I think you meant to say 'drivel', not 'dribble'...
cyber, you are still pissed off that we offed an american citizen in the middle east who was a member of Al-Q?
Why so sad about gas prices? Don't you like the supply and demand side of the market?
Why so sad about gas prices? Don't you like the supply and demand side of the market?
The current gas prices are not being driven as much by supply and demand and they are being driven by oil speculators buying futures.
http://money.howstuffworks.com/oil-speculation-raise-gas-price.htm
The political fervor in this country has been on a rising tempo for a while. Neither side belongs together, yet both sides are forced together. This is like a boiling pot with a lid over it. Pressure is rising and someone is going to pop. No single government should rule over so many diverse people. One shoe size does not, in fact, fit 315 million.
We 'hate' Obama because he has a D after his name, end of story.
If you hate the setup of this country so much, I invite you to leave. Let those of us who actually love this country stay and keep if (or take it back to) the way our founding fathers intended.
You're on the right track, now apply the same principles as used in illegal immigration. They are not leaving, neither are conservatives. This is our land.
You're on the right track, now apply the same principles as used in illegal immigration. They are not leaving, neither are conservatives. This is our land.
We 'hate' Obama because Bush 'stole' the election in 2000. Because after passing a measure on Iraq, Democrats turned it political and ran against it the following year. Because in 2005 'Bush hates black people' after government bureaucracy delayed military assistance for Katrina. Because in 2008 Bush personally 'broke' the economy.
The political fervor in this country has been on a rising tempo for a while. Neither side belongs together, yet both sides are forced together. This is like a boiling pot with a lid over it. Pressure is rising and someone is going to pop. No single government should rule over so many diverse people. One shoe size does not, in fact, fit 315 million.
We 'hate' Obama because he has a D after his name, end of story.
oil is a global commodity.
to be deluded into thinking that the President of the US is ever responsible for the cost of gasoline is to out oneself as an uninformed, unqualified voter.
Chilton estimates that drivers of small cars like Honda Civics are paying an extra $7.30 every time they fill up — and that money is going into the pockets of Wall Street speculators. Drivers of larger vehicles like the Ford Explorer are paying speculators $10.41 when they fill up.
Funny, but I don’t hear Republicans rail against Wall Street speculators. Could this have anything to do with the fact that hedge funds and money managers are bankrolling the GOP as never before?
cyber, you are still pissed off that we offed an american citizen in the middle east who was a member of Al-Q?
Because in 2005 'Bush hates black people' after government bureaucracy delayed military assistance for Katrina.
Interesting aside: Bush was legally not allowed to send in troops to help because the Governor of that state did not bother to actually ask for them. All that was needed was the governor calling up the feds and saying "please send in federal troops to assist us, I will send this in writing as soon as I can" and the troops would have been on their way.
But the governor specifically said to only send money for cleanup efforts. Bush, therefor, could not do anything more.
The full fault for the slow response lies directly on that governor.
On August 27, 2005, Governor Blanco, speaking about Hurricane Katrina, told the media in Jefferson Parish, "I believe we are prepared. That's the one thing that I've always been able to brag about." Later that day she issued a request for federal assistance and USD $9 million in aid to President George W. Bush, which stated, "...I have determined that this incident is of such severity and magnitude that effective response is beyond the capabilities of the State and affected local governments, and that supplementary Federal assistance is necessary to save lives, protect property, public health, and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a disaster..... On September 1, 2005, with reports of looting and lawlessness escalating, Governor Blanco announced she was sending 300 Arkansas National Guardsmen to supplement the New Orleans Police Department, saying, "These troops are fresh back from Iraq. They are well-trained, experienced, battle-tested and under my orders to restore order in the streets..... President Bush, during a visit to Louisiana September 2, 2005,five days after the storm, offered to federalize the Louisiana National Guard to simplify the command structure. The Governor declined, because the Guard would then become part of the federal military forces and therefore lose much-needed policing powers. The President subsequently continued to press the offer so Governor Blanco rejected it in writing..... CNN and Fox News reported the Louisiana Homeland Security Department (which operates under the authority of Governor Blanco) refused to allow the American Red Cross to enter the city of New Orleans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Blanco
There was lots of communication, and most of it was from a proud governor who did her best to keep the federal government out of her state.
President Bush accepted a good bit of blame for the way Katrina was handled (he chose to) but that doesn't mean he deserved it.
Shortly before midnight on Friday, September 2, the Bush administration sent Governor Blanco a request to take over command of law enforcement under the Insurrection Act (one of the exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act), but this request was rejected by Blanco.[59] Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi also rejected a similar request.
We 'hate' Obama because he has a D after his name, end of story.
Horribly obfuscational. I'm sure there was lots of communication between Louisiana & the Feds after Katrina. If the Governor failed to ask, it certainly wasn't out of line for Bush Admin officials to point out that he needed to do so for troops to arrive. Apparently they didn't, and they knew more about it than the Governor, who was hobbled by the fact that the Louisiana National Guard was on deployment in Iraq, iirc.
All it would have taken was one phone call from Dubya- "Governor, ask for federal troops & you'll get them." A conversation that apparently never happened. That's leadership, huh?
You're just running a variant of "blame the victim" in defense of the Bush Admin.
The whole thing was a clusterfuck, top to bottom, with federal efforts sometimes hindering more than helping.
The use of federal troops in the US is clearly defined. Just because the smart thing to do was to violate the law and send in the troops does not mean the law could simply be violated.
Bush followed the law, as he is required to do. You are mad because he did not break the law, thereby opening himself up to impeachment. The law is what it is, and it is there for very good reasons.
Until the fed gov was explicitly told to send in troops, they could not...and only the state governor (or the Lt Gov in certain circumstances) could make the request...they could not be sent.
You are free to pretend this is not true so you can keep the fires of hate burning, though. No law against that.
So now you are agreeing with me that the feds could not simply send in the troops? Good, I am glad to see you can learn. No thanks are needed, though, providing free learning to you is all the thanks I need.
Governor Kathleen Blanco (D) requested, via a letter to the National Guard Bureau on August 30, additional National Guard troops from other states to supplement the Louisiana National Guard, but approval did not occur until September 1.[57] New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson had offered assistance to Blanco two days before the storm hit, but could not send his troops until approval came from the National Guard Bureau.[57] Blanco later acknowledged that she should have called for more troops sooner,[58] and that she should have activated a compact with other states that would have allowed her to bypass the requirement to route the request through the National Guard Bureau.[citation needed]
Some 40% of Louisiana's National Guard was deployed to Iraq at the time,[57] and critics claim that use of the National Guard to boost troop numbers in Iraq left them unready to handle disasters at home.[7]