context, there should be no apostrophe.

Posted by: Steve
Why don’t Republicans just move to Alaska and leave the rest of us alone?
Hey Steve,
IF ALL THE REPUBLICAN’S MOVED TO ALASKA THEN WHO WOULD PAY FOR ALL THE “PORK” THAT JUST GOT PASSED IN THAT SO CALLED “STIMULUS” BILL?
YOU PEOPLE SAY “ALL” REPUBLICANS ARE RICH = RIGHT?
My Dad came to this country with nothing and worked his A$$ off to give us a roof over our heads. He didn’t believe it was the roll of the GOV’T to provide for his family, it was his. Take money for the GOV’T meant he failed as a father and husband. My Dad has passed and I’m so thankful for all the lesson’s he has taught my siblings and me.
May God Bless this country even when this Country doesn’t bless God.

What i don’t understand is why ANYONE would waste airtime or even air on this guy.
Cheny, Rove, Rummy….they should all be given a VERY long vacation, paid in advance by the RNC & the companies that profited from there collective raping of this country.

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Zoloft.

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