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FYI<br>
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<p><b><font size="4">Blame Game or Indictment</font></b></p>
<p><span class="columntextsm">The right wing swift-boat sliming lie
machine is in full gear, attacking the local leadership, trying to
deflect blame, while at the same time pooh-poohing discussion from
the left about the outrageous failings and incompetencies of the
Bush appointees. I was about to post a link to today's NY Times
article,</span><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/opinion/07wed1.html">It's
Not a 'Blame Game'</a> <span class="columntextsm"> when I saw our
News Editor, Amanda Lang, had already posted it. Congratulations to
Amanda for having her article </span> <a
href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_amanda_l_050901_the_story_of_the_hur.htm">
THE STORY OF THE HURRICANE COWBOY WHO FIDDLED WHILE NEW ORLEANS DROWNED</a>
and OpEdNews.com <a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1561908,00.html">
referred to</a> in the NY Times of England-- the Guardian newspaper.
</p>
<p><span class="columntextsm"><i> <a href="http://www.thomhartmann.com">Thom
Hartmann</a> (in my opinion, the BEST talk radio host in the nation)
dropped me this note last night:</i></span></p>
<blockquote>
<div> <i><span class="187355721-06092005"> <font
face="Arial" color="#0000ff">"I got a call this morning from
what was almost certainly a quickly-thrown-together Rove Operation Republican
boiler room operation. He was calling from "northern Virginia"
and couldn't possibly have heard KPOJ's signal here in Portland
(this was when I was doing our local show) - even at 25,000
watts, we only weakly reach all the way to Seattle. No way
we're bouncing over the Rockies. And he didn't know my name.
Some guy working off a list of talk shows, asking why we weren't
talking more about the failures of the Mayor and Governor in
LA/NO..."</font></span></i></div>
<div> <span class="187355721-06092005"></span> <span
class="187355721-06092005"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff">Thom
</font></span> </div>
</blockquote>
<p><span class="columntextsm">If you haven't listened to Thom, online if
you have to, you should. And read his op-eds too at our<font
face="Arial"> </font></span><b><font face="Arial"> <a
href="http://www.opednews.com/archivesHartmannThom.htm">Thom Hartmann</a>
</font></b><font face="Arial">article archive.</font></p>
<p><span class="columntextsm"><b>The lying dirtball rightwing extremist
Republican leader, Tom Delay,</b> stumbling to talk the right wing
party lie, said that emergency response starts from the bottom up,
beginning with the mayor, then the governor. Too bad Bush issued
an order saying the federal government was taking charge on August
27, the same day the governor of LA requested such aid. Now DeLay
is saying that it would be better to postpone hearings, so FEMA
officials are not dragged away from the disaster response. I say
drag the incompetent losers away. They have not helped. They have
hindered. If there was a disaster in my area, I'd prefer that the
current FEMA team stay away. Well, since there are more registered
Republicans in my precinct than Democrats, maybe FEMA would do its
job. But, being close to Philly, which votes 80-85% democratic,
I'd surely want FEMA to stay away. They'd let the city be destroyed,
then move people to the reddest state, using their newest election theft
strategy, gerrymandering by disaster. </span></p>
<p><b><span class="columntextsm">I'll repeat what I said in my last email:
<i>Now is the time that we must wake up Americans to the destruction
right wing Republicans (and I'll add} right wing democrats (like
Lieberman, Biden, Schumer and their DLC friends) have already inflicted
upon the US, and the awful potential of three more years of Republican
rule to lay waste to the US and make it a true third world nation.
We have to get rid of these right wing extremists.</i></span></b></p>
<p><span class="columntextsm">The Washington Post was duped into
supporting the right wing echo-chamber lie, shifting the blame to the
mayor and governor, but they wised up and offered a retraction, stating:</span></p>
<blockquote>
<p><i>A Sept. 4 article on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
incorrectly said that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D) had
not declared a state of emergency. She declared an emergency on
Aug. 26.</i></p>
</blockquote>
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