A Small Man in a Tiny Room Before the Big Storm: (Rude Pundit!)

[BR_Parkway]

As always, this blogger hits a homerun (but language sensative eyes should be warned)

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/small-man-in-tiny-room-before-big.html

There he sits, in a tiny room, like a safe room in a drug lord's family home, like a bomb shelter in a Cold War suburban backyard, a tiny room in the middle of his massive faux ranch, a vacation home, a mockery of everything that the West stands for, because a real rancher, real ranch hands, on real ranches, would shake their heads in pity at the idea of a ranch being a retreat from work. In that appropriately grainy video of the conferences before Hurricane Katrina took out a large chunk of the Gulf Coast, there he sits, our goddamned President, being told everything he would lie about later: that lives would be lost, that the levees wouldn't hold, that so much was going to be needed.

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White House spokestooge Trent Duffy assured reporters that Bush was "engaged" with what was going on during Katrina. What is it with Republican presidents that their press people need to constantly assure the public that the Leader o' the Free World is "engaged" or "understands" or "reads"? And for all the good that Bush's engagement did as Michael Brown and others pleaded for help with the metastasizing disaster, well, there's few among us who could tell George Bush to stop fuckin' that stuffed cow and pay attention to the nation. The saddest part is that the administration's reaction is right: the video's nothing new. It's just more of the same.

George W. Bush is the anti-Midas. Everything he touches turns to shit. And then he tries to convince us that shit is actually gold. Isn't it time for the few non shit-statue Republicans to say enough is enough? Is there any reason that hundreds of thousands of us shouldn't be marching on Washington on a daily basis?

Tomorrow - as promised from yesterday - why Karl Rove fears the Rude Pundit: How To Start a Civil War in the Republican Party.

[Bhaisahab]

1. RP RULES! thanks for posting. n/t

[opihimoimoi]

2. Apparently, the man cannot comprehend what is being said when warned

about 9/11, Katrina, Global Warming, and Locked Doors.

[beingthere]

3. A terrific piece. n/t

[fasttense]

4. Hmm, has the scapegoat escaped?

"And for all the good that Bush's engagement did as Michael Brown and others pleaded for help with the metastasizing disaster,"

Many are no longer putting the full failure to save the suffering citizens in the aftermath of Katrina on Brownie. The blame is spreading. The best thing that has happened to Brownie is the release of the tapes and transcripts. He no longer looks like a deer in the headlights but a frantic person warning of a coming catastrophe. Has the scapegoat escaped?

[Nay]

5. What's so wonderful about the video is that even the HORSE

JUDGE, a crony appointment, actually knew NO was in trouble and begged for help beforehand, only to be ignored by the Prez. All of us who said * let NO drown on purpose were entirely correct.

[Hekate]

6. It's amazing, but Brownie actually comes out looking good

He, at least, understood "in his gut" that things were bad and about to get nightmarish. The Super Dome was 12 feet below sea level?! Brown told Bush that, and other real experts also told Bush what was coming.

Jesus God that Bush is a miserable excuse for a human being.

Hekate

[BR_Parkway]

8. I've done a re-think on Brownie's "fashion god" type comments

I deal with big stressful situations with humor, and when I first saw that comment in his emails, I couldn't believe he was so callous at the time.

But looking back, especially after hearing the testimony of him and others and watching the tapes - I don't know that 'fashion god' wasn't a running joke in their office and that maybe he said that in some type of humor=relief valve type context.

I do know that the man is one of the only Shrub cronies to ever step in front of a microphone and say "I screwed up, first and foremost and can think of things now that I should have done then - I take responsibility for my mistakes" That got him SO much credibility with me - the typical Repug (mis)Administration way is to blame everyone else.

[localroger]

10. I have to agree

I think MB was appalled, but that he was also going to suck it up and take the hit for his buddies if necessary until he realized how badly they were screwing him. I have to give him credit for at least trying to really do his job; his big mistake seems to be hanging with the wrong crowd, and believing them when they told him what his job was.

[NJCher]

7. and hmmmm!

Tomorrow - as promised from yesterday - why Karl Rove fears the Rude Pundit: How To Start a Civil War in the Republican Party.


I'm tunin' in tomorrow!




Cher

[Olney Blue]

9. My favorite line was

What is it with Republican presidents that their press people need to constantly assure the public that the Leader o' the Free World is "engaged" or "understands" or "reads"?



I can't wait to get an intellectual Democrat back in the WH.