Bush should be impeached for Katrina response (or lack thereof)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9969769/



"Among those documents are the back-and-forth communications between Blanco’s office and the White House, starting with a letter Blanco sent President Bush a day before the hurricane hit.

“I have determined that this incident will be of such severity and magnitude that effective response will be beyond the capabilities of the state and the affected local governments and that supplementary federal assistance will be necessary,” Blanco wrote.

Three days after the storm, Blanco wrote Bush asking that the 256th Louisiana National Guard Brigade be sent home from Iraq to help. The governor also asked for more generators, medicine, health care workers and mortuaries."

House Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-Va.) yesterday threatened to subpoena three members of the Bush Cabinet and White House counsel Harriet Miers if they do not comply with document requests issued by his select committee on Hurricane Katrina response.

During a committee hearing yesterday, Davis decried the failure of White House officials to release e-mails and other communication records related to the hurricane and its aftermath. Davis set a hard deadline of Nov. 18 for all federal agencies to comply with his requests.

“If documents aren’t produced by that date, I’m ready to proceed with subpoenas,” Davis said.

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/111005/news3.html

When the subpoenas weren't issued, I wrote one of the reporters of the above and he sent me a # to the committee. I called and said, "Why haven't sunpoenas been issued?" and the fellow who answered the phone (this was on Nov. 22) said, "We didn't need to - documents from the WH are 'pouring in' now". I eagerly await their report (as do you and many millions of others). I just hope we don't have to wait forEVER.

.......While Blanco’s office wanted to blame the federal government, the documents show that her staff didn’t want it to appear as if the federal government was seizing state power.

When Bush visited New Orleans on Sept. 5 Blanco was initially supposed to visit evacuees in Houston, but Blanco spokeswoman Denise Bottcher didn’t like the idea of Bush being in the state when the governor wasn’t. “Reinforces the notion that she’s not in charge and LA needs to be federalized,” she e-mailed Kopplin.

Blanco’s communication’s director Bob Mann agreed, the documents show, and Blanco stayed to meet Bush.

The Democratic governor’s staff also griped that Republicans were attacking Blanco. “Rove is on the prowl,” says one unexplained Sept. 3 message from Kopplin to Mann, a reference to Bush adviser Karl Rove.

That these people saw was a Canadian Team.....the Heavy Urban Search and Rescue from Vancouver.

Do you know why? Because they contacted the Governor instead of the Feds.

Impeach him for this, then send a bunch of them to the international war crimes tribunal. Justice needs to be done.

Did you mean they were they the first on the ground at NOLA?

I think we should start an impeachment forum and document stuff like this article there.

But isn't there something in the Constitution about High Crimes and Misdemeanors? i don't think you can impeach a President just because you think he did a shitty job. Otherwise there would have been a lot more impeachments before now.

impeached for. I think we ought to throw everything at him and see what sticks.

(I know he's evil) human being...I was more upset than he was.

Dear Mr. President,

In the great name of God, GO! Go back to the ranch and
enjoy your privileged retirement. As we approach Christmas
and other religious holidays, I cannot help but feel great
remorse for my elected leader's actions this past year.
You have worn out any welcome you had, and frankly, are a
sorry blight on American history, and have soiled our GREAT
reputation of being a caring society to the world, let
alone your ignoring and harming citizens with your
apathetic behavior not ever seen in the annals of American
political history!

Your lack of action and poor decisions when you do
'act', are SO disturbing, I am amazed how you allow
yourself to stay in office and still are able to sleep at
night?

In this letter, even if I ignore the CIA leak, Iraq
invasion and military deaths, prisoner abuse, and the hunt
for Osama being incredulously 'replaced' with this Saddam
character, I cannot get the plight of those poor people who
drowned to death in the days after hurricane Katrina hit
and the levees broke and the thousands who still suffer,
out of my caring heart.

At least Nixon resigned, you stick around stubbornly
as if you are ORDAINED by God (no, God does not speak
THROUGH you as you say, that's heresy) to inflict more harm
on the citizens of this great democracy. I plead with you
to realize you are a horrible president, who cannot make
rational decisions, and you continue to allow those below
you (Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc.) to make HORRIBLE decisions FOR
you while we suffer.

We all know how you don't read the daily White House
briefings and simply go with whatever your staffers tell
you they feel should be done (and if most don't know this,
that's just another example of why you barely got back in
office).

Remember that day Mr. President, when you stood there
smiling for the cameras and cut BIRTHDAY CAKE FOR "Bush
Apologist #1!", Senator John McCain? You stayed on
vacation while thousands screamed and pleaded for mercy and
help, and only found it in the kindness of strangers who
themselves were victimized by your grievous indifference!
You also CLEARED BRUSH on your ranch while a coast line was
in total and complete misery in those first few days after
Katrina? Yeah, I want to go before God with that on me!
You left thousands of people's hopes on FEMA
bumbler-extraordinaires Mike Brown and his top two
officials below him (both had NO emergency management
experience, just like Brown, and were previously involved
in aiding Bush's campaign and advertising decisions, BIG
surprise!)

You chose a guy who you knew had been fired from a
Horse Association at his previous employer, to be the head
of the FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION. He wrote
he didn't even want to be there (in emails released
recently) to help, Mr. President. The guy you left in
charge, as usual, didn't care about the people. That is
disgusting, Sir.

And where was our dear Vice President, the ever
reclusive sad excuse for a VP, Mr. Dick Cheney? He was on
vacation himself, fly-fishing all week, while citizens were
fighting bravely to save other citizens who were abandoned
by their government. He finally appeared with you for a
photo-op on the Thursday after the storm! Where was our
Secretary of State Condi Rice? Oh, that's right, she was
shopping for $700 pumps at Ferragamo! Gotta keep the shoe
industry going in the midst of a CRISIS of this level.
WHEW! I am SO SO glad they're in that capacity as VP &
Sec. of State!

To say you care about those people is a lie, and
surely, is something that even your staunchest supporters
have an indelibly hard time swallowing, without taking a
few gulps of 'right-wing fanaticism' kool-aid to make them
stick with you through this heinous attempt at acting like a
president!

ALL previous Presidents would have jumped to aide a
Governor who asked them for help the day BEFORE this kind
of disaster was going to hit, and hit hard, but not you,
you stood there smiling for the TV evening news with
birthday boy John McCain and ate the sweet cake of your
power while people were drowning to death. I weep for them
and their screams, and can only imagine, the incredible
FEAR and CHAOS that came with the rising of waters that you
were warned about long before this ever happened.

You were told the levees of New Orleans were one of
the top 3 disasters facing the U.S. if a level 5 hurricane
were to occur, and yet you thought vacationing a little
longer clearing out brush, and having a party, was more
important than getting in a control room guaranteeing EVERY
AVAILABLE ARMY HELICOPTER, NAVY SHIP, NATIONAL GUARD TANKER
TRUCK AND ABLE-BODIED MILITARY PERSONNEL THAT WASN'T IN
IRAQ WAS IN ROUTE TO SAVE THOSE PEOPLE! ANY GOOD CHRISTIAN
MAN WITH YOUR POWER WOULD HAVE DONE SO, AND DONE SO SWIFTLY
WITH THE AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENCY BEHIND HIM, WHICH CUTS
THROUGH RED TAPE IN A CRISIS. YOU KEPT ON RELAXING UNTIL
YOUR STAFF BEGRUDGINGLY WOKE YOU UP AND LATER GAVE YOU A
DVD WITH NEWS EXCERPTS ON IT, TRYING TO GET YOU TO SEE YOU
HAD TO DO SOMETHING! GEORGE, IS IT GETTING THROUGH?

The bible is clear about the pushers of laws that
enable the rich but hurt the poor, the dying, the
downtrodden, and you will have to answer for these cruel
and callous choices you've made! I've got to answer to God
for my own life, and that's hard enough, but I'm so
incredibly glad I do not have to answer for yours.

It'd be different if you were the assistant manager of a
Dunkin Donuts and you ran that business into the ground
(you have a nice resume of doing this to companies) but you
have been elected PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES by some
extremely misguided and misinformed and 'tricked'
constituents who slowly but surely are joining the side of
reason & compassion.

Asking you to resign in the best interest of our country is
my right as a citizen, and the plausibility of you ever
reading my letter is bleak, but I do not care. Your Dad
stood up in a cabinet meeting in 1974 and asked Dick Nixon
to resign. So in the spirit of your father knowing it was
time for Nixon to resign, I ask you the same.

I love my country too much to not write you and tell you
that you SUCK as Commander-In-Chief, to speak not so
intellectually, but perhaps, you may just be smart enough
to understand suck better than anything since you've done
a bunch of it these past 5 years.

Taking out my frustrations in a letter about your horrible
management skills doesn't make life better for the 10's of
thousands of families you ignored who have to face this
Christmas with the smell of death & destruction still
lingering on their shattered hearts & minds, as it's not
easy to put something that painful behind you, I'm certain.
Nor does this remotely comfort those who you've left
behind who are in sorrow over a child lost in war, who
can't afford to clothe their children properly in a harsh
winter, or have to watch a loved one suffer a horrible
disease without proper medical care because it's too costly
to get them treatment. No, this letter won't be able to do
anything that helps them.

So, I'll just thank GOD in heaven no one I know had to
suffer through being trapped for a week during Katrina, or
worse, died inhumanely in the flooding from the biggest
debacle of your presidency, and most of all at Christmas
time, I'm thanking my Savior for the best gift given to me
this year, that I'm not you.

Respecting the Office of the Presidency -

Sincerely,
The Martyred

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