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 [The Hotline's Blogometer] 9/20: You Do Know Jack!: Safavian had recently been working on developing contracting policies for the multibillion-dollar relief effort after Hurricane Katrina." Conservative PoliBlog: "This case is ripe with potential political implications -- not to mention that Safavian had a high-level job in the OMB and the Bush administration has already taken heat of late over the appointments after the Brown/FEMA fiasco." Scott Shields writes at liberal MyDD: "As hard as it may seem to believe, I have a strange feeling that this investigation may uncover a vastly more widespread culture of corruption than we can even imagine." Lefty Carpetbagger Report: "Just what the Bush gang needed -- another front-page blockbuster that makes the Republican establishment look like an organized crime family. The more one looks at the details of this scandal, the worse it looks." Header at DNC blog: "Corrpt [sic] Chickens Coming Home To Roost." Basie! asks, "can the administration continue to justifiably claim that is had no connection to the embattled lobbyist?"

 [TruthTalkzIRAQ] Katrina Encours et Toujours XVII: Bruning's, a historic bar where generations of customers downed raw oysters, and the porch at Jaeger's, where crawfish and cold beer accompanied sunsets over Lake Pontchartrain, now exist as rotting wood piled 20 feet high on the opposite side of the 17th Street Canal near the site of Sid-Mar's of Bucktown, also laid to waste by Hurricane Katrina. Pilings that once supported restaurants and bars are nothing more than seagull perches.

 [The Free Speech Zone] awake! awake! fear! fire! flood! awake! awake! (ETA: stand down but stay ready...): Before Katrina, the Republican theory received its most apposite formulation by a prominent lobbyist and close advisor to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Grover Norquist, who said about government that he wanted to "drown it in the bathtub." In relation to the waters that surround it, New Orleans has been described as a bathtub, and it has served as the bathtub for Norquist's wish.

 [Words Have Power] Fire the Lying Bastards: "For decades Republicans promised that if they got in charge, they could do more with less because of all of the Democratic "waste, fraud and abuse". Instead, under the undivided government of Bush, DeLay and Frist, budget deficits have ballooned, and billions have turned up missing or unaccounted for in Iraq.

[The Stakeholder :: Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee] "You're Fired!": Some times that is going to be the private sector - after all, it was Albert Gore who recommended that the internet be turned loose - sometimes that is going to be a public-private partnership, the way the Federal Reserve that manages the currency and Fannie Mae that backs our mortgages. And yes, sometimes that is going to mean that we need to use the muscle of the Federal government to unentrench some entrenched interests.

 [Atrios.blogspot.com] Eschaton: We should arm the Shiites and Kurds and leave the Sunnis of Iraq to reap the wind. In other words, people aren't reading the blog and thinking "gee, .

[Crooksandliars.com] Crooks and Liars: I don't see where MM had a pre-printed email letter to send anyone do you? Maybe O'Reilly should question Brent Bozell and his group that uses mass emails to attack any TV show or commercial they disapprove of.

 [Workingforchange.com] Sirotablog: The DC Democratic Establishment's disconnect on Iraq: The administration is now repositioning itself on Iraq, with talk of transferring Guantanamo detainees to Afghan-run facilities, of drawing down coalition forces, and of a "struggle against violent extremism" in place of war. One thing we can be sure of: the DLC-ers will happily play along with this ploy, lambasting progressive critics of the run-up as fighters of yesterday's battles and as short on "national security credentials."

[Blog.dccc.org] The Stakeholder:: Pelosi on Iraq Supplemental: Pelosi Statement on Supplemental Funding Request for Iraq and Afghanistan .Click here to read more running commentary on the DCCC blog.

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