how much uglier can this get?

why don't they vote to BLOCK SENDING MORE OF OUR TROOPS AND MONEY TO IRAQ? this is america. these are OUR people. this is a tragedy. it is an embarrassment. it is unacceptable. i can use all the adjectives i can think of and it still won't make any of this right.

i was watching oprah yesterday (normally i do NOT watch her as i am NOT a fan) just to see what was up with her and her very best friend gayle and of course all of her scientology buds. in mississippi oprah interviewed this young woman with a young baby on her hip and from what i gather another one on the way. she was standing in the middle of what was once her house, her neighborhood. oprah asked if fema had been around to distribute food, water, supplies, shelter. no, of course they hadn't been around. a church from another town in mississippi had been around and provided her (and the others in her town) with a few necessities. she also said a red cross truck had been through the area twice, dropping off things. WHERE IS FEMA? WHERE ARE THE FEDERAL AGENCIES? yeah, we have EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL ALL RIGHT
Republicans block efforts to amend relief bill, hold vote without providing copy of bill

John Byrne

In the wake of what the Wall Street Journal projected may be
the most expensive natural disaster in American history, the Republican
Leadership in the House of Representatives limited floor consideration of the
$52 billion Katrina relief bill proposed by President Bush and voted to reject
any Democratic efforts to amend the bill to include a wider array of relief
measures, RAW
STORY has learned.
Democrats said no one had
even seen a copy of the legislation.
Voting along party lines, Republicans
denied a measure that would have allowed for two hours of discussion and opened
up the measure to be amended.

The Republican leadership pushed through a Suspension Rule in the
House Rules Committee that blocked any members from offering amendments to the
bill. Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY), the ranking Democrat on the Committee,
led opposition to the rule.
The bill, which enjoys bipartisan support, is
expected to pass on the House floor tomorrow.
Democrats implored Republicans
to allow amendments, which would enable consideration of measures such as which
areas and to which agencies relief dollars were most needed and how to
restructure FEMA so that it would be more effective.
We've been on vacation for five weeks. Now, in our first week
back, the Republican Leadership would rather duck and run than discuss what's
happened in the wake of Hurricane Katrina," Slaughter told RAW STORY in a statement. "Life in the Gulf Coast is no vacation. The
Federal Government failed the American people in its initial response to this
horrible disaster and by their actions; the Republican Leadership is once again
showing that their priorities are out of sync with the needs of so many hard
working families."....................