Q U O T A B L E S

Sept. 10, 2005

"Can you imagine how it would have been perceived if a president of the United States of one party had pre-emptively taken from the female governor of another party the command and control of her forces, unless the security situation made it completely clear that she was unable to effectively execute her command authority and that lawlessness was the inevitable result?" asked one senior administration official.

"What looks like incompetence by the president and his appointees is actually something worse," Tom Matzzie, Washington director of MoveOn.org Political Action, said. "This is what government looks like when it is in the hands of people who don't believe in government, who want to privatize, who want to cut back and reduce the ability of the government to serve its people."

"I think we’ve seen a lot of the same footage over and over that isn’t necessarily representative of what really happened in both — in a lot of ways," Laura Bush said. "Overall, it was a very good response."

"George Bush hates midgets." Comedian Chris Rock at Friday night’s Katrina telethon, poking fun at Kanye West’s claim that President Bush hated black people - made during a similar telethon a week ago.

J U S T   P O L I T I C S

Democrat’s exploitation

Sen. Charles Schumer, Democrat Chairman of the Senatorial Campaign Committee, tried to use the suffering of Katrina victims to raise campaign funds.

Schumer asked people to sign a petition to fire the Federal Emergency Management Director at the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee’s website. Once there those clicking to sign the petition were asked to make a campaign contribution. Schumer chairs the campaign committee.

The Associated Press is reporting that the DSCC would give all the money collected to the Red Cross and if you visit the website there now is a link to the Red Cross on their website.

Iowa update

Laura Bush

First Lady Laura Bush came to Iowa with Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. Mrs. Bush announced that the Department of Education has a place on their website to list school supplies that school districts or charitable organizations wish to donate. She also offered support for the No Child Left Behind Act.

Tom Vilsack

Word comes back that Gov. Tom Vilsack, who would be president, delivered his speech to the Labor Day crowd in New Hampshire by way of someone holding the phone up to the microphone. While some believe this wasn’t an auspicious beginning, Des Moines Register political poohba, David Yepsen, pointed out that Vilsack received more coverage than if he were there in person. After all, who knows Tom Vilsack at this point in time.

Vilsack delayed his trip to New Hampshire in order to prepare for Katrina flood victims coming to the state. So far, 20 evacuees have arrived in Yankee land.

Katrina’s effect

Des Moines Register Thomas Beaumont tried to offer insight into the effects of Katrina on what caucus activists are thinking about who their party needs to nominate. The quote from a former Gov. Terry Branstad aide, David Roederer, doesn’t bode well for the Washington, D.C. crowd:

"For me personally, I think this reinforces that you want to have somebody with administrative experience," said Roederer, onetime chief of staff to former Gov. Terry Branstad. "At this point, I would favor a candidate that is not in the U.S. Senate or Congress."

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