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...hope the Bush Administration does not use this crisis the way it used 9/11 - as an excuse to consolidate even more power in the hands of the right-wing corporate élite. We must reverse the trend of allowing corporations to set our national policy. Allen L. Wenger Mountain Home, Idaho, U.S. George W. Bush's handlers left no photo op unexplored as they sought to convince us that the President was fully engaged in hurricane relief after Rita. Of course, that strategy only underscores that this President is clueless. Bush moved quickly when two things of great importance...
...ALLEN L. WENGER...
...state legislators that he was "getting more criticism than God knows who," as if "you all think I'm crazy." After encouraging residents to return to New Orleans despite federal warnings that conditions weren't yet safe, Nagin groused that the Katrina recovery director, Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen, was acting like the "federal mayor of New Orleans." It won't be so easy for the mayor to win back the Big Easy's confidence. When he encouraged evacuees last week at a number of shelters across Louisiana to "come back and work" in New Orleans, many angry former...
...them not to let large outside firms steal all the recovery business up for grabs. "Don't let 'em pull a razoo on you," he said, using the local slang for cheating at marbles. A day after dining on hickory-grilled rib-eye steak and praline bread pudding with Allen and President George W. Bush in the French Quarter, Nagin managed to salvage a potentially deflating photo op last week. The Rev. Jesse Jackson had arrived with a bus convoy of what was supposed to be 200 New Orleans evacuees returning home but turned out to be mostly down...
...David Letterman on Wednesday. Organizers say Saturday's 10th anniversary celebration of the Million Man March, which brought several hundred thousand African-Americans to Washington a decade ago, will focus on poverty and the federal government's failures in alleviating that problem, as illustrated by Hurricane Katrina. Senators George Allen and Sam Brownback, both of whom have been actively signaling they will run for the Republican nomination for president in 2008, are scheduled to appear in New Hampshire this week. Both have been less than enthusiastic about Miers, and Allen has joined many conservatives complaining about the high level...