Shock and awe in America

[BikeWriter]

(Did Townhall find an antidote for the Koolaid?)

Everyone seems to have failed to varying degrees, including President George W. Bush for this simple reason: He is the commander in chief and this was a national disaster. No, he didn't cause the hurricane, nor, by the way, did God in retribution against sin, or gays, or corruption - or whatever story the end-time gang is advancing this week.

But Bush did fail to act swiftly and unequivocally. When he did act, at least initially, it was without authority, without competence and - never more important - without apparent empathy. You do not have to let a tear drip all the way down your cheek while the cameras are rolling to convincingly communicate empathy. But you do have to choose your words carefully in order to convey emotions appropriate to the moment.

To wit: You do not talk about Trent Lott's lost house and his beloved front porch when thousands are rotting in a stinking incubator without food, water, medicine, air or bathroom facilities. You do not talk folksy about "cuttin' those ribbons" when businesses are back up somewhere in the future when in the present people are fishing the grim remains of loved ones from gutters and attics.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/kathleenparker/kp20050907.shtml

[Is It Fascism Yet]

1. Well, actually, that little Chimp fucker DID cause the hurricane

by allowing Big Dick Tourettes Chaney to make secret energy deals and set America's energy policy behind closed doors with only the energy companies in attendance, thereby accelerating the warming of the gulf stream waters and other sequella of global warming. Yes, it's the Shrub's fault, and all the super-storms ready to pounce on us the rest of this hurricane season are Shrub's fault too. Crooked, greedy, self serving politicians, Shrub Et AL, are not responsible for the existence of hurricanes, but are responsible for making them more ferocious and more frequent.

[BikeWriter]

3. "Global warming?" He should ask the starving Polar Bears!

[ixion]

2. maybe chimpy didn't cause the hurricane, but he damn well caused the flood

by de-funding the levee projects. :grr:

[BikeWriter]

4. Don't forget the wetlands!

In response to this potential crisis, four leading environmental groups conducted a joint expert study, concluding in 2004 that without wetlands protection New Orleans could be devastated by an ordinary, much less a Category 4 or 5, hurricane. "There's no way to describe how mindless a policy that is when it comes to wetlands protection," said one of the report's authors. The chairman of the White House's Council on Environmental Quality dismissed the study as "highly questionable," and boasted, "Everybody loves what we're doing."
http://scientium.com/diagon_alley/commentary/bowden_essays/one_year_later.htm

[flpoljunkie]

5. ..."Bush may have revealed a truer self than we were meant to see."

Instead, he came too late to the disaster and caused even supporters to cringe with every ill-chosen word. He lost not only the politician's fantasy photo op, but he let slip the rarest of opportunities - that of saving human life and the nation's pride. By his performance in this time of extreme stress, Bush may have revealed a truer self than we were meant to see.
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Amazing, coming from Kathleen Parker.

[BikeWriter]

10. I agree, and do you think they found an antidote for the Koolaid?

Or is it a fleeting thing?

[flpoljunkie]

15. With Kathleen Parker's past support of Dubya, I would think fleeting.

Would love to be wrong.

[applegrove]

6. The "thin veneer' that came off was not in New orleans. It was in D.C.

[BikeWriter]

14. I hope it came off of some hides.

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[ScreamingMeemie]

9. Ummmm...You were busy fallling to your knees to kiss his ass?

:shrug:

[BikeWriter]

12. Hee hee hee! You got that right, Lady!

[BikeWriter]

11. I helped you out. I alerted on your post. I see you've left us already.

[Lindacooks]

8. "Choose your words carefully"????

Since when has the chimp ever CHOSEN WORDS, carefully or not? They just come spewing out of his ugly twisted pie hole with no processing whatsoever. Only a true moron, a mentally incompetent true asshole, would joke about partying in New Orleans while Americans drowned there.

[BikeWriter]

13. Yes'm, he's worse than Beavis and Butthead.