Good Wonkette post

[TayTay]

And I usually find her a bit snarky and self-reverential.

http://www.wonkette.com/

The President's Response to Insurgent Katrina

Fox News and others are reporting that the President just got "his own bird's eye view" of Katrina's damage as Air Force One flew over the devestated region. Shortly after, Bush gave prepared remarks to the press pool:

We are making progress in New Orleans. The flood is in its last throes. Clearly, the hurricane has a hateful ideology and does not like our freedom or our dryness. We cannot surrender to it. In New Orleans, they are working on a draft evacuation; it is an evacuation process, and we must expect that if we are to bring American-style democracy to the Mississippi Delta.
The president added that "to pull out now would only give aid to the elements."

[karynnj]

1. Cute - It does sound like Bush's syntax

[ginnyinWI]

2. on NPR someone was saying

that the economy in New Orleans won't be back in business for about 16 weeks--that would take us to about Christmas. So sad.

[sandnsea]

8. rotfl

These people are either delusional or lying. 16 weeks??? They won't even get the water out for about 12. Almost every structure will have to be rebuilt, or ought to be. There will be NO economy in New Orleans or the gulf coast for months and months. It is going to be the HUGE SUCKING SOUND for a long time to come. I just don't see how it could be any other way.

[Island Blue]

3. But does he have an exit stategy?

I'm guessing, no. (Funny piece BTW.)

[Mass]

5. Faith-based exit strategy,

[Mass]

4. Unfortunately, she was not that far

When I listened to him, I had the feeling that he had recycled one of his old Iraq speech.

Half of the speech was to say he had said Homeland Security and FEMA to do their job. The other one was to say it would be hard work.

[TayTay]

6. That speech was an embarrassment

He has been just completely and totally off this last month. It's like he is phoning in to planet Earth from another galaxy. First, he blows off Cindy Sheehan when the common sensical thing would have been to give the woman fifteen minutes of his time. Then he tells people that he can't talk to the mother of a soldier who died in his war because he has to get on with his life, and Moms of dead guys are such a depressing thing to wrap his half-mind around. (Poor Georgie. It's all about him, you know.)

Then he goes away to get some peace and quiet and hide from the Moms of dead soldiers in reliable old Red States. Only the Mayor of the biggest city in the Reddest State in America organizes a 2,000 person anti-Georgie's War Rally against him. (Georgie is thinking, what the hell is going on? KKKarl always makes sure that I have scrubbed crowds who adore me. What the hell is going on here?) Then the lap dog media starts to actually question him about the War. He has to actually mention the number of soldiers killed in Georgie's War. (Like he cares. You know, dwelling on the dead is really depressing. It might even spoil a nice two-hour bike ride. Why are people questioning the Dear Leader now? It baffles his small mind.)

Now, a disaster happen in the Gulf States, in Red States that he carried last fall. (Red States just love Georgie, ahm, well if you disregard recent polling.) Gee, thats awful, Georgie thinks, just awful. Now, I'm going for another bike ride. You know, I am on vacation. Don't bother me unless they find out that the majority of the people who are suffering are white, evangelical Christians. (And find me immediately if any white women go into comas and someone threatens to pull their life-support. That's the kind of thing I interrupt my vacation for, you know. If it's just brown or black people, well, I got a couple of fund-raisers to attend, a birthday cake to cut and a guitar to accept. Those brown and black people can wait. So can those poor white people in Mississippi. Really, I mean it's not like they are going to vote Democrat or anything. Jesus wouldn't like that.)

Georgie collects his money and decides that it's time to go see the big flood in New Orleans. He takes the big jet that only he can commandeer (it's good to be the King) and he does a quick 20 minute fly over. Gee that looks bad. Hope those people have put something away in private accounts for a rainy day, cuz they are going to need it. Maybe they had some 401(K)s with some oil stocks in them. That should do it. (he he he.) He, Georgie thinks, wasn't there some budget thing or energy bill or some Congressional thing that I signed that mad the money for the repair and upkeep of those flood levees go away? Georgie can't really remember, it's all a big blur. All those cuts in repair and upkeep stuff just sort of blend together after a while. Maybe I was supposed to sign off on something that might have helped here, but, well, it's all water over the bridge now. (He he he he, little joke there.)

Georgie arrives back at the White House, calls the cabinet together and decides to hold a news conference. Georgie looks real macho with the cabinet standing around him, real, "I'm in charge, I'm Commander-in-Chief" type stuff. The public eats this stuff up. He talks about how the floods in New Orleans and the utter devastation in Mississippi will get the full attention of his cabinet. He makes sure to mention that the EPA will relax the regulation on auto emissions. The public right now wants to hear that emphasized because those commie environmentalists will be trying to tell people that pollution or global warming or some other librul idea had something to do with this hurricane stuff. Gotta let the people know that I'm on to their game. Oh, and I also talk about getting in relief supplies, helping the helpless and feeding the poor and all that other 'compassion' stuff. And I make sure and mention that we are 'just starting' this effort to get relief to the suffering, cuz it's Wednesday and the thing only started, what, 3 days ago. I had other priorities, but I'm ready now.

The public loves me, he thinks. They will see me once more as the 'Dear Leader' of the country, ready to kiss ass and take charge of this flood thing. I finish my speech by talking about how sad this is, but it's also temporary and the American sun will shine again on all the people who were hurt or made homeless or jobless by this, ah, disaster. We are Americans. If we close our eyes, wish real hard, ignore the naysayers and the told-you so-ers, then everything will be back to normal in nor time, or maybe a few years or a decade or so. It's like that song says, "The sun will come out tomorrow." And everyone will love me, because I'm such a good and compassionate President.

Clueless, utterly clueless. We need to nail this bastard's ass to the wall for this. We cannot allow the liars and the spinners to get away with a Big Lie on this. This is criminal neglect of the country he swore an oath to protect. Criminal neglect. They cannot be allowed to get away with this horrible, horrible neglect.

(Posting this as a stand-alone thread in GD.)

[TayTay]

7. I did post this to GD

Can I have a kick for it? (Yes, I'm not above shilling for my stuff now and then. )

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4538777&mesg_id=4538777