Justice Department Participates in Blame Game
It is now well documented that both the Bush administration and the Republican Congress should accept the lion’s share of the blame regarding the underfunded levees in the greater New Orleans area.
For the small percentage still unaware of the politics behind the levee funding, you can read how the funding for the group of Army Corps Engineers tasked with building and maintaining the levees was cut to a trickle by clicking here. (After reading that article you can email me how you spent your $300 tax refund check from W a few years ago).
Now here's the kicker. The Republican spin machine, which benefits more from carefully choreographed illusions than David Blaine eating a stranger's pocket change, realizes that those who avoid Fox News might be aware of this depletion in financial support. Who then are they looking to scapegoat in order to deflect blame from their national security strategy of “what-who-me-are-you-serious-no-one-could-have-ever-seen-this-coming?”
Their sworn enemy: the environmentalists.
That’s right. In this upside down cake, black=white and white=black world of the Bush administration, they are blaming the damage to the environment that everyone has been screaming about for the last several years on those who try most to protect it.
This, from the group that brought you the ironically named polices of Healthy Forests Initiative, and the Clear Skies Initiative. (Actually, if you’d like to view over 300 specifically documented Bush environmental abuses, click here.)
How, you may ask, is the Bush crime family looking to play the blame-game with environmental groups for neglect of the very levees that protect both people and the environment?
Read the letter circulated to dozens of attorneys officies sent by the justice department, cited in newspapers around the country:
When the justice department was asked about the email, their response was "no comment."
The entire incident proves that, mimicking an 8-year-old child, anything the Bush administration accuses others of doing, it was they "who started it." Or as my single-digit-aged cousin might say - he who detect odor with one's nose, may have ostentatiously dealt it.
For the small percentage still unaware of the politics behind the levee funding, you can read how the funding for the group of Army Corps Engineers tasked with building and maintaining the levees was cut to a trickle by clicking here. (After reading that article you can email me how you spent your $300 tax refund check from W a few years ago).
Now here's the kicker. The Republican spin machine, which benefits more from carefully choreographed illusions than David Blaine eating a stranger's pocket change, realizes that those who avoid Fox News might be aware of this depletion in financial support. Who then are they looking to scapegoat in order to deflect blame from their national security strategy of “what-who-me-are-you-serious-no-one-could-have-ever-seen-this-coming?”
Their sworn enemy: the environmentalists.
That’s right. In this upside down cake, black=white and white=black world of the Bush administration, they are blaming the damage to the environment that everyone has been screaming about for the last several years on those who try most to protect it.
This, from the group that brought you the ironically named polices of Healthy Forests Initiative, and the Clear Skies Initiative. (Actually, if you’d like to view over 300 specifically documented Bush environmental abuses, click here.)
How, you may ask, is the Bush crime family looking to play the blame-game with environmental groups for neglect of the very levees that protect both people and the environment?
Read the letter circulated to dozens of attorneys officies sent by the justice department, cited in newspapers around the country:
"Has your district defended any cases on behalf of the (U.S.) Army Corps of Engineers against claims brought by environmental groups seeking to block or otherwise impede the Corps work on the levees protecting New Orleans? If so, please describe the case and the outcome of the litigation."
When the justice department was asked about the email, their response was "no comment."
The entire incident proves that, mimicking an 8-year-old child, anything the Bush administration accuses others of doing, it was they "who started it." Or as my single-digit-aged cousin might say - he who detect odor with one's nose, may have ostentatiously dealt it.
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