Maybe this line of thought has been covered in Cold Sober here, maybe not. I just hav'nt read much of cold sober of late. In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." --Franklin D. Roosevelt Here's how it works: 1. Bush appears to screw up 2. The people demand "something must be done!"(Yet don't want to fire Bush) 3. the solution? ---------more power for Bush. By STEWART M. POWELL Hearst Newspapers Source WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday urged Congress to examine whether the White House needs stronger powers to deal with catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina. Bush’s backing for the congressional inquiry raised the possibility that lawmakers might expand presidential authority to: • Order mandatory civilian evacuations • Dispatch U.S.-based armed forces for emergency search-and-rescue operations • Grant wider leeway for active-duty U.S. military personnel to carry out law enforcement operations. “It’s really important that as we take a step back and learn lessons — that we are in a position to adequately answer the question: ‘Are we prepared for major catastrophes?”’ Bush said during a tour of hurricane damage in New Orleans. He said if there was a terrorist attack with weapons of mass destruction, such as germ-warfare agents, “we’ve got to make sure we understand the lessons learned to be able to deal with catastrophe.” Asked whether the federal government needed broader authority to “come in earlier or even in advance of a storm that (is) threatening?” Bush replied: “I think that’s one of the interesting issues that Congress needs to take a look at.” Bush’s comments came as outside experts urged a variety of changes they said could improve the federal government’s ability to respond to natural disasters or terrorist attacks. Richard A. Falkenrath, a former homeland security adviser at the White House during Bush’s first term, said officials “need to look very, very closely” at expanding presidential authority to override “a delayed and ineffective evacuation order at the state and local level” that he said had occurred before the hurricane. “It’s entirely possible we would need such authority in a biological weapons attack and the destruction of a chlorine tanker and nuclear weapons attack, where local and state capabilities would be instantaneously overwhelmed, and so it would be good to get this one sorted out,” said Falkenrath, now a scholar at the Brookings Institution. Michael O’Hanlon, a national security scholar at Brookings, said the White House ought to create an emergency response team within the armed forces that could be rushed to disasters “where every hour counts.” O’Hanlon said it had taken too long to get Navy and Air Force helicopters into the New Orleans area to assist early search-and-rescue operations by police and the U.S. Coast Guard. [end of article] Are these guys psychic? Apparently they all think a horrible attack is imminent. So much for Homeland Security protecting us. Since 9-11 the rhetoric has drastically intensified regarding possible attacks against superpower America. Fear. We're scared, we don't think straight. It's obvious that most of the American people do not think rationally when it comes to politics.
thats CRAZY TALK schmed and you're EVIL for even saying stuff like that and a TRAITOR for even thinking stuff like that..
I know, I'm probably even part of a sleeper cell and I don't even know it..untill someone says the "keyword" that triggers my posthypnotic suggestions...
