Don't have the votes for impeachment? Investigate the Katrina response. TODAY!

[rudy23]

There's a reason Rove had to hustle Leiberman and get his to counter his claim that he'd investigate Katrina. There's a reason Brownie came out and accused Bush of setting up a "female, Democrat governor" for failure. There's a reason Brownie referred to them as "embarassing emails".

If we could just take a gander at some of the communications from that period, we would have evidence of one of the most brutal acts that a leader has ever perpetrated on his or her people. Complete with coded racism and classism. I think impeachment would be unanimous and undeniable at that point. There would be no nuance, no talking points to wriggle themselves out of the jam. It would make impeachment an open and shut case.

Why aren't more Dems in Congress pushing for this? Where's Hillary Clinton on this? Obama?

Does everybody honestly believe that Bush didn't know about the storm? No, he was setting up his alibi--extreme incompetence, but giving himself so much distance that he couldn't be blamed for any deliberate attempt to starve, leave for dead, then scatter and kill off a large number of black and white poor Democrats (in their eyes), and their neighborhoods.


Read this Palast article, this sounds like the most feasible answer. The neglect was an attempt for the government to seem blindsided, but it was because they didn't want to take federal responsibility for their levee failure.

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1258

Now, let's cut through the crybaby crap. Here's what happened two years ago -- and what's happening now. This is what an inside source told me. And it makes me sick:

"By midnight on Monday, the White House knew. Monday night I was at the state Emergency Operations Center and nobody was aware that the levees had breeched. Nobody."

The charge is devastating: That, on August 29, 2005, the White House withheld from the state police the information that New Orleans was about to flood. From almost any other source, I would not have believed it. But this was not just any source. The whistleblower is Dr. Ivor van Heerden, deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, the chief technician advising the state on saving lives during Katrina.

I'd come to van Heerden about another matter, but in our talks, it was clear he had something he wanted to say, and it was a big one. He charged that the White House, FEMA, and the Army Corps hid, for critical hours, their discovery that the levees surrounding New Orleans were cracking, about to burst and drown the city.
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[rudy23]

1. Soooooo....nobody's up for investigating the response to Katrina?

To me, this is the most blatant criminal act the B*sh admin has pulled in office.

Nobody, especially the president is going to be THAT oblivious to a storm the size of Great Britian hitting the Gulf Coast--especially with all that Oil sitting there.

No, he wanted to appear as negligent as possible. As bad as that looked, it's nowhere near as bad as the reality of why they left New Orleanians to die for 5 days, and continue to make it next to impossible to rebuild there.