TALK ABOUT INCOMPETENCE

Now here's a story you aren't going to read in many of our nations top newspapers.  And why not?  Because it makes our New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin to be a complete idiot, that's why not.

Here's the story, fresh from last night's Special Report with Brit Hume.  Read this and you will know why Democrats and liberals just flat-out don't like Brit Hume or Fox News Channel. 

Texas based car crushing company.  Offered to remove all abandoned and flooded vehicles from New Orleans and dispose of them.  K&L Auto Crushers said it would take 15 weeks to finish the job.  This offer was made last October.  K&L also offered to pay the city of New Orleans $100 for each car that they removed.  How many cars needed removing, you ask?  About 50,000.  At $100 each, that adds up to a payment to the city of $5 million.  Not bad.  So ... did Ray Nagin take the deal?  Nope.  Instead of taking the offer from K&L, Ray Nagin is pursing a car removal plan that will take six months to complete, not 15 weeks, and will cost the city of New Orleans -- make that the taxpayers of New Orleans -- $23 million.  Nagin balked at the K&L offer because he wasn't sure that the city had the legal right to accept the offer although there was a clear city ordinance that allowed just such a thing.  So, add it up.  Take the $5 million New Orleans could have had from K&L Auto Crushers and add it to the $23 million the city will spend to get rid of the cars, and you have a total cost to the taxpayers of $28 million. 

Last night Hume also reminded us that Ray Nagin failed to order a full mandatory evacuation of New Orleans as Katrina was bearing down because he feared that the hospitality industry would sue the city if the people all left and the hurricane didn't hit.  If there is one certainty in life is is that if Ray Nagin were a Republican mayor the media in this country would be clamoring for his head.  Nagin gets a relative pass.  There will be no 60 Minutes documentary profiling his incompetence.

By the way, Ray Nagin thinks he should be reelected.

FBI WARNED ON 9/11

An interesting little nugget of information worked its way out of the Zacarias Moussaoui's death penalty trial yesterday.  An FBI agent testified that after he arrested Moussaoui on August 16, 2001, he told his superiors that the Al-Qaeda was planning something...he told them not once, but 70 times.  The FBI failed to conduct an investigation, and the rest is history.  So what happened?

August 16, 2001 was almost a month before 9/11. What's worse, on 8/18/01, the agent who testified told his superiors in a memo that he was suspicious that Moussaoui was a terrorist who might be trying to hijack airplanes.  The reply from headquarters? Nothing.  They yawned and put his memo in File 13. So what was the problem?

The mainstream media will report the headline that the FBI bungled a warning on 9/11.  While that's true, you have to read all the way to the end of the story to know why.  The agent who testified opened an intelligence investigation on Moussaoui.  In order to get a warrant to search Moussaoui's belongings, the agent needed Justice Department approval.  There was a barrier in place between criminal and intelligence investigations put there by....drum roll please...the Clinton Justice Department, specifically former Assistant Attorney General and 9/11 Commission member Jamie Gorelick.

It is a tragedy that the FBI did not investigate further. Maybe they could have stopped 9/11 from happening.  But make no mistake of where the blame lies...and it's not with the current occupant of the Oval Office.   When the final history of 9/11 is written, the lion's share of the blame will be placed squarely on the Clinton administration.

WASTE AND FRAUD AT FEMA

Billions have been spent on the recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina.  FEMA has doled out billions and billions of cash and other goodies to "refugees."  Much of this money has been misspent...going toward everything from strip clubs to alcohol, not to mention endless stays in hotels on the taxpayer's dime.

But now FEMA has decided they would like their money back.  The government now says $6.8 billion was handed out in disaster relief funds to 1.7 million households.  Many of those households didn't deserve the money.  In fact, FEMA has sent out letters to 51,000 families asking for the money back...around $100 million.  So what happened?  The Government Accountability Office says fraud, including submitting false Social Security numbers and some families double-dipping were a few of the reasons the money was stolen from FEMA.

The people in question have 30 days to pay back the money, or they'll be prosecuted.  Since many of the people involved are minorities, expect the race warlords to take up the issue and accuse the government of racism.  Right now, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are busy writing their slogans and assembling their rent-a-mobs to take on Washington.

Expect Congress to knuckle under to the pressure. It won't be long.

OH YEAH .. THIS IS GOING TO WORK.

The New York Daily News is reporting that Hillary has yanked Bill's leash ... hard.  She is still claiming that she was "surprised" by her bad boy's dealings in the Dubai ports deal.  (Yeah, right.)  Now she's telling Bill that he has to give her the "final say" over what he says and does.  Note, please, that the "final say" only applies to what he does, not who he does.  If she manages, with the help of the female vote, to get elected president in 2008 she'll expand these edicts to the rest of us.

Sent in by George

WHERE ARE THE HEADLINES?

With George Bush's approval ratings at record lows, the media and the Democrats are piling on over the perceived lack of success in Iraq.  But the one story they are completely ignoring is that the economy is on fire.  By every measure, were are in the middle of an economic boom.  The stock market...the housing market...and now the employment market are all booming.

Just how good are things?  According to a report issued yesterday by an employment consulting firm, college graduates are facing the best job market since 2001. The CEO of the firm who wrote the report says that were are approaching full employment. In fact, in some industries, there are shortages.  Employers are expecting to hire 14.5% more new college graduates this year.

The overall unemployment rate is at 4.8%.  That's very low.  If a Democratic administration were in power, we would be hearing and seeing stories about how we've never had it so good.  But as it stands, with a Republican in the White House, all of that is swept under the rug.  Instead, all we hear about is Iraq. 

Just another day at the office for the biased liberal media.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Wow, I sure hope there isn't an animal in that carrier. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Al Gore says he has no plans to run for office in 2008, but hasn't ruled out a future in politics.  In other words, he's probably running, but doesn't want to say right now.

Mort Kondracke says the best thing about Russ Feingold's call to censure George Bush is that basically nobody else in the Senate is backing him up.  Democrats should denounce the move, because it's going to bring out GOP voters in the midterms.

What's the number one problem with the mainstream media's reporting from Iraq?  According to Jack Kelly, it's ignorance.  As an example, he points to a recent show on CNN.

The left is whining about a civil war being unleashed in Iraq, but Christopher Hitchens reports in his column that civil war has always been a tactic of the terrorists in Iraq.  Zarqawi's best friends seem to be Democrats in Washington.

Fred Barnes is now firmly in the camp that believes it's time to clean house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  He says it's time for Condi Rice, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove to find new employment.

Recently, there has been a lot of outrage about judges that have handed out light sentences to sexual predators.  Thomas Sowell says this slap on the wrist mentality goes back a long time.

Democrats accuse Republicans of blindly backing President Bush on Iraq, but David Limbaugh tells us it's time to turn the tables.  How about taking on the Democrats for blindly following the ridiculous, extremist views of their party's leadership?

Professor Mike Adams, tired of students who have decided to do whatever they want, has made the decision to follow the same course himself.  Today he makes an announcement that their exams weren't graded...because he didn't feel like doing it.

Ronald Reagan once famously said "we don't have deficits because people are taxed too little. We have deficits because big government spends too much."  Unfortunately, with the current crop of Republicans in charge, the national debt has ballooned to $9 trillion dollars and yearly deficits continue as far as the eye can see.  Cal Thomas has more.

There's a new law in France that allows a company to fire a person under the age of 26 without cause, within two years of being hired.  This has caused angry protests in France...and Dennis Prager says it's all the result of socialism.

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