Why does Bush hate American farmers? They clear brush just like him!: The United States Congress risks a presidential veto if it approves a multibillion-dollar disaster aid package for farmers and ranchers, the White House said on Tuesday, ahead of a Senate vote on the question. Farm-state senators, along with nearly three dozen farm and […]
Homeland Security and FEMA’s failures in Katrina are now getting another round of attention from the President. Actually he is using the failures to support his long time plan of getting “faith based” and “community initiative” programs to take a larger roll in disaster relief. He did this by executive order today: By the authority […]
WOW! The White House cited failures by the Homeland Security Department and other agencies in planning, communications and leadership in a report on Hurricane Katrina Thursday and proposed a broad reworking of how the government would respond to the next catastrophe. The 228-page report by White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend urges changes […]
Apparently the President feels his only obligation in office is to foreign policy as he shrugged off domestic issues such as the leak investigation and Katrina recovery as “background noise”. President Bush vowed Thursday to avoid the “background noise” of criminal investigations and other Republican political problems to focus on the nation’s needs. “The American […]
Brown resignation update view theReuters FEMA chief Brown resigns in wake of Katrina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, under fire and recalled to Washington in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, resigned on Monday, senior administration officials said on Monday. Under fire for a slow response to Hurricane Katrina, Brown was […]