Congress Takes Five Days To Act, Criticizes ‘Bureaucracy’
In what would be seen as irony under less-deadly circumstances, Congress took the opportunity to carp at the federal response to Hurricane Katrina after passing a $10.5B funding bill five days after the destruction of New Orleans.
Heh.
erez
I am glad you filed that under humor, because looking at Congress’s response under any other light is enough to drive any normal, rational person to the bottle.
Trent
This would only be relevant if people/agencies were complaining about a lack of money to handle the disaster. They haven’t. The money is for rebuilding.
This is just a nice diversion from the real problems and an opportunity to beat on a favorite (and often deserving) whipping boy.
Mike S
From yesterdays carpetbagger.
Last night, however, Roll Call reported that Hastert’s office has not only embraced Pelosi’s idea, they now want credit for the whole thing.
What was that about not playing politics with the disaster? On Wednesday, Hastert’s office is rebuffing Pelosi’s idea for an emergency bill. On Thursday, Hastert’s office is saying it was their idea all along.
Mike S
That whole comment, except for the first line, should have been block quoted.
Trent
You know, sometimes i’m grateful for the Republican’s complete arrogance and incompetence. Because imagine how long they could have extended their control of the government if they shared a brain cell between them.
Now, there’s no way they’re going to survive 2006.
They really are thick.
Kimmitt
Nah, that implies that there’s an alternative.
Anyways, this post doesn’t make even a lick of sense. The Executive is the part that’s supposed to respond quickly, while the Legislative provides oversight and talks things through more thoroughly.
Steve
This is odd.
When the Terri Shiavo thing occured, Congress called an immediate special session late at night, and Bush rushed back home from his vacation to sign the bill nearly immediately.
Of course that bill didn’t do anything.
So apparently what this says is the Republican Congress only cares about doing nothing.
Granted, doing nothing isn’t a bad thing for Congress, but we could just as easily have do nothing Democrats in the place… At least then when they did decide to do something, they wouldn’t be causing as much damage.
jobiuspublius
Because we need more recess appointments?