Mo Dowd does it again: A Fatal Incuriosity

[npincus]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/14/opinion/14dowd.html

"President Bush continued to try to spin his own inaction yesterday, but he may finally have reached a patch of reality beyond spin. Now he's the one drowning, unable to rescue himself by patting small black children on the head during photo-ops and making scripted attempts to appear engaged. He can keep going back down there, as he will again on Thursday when he gives a televised speech to the nation, but he can never compensate for his tragic inattention during days when so many lives could have been saved.


He made the ultimate sacrifice and admitted his administration had messed up, something he'd refused to do through all of the other screw-ups, from phantom W.M.D. and the torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo to the miscalculations on the Iraq occupation and the insurgency, which will soon claim 2,000 young Americans.

How many places will be in shambles by the time the Bush crew leaves office?

Given that the Bush team has dealt with both gulf crises, Iraq and Katrina, with the same deadly mixture of arrogance and incompetence, and a refusal to face reality, it's frightening to think how it will handle the most demanding act of government domestic investment since the New Deal.

Even though we know W. likes to be in his bubble with his feather pillow, the stories this week are breathtaking about the lengths the White House staff had to go to in order to capture Incurious George's attention."

read on....

[MissMarple]

1. The horse has skipped the barn.

More and more people are becoming embarrassed by this man and his dysfunctional administration.

[calimary]

2. Here's what I just sent her:

Dear Ms. Dowd,

I am glad to see that another member of the mainstream media has seen the light. Your commentaries, especially lately, have been spot-on. I hope other people are listening, and I thank you for writing these things. I thank you more for feeling the motivation and outrage that it takes to put these thoughts into words.

But my appreciation is, at best, bittersweet. The rest of me, after saying "thank you" wants to yell - "HAPPY NOW?" After all, you certainly had your fun with Al Gore, so smug in your mocking of his earth-toned wardrobe adjustments, his invoking "lockboxes," his wooden personality, and your (and many others') misrepresentation that he "invented the Internet." It was that ridicule and mockery and high-handed but oh-so-impossibly-clever sneering - by YOU and the rest of the mainstream media - that helped the Bush gang get close enough in 2000 to steal the election, and to hold power ever since.

It's because YOU AND THE REST OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA were NOT vigilant, and gave the Bush machinery so many free passes for so long. YOUR failure to hold them accountable and question their actions and motives has led to this.

How many places will be in shambles by the time the Bush crew leaves office? We might not be fearful of that, at this moment, if folks like you had looked into this selfish, arrogant fraud of a man, and the weasels and idiots and toadies who surround him, a little further, and had exposed him for who and what he was. And it's THOUSANDS, by now, who would still be alive.

Better late than never, I guess...

Signed...

Frankly, I may print out a copy and snailmail this to her, because NYTimes people tend never to look at their emails. You usually get a bland, impersonal automated response. I want to make SURE she sees this. She and all the other enablers in the MSM have to face this, too. She and the rest of 'em share the blame for this, because they helped make it happen, and did nothing to make it stop.

[Laelth]

3. Hear, hear!

Very nicely said, calimary. I hope you send it to her.

:patriot:

-Laelth

[wanpete]

4. "the president should stop haunting new orleans looking for that

bullhorn moment"... love it. sums up the reason for his continued visits now. but does he not realize that the time for the repeated visits and concern should have been 3 weeks ago? is he really this dull?

people have died and the nation has cried and there's no spinning this one georgie...