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A New Victim of the Blame Game?

By TChris, Section Huricanes Katrina and Rita
Posted on Fri Sep 16, 2005 at 12:58:40 PM EST
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Daily Kos has a story that's sure to get your dander up. After the administration spread its dual talking point strategy -- blame state and local governments for the failure to protect the poor from Hurricane Katrina, all the while decrying the "blame game" -- the Justice Department started looking for evidence that would allow the administration to blame environmentalists.

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    A New Victim of the Blame Game? | 12 comments (12 topical)
    Re: A New Victim of the Blame Game? (none / 0) (#1)
    by desertswine on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:55 PM EST
    Environmentalist? Might as well blame Martians. The bushies would blame space men if they thought that there was any chance of it sticking. They're desperate.

    Re: A New Victim of the Blame Game? (none / 0) (#2)
    by Last Night in Little Rock on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:55 PM EST
    This all reminds me of the gun with the barrel pointed backwards. Now if they can just pull the trigger.

    Re: A New Victim of the Blame Game? (none / 0) (#3)
    by Sailor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:55 PM EST
    The justUs dept spending their time on this crap is NOT making america safer. You know what their new obsession is via alberto gitmo?
    When FBI supervisors in Miami met with new interim U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta last month, they wondered what the top enforcement priority for Acosta and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales would be.

    Would it be terrorism? Organized crime? Narcotics trafficking? Immigration? Or maybe public corruption?

    The agents were stunned to learn that a top prosecutorial priority of Acosta and the Department of Justice was none of the above. Instead, Acosta told them, it's obscenity. Not pornography involving children, but pornographic material featuring consenting adults.
    These people don't know and don't care about what really can protect americans other than their campaign contributor's wallets.

    Re: A New Victim of the Blame Game? (none / 0) (#4)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:55 PM EST
    Char-Right...you are like a light bulb here. The environmentalists caused the levees to break because they wanted to save the Bug Eyed Blue Billed Borer. Global warming nonsense warnings also distracted The Army Corps of Engineers from the fixing Levees and environmentalists drained the budget with all those frivolous law suits. Bush can go back on vacation now that he has gotten to the bottom of why he has no blame in the NOLA disaster. Gail Norton warned us about those lawsuits and how damaging environmentalists are to the environment. Shoulda listened while we had the chance. Next step will be to wiretap all environmental groups as they are clearly on the side of terror.

    Re: A New Victim of the Blame Game? (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:55 PM EST
    Charley talks not of environmentalists, but environ-mentalists, who are able to infiltrate the action and inaction of the Mighty President, and force him to: 1) Nominate and promote incompetants -- makes him feel teary-eyed about himself, and he LOVES thinking about himself; 2) Take five-week vacations during which he pays NO attention to the news, making him try to "get on with his life," and making him ALWAYS flies FROM (not toward) emergencies; 3) Transfer 40% of the Louisiana National Guard, along with 80% of their emergency equipment, to Iraq! No sane person would do that, but the environ-mentalists have the power to make this ordinarily self-obsessed person SUDDENLY desire to improve life for the people of Bagdad, our 51st state. These environ-mentalists MUST be stopped from causing Bush to make such HUGE errors -- and the only way Republicans know is to try to remove their mental powers by a constant stream of bowel contents from the Elephants in the Room. Charley...that's a French name, isn't it?

    Re: A New Victim of the Blame Game? (none / 0) (#6)
    by Dadler on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:55 PM EST
    I'm getting far too angry a vibe from Charley. I'm as pissed as any lefty, but I can laugh at myself. Maybe Chuckles can, but his posts don't give me hope at this point. BTW, TalkLeft had an earlier post on the cutting levee funding issue.

    Re: A New Victim of the Blame Game? (none / 0) (#7)
    by cpinva on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:55 PM EST
    i suspect charley is so invested in the present administration, that any admission of culpability or incompetence on their part, might result in the need for counseling sessions for our bud. fortunately, i'm so self absorbed, i'm not wedded to any particular party or philosophy. extreme shallowness has its compensations! lol

    Re: A New Victim of the Blame Game? (none / 0) (#8)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:55 PM EST
    Charley, what's obvious is that YOU are afraid of having your boy prince stuck with the results of HIS actions. We did not lie the country into a war, and deploy nearly half of our national security first-responders. We did not tell Bush to take five week vacations, more than any president in US history. Though you apparently hate science, and specifically the science of ECOLOGY, you still seem to think you're REASONABLE in your complaints about spotted swamp rats. Actually, had environmentalists been heeded, the development of the Louisiana wetlands would never had destroyed that natural sink for storm surges, and billions would have been saved in damages. Now Bush wants to put CASINOS on that land! That will REALLY make the bill something for our grandchildren to pay. What an accomplishment!

    Re: A New Victim of the Blame Game? (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:55 PM EST
    Can't say I'm all that surprised given that (1) any administration will fight back against those accusing it of something and (2) there is some validity to the claim given that the environmentalists filed a lawsuit blocking the Army Corps of Engineers from restructuring some of the levees. How far that can be taken is open to interpretation, of course, but the fact that environmentalists have stood in the way of projects before is news to no one. I am surprised, however, at the constant refrain from TL of "why didn't this administration protect the poor from this hurricane" and it's myriad variants. Given the general tenor of this site, I would not have thought the author such a fan of roughshod federal authority. I guess that when the next hurricane comes-a-calling and the administration sends in the 82nd airborne to forcefully remove everyone in its projected path, I'll know who that lady up in the balcony waiving the stars and stripes is;-) Have a good weekend everyone.

    Re: A New Victim of the Blame Game? (none / 0) (#10)
    by Sailor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:56 PM EST
    Bush cut $200M out of the ACE budget. Kinda pales in comparison to what environmentalists do when they sue to make the admin enforce their own laws.
    so, one should blame bush for fighting back against criticism
    Yes, one should. There are 2 paths to dealing with criticism: 1) Find the problems, fix the problems, do better next time. (BTW, Katrina WAS 'the next time'. all of the problems that prevented a coherent response to 9/11 were still present during Katrina.) or 2) Attempt to shift the blame. Which was the same response he had after 9/11.

    Re: A New Victim of the Blame Game? (none / 0) (#11)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:56 PM EST
    Justpaul, walking the plank of Bush's utter complicity in DISASTER: 350+ days of vacation time, while: 1) Baring the country to a terrorist attack -- two fighter jets respond, an hour late. 2) Baring the country to the hatred of the world for attacking a DISARMED country to remove the dictator that his father and political cronies helped put into power. 3) Baring the country to a preventable catastrophe -- no helicopters available, boats not allowed in, Cuban hurricane experts rebuffed; still time to get a guitar and smirk at the crowds, while HIS incompetants failed, miserably. With so much FRAUD AND INCOMPETANCE to work with, justpaul and the rest continue to try to find a scapegoat. As black and as local as possible. Because Emperor White-Guy is making all the decisions -- scarrooo democracy. To hell with bipartisan date-rape! "Anything less than putting snipers on the roofs of Washington DC would be an underreaction by liberals." --Arch Grover Norquist, gloating about the treason that justpaul wants to be polite about. Have a good weekend, never mind the gushers of blood.

    Re: A New Victim of the Blame Game? (none / 0) (#12)
    by cpinva on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:56 PM EST
    the more i think about, i believe the country might be better served if bush stayed on vacation. so little is expected of him anyway, who'd notice the difference? this is the presidency of truly diminished expectations. if he ties his shoes correctly, and occasionally blurts out a complete, coherent sentence, his base is happy. if he doesn't start a war somewhere, the rest of us are relieved. all i ask is that he put reasonably competent people in the positions that matter, and then he can go back to the "ranch", and cut brush to his little old heart's content.

    A New Victim of the Blame Game? | 12 comments (12 topical)