return to 9/11

[sisyphusshrugged]

Mr. Cheney feels that we need reminding of Mr. Bush's visit to our fair city on September 11.

Cheney recalled President Bush's trip to New York in the days after the attacks and his promise to retaliate.

"He is a man of his word, as the Taliban were the first to find out," he said. "My job here this week and in the two months ahead, is to tell people all across America about how strong and steadfast our president is . . . . He is exactly the leader we need for these times, and we need him for four more years."

I'm reasonably certain most of us remember that visit. Mr. Bush threw his arm around a firefighter for the cameras. Someone in the crowd still couldn't hear him. Bush's response: "I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."



Osama bin Laden is apparently a little hard of hearing. But I digress...

As eventually happens, the cameras were turned off, and then Mr. Bush became a little hard of hearing himself. One of the reasons so many firefighters died on 9/11 was that they didn't get the order to evacuate the towers before they collapsed. Their radios didn't work. Congress passed legislation authorizing funds to replace them with radios that did work.

Mr. Bush vetoed that bill.

He claimed that he vetoed it because congress was "tying his hands" by loading the bill with pork, but he sent a message to the hill telling them what had to be in a bill he was willing to sign, and the funding for the firefighters wasn't in it.

I agree with Mr. Cheney. When you're deciding who to vote for, do remember Mr. Bush's photo op in the ruins of the World Trade Center.

Remember he doesn't value the lives of our firefighters at a fraction of the money he handed out to his contributors as tax cuts.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Not sure Bush exercised a veto, so much as signaling that he would veto it, and having Congress do his dirty work... its just how this Bush operates. NEVER gets his own hands dirty (except for his psychotic brush clearing, of course).
I'm rasonably sure Bush has actually used the veto a grand total of zero times, which happens when your boyz control da' House, and except for the post-Jeffords defection period, da' Senate is your Hood too...

Just as actual police and firemen despise St. Rudy (to the point of wishing him dead), I'm sure many feel the same way about Bush.

I'm still waiting for Kerry to take the damned gloves off (and stop-- STOP! as in I'm begging, the Vietnam bullshit), and just run ad after ad of 9-11 families stating that Bush is unfit to govern, how his security lapses and endless vacations LED DIRECTLY to 9-11, how his ties to the Saudi royals make him hopelessly conflicted in actually battling our REAL enemies (as opposed to our fake ones), and how, ONCE AND FOR ALL, because John Kerry was a military man once, HE can kick ass and actually crush Al Qaeda, in the way that the frat-boy-faux flyer COWARD FUCK cannot-- a guy who has left OBL out there for 3 years DOES NOT GET CREDIT FOR TOUGH ON SECURITY CREDENTIALS, period.

Why is this so hard?

(And how are the blackberries?)

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

nope, it was an actual veto.

The black raspberries are outrageously good, and would probably pay for my daughter's college on EBay, given their provenance. I expect the thorns will all be out by sometime in October.