Re: Have your hurricane in a swing state in an election year
- From: "Bill Sornson" <sornospamni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:08:00 GMT
SocSecTrainWreck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> peter wrote:
>> Mark wrote:
>>> Translation: The Florida governor actually had his act together, and
>>> had plans in place for dealing with a weather-related emergency, and
>>> didn't wait to ask for help.
>>
>> The Louisiana governor declared a State of Emergency on the Friday
>> before Katrina made landfall and issued a request to Bush for federal
>> assistance that Sunday in anticipation that state resources would not
>> be sufficient:
>> http://gov.louisiana.gov/Disaster%20Relief%20Request.pdf
>> That request was in place before the storm hit.
>
> How inconvenient for Hickey to point out that he was repeating a lie
> straight from GOP talking points. But he shouldn't feel bad- that
> liberal rag Washington Post was caught in the same lie, repeated from
> an "unanmed source in the Bush administration" (which usually
> translates to Karl Rove) that they didn't even bother to try to
> confirm, because it could have been shown to be false with just the
> slightest amount of effort. The WP at least had the guts to print a
> correction, but what does Hickey do? He comes up with another lie,
> that the governor of Louisiana rejected federal help.
Mayor Nagin said the exact same thing. Is he a liar too? (Ditto the head
of American Red Cross; she a liar too?)
{smarmy emotional appeal snipped}
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