"And, Rummie, you're doing a heck of a job".

[Tom Rinaldo]

Kind of says it all right there, doesn't it? On Wednesday President Bush actually had this to say regarding his Secretary of Defense, according to the Associated Press:

Bush credited Rumsfeld with overseeing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while overhauling the military. "I'm pleased with the progress we're making," the president said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061102/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

And according to the same report, Bush also said this, about both his Defense Secretary and his Vice President:

President Bush said Wednesday he wants Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney to remain with him until the end of his presidency, extending a job guarantee to two of the most-vilified members of his administration. "Both those men are doing fantastic jobs and I strongly support them".


Brownie, Rummie, it's easy to get them confused. After all each presided over one of the two most catastrophically botched government responses to a totally predictable crisis in our nation's history, and each got to do so under the exact same President. What were the odds of that happening? If you said low, then obviously you don't know this President.

It really wasn't so long ago that George Bush arrived in Alabama, to see the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, and said:

"Again, I want to thank you all for -- and, Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job. The FEMA Director is working 24 -- (applause) -- they're working 24 hours a day."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050902-2.html


No doubt Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney are working 24 hours a day now too, doing a heck of a job on Iraq. And with this renewed Presidential blessing they will continue to work 24 hours a day on Iraq until the war is won or George W. Bush leaves office. I lean toward the latter if I had to guess.

Back in Alabama on September 2, 2005, George Bush had something else he wanted to say about that disaster, right after he praised Brownie for doing such a heck of a job:


"Again, my attitude is, if it's not going exactly right, we're going to make it go exactly right. If there's problems, we're going to address the problems. And that's what I've come down to assure people of."


Which sounds awfully similar to what George Bush invited the Press down to the Oval Office on Wednesday to assure people of this time, only it was about Iraq this time, where Rumsfeld and Cheney are doing such a heck of a job. George Bush has a positive vision for Iraq. Out of its current chaos and rubble he sees Iraq someday becoming a prosperous democratic and peaceful friend of America, even if others have difficulty envisioning that now. George Bush had a positive vision for the Gulf Coast after Katrina also. He put it this way then:

"The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch."

George W. Bush has a real way with words, doesn't he?

[opihimoimoi]

1. He is so full of crap he reeks..how in the world can people actually believe him?

[Tom Rinaldo]

2. In Katrina it was overwhelmingly lower income people who lost everything

Including, for thousands, their lives. And yet there was George W. Bush, not only praising Brownie for presiding over a fiaasco, but joking about how wonderful it would be when Senator Lott's porch was fully restored.

Most citizens of the Gulf Coast: nearly powerless. Senator Lott: powerful and rich.

I suppose one could say that George W. Bush simply flubbed a joke line.

[Totally Committed]

3. Touche!

And, great post, as usual, Tom.

TC

[Felix Mala]

4. Stay The Course...

[sutz12]

5. Hey, this is good news....

Doesn't he always fire somebody about a week after he says what a "heckuva job" they are doing? :rofl: