Yet ANOTHER thing Bush has mangled

First- let me start by saying... I think 35 million is a disgrace.
I'll assume that the figure is so low either because Bush doesn't have a caring bone in his body... or because he's so intelectually superior (LOL) that he doesn't read newspapers or monitor the news & therefore isn't seeing the absolute devastation over there.

It makes me literally SICK that this man is the "leader" of our country and has no concept about what has happened over there. Anyone else here think that 117,000 plus people leaving the earth at right around the same time in such a horrible way- (leaving behind devestated families who now have to not only deal with their grief but with the fact that many of them haven't eaten in days) warrants a bit more than 35 million?

After 9/11 the world rallied around us in support. In our time of need other countries stepped up. I think its pathetic that Bush can't do the right thing WITHOUT EVERYONE GETTING PISSED AND CALLING HIM ON THS STINGY BEHAVIOR!!!!

Add this to the list of shit he has tanked. 9/11 Support? Gone.
Tax Relief? A lie. Civil Rights? On the way out.

I am hoping the Conyers move will in some way help. Another 4 years of this is U N I M A G I N A B L E

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7210893

By David Morgan

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush, criticized for his slow reaction to the Asian tsunami disaster, said on Thursday he would send a delegation led by Secretary of State Colin Powell to the region on Sunday to assess the need for U.S. assistance.

The delegation, which will also include the president's brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was due to meet regional leaders and international organizations working to bring relief to an estimated 5 million tsunami survivors in southeastern and central Asia.

But there was no word about increasing the $35 million of assistance that Bush announced this week, despite growing pressure from critics that he could allot more money to victims and repair America's international image hurt by the Iraq war.

Members of Congress were already at work drafting a new U.S. tsunami aid package for early next year amid Republican assurances of a generous appropriation. The size of the package had not yet been agreed.

"The challenges of coping with suffering on this magnitude are almost unfathomable, and we will act," said Republican Rep. Hyde, who chairs the House International Relations Committee.

But administration critics stepped up their attacks on Bush, saying he has been slow to respond to the tragedy that has killed at least 125,000 people.

"Congress could act very very quickly, but it also helps if the president wants to act very quickly," Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, said in a CNN interview.

"He has the authority right now, on his own, to move about $300 million -- $50 million a country -- for those that are effected. He could do that today," he added.

Congress approved $40 billion in spending within three days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed 3,000 people. Lawmakers also responded speedily with $13.6 billion for states hit by hurricanes in the run-up to last month's U.S. elections.

White House budget office spokesman Chad Kolton said budget officials were working to assess what funds could be freed up without legislative action.

In his statement on Thursday, Bush emphasized the scope of U.S. assistance already under way and pledged to do "everything possible" to provide relief in partnership with the international community.

We spend 35 mil. on the Iraq war in what...5 hours?

And Bush's coronation...er...inauguration is going to cost 40 mil.

What the F?

Very, very sad, the lack of compassion this man seems to have.

http://2004electiontheft.com

What a waste of money. A huge freakin party for WHAT??
The guy that LOST?

Bleh

I am so ashamed to be led by this crass unfeeling person! Has he no decency?? Here is what Leahy said about it in the NYTimes:

<<And there are already signs that Democrats want to link the response to this disaster to spending in Iraq. "I just about went through the roof when I heard them bragging about $35 million," Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat and a persistent critic of how the American rebuilding operation has gone in Iraq. "We spend $35 million before breakfast in Iraq." >>

I'll bet he and his crackerjack team spent more than 35 mil on election tampering

over the initial offer

The first note of American concern that I heard was on NPR

We planned to donate--yes--$100,000 to the cause

I fell on the floor laughing

Face it this will just firm up the worlds thinking on what we are. I think we are going to end up the most hated people in the world. Bush has sort of set what people will think of us for years to come. We spend more in a day on war then helping people, and sending in Jeb will not help.

`don't kill me.'" -Talk Magazine, Sept. 1999<<<

But yanno, It is "hard work". We need to stop him. He has no heart. We cannot count on another to do the work, they may be counting on us. He DISGUSTS ME!




http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17670#fnr4

http://www.dangerouscitizen.com/Photo+Gallery/568.aspx


From: "Devil May Care" by Tucker Carlson, Talk Magazine, September 1999, p. 106

"Bush's brand of forthright tough-guy populism can be appealing, and it has played well in Texas. Yet occasionally there are flashes of meanness visible beneath it.

While driving back from the speech later that day, Bush mentions Karla Faye Tucker, a double murderer who was executed in Texas last year. In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, Bianca Jagger and a number of other protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Tucker. 'Did you meet with any of them?' I ask.

Bush whips around and stares at me. 'No, I didn't meet with any of them,' he snaps, as though I've just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. 'I didn't meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with , though. He asked her real difficult questions, like 'What would you say to Governor Bush?' 'What was her answer?' I wonder.

'Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, 'don't kill me.'

I must look shocked -- ridiculing the pleas of a condemned prisoner who has since been executed seems odd and cruel, even for someone as militantly anticrime as Bush -- because he immediately stops smirking.

'It's tough stuff,' Bush says, suddenly somber, 'but my job is to enforce the law.' As it turns out, the Larry King-Karla Faye Tucker exchange Bush recounted never took place, at least not on television. During her interview with King, however, Tucker did imply that Bush was succumbing to election-year pressure from pro-death penalty voters. Apparently Bush never forgot it. He has a long memory for slights."

I cannot believe that this idiot is the most powerful man in the world. To mock someone who you have sentenced to execution is not just mean...it is heartless.

I really do believe that there is something mentally wrong with this man.

...that a billion dollars wasn't pledged immediately, up-front, no-questions-asked, just for starters. This country can easily afford it - and the cause with those suffering right now in that region is a matter of simple human decency.
But since that might inconvenience a few hundred multi-millionaire's tax cuts somewhere down the line, those suffering right now are offered the equivalent of pennies. Un-fucking-believable.
:puke:

It's like the worst date you ever had and repeat. No. There's no possible comparison.

Add to all you posted, MendacityCentral rarely funds their pledges.

this country is with this retard at the helm. It makes me :puke: !!
A 48% approval rating.
Exit polls showing a Kerry landslide. The exit polls were wrong in the US, but fraudulent in the Ukraine.
Lie after lie, screw up after screw up, but the idiot is back in office? Yeah, fucking right!

Happy New Year DUers. Although I don't have much time to contibute to your efforts, I follow whats going on here when I can and appreciate all of your efforts towards fighting the most discraceful administration in history of the US.

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is that Bush loves death and destruction. Why would he want to lift a finger to help prevent even more people from dying? Especially since Bush's main goal in life is to get rid of more useless eaters.

for some good reasons, and that was before the present regime seized power. But BushCo takes the prize. Why? I think it must be intentional. No-one could be so consistently, embarrassingly undiplomatic and incompetent, unless planned.