The media can't focus on Bush's failure for 5 minutes. It's PATHETIC!

They can DARE to find equivalence between BROWN'S screw-up and Livingstone's?

Flops Are No Fluke in the Annals of Political Payback
Ex-FEMA Chief Joins Long List of Unsuccessful Appointees

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Administrations of both political parties have long track records of appointing cronies who are out of their depth to key executive branch positions, only to see them disappoint or fail, sometimes spectacularly......

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/18/AR2005091801019.html

ARGHHH! :grr:

When Republicans control everything in D.C. then they should be scrutinized more than Democrats. Sure, democrats can piss and moan about things, but Republicans have what they don't have: the government.

As for Livingstone, he was certainly a bum who had no business being in the White House, but his foul ups did not cost people their lives. When you have a fuckup as the director of FEMA, that can cost people their lives and their health.

I know ...it's really disgusting.

Probably an assault against Clinton's successful seminar and him beating up on bush over the weekend ;)

msnbc, today I think...


Livingston: The Deficit is All Clinton’s Fault
Forget the trillions in tax cuts, $200 billion for the war in Iraq and pork-laden spending bills. America’s budget problems are all President Clinton’s fault. Former Rep. Bob Livingston explains:

Livingston makes a couple of points, both of which are completely ridiculous:

Unfortunately, you know, we had a tremendous amount of burden that was handed to us by the Clinton administration with the growth of the government scandals…

I’m not familiar with the “growth of government scandals.” I do know that under Clinton the federal workforce was cut by 377,000 to it’s lowest level since 1960. During the Clinton years, government grew slower than any time since the Eisenhower Administration. The size of government actually shrank relative to the size of the economy.

On to point #2:

Then we got hit by 9/11, terrorist action which was due to the growth of the very radical Muslim element and led by Osama Bin Laden which we could have taken out in the last decade.

Interesting point Congressman. So when Clinton attacked al-Qaeda terrorist sites in Afghanistan in an effort to kill Bin Laden you must have been all for it, right? Here’s Livingston on those efforts in the Associated Press on 9/20/98:

To invert a phrase, life often imitates art and ‘”Wag the Dog” was a popular movie six months ago.

The “blame Clinton” defense appears to be in its last throes.

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/19/clintons-fault/