Thursday, September 15, 2005
2 of 54
2 of 54. No, that is not a Borg designation. That is the number that represents Texas Senator John Cornyn and Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. They are 2 of 54 Republican Senators who voted against Senate Amendment (SA) 1660. SA 1660’s purpose was to “To establish a congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Region of the United States especially in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other areas impacted in the aftermath and make immediate corrective measures to improve such responses in the future.”
In all, 76% of Americans want an independent bipartisan commission, like the one that investigated the 9/11 attacks, to investigate what went wrong. In fact, according to the same poll, Americans of all stripes, Republicans and Democrats, are united behind their support for such a commission (64% of all Republicans and 83% of all Democrats want a commission) even though they were aware that the Republicans in Congress are doing their own biased and partisan investigation (see below).
The proposal in the Senate is for a panel to be established. However, the Republicans will be in charge and will be the ones calling witnesses and setting the agenda. Any Democrats who are on the panel will be on it at the behest of the Republicans. This is the Republican version of bipartisanship.
I cannot understand how the Republicans in the Senate can go against the “will of the people” so uniformly. Actually, I can. It was a party-line vote. The Republican Senators voted to prevent an independent commission because that independent commission would show that people at all levels of government messed up. However, the Republicans do not want to direct the sunshine of truth on how terrible the Bush Administration’s response was to Hurricane Katrina.
On an interesting note, David Vitter, Republican Senator from Louisiana, abstained from voting. If I lived in Louisiana, I would be quite angry and disappointed with his non-vote.
2 of 54. No, that is not a Borg designation. That is the number that represents Texas Senator John Cornyn and Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. They are 2 of 54 Republican Senators who voted against Senate Amendment (SA) 1660. SA 1660’s purpose was to “To establish a congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Region of the United States especially in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other areas impacted in the aftermath and make immediate corrective measures to improve such responses in the future.”
In all, 76% of Americans want an independent bipartisan commission, like the one that investigated the 9/11 attacks, to investigate what went wrong. In fact, according to the same poll, Americans of all stripes, Republicans and Democrats, are united behind their support for such a commission (64% of all Republicans and 83% of all Democrats want a commission) even though they were aware that the Republicans in Congress are doing their own biased and partisan investigation (see below).
The proposal in the Senate is for a panel to be established. However, the Republicans will be in charge and will be the ones calling witnesses and setting the agenda. Any Democrats who are on the panel will be on it at the behest of the Republicans. This is the Republican version of bipartisanship.
I cannot understand how the Republicans in the Senate can go against the “will of the people” so uniformly. Actually, I can. It was a party-line vote. The Republican Senators voted to prevent an independent commission because that independent commission would show that people at all levels of government messed up. However, the Republicans do not want to direct the sunshine of truth on how terrible the Bush Administration’s response was to Hurricane Katrina.
On an interesting note, David Vitter, Republican Senator from Louisiana, abstained from voting. If I lived in Louisiana, I would be quite angry and disappointed with his non-vote.
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