PRESIDENT BUSH or HESITANT BUSH?

[Wafture]

'My Pet Goat' -- The Sequel

By Greg Mitchell

(September 03, 2005) -- While a rising chorus in the press has taken the White House, FEMA and the Pentagon to task for performing miserably in their response to the human disaster on the Gulf Coast, few have focused on the most telling aspect of the entire failure. It’s not just incompetence. It’s a shameful lack of concern: The 9/11 “My Pet Goat” dithering on an administration-wide scale.

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He who hesitates is lost.

:scared:

[El Fuego]

1. That's a good one. Perfect.

[NVMojo]

18. I agree, great marketing/branding ...

[fasttense]

2. The hesitant President. I like it. n/t

[BlueJac]

3. He is a punk, impeach him now...

[Lars39]

4. Resistant Bush sounds better to me...*we don't need any help*

[proud patriot]

5. makes sense to me

oh deer

[Wafture]

6. Ominous story from last summer

Bush's Deer-in-the-Headlights Moment on Climate Change

On environmental issues, Mr. Bush appeared unfamiliar with an administration report delivered to Congress on Wednesday that indicated that emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases were the only likely explanation for global warming over the last three decades. Previously, Mr. Bush and other officials had emphasized uncertainties in understanding the causes and consequences of global warming.

The new report was signed by Mr. Bush's secretaries of energy and commerce and his science adviser. Asked why the administration had changed its position on what causes global warming, Mr. Bush replied, "Ah, we did? I don't think so."

http://www.chriscmooney.com/blog.asp?Id=1069

[Totally Committed]

7. "A picture is worth...."

Enjoy!

TC

[calimary]

8. GAWD! "Hesitant bush" - I LOVE it!

Has a nice ring to it, 'eh?

Visualize IMPEACHMENT!!!!!!!!
Then go DO something about it.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. Oh, deer!

[Wafture]

10. W chokes under pressure again and again

His doctor should tell him to cut out the pretzels!

[Wafture]

11. Hesitant Bush getting it from both sides

FROM THE LEFT:

Haunted by Hesitation

NYT Maureen Dowd

"the president failed to rush the necessary resources to a disaster that his own general describes as 'biblical'" or even send in the 82nd Airborne ..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/opinion/07dowd.html


FROM THE RIGHT:

Kathleen Parker

Mr. Bush failed 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.

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 and bathroom facilities. You do not talk folksy about "cuttin' those ribbons" when businesses are back up sometime in the future when, in the present, people are fishing the grim remains of loved ones from gutters and attics.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/stories/DN-parker_07edi.ART.State.Edition1.139bbe50.html

[Wafture]

12. When the Going Gets Tough

The Bush era will be remembered as a time of crisis. Too bad that, in a pinch, the president is such a coward.

The president’s brand of nuttiness was first glimpsed on September 11 and then crystallized to a fine focus with hurricane Katrina. Bush was entering the fifth and final week of his marathon summer vacation when forecasters predicted the storm would hit New Orleans dead-on as a category five hurricane. The president declared a state of emergency for Louisiana, but then callously continued his vacation, booking trips to Arizona and California even as the storm pummeled New Orleans, trapping tens of thousands of residents without food or water. It wasn’t until Wednesday, August 31—two and a half days after Katrina struck—that Bush finally cut his vacation short by two days and returned to Washington. By that point, New Orleans had already been lost.

During times of national crisis the White House’s motto seems to be: When the going gets tough, the president hides. On September 11, 2001, the president was missing in action for most of the day after the planes struck the World Trade Center and Pentagon, prompting ABC News’s Peter Jennings to inquire where the hell he was: “I don’t mean to say this in melodramatic terms,” Jennings told his audience at 12:30 p.m. eastern time. “Where is the president of the United States?

http://www.radarmagazine.com/web-only/politics/2005/09/when-the-going-gets-tough.php

[CdnObserver]

13. With the Neocon's love of Baseball, shouldn't they be called "out"

Looks like 3 strikes from where I'm sitting.

1. 9/11
2. Iraq
3. Katrina

Of course, I don't have the Luxury of a Skybox in San Diego like our pal Rummy.

[Gregorian]

14. Man of INACTION.

We need a Bush Inaction figure doll-

He sits.
He looks guilty as hell.
He does nothing.
He doesn't listen.
He vacations.
He ignores.

Only $19.95 billion.

[Wafture]

15. Your kid wants a Bush inaction figure doll?

Just give him a bowl of jello.

:)

[Wafture]

16. Here you go ...

[Gregorian]

17. Of course you've seen this...

http://www.peacecandy.com/gwbush/dishonestdubya/