White House preparing Katrina aid package

[sabra]

http://olympics.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-08-31T161908Z_01_BAU158744_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-WEATHER-KATRINA-AID-DC.XML

White House preparing Katrina aid package

WACO, Texas (Reuters) - The Bush administration is putting together an aid package to help with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the White House said on Wednesday.

"I know that there is discussion that is ongoing on that," White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters. "And, certainly, I would expect a supplemental (budget request) is something that is going to be needed in a situation like this."

McClellan spoke to reporters just before President George W. Bush left his Crawford, Texas, ranch, cutting short his vacation to oversee the massive recovery effort from Hurricane Katrina.

Bush was to lead a meeting later on Wednesday with 14 federal agencies involved in the recovery and cleanup.

[opihimoimoi]

1. He gonna LEAD??? Gimme a Break, that Bush don't lead, he reacts

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. Must not do anything until the photo-op

:eyes:

[peaches2003]

22. Homeland Security

I thought of that today. You didn't see any big announcements and press conference until this afternoon after the Evildoer was airborne and getting his picture taken looking out of the plane window. Once the King his making His arrival it is alright to let the pageant begin.

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. I remember in his first speech in 2001 (Inaugural)

after the first theft of WH. He stated he would be a delagator...that he would DELEGATE to agencies and individuals, many of the things that he, as pResident would be in charge of. He actually stated he BELIEVED in delegating. At the time, I thought, "What a slimy little weasel shit! What a puppet. Our nation is being set up to fall apart."

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Deleting duplicate.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Well isn't that special?

[jus_the_facts]

6. "a situation like this....."

....so much for ORGANIZED HOMELAND SECURITY....New Orleans is GONE...and we've pleaded and begged for a higher retaining wall surrounding the city for YEARS...wonder how far Mary Landrieu will stick her head up *'s ass now...she and Blanco will actually have to WORK now instead of cow towing to bush and hiking cigarette taxes...it'll be an absolute MIRACLE if this disaster is EVER rectified...and still NO explination of the seriousness of the Port of New Orleans being out of commission as well...FUCK!!! :rant: :cry:

[Jose Diablo]

7. Bu$h's aid package will be some cowboy hats n/t

[uppityperson]

8. Bandaid, koolaid, maybe a ukelele to cheer everyone up, some jerky

I can picture the aid package.

[noonwitch]

18. He'll probably throw in some Bibles

But the Gideons will be paying for them.

[demnan]

9. Take your time, asshole

Not like you could have been thinking about this on Monday, is it?

[wakeme2008]

10. How much of that AID package will be NEW tax cuts

for your rich friends????????????????

[Benhurst]

11. Laura will be baking up some of her famous Pig Farm lard & sugar cookies.

:puke:

[confludemocrat]

26. That's one city she won't have to worry about gangs in, since nuttin' left

thanks to her totally embarassing asswipe retard of a husband. Even she must be shocked at how nonexistent his leadership on this has been. And she'd be hard to shock as to the level of his failures.

[zara]

12. Throw money at the problem!

And when will the Democratic governor and senator be blamed?/????

[rodeodance]

13. Air Force I just took a swoop down for a looky see of the damage

over LA and the gulf. so he now knows what it looks like.
Fox showed the pic.

[Julius Civitatus]

14. He will get to it after his nap time

He has to have his nap time or he will be cranky!

Seriously, his meeting to discuss the disaster is scheduled for today at 4pm. That's three days after the hurricane.

[0007]

15. How much is he charging?

[myrna minx]

16. Does this "package" come the a helium balloon bouquet?

:eyes: Its a day late and a dollar short, pal.

[underpants]

17. A shocking example of unpreparedness

Didn't they see this coming? Did it just pop up on them? Didn't Fox* talk about it this weekend and last week?

*-TV int he White House, and I would guess at the "western White House" staffing areas are tuned to Fox News exclusively.

[shance]

19. Im not sure we want whats in the package.

n/t

[Massachusetts]

20. Iraq war costs $5.6 billion per month - See simple Math

"The report, entitled "The Iraq Quagmire" from the Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy in Focus, both liberal, anti-war organizations, put the cost of current operations in Iraq at $5.6 billion per month. This breaks down to almost $186 million a day."


http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050831/2005-08-31T040955Z_01_FOR115011_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-USA-COST-DC.html


POINT:
Katrina Cost est: $26-$50 Billion

$5.6 billion x 10 months = $56 billion

What am I missing here?

[truthisfreedom]

21. the time to start leading on this emergency was last Friday, not today.

bush is 5 days late on this, as usual... and he'll use the entire thing as a mechanism for dumping more Treasury cash into the pockets of big corporations and oil cronies. just you watch.

[peaches2003]

23. Gas requirements

The first thing announced at the Homeland Security press conference today was by the Energy Secretary (and where has he been hiding; never saw him before)- they have taken some clean air regulations off gasoline. You just have to laugh. You couldn't write a script funnier than this.

[Igel]

24. This is how it's gone for as long as I can remember.

Congress authorizes some amount for emergency spending for the fiscal year. Congress hasn't guessed what the damage would be for all the disasters that would hit and said, 'No more'; there's a nominal amount to keep things going for a while, and everybody knows that's what it is.

Disaster hits: The nominal amount of dough is expended. Sometimes rapidly. Sometimes the prez dips into other accounts, stretching his authority; sometimes he doesn't need to. FEMA (or whoever it was at the time) assesses how much money is needed to cover the damage.

Prez submits budget proposal; Congress evaluates budget proposal. They pass an emergency supplemental allocation to handle the emergency. After all, neither Carter, Clinton, or even Reagan had the authority to approve his own budget.

A few weeks or months later, the entire budget business is reconsidered in the light of more fine-grained appraisals. Sometimes not all the money is spent; sometimes Congress has to appropriate more.

It's boring; it's outrageous; but it hasn't varied by party. In fact, this is one of the few kinds of cases where partisan politics in the Congress seems to melt away (although from time to time you still see representatives jockeying for photo ops or pork).

[BenDavid]

25. All I can say

is, if the U S can spend what an estimated 1 billion dollars a week in Iraq, then how about stopping spending in Iraq for about a couple of months and help those Americans that need it.... Or better yet, grab your cocks and your socks and get the hell out of iraq.....

[Az_lefty]

27. these sorry bastards...

they should have had their "all hands on deck" meeting last Saturday when it was clear this area was going to get hit.

[Dr Fate]

28. "preparing"- Why is it not PREPARED??? We have had ALL WEEK???

PREPARING? PREPARING?

What is the "ing" crap?- we should be PREPARED.

[Carni]

29. Let me guess? Bibles signed by Fatwell and Robertson?

That strikes me as the type of *aid package* they would supply