One very scary thing...
Until I check the citations, I can not be sure if the attached Press
Release is real or one of Ross's satires.
Liz

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 21:54:54 EDT Benseraglio2@aol.... writes:
> Chill out, bro. The President has told us that he's going to build
> Trent Lott
> another house and then go sit on his front porch. Ain't that good
> enough for
> you??
>
>  
> Remarks by President Bush During Briefing on Hurricane Katrina
> Friday September 2, 2:36 pm ET
> WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The following are remarks by
> President
> Bush during a briefing on Hurricane Katrina:
>     Mobile Regional Airport
>     Mobile, Alabama
>
>     10:35 A.M. CDT
>
> THE PRESIDENT: Well, first I want to say a few things. I am
> incredibly proud
> of our Coast Guard. We have got courageous people risking their
> lives to save
> life. And I want to thank the commanders and I want to thank the
> troops over
> there for representing the best of America.
> I want to congratulate the governors for being leaders. You didn't
> ask for
> this, when you swore in, but you're doing a heck of a job. And the
> federal
> government's job is big, and it's massive, and we're going to do it.
> Where it's not
> working right, we're going to make it right. Where it is working
> right, we're
> going to duplicate it elsewhere. We have a responsibility, at the
> federal
> level, to help save life, and that's the primary focus right now.
> Every life is
> precious, and so we're going to spend a lot of time saving lives,
> whether it be
> in New Orleans or on the coast of Mississippi.
> We have a responsibility to help clean up this mess, and I want to
> thank the
> Congress for acting as quickly as you did. Step one is to
> appropriate $10.5
> billion. But I've got to warn everybody, that's just the beginning.
> That's a
> small down payment for the cost of this effort. But to help the good
> folks here,
> we need to do it.
> We are going to restore order in the city of New Orleans, and we're
> going to
> help supplement the efforts of the Mississippi Guard and others to
> restore
> order in parts of Mississippi. And I want to thank you for your
> strong statement
> of zero tolerance. The people of this country expect there to be law
> and
> order, and we're going to work hard to get it. In order to make sure
> there's less
> violence, we've got to get food to people. And that's a primary
> mission, is to
> get food to people. And there's a lot of food moving. And now the --
> it's one
> thing to get it moving to a station, it's the next thing to get it
> in the
> hands of the people, and that's where we're going to spend a lot of
> time focusing.
> We've got a lot of rebuilding to do. First, we're going to save
> lives and
> stabilize the situation. And then we're going to help these
> communities rebuild.
> The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out
> of this
> chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before.
> Out of the
> rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house --
> there's going to
> be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the
> porch.
> (Laughter.)
>
> In a message dated 9/2/2005 9:42:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> herons@ucwp... writes:
> Predictable.  Fire up the Rove  brigade and follow the republican
> mantra.
> Say it early, say it often and say it loud.  Blame everything on the
>
> democrats.  So what if it is an act of god.  So what if it is a
> republican
> administration that sat back and ignored all signs of an impending
> disaster.
> So what if FEMA can't find a road map to the south even with
> Mapquest.  Just
> keep saying it often enough and maybe people will stop asking why W
> and his
> HomeLand cronies weren't interested in an actual homeland
> catastrophe until
> desperate people in horrendous situations started making it on the
> national
> news begging for water and pictures of dead bodies in wheelchairs
> made it on
> the front pages of the papers.
>
> But then this is the administration ( with Sentoram's help) that
> wants to
> sell off the National Weather Service so that corporate America in
> the form
> of Acuweather can profit from (or maybe withhold) data essential for
>
> predicting and tracking severe storms.  This is the administration
> that is
> more interested in rewarding it's friends (can you say rich
> political
> contributors?) with personal and corporate tax cuts while
> maintenance on
> bridges and levies is deferred because of budget cuts.  This is the
> administration that has manipulated, altered and flat out falsified
> any
> national scientific report, that documents the increasing damage to
> the
> country and to the planet of unchecked pollution and the global
> warming that
> it causes.  And it is the administration that is counting in
> maintaining
> it's power by keeping the population off balance with it's Orwellian
>
> scripted threat from the outside with the War on Terror.  The same
> WOT
> inflamed by this government's fabrication of Iraqi weapons of mass
> destruction, nonexistent biological and nuclear weapons and
> fictitious Ben
> Laden, Sadam ties.
>
> Just what was FEMA doing for the week Katrina sat in the gulf
> soaking up
> water and energy?  It crossed into the gulf a category one and well
> before
> Monday was a category four heading to five.  Why, suddenly, when the
>
> administration and agency were coming under increasing criticism for
> its
> lack of response do we see today for the first time caravans of
> National
> Guard vehicles entering the city?
>
> Yes, there should be investigations into the dismal federal response
> to this
> tragedy.  And FEMA and it's criminally, non-existent response should
> be the
> first to go under the microscope.
>
> C J Kelly
> 47th St
>
>
> Ross Bender
> http://rossbender.org

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