My personal beef this morning is why hasn't Bush said anything about the 1000 deaths in Iraq? I watched CNN last night and it was all hurricane, justifiably since it is grave and important, but they didn't even do a round up of other news.
Josh Marshall has been discussing the fact that FEMA has been undermined and debilitated by the Republicans since Bush came into office. Here he is on why there weren't sufficient preparations for the levy's flooding:
"We're hearing again and again now that there just wasn't enough money for a lot of this stuff. Terrorism was our big focus. Some kinds of preparedness aren't simply a question of funds. They turn on less elastic resources. But most of what we're hearing about is dollars and planning. So when we hear, 'well, there just wasn't enough for this and terrorism', or 'we needed the money for Iraq', the real answer is 'nice try'.
The president cut taxes every year of his first term in office. He's trying to push through a major tax cut right now. So it's not terrorism that took away the money. It was tax cuts. And to a degree, same thing for Iraq.
Choices have consequences. And bad consequences require accountability."
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