I'll bet President Treason is praying for Katrina to demolish New Orleans

[Call me Deacon Blues]

Can't you picture it? Dear Leader in his Prez jacket, standing amid the rubble. What a photo op! Watch for the smirk to pop out from his "serious" face while he's lamenting the loss of life. I'll bet Karl Rove is already calculating the dead body/favorability point increase ratio.

(Here's hoping you New Orleans residents get out safely -- I hope you have enough National Guardsmen left to help.)

[rbjensen]

1. Awful

picture to contemplate. But it sure would dominate the news for a while, wouldn't it? Something that nobody can say is his fault. Big relief, probably.

[nankerphelge]

6. Which is why...

I'll have to point to the scientists who say global warming is responsible for the increased power of hurricanes. This administration is anti-science.

[BlueStateGirl]

2. Everytime I see the Govenor of Louisana speak , she opens

her remarks by saying something about Bush. I am suprised he interrupted his vacation long enough to give her a call.

[shadowknows69]

3. New Orleans if it gets hit bad

Gods forbid. Should ask vacation boy why he didn't deploy federal help to get people to safety that otherwise can't afford it or are too housebound.

[neuvocat]

4. I wish you couldn't

but even Bush's strongest supporters have never really said he was compassionate.

[Thtwudbeme]

5. It would backfire on him though...he might be smirking, but Rove is

sweating. Well...Rove is always a sweaty pig, but you know what I mean...he and Karen Hughes are the only two that either care or understand the political implications of New Orleans getting "wiped out."

If this storm hits New Orleans as big fat one, it's going to make Andrew look kinda small...I am not talking about deaths...just the destruction of the infrastructure of the town.

And pretty soon, questions are going to be asked...such as "so where was the National Guard?" Why was the emergency planning stuff contracted to a private agency, and why did they do such a shitty job?

I can't think of any others right offhand, but New Orleans is such a loved city by vacationers, that this should focus much attention on what's wrong in the US-

Bush is just a drunk little shithead...he doesn't understand this or care.

His brother is already counting his dollars that he can make from going in and pulling fast, dirty real estate deals...like he did after the Tsunami for God's sake. He just can't be rich enough...he needs his own little island country--so he can be Baby Jeb Duvalier.

Rove and Hughes "get it" though.

Stephanie

[castiron]

8. add to that refinery damage and rising gas prices that would

result and you have a national scene ripe for reconsidering a domestic reaarrangement of sorts.

[Thtwudbeme]

13. I would like to see that happen to the advantage of the country

but, my fear is that since the robber barons are all in place politically, and in the banks...that we as a society are fucked really royally now.

Jeb is probably going to make kazillions off this storm if it hits NO.

[rbjensen]

16. Explain about

the Jeb and money thing. I'm out of the loop here. Haven't heard this one.

[scarletlib]

21. If people can't be evacuated casualties could be very

high from this storm. Maybe thousands--very frightening thought.

Living here in Florida I fear for the people of Louisiana. May God be with you all.

[tedoll78]

7. On one of the Freeper threads..

one guy was gloating about how a direct hit on New Orleans would make Louisiana a "truly Red state" (paraphrasing). Sick.

[DBoon]

9. Think of all the Halliburton contracts there

nt

[rodeodance]

10. I think comments such as

..praying for katrina to dmolish NO...can be dangerous on the open internet.

It is very similiar to -Dems hoping the war will be better so they have something to cut down the administration for (coming from the Right).

It gives them amnunition. What do you thin?

[Surya Gayatri]

11. No kidding,

what better way to deflect media attention from the storm gathering over his compound in Crawford? Watch for him to show up in New Orleans disguised as a relief worker, making a big show of distributing Federal disaster-zone largesse. The LA governor has just announced that "Prez. Bush has just called and asked me to make sure the population remain safe, blah, blah, blah." He's already milking it... Crass SOB

edit: Praying for all those hapless souls in N.O., especially ones abandoned by *'s policies--the aged, the ill, the poor. They'll be worse affected proportionally.

[SheilaT]

12. Unless he

can organize relief VERY quickly, and magically get the electricity back on, and houses rebuilt in a short time without significant price gouging, and so on and so forth, showing up to stand in the rubble will backfire. And none of those things are possible, even on the part of the best President.

Unless this hurricane weakens, wherever it its there will be tremendous damage. Obviously, a direct hit on New Orleans and the worst-case scenario there would be of greater psychological impact on the whole country than, say, wiping out Biloxi. And this is with all due respect to Biloxi, a place I have visited and think well of. Where ever landfall occurs it's going to be very bad news.

My heartfelt sympathies go out to all who live in the path.

[UTUSN]

14. Funny You Should Mention This

******QUOTE*****
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/suetonius-caligula.html

.... rearing a viper for the Roman people and a Phaethon (": a son of Helios who drives his father's sun-chariot through the sky but loses control and is struck down by a thunderbolt of Zeus") for the world. ....

.... he poisoned Tiberius, as some think, and ordered that his ring be taken from him while he still breathed ....

.... By thus gaining the throne he fulfilled the highest hopes of the Roman people, or I may say of all mankind, since he was the prince most earnestly desired by the great part of the provincials and soldiers, many of whom had known him in his infancy ....

.... He even used openly to deplore the state of his times, because they had been marked by no public disasters,.....and every now and then he wished for the destruction of his armies, for famine, pestilence, fires, or a great earthquake. ....

.... ruled three years, ten months and eight days ....
*****UNQUOTE****

[OrlandoGator]

15. Wouldn't it be nice if we had a full-strength National Guard to help?

n/t

[abluelady]

17. Hope NO Stays Safe

But if something big occurs and a new Guiliani comes out of it, I sure hope he's a dem.

[OneBlueSky]

18. even worse . . . if there is indeed a catastrophe . . .

(and I'm praying there won't be -- or at least that it will be minimized) . . . BushCo could look upon it as an opportunity to engage in nefarious business somewhere else, while all of the attention is on New Orleans and the deep South . . . stuff like bombing Iran, for instance . . .

[LiberalArkie]

19. I would imagine he is hoping it does not do anything to New Oleans

since he will have to explain why there isn't any National Guard to help in the clean up and aid, like there has been for every other disaster.

[earth mom]

20. Exactly-Great photo op while he blames the hurricane on Iran.

Maybe he'll show as much compassion for the hurricane victims as he did for those of the tsunami. :sarcasm: