REASON why B*sh did not ask a single question @ Aug 28 Katrina briefing:

[npincus]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KATRINA_VIDEO?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-03-01-18-15-10

Nobody wrote one for him.


Video footage of the Aug. 28 briefing, the final one before Katrina struck, showed an intense Brown voicing concerns from the government's disaster operation center and imploring colleagues to do whatever was necessary to help victims.

"Go ahead and do it," Brown said. "I'll figure out some way to justify it. ... Just let them yell at me."

Bush appeared from a narrow, windowless room at his vacation ranch in Texas, with his elbows on a table. Hagin was sitting alongside him.

"I want to assure the folks at the state level that we are fully prepared to not only help you during the storm, but we will move in whatever resources and assets we have at our disposal after the storm," the president said.

[AzDar]

1. Incurious George goes to Briefing..... n/t

[benburch]

2. Drunk or stoned on his ass. nt

[Danascot]

3. To be able to form a question

you either have to give damn or have a clue, or both.

[Robeson]

9. Bingo....

...you nailed it.

[dancingme]

4. He was on VACATION

He was annoyed that he had to sit in a conference room during his VACATION.

[Crankie Avalon]

5. That's it...

...he figured asking questions would just prolong the meeting.

"Now watch this drive!"

[Tin Man]

8. Yep, Georgie loves his 'down time' - questions would have only prolonged

...the interruption to his precious vacation. What a miserable fucking failure of a president.

[Virginia Dare]

6. He's completely incompetent and incapable of caring..

could it be any more glaringly obvious?? When will people WAKE THE HELL UP?????

[npincus]

7. who writes his pee-pee permission slips when he's at Crawford?

[William Bloode]

10. Well at any rate,

It does seem to show even though incompetent, Brownie did try to get something or someone on the ball and get things done.

"Aug. 28 briefing, the final one before Katrina struck, showed an intense Brown voicing concerns from the government's disaster operation center and imploring colleagues to do whatever was necessary to help victims.

"Go ahead and do it," Brown said. "I'll figure out some way to justify it. ... Just let them yell at me."


Seems he wanted to do something. Maybe (well we know) he was just to incompetent.

[npincus]

12. I agree- the MSM has been very cooperative in making Brownie THE Bad Guy

A disaster of this magnitude required LEADERSHIP, DIRECTION and FOLLOW-THROUGH from the top, not an empty cowboy suit wearing a sherrif's badge.

[SoCalDem]

11. if he asked questions and got answers, he could not claim

to be innocently oblivious to the whole thing:(

[mainer]

13. Brownie comes off pretty good

Yet he's the one who got assassinated in the media