Katrina's "Pet Goat": instead of acting, Bush went to bed.

[TwilightZone]

From page 3. The context is Monday evening, the day Katrina hit.

Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, a motherly but steely figure known by the nickname Queen Bee, knew that she needed help. But she wasn't quite sure what. At about 8 p.m., she spoke to Bush. "Mr. President," she said, "we need your help. We need everything you've got."

Bush, the governor later recalled, was reassuring. But the conversation was all a little vague. Blanco did not specifically ask for a massive intervention by the active-duty military. "She wouldn't know the 82nd Airborne from the Harlem Boys' Choir," said an official in the governor's office, who did not wish to be identified talking about his boss's conversations with the president. There are a number of steps Bush could have taken, short of a full-scale federal takeover, like ordering the military to take over the pitiful and (by now) largely broken emergency communications system throughout the region. But the president, who was in San Diego preparing to give a speech the next day on the war in Iraq, went to bed.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9287434/

Mr. Denial strikes again. He probably had the same look on his face that we all saw on 9/11.

[Eurobabe]

1. Doesn't she know NOT to call DimSon after 8pm?

His meds kick in and he's worthless I tell you, worthless by 8:10pm!!

[susu369]

2. I really believe he drinks at night

says he's "going to bed."

Closet drinker.

[cally]

3. The aides were frightened to tell * he had to end vacation!!!

Read this paragraph. Thousands are trapped without food and water, an entire city is underwater, thousands are dead, and they are worried about ending a five week vacation a few days early. :wtf:

"It's a standing joke among the president's top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news? Warm and hearty in public, Bush can be cold and snappish in private, and aides sometimes cringe before the displeasure of the president of the United States, or, as he is known in West Wing jargon, POTUS. The bad news on this early morning, Tuesday, Aug. 30, some 24 hours after Hurricane Katrina had ripped through New Orleans, was that the president would have to cut short his five-week vacation by a couple of days and return to Washington. The president's chief of staff, Andrew Card; his deputy chief of staff, Joe Hagin; his counselor, Dan Bartlett, and his spokesman, Scott McClellan, held a conference call to discuss the question of the president's early return and the delicate task of telling him. Hagin, it was decided, as senior aide on the ground, would do the deed."

[TahitiNut]

4. Ol' Smirk was really on top of it all, weren't he??

They had to let him know? A full day after Katrina destroyed the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Mississippi? What do they use to communicate with him? A rectal probe? A message enclosed in a suppository

[opihimoimoi]

5. Interesting and sadly, almost the same thing happened to Hitler

on D DAY. The night before, da Fuhrer had partied and on June 6th was sleeping in. The Generals in France wanted the Panzers to repel the Allies but NO ONE WANTED TO WAKE UP HITLER to release them....Two crucial Hours, too little too late.

In this case,,,,,it was 4 days later that Bush suddenly realizes
"Oh Shit".......

It was on the NEWS CHANNELS 24/7....meaning, that boy don't watch News??? a scarey thought for a person in High Position like POTHUS?

America has LEARNED>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

< BUSH CANNOT BE TRUSTED >

IF YA CAN"T LEAD< GET OUTTA THE FKIN WAY>>>>

Katrina has opened Bushies Weaknesses in full daylight 24/ for a number of days now....enough so many Americans can see the Real Bush...A wallowing Dufus...lost in his own shit...

[TwilightZone]

6. It makes Bush sound like a toddler that throws a temper tantrum any time

he doesn't get his way.

And his "way" is basically to be do whatever he wants, so when one of his aides has to suggest otherwise, he throws a fit.

The POTUS is a child.

[calimary]

8. Well, that's exactly what he is. The Arrested Development Poster Child

My kids outgrew that stuff years ago. And they're teenagers at present.

[TankLV]

7. Has to "get on with his life" ya know!