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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Saturday, September 10, 2005

Don't Shore Up Levees, Get Rid of Them, Enviros Say

By Monisha Bansal
CNSNews.com Correspondent

(CNSNews.com) -
The New Orleans flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was due to government's failure to shore up the levees keeping the water at bay, according to many critics, but not to the environmental groups gathered in Washington, D.C., Friday.

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