Bush can't even get the black out straight...

[FATNED]

Twice in his videotaped address to a grieving nation, bush referred to the power outage as a "rolling blackout." Minor point, I suppose and I may have this wrong, but what happened today is not a rolling blackout. Rolling blackouts, like we had awhile back here in California, are intentional blackouts instituted to conserve power during high-usage times. One small grid is out for a short time, and then it "rolls" to the next grid as a way to spread the misery around. But rolling blackouts are intentional. At least I think so.

A small thing, perhaps, but can't this mutton-head get ANYTHING right?

[Rick Myers]

1. Moran!!!

I swear, he's mentally challenged!!!

:wtf:

[Walt Starr]

2. Maybe he did get this right.

Maybe this WAS a planned outage and it stopped sooned than he expected it.

:tinfoilhat:

[TeeYiYi]

20. That sounds about right. I wonder . . .

I wonder if this was someone's controlled experiment gone awry? Hmmmmm.

TYY

[gratuitous]

3. He's just flashing back

To the happy episode that made so much money for himself and his cronies.

[Cocoa]

4. instincitvely pads his sentences

Bush has very little to say, obviously. He is setting a record for littlest time answering questions, and when he does appear, he repeats himself and uses fillers to stretch out his thoughts.

[DagmarK]

22. Yeah, reminds me of high school research presentation I didn't do......

but had to present one day in history class.

I just repeated the introduction I had written about 5 different times.....until my teacher told me to "just sit down." Which was in the day when people didn't say, "SHUT UP, JUST SHUT UP!" LOL

[paulsbc]

5. no

he gets very little right, that is the problem!

[GCP]

6. Welcome to DU, Fatned

If nobody's already welcomed you, allow me - :toast:

[HFishbine]

7. He meant

a "cascading" blackout. Geez! What a dope.

[Brian Sweat]

8. I cannot decide if he didn't know what he was talking about

or if he was just trying to remind Californians of the problems they had back in 2001.

[pansypoo53219]

10. what

remind them of Enron?

[Brian Sweat]

13. You assume that the Californians associate rolling blackouts with Enron.

Bush and Co. might assume that they associate them with Gray Davis.

[catzies]

21. We DO.

Because we KNOW.

[bunk76]

9. somewhere....

a village is missing an idiot. :evilgrin:

[RummyTheDummy]

11. It's just a matter of time until the Repuke's blame Clinton for it...

NT

[gulliver]

15. This never happened under Clinton, of course.

But the two Masters of Energy have it happening regularly. How long until we judge the tree by its fruits?

[camero]

12. Maybe this was intentional

And he just let it slip.

[VOX]

14. There's only one kind of blackout he knows about...

The 86 proof variety. And a bag of pretzels thrown in.

[Ouabache]

16. maybe he thought it was a 911 "Lets Roll" type of thingy and got it mixed

up with 'blackout', thus his "rolling blackout" ?

I think inebriation via fundraisers does have a 'role' in this taped stupidity though...just a guess.

[Cocoa]

18. maybe a giant pretzel caused this one?

[rasputin1952]

17. Let's not forget...

The RWnuts keep INSISTING this is a true leader! :scared:

I wouldn't let him lead my dog out to take a dump.

:bounce:

[lpbk2713]

19. It was subliminable..........

.......he was tanked up on Lone Star Beer.