Friday, Bush will be standing on top of the Superdome with a Bullhorn.

[trumad]

and we'll feel safe again.

[tjdee]

1. This is NOT a leader. he's an embarrassment.

He's just like a little boy. When something actually goes down, he's nowhere around. But when it's all over, here comes little Lord Fauntleroy beating his chest!

Disgusting.

[Shadder]

2. I'll feel safe

Only if the fucker falls off the top of it and lands on his empty head.

[BillZBubb]

3. That may turn out to be an accurate prediction.

At least the Busholini with the bullhorn part. Only Busholini cultists will feel any safer (as your sarcasm implied).

[jasmeel]

4. I know-anything for a photo op! His numbers could use it!!

[CatWoman]

5. LOLOLOL

:hi: Tru

Hope you're not affected by the storm :loveya:

[FightingIrish]

6. You know damn good and well Bush and his handlers are

at this moment debating how to milk some political capital from this disaster.

[Ken Burch]

7. You mean on top ot the actual Dome?

Better hope he doesn't slip off, or we've got Cheney 'til at least '08(and then we have to hope Cheney doesn't declare a state of emergency and cancel the elections).

[acmavm]

8. Didn't he go visit brother Jeb in Florida after a big hurricane? I seem to

remember something like that, but I certainly could be wrong. It seems he made a big spectacle of himself going around to hurricane victims or something like that. All the while things were out of control because of the fact that the people who generally are the first responders at any disaster, the National Guard, were all in Iraq trying to secure the oil fields for him and his family and friends.

[Retrograde]

16. yeah, but there was an election coming up (n/t)

[NYC]

9. What effort has Bush made to evacuate people

before the disaster?

[dogday]

10. or floating in a boat nt

[wli]

11. He'll announce "mission accomplished! 100K Democrats are dead!" n/t

[DanCa]

12. Hell if he were a leader he would have met both sides at camp casey

And were or are right to lifers now ?

[Imagevision]

13. Bush will be milking New Orleans hardship for all its worth!

as his numbers approach the 30's

[joanne]

14. He"ll definitely try

[SofaKingLiberal]

15. Friday, Bush will be standing on top of the Superdome with a Bullhorn."

I would rather see him do it during the hurricane.

[WePurrsevere]

17. Let folks know that Bush slashed Disaster Mitigation Program and that ....

BushCo doesn't CARE except when it's a photo op. :grr:

"Bush has slashed Clinton's Disaster Mitigation Program"

posted by Barbaraann - Links, more info and discussion here : http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4482567

<snip>
"...Among emergency specialists, 'mitigation' -- the measures taken in advance to minimize the damage caused by natural disasters -- is a crucial part of the strategy to save lives and cut recovery costs. But since 2001, key federal disaster mitigation programs, developed over many years, have been slashed and tossed aside. FEMA's Project Impact, a model mitigation program created by the Clinton administration, has been canceled outright. Federal funding of post-disaster mitigation efforts designed to protect people and property from the next disaster has been cut in half. Communities across the country must now compete for pre-disaster mitigation dollars.

As a result, some state and local emergency managers say, it's become more difficult to get the equipment and funds they need to most effectively deal with disasters. In Louisiana, requests for flood mitigation funds were rejected by FEMA this summer. (See sidebar.) In North Carolina, a state also regularly threatened by hurricanes and floods, FEMA recently refused the state's request to buy backup generators for emergency support facilities. And the budget cuts have halved the funding for a mitigation program that saved an estimated $8.8 million in recovery costs in three eastern North Carolina communities alone after 1999's Hurricane Floyd.

Consequently, the residents of these and other disaster-prone states will find the government less able to help them when help is needed most, and both states and the federal government will be forced to shoulder more recovery costs after disasters strike.

In addition, the White House has pushed for privatization of essential government services, including disaster management, and merged FEMA into the Department of Homeland Security -- where, critics say, natural disaster programs are often sidelined by counter-terrorism programs. Along the way, morale at FEMA has plummeted, and many of the agency's most experienced personnel have left for work in other government agencies or private corporations..."
<snip>

and there's more.... :grr:

I'm increasingly more disgusted with this bunch of LYING, Anti-Christian, Anti-American, Money grubbing, war mongering twits. May karma be bite them all hard on their backsides and justice prevail.

[BrotherBuzz]

18. I understand for PR purposes he will parachute in...

I understand Democrats are the chute packers these days. ;)

[mountainvue]

19. Oh trumad, I shouldn't laugh but I did. Pathetic. n/t