[Vision2020] Idahoan Votes 'No' on Aid

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

All:

Otter might have some good reasons to have voted "no" on this $51.8 billion 
Hurricane relief from the federal government.  The majority of his own party 
supported it, so perhaps his vote was on principle, not politics?  Otter also 
has opposed aspects of the Patriot Act, another independent position against the 
lock step of republican group think.

President Bush and the Republican party are scrambling with public relations 
damage control over the handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, and this 
huge spending bill for relief, etc., some view with a jaundiced eye seeing Carl 
Rove (what happened to the CIA operative identity leak from the White House 
that implicated Rove?) managing spin control to bolster the image of Bush and 
other Republicans: 2006 mid term elections are gearing up and democrats no 
doubt expect to make gains!

It appears democrats aren't the only political party that acts as though 
throwing huge amounts of government money at a problem will automatically solve 
it!

The Dept. of Homeland Security is a creation of a republican dominated 
federal government, and observers of all political persuasions agree to some extent 
that this dept. did not perform as intended in the response to Katrina.  But 
throwing $51.8 billion dollars at this disaster makes our republican dominated 
government look like it is taking charge, even if the money may be mismanaged 
without accountability to the taxpayer.

Ted Moffett
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