Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Kerry, Edwards Criticize Bush Over Response to Hurricane

According to a text of Kerry's speech made available in Washington, he said Katrina had provided an "accountability moment" for the administration.
"This is about the broader pattern of incompetence and negligence that Katrina exposed and beyond that a truly systemic effort to distort and disable the people's government and devote it to the interests of the privileged and the powerful," he said.
Kerry also charged that the administration is pursuing politics as usual in its prescription for rebuilding. "The plan they're designing for the Gulf Coast turns the region into a vast laboratory for right-wing ideological experiments," he said, citing private-school vouchers, subsidies to business and other proposals.

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