(after Dylan)
Cop alarms ring out in the bayou night
Enter Raymond Nagin from the City Hall.
He sees New Orleans washed away in the flood,
Cries out, “My God, Bush killed them all!”
Here comes the story of the Hurricane,
Now watch the authorit…

Here’s the letter:
http://grotesquecorpse.blogspot.com/2005/09/my-congressman-voted-against-katrina.html

Here’s the discussion:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=167×2385
and
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/12/115215/418

Rep. Scott Garrett is one of the infamous eleven Republicans who voted against the bill to provide aid and comfort t [...]

Your comments are brief for a calculating reason. ( Something else I know about you without laboratory evidence-Imagine the power of deductive reasoning!)

You do not elaborate on your ideas because the more you write, the larger the hole in your argument. Secondly, when you abreviate your bloviations you are deliberately creating an inference that you later can deny. “When did I say that? If that is what I meant, that’s what I would have said.”

That offers you the oportunity to suggest the responder is using faulty logic and the attack mode goes full blown.

So, do us all a favor; (”I think they should just drop bundles of twenties…”)

and stop taking refuge in your unimaginative one-liners. It’s is not helpful

to the discussion. Or is that your intent?.

In even more disturbing news, eleven congressmen voted against the $51 billion aid package for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. I pray that their constituents find out about this.

Think of all the bureaucratic overhead it would save.

I don’t have the strong reaction that others have to the vote against the $50 billion bill. The text of the bill was unavaiable until _after_ the vote. It looks more like an unspecified raid on the treasury. Where’s the money going to go? (And, where’s it coming from?). Who’s controlling it? How will it be used? (Giant contracts to Halliburton, anyone?). The bill doesn’t even try to address the real problems in the areas of medical care or bankruptcy laws.

It’s a P.R. statement more than anything else. It could have been just another Patriot Act, with loads of heinous unconstitutional dreck in it; nobody knew. If I were up there, I would absolutely vote NO, until I at least had a chance to read the thing. After all, it wasn’t like anyone was going to die if the _bill_ waited a few days. Unlike the Bush gang’s vicious idiocy.

Remember when the Right criticized Kerry for voting against an $87 billion dollar bill to fund the troops in Iraq. The Republicans ran campaign commercials accusing John Kerry of voting “against

Oliver throws a hissy fit over the decisions of 11 representatives to vote against the $51 billion aid package to victims of Hurricane Katrina by listing their names and calling them:

Horrible human beings, all.

Because I honestly believe no Cong…

So, it is alright to try to hold up a bill to score cheap political points,

Hold it up?

I think you mean “offer amendments.” That would “hold up” the bill for all of about fourteen minutes. However, the Republican majority hogged the ball as usual.

Oliver Willis via Shakespeare s Sister
These eleven congressmen, Republican conservatives all, just voted against the $51 billion package (H. R. 3673) for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Horrible human beings, all.
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