Republican Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts called the government's response "an embarrassment." former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Republican. "If we can't respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we're prepared to respond to anuclear or biological attack?
wait...my saying that this is what W.'s administration might try to do deserves neg rep? Just tuning in to FOx News Channel, which if anything else is a mouth piece for Republicans..... The title of the show: "The Cost of Freedom" when clicking on info "The US must brace for teh financial impact of Hurricane Katrina" Expert talking how gas might go up to 5 per gallon, another 10 per gallon.... now discussing whether is worth it to spend the money to rebuild...Tune away from channel before becoming a zombie..... My point was that the blame of any economic recession that might occur should not be fully on Katrina, since gas prices had been going up steadily already for a while, poverty rates kept going up for the fourth straight year, and the "wage inflation" has not nearly kept up at all with prices and increases in energy prices..... BUt yeah, whatever Costly fuel raises US inflation (from aug. 16) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4156668.stm US economic growth revised lower http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4201894.stm US job creation slows in August http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4208562.stm If you tell me this administration is incapable of using Katrina as the one and only reason for any financial trouble in the future, then you obviously have not followed politics up close....
Andrew Sullivan, otherwise a liberal, but a HUGE supporter of the war on Iraq: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/
??? Andrew Sullivan is a conservative. Seriously, he's the kind of guy that ITN will link to his blog.
Speaking as an external observer, I think this thread was entirely appropriate at the time it was started (and still is). Almost from the outset the broader international media focused quite significantly on the administration/mismanagement issues and political effect of the disaster, without neglecting or taking focus away from the human side of things at all. I can't see what's wrong with critical analysis. It's not mutually exclusive to caring.
He's the gay Catholic HIV+ Reagan fan, right? He's a fairly typical paleocon, maybe a bit more compassionate than is the norm for them. I know he's no theocon and no neocon, be he's definitely conservative.
I don't know if "fairly typical paleocon" is the right term. I'd call him a thoughtful libertarian new conservative with some glaring blind spots (most recently, his defense of the Bell Curve, which shows his lack of attention to serious standards of evidence and scholarly review). But he's hardly someone that ITN would cite, what with the support of gay marriage and his refusal to vote for Bush in 2004, citing his general incompetence and gay baiting. He's definitely conservative, but paleocon, to me, seems to apply to isolationist types like Pat Buchanan.
Agreed. Looks like I was wrong in this case. I have no problem admitting when I have a lapse in judgement.