Posted by
Arnie on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 6:58:23 PM
It got kind of nasty in the congressional hearing room
yesterday as Christie Todd Whitman testified about the air quality over ground
zero. But Christie shot back.
“Whitman drew hisses and
guffaws from the crowd when she said, "I think the City of New York did
absolutely everything in its power to do right by the citizens of New
York."”
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a
Democrat whose district includes the World Trade Center site, claimed the Bush
administration "has continued to make false, misleading and inaccurate
statements, and refused to take remedial actions, even in the face of
overwhelming evidence."
“Whitman also had a testy
exchange with rookie Rep. Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat, telling him,
"I have been called a liar, even in this room today. These were not whims,
these were not decisions by a politician.
Everything I said was based on what I was hearing from professionals. My son was in Building 7, congressman, and I
almost lost him,"
Whitman, who was peppered by Democrats for three hours,
decried the allegations as "misinformation, innuendo and downright
falsehoods."
The hearing is about the health issues facing many who
responded to the attack in one way or another and were exposed to the fumes,
the dust, and the debris, and are now wanting answers of why the government did
not do a better job of protecting them.
Basically her answer was "the
terrorists that attacked the United States" were to blame - not the
government. Read more….
That’s not exactly what the
democrats and the liberals wanted to hear.
Since Whitman is a political appointment of George Bush, and a former
republican governor of New Jersey, it was seen by the democrats as another way
to get to Bush. You know, take every
opportunity to blame Bush and the evil republicans.
Some of the many claims for ongoing health issues have been bogus. Just people seeing an opportunity to 'get some cash out of the government'. It's our culture. It was the same for some of the Katrina victims(?) Become a victim and the world is yours, and you'll have all kinds of people feeling sorry for you. It's getting rather distressing as there are real cases of genuine victims, and then these bogus scam cases spoil the spoils making it difficult for everyone. These scam cases need to be exposed and jailed. Send a message.
Christie sent a message to dems yesterday. It was the terrorists, stupid.