Reid: Bush trying to hurt programs that help people:HLS chief resig sought

[NVMojo]

Pointing to the poor relief effort after Hurricane Katrina to attempts to change Medicare and Social Security, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the Bush administration is trying to ruin federal programs that help people.

In an interview aired Tuesday on "Face to Face With Jon Ralston" on Las Vegas ONE, Cox cable channel 19, Reid said Sen. Mary Landreau, D-La., told him on Aug. 29 that New Orleans was flooding.

Reid said he was assured by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., that National Guard troops would respond the same day, but Reid said that wasn't enough and criticized the response by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Ralston asked Reid how he would change FEMA, which is part of the Homeland Security Department.

"By making it a Cabinet-level position," the senator said.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-other/2006/feb/22/566648383.html

[liberal N proud]

1. That is what the republicans have been trying for years

They want no government social programs.
The morally compassionate party is neither moral or compassionate.
This is what confuses me about any Christian saying they are republican, how can you vote to cut funding from a mother and her three kids to pay for food and shelter? Not very Christian if you ask me.
But they are so blind because they have been taught that the government is giving their money to lazy people.
They always think they will get rich and never need assistance, that is the reason they support the tax cuts as well.

[rodeodance]

2. He needs to go on the cable shows and say that.