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Fri Sep-16-05 03:57 PM
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Dean: Bush Should Not Use Tragedy to Advance an Ideological Agenda |
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For Immediate Release September 15, 2005 Contact: Josh Earnest - 202-863-8148
Dean: Bush Should Not Use Tragedy to Advance an Ideological Agenda
Washington, DC - In advance of President Bush's address this evening in New Orleans, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement urging President Bush not to use the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina to implement an ideological agenda that rolls back environmental protections and workers' rights:
"Just as Americans around the country have banded together to help those affected by the storm, Democrats stand ready to work in a bipartisan fashion to implement a Gulf Coast Marshall Plan to rebuild the homes, businesses and communities destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Democrats, though, will not stand aside and allow the Bush Administration to use the worst natural disaster in American history to ram through regulatory changes that suspend environmental protections and roll-back workers' rights. Undermining these protections will only exacerbate the economic and social fault lines Katrina painfully exposed.
"To bring genuine relief to the residents of the Gulf Coast, President Bush needs to put aside partisan politics and put the needs of Katrina's survivors front and center, by protecting their freedoms and giving them access to the tools they need to recover and rebuild. Democrats understand that the American people are counting on their leaders to unite this country and rebuild our sense of community in the face of this national tragedy.
"Finally, the American people deserve answers to the tough questions about why the federal government was so grossly unprepared to respond to this national disaster. With our national security at stake, President Bush should push the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill to support the Democratic plan to appoint an independent commission to investigate the federal government's late and inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina."
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Fri Sep-16-05 04:11 PM
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1. For any problem, Conservatives randomly pick an item on trog "to-do" list |
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Hurricane? Eliminate pollution controls and drill in ANWR, concentrate more power in president. And since it's a really BAD hurricane, add lowering taxes, too.
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Fri Sep-16-05 05:28 PM
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3. So TRUE! And when they screw up, the results are used to justify what they |
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wanted to do in the first place! (As in the case of the Katrina disaster.)
Dean needs to be on tv TODAY, debating all the conservatives they've had on.
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Fri Sep-16-05 04:55 PM
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2. Dean is spot on here. I am so glad Dean is a man of courage |
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and integrity. Thank you Howard Dean for speaking out.
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