Schieffer Video is Up: Washington was like a dog watching television.

[IndyOp]

Video at top of page on Crooks & Liars:
<http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/04.html#a4784>

SCHIEFFER: Finally, a personal thought. We have come through what may have been one of the worst weeks in America's history, a week in which government at every level failed the people it was created to serve. There is no purpose for government except to improve the lives
of its citizens. Yet as scenes of horror that seemed to be coming from some Third World country flashed before us, official Washington was like a dog watching television. It saw the lights and images, but did not seem to comprehend their meaning or see any link to reality.

As the floodwaters rose, local officials in New Orleans ordered the city evacuated. They might as well have told their citizens to fly to the moon. How do you evacuate when you don't have a car? No hint of intelligent design in any of this. This was just survival of the richest.

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Since 9/11, Washington has spent years and untold billions reorganizing the government to deal with crises brought on by possible terrorist attacks. If this is the result, we had better start over.

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[arwalden]

1. That Broussard Video Is Powerful

[Bill Bored]

2. Wow! This is enough to get those bastards to fund PBS!

Nothing like balanced, objective journalism!

I wonder what Bill Moyers will have to say?
Anybody heard from him?

[cry baby]

3. Schieffer sums my feelings up perfectly.