Political Quotes

“by now we have all seen the Katrina tape of the President being briefed on the magnitude of the upcoming hurricane disaster. The tape clearly shows that the President and his administration knew about Katrina's magnitude, regardless of their after-action denial. All I can say is forget the compassionate conservative that we were promised in 2000. At this point I would settle for a competent conservative. Remember, this administration repeatedly maintained that if American leaders in Iraq needed more troops all they needed to do was ask. But now we know that the President's top man in Iraq, Paul Bremer, asked for more troops right after the invasion and the President and the Secretary of Defense failed to respond. This administration said that the intelligence it used as a case for the war was flawed. But Paul Pillar, a high-ranking CIA official, recently revealed that the administration intentionally distorted and cherry-picked the intelligence in order to justify the prescribed decision. Today, we are seeing the failure of those decisions. This administration said that the Medicare prescription drug benefit would cost no more than $400 billion. The real cost of the benefit, nearly $800 billion, and the administration knew all along the true cost.…”