"One report was due April 1. The other was due in early summer. Neither report has been done," he said. Homeland Security officials were not immediately available to comment.
http://go.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9601266
That was Tom Kean, Republican from NJ, former chair of the 9/11 panel, talking about the HS reports the HS president has so far failed to display, because his minions have failed to product them.
Friday, September 09, 2005
Talk about an arrogant p Rick!
He's too important to be approached except under the prescribed methods.
Got this email from Santorum's office:
Thank you for emailing me. I have detected, however, that your email message was not submitted through my website. Therefore, I am unable to process your email request. Please go to www.santorum.senate.gov and click on the "contact information" link and then select "Email Senator Santorum" at the bottom of the page. If you need further assistance, please feel free to contact my office at: 511 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510
Telephone: 202-224-6324
Thank you again for contacting me.
I looked at this 'poll' he has posted there, a finger in the wind:
Do you support a reasonable increase to minimum wage?
Yes:
45.3%
No:
54.7%
45827 total votes
Got this email from Santorum's office:
Thank you for emailing me. I have detected, however, that your email message was not submitted through my website. Therefore, I am unable to process your email request. Please go to www.santorum.senate.gov and click on the "contact information" link and then select "Email Senator Santorum" at the bottom of the page. If you need further assistance, please feel free to contact my office at: 511 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510
Telephone: 202-224-6324
Thank you again for contacting me.
I looked at this 'poll' he has posted there, a finger in the wind:
Do you support a reasonable increase to minimum wage?
Yes:
45.3%
No:
54.7%
45827 total votes
Investigation, Please
Subject: Someone, please tell us what the government has been doing
Body: When the Bush gang defended themselves against accusations they ignored intelligence and that's why four airliners were hijacked on the morning of 9/11, there was something to it. Even though nobody could actually remember reading the memo called "Osama Bin Laden is goint to Hijack Planes and Fly Them into Things in the US," it was one memo and there are probably dozens of planes and targets in the US. It was nobody else's responsibility, but the President is very busy, in September of 2001 coming back from his month vacation by way of some campaign stops.
But this time, a storm the size of the Caribbean Sea hit three states, wiping a city off the map. It took weeks to get to the coast. I saw it every day on the weather channel. We knew to the minute when to expect landfall. And we've known a long time New Orleans is a death trap. So there was plenty of intelligence available, though maybe not in Crawford.
The President and everyone he knows knew the inlet to our country's fuel supply was right there. The Energy President certainly knew about the pipelines and tankers. The Senate knows this. Congress might even know.
In pre-election 2004 disaster money got to Florida BEFORE the hurricanes. How can we have an entire government- hundreds of professional public servants and their thousands of staff, let the manpower and defenses of this domestic territory be so misapplied? Why wasn't the National Guard mobilized? Why are they in Iraq taking care of Bush's other refugees?
I want an investigation of the Federal Government's response, and an audit of their responsibilites versus their activities over the past ten years, since the Republican Party hijacked our government. And I don't trust the Republican Party to take part in it.
Do we even know whether we understand how bad our condition may actually be? Eight trillion dollars. $8,000,000,000,000 dollars is the federal deficit. Can we trust their numbers? We certainly can't trust their words.
Joe Matthews
Body: When the Bush gang defended themselves against accusations they ignored intelligence and that's why four airliners were hijacked on the morning of 9/11, there was something to it. Even though nobody could actually remember reading the memo called "Osama Bin Laden is goint to Hijack Planes and Fly Them into Things in the US," it was one memo and there are probably dozens of planes and targets in the US. It was nobody else's responsibility, but the President is very busy, in September of 2001 coming back from his month vacation by way of some campaign stops.
But this time, a storm the size of the Caribbean Sea hit three states, wiping a city off the map. It took weeks to get to the coast. I saw it every day on the weather channel. We knew to the minute when to expect landfall. And we've known a long time New Orleans is a death trap. So there was plenty of intelligence available, though maybe not in Crawford.
The President and everyone he knows knew the inlet to our country's fuel supply was right there. The Energy President certainly knew about the pipelines and tankers. The Senate knows this. Congress might even know.
In pre-election 2004 disaster money got to Florida BEFORE the hurricanes. How can we have an entire government- hundreds of professional public servants and their thousands of staff, let the manpower and defenses of this domestic territory be so misapplied? Why wasn't the National Guard mobilized? Why are they in Iraq taking care of Bush's other refugees?
I want an investigation of the Federal Government's response, and an audit of their responsibilites versus their activities over the past ten years, since the Republican Party hijacked our government. And I don't trust the Republican Party to take part in it.
Do we even know whether we understand how bad our condition may actually be? Eight trillion dollars. $8,000,000,000,000 dollars is the federal deficit. Can we trust their numbers? We certainly can't trust their words.
Joe Matthews
The Energy President
Seriously: The Energy President. That's how they billed his candidacy. The first Harvard MBA business executive, coming to execute some brass-tacks business and get this country moving again!
But the price of everything is about double what it was under Clinton. The Obscene Surplus under Clinton's fiscal authority has become nearly $8,000,000,000,000 in Obscene Deficit. The military hawk has failed for almost an entire term to complete a mission in Iraq, and persists in failing to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. And oil now trades at $70 a barrel- it was around $20 for most of my life. An Enronergy Bill got passed: overspent Bush's goal, failed to change anything but the rules for building a nuclear reactor (=stationary BOMB), rewarded the oil industry with an extra $1,000,000,000 in gifts to help them find oil so they can continue to rake in record margins. And I bet that since no one at Enron went to jail, they're right now trading petroleum futures. After they and Anderson bankrolled Bush's 2000 campaign.
And he's a war hawk. Real Defense type. Except his typical failure in the national security arena has spread to our energy security by doing nothing to protect the ports or pipelines.
And now that the hurricane has landed, and the president has no one to blame for it, expect the GOP appointees at the turnstiles to start spending money to make the problem prettier. Lipstick on a Pig.
So when will Cheney have the Obscene Hubris to sell us out again to Halliburton with a no-bid rebuilding contract?
But the price of everything is about double what it was under Clinton. The Obscene Surplus under Clinton's fiscal authority has become nearly $8,000,000,000,000 in Obscene Deficit. The military hawk has failed for almost an entire term to complete a mission in Iraq, and persists in failing to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. And oil now trades at $70 a barrel- it was around $20 for most of my life. An Enronergy Bill got passed: overspent Bush's goal, failed to change anything but the rules for building a nuclear reactor (=stationary BOMB), rewarded the oil industry with an extra $1,000,000,000 in gifts to help them find oil so they can continue to rake in record margins. And I bet that since no one at Enron went to jail, they're right now trading petroleum futures. After they and Anderson bankrolled Bush's 2000 campaign.
And he's a war hawk. Real Defense type. Except his typical failure in the national security arena has spread to our energy security by doing nothing to protect the ports or pipelines.
And now that the hurricane has landed, and the president has no one to blame for it, expect the GOP appointees at the turnstiles to start spending money to make the problem prettier. Lipstick on a Pig.
So when will Cheney have the Obscene Hubris to sell us out again to Halliburton with a no-bid rebuilding contract?
Letter to our Government
I believe you've been pushing an agenda we're starting to see expressed in the calamitous poor response to Katrina. We're unrepresented. The minimalist approach to government works well when its inspiration is an interest in privacy and independent citizens. And the principle of taxing the fruit of American Opportunity is protective of the right to property.
But when it's used to redistribute our nation's wealth upward from lower to higher economic classes, the government simply turns the anti-altruistic Conservative peeve with taxation into a machine to install a new and opressive class system.
Other than that, I agree with PFAW's letter:
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina it is clear that Congress needs to take seriously the role of the federal government in meeting the needs of its people. I am urging you as my representative in Washington to:
1. Fund the health care, housing, nutrition, employment and education needs of the victims of Hurricane Katrina;
2. abandon all plans to extend or grant additional tax breaks to wealthy individuals and corporations; and
3. abandon the budget reconciliation plan to cut health care and nutrition programs for low-income families.
But when it's used to redistribute our nation's wealth upward from lower to higher economic classes, the government simply turns the anti-altruistic Conservative peeve with taxation into a machine to install a new and opressive class system.
Other than that, I agree with PFAW's letter:
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina it is clear that Congress needs to take seriously the role of the federal government in meeting the needs of its people. I am urging you as my representative in Washington to:
1. Fund the health care, housing, nutrition, employment and education needs of the victims of Hurricane Katrina;
2. abandon all plans to extend or grant additional tax breaks to wealthy individuals and corporations; and
3. abandon the budget reconciliation plan to cut health care and nutrition programs for low-income families.
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