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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.

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  1. 1.

    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.

  2. 2.

    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.

  3. 3.

    Mike S

    From yesterdays carpetbagger.

    Hastert was against the emergency funding before he was for it
    Posted 10:03 am | Printer Friendly

    Despite earlier reports that Congress would not reconvene to address emergency funding for the Gulf Coast, lawmakers are poised to pass a $10-billion bill today. Good.

    And while I’m pleased to see Congress respond, I can’t help but notice that Speaker Hastert’s office seems a little confused.

    Just 48 hours ago, Roll Call reported that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi urged Speaker Dennis Hastert to have a special session to appropriate relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, but the Speaker’s office said it didn’t plan to hold a vote this week because FEMA has things under control.

    [Hastert spokesman Ron] Bonjean said calling Members back to town this week is not the best course of action.

    “There is a humanitarian rescue operation going on right now, as we speak,” Bonjean said. “It is difficult to get a real assessment on the amount of damage done, which makes a special session unlikely. In addition, emergency relief services such as FEMA have billions of dollars at hand to help with the initial relief.”

    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.

    Ron Bonjean, a spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), said the GOP Congressional leadership is committed to helping the victims in the Gulf region.

    “We’ve approached the Minority Leader [Pelosi] with a proposal to bring the House back into emergency session to pass emergency funding for Hurricane Katrina victims,” Bonjean said.

    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.

  5. 5.

    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.

  6. 6.

    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.

  7. 7.

    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.

  8. 8.

    jobiuspublius

    [Hastert spokesman Ron] Bonjean said calling Members back to town this week is not the best course of action.

    Because we need more recess appointments?

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