Decision ‘08

Al Gore’s Campaign Manager on Bush and New Orleans

Reading that headline, I’m sure you’re ready for me to rip on some progressive nonsense; perhaps you’ll be as surprised as I was, then, to see this coming from Donna Brazile:

I am not a Republican. I did not vote for George W. Bush — in fact, I worked pretty hard against him in 2000 and 2004. But on Thursday night, after watching him speak from the heart, I could not have been prouder of the president and the plan he outlined to empower those who lost everything and to rebuild the Gulf Coast.

Remarkably, there is none of the usual ‘yes, but’ garbage, either. Color me VERY surprised, and grateful for the reminder that bipartisanship is not completely dead (hat tip to Little Green Footballs)…

4 Responses to “Al Gore’s Campaign Manager on Bush and New Orleans”

1 AcademicElephant Says:
September 17th, 2005 at 2:58 pm
Along the same lines, I can’t believe Blanco actually said this in her response to the President’s radio address:

I want to take this opportunity to thank President George W. Bush. He has recognized that Katrina was no ordinary hurricane and that our federal government will have to help us in extraordinary ways. We are prepared to work as partners.

Some issues reach beyond party. In the face of the human tragedy, which lies behind us, and the task that lies ahead of us, there is no room for partisan politics.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/3358189

With the Brazile piece, rather stunning evidence that there are democrats for whom reason still sits on her throne and who can see that there’s a greater good to be acheved in the reconstruction than political advantage, or that just want to cover their (jack) a**es, either way it’s refreshing.

PS I referred to EJ’s little ditty as a “fringe diatribe” today because that’s what it is and he should not be dignified by the term “mainstream.” He’s really stepping up to the plate, isn’t he?
2 AcademicElephant Says:
September 17th, 2005 at 3:15 pm
Sorry to clog up the messages today, but I can’t post this local stuff–as an update Cindy DID show up at the rally downtown last night and she said:

The hurricane’s victims are “collateral damage of George Bush’s insane and moronic policies in Iraq.”

“Katrina has proven categorically that he has made our country more vulnerable by his insane policy,” she told a crowd of about 250 at a rally on Independence Mall yesterday afternoon.

Hmmmm….

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/local/12669847.htm
3 Mark Says:
September 17th, 2005 at 3:48 pm
You’re never clogging up the messages, I love getting comments…a crowd of 250, eh? That anti-war juggernaut is just a steamroller, isn’t it?
4 Decision ‘08 » Blog Archive » In the Kingdom of the Blind… Says:
September 17th, 2005 at 7:11 pm
[…] …the one-eyed Kossack is king. The despicable Armando gets in a two-fer today: first (and quite predictably) he’s disgusted that Donna Brazile declined to be partisan about Katrina (as Jeff at the Bernoulli Effect notes in this post, it’s amazing how all these small-government conservatives have suddenly popped up in the wake of Bush’s reconstruction speech); then he (and I’m laughing uncontrollably as I type this) claims that, because Mayor Bloomberg of NYC is unhappy that John Roberts didn’t write a love poem to the operators of abortion clinics, that shows that there is biparisan opposition to the Roberts nomination. Ummm-hmmm… […]