Can idiot son's (non)response to Katrina be his achilles heel?

[Stinky The Clown]

Look around at some of what are now seeing ......

A series of posts here on DU pointing to his administration,s cutting of the Corps of Engineers budget specifically for New Orleans levee issues.

The completely unprepared nature of New Orleans for such a storm. Local government doing its best, but the feds doing little to nothing. Evacuation assistance from the feds virtually non-existent.

Shooting looters stealing food from grocery stores.

A birthday cake for McCain as the flood waters hit.

Time on the beach at the Hotel Del, on Coronado Island in San Diego, to speak to the shrubbery about gutting Medicare as the levee breaks and floods more of New Orleans.

The local media in Louisiana and elsewhere asking if the mainstream media is seeing the same storm aftermath they see on the ground.

And all of this in red states in the south. Is it at all possible that there'll be some blowback? Blowback from his supporters as well as his detractors? Enough blowback that the Right will suffer for it?

I know this seems like I'm looking for political advantage in other people's suffering. I am. But not for any lack of compassion. I firmly and honestly believe that a more caring and engaged president would have done so very much more to help BEFORE things got bad. I can't blame anyone for the storm itself. I have LOTS of blame to lay on the people in power for the lack of response and the lack of vision .... and the lack of any discernible leadership.

Hey george, you motherfucker ... they need more than your simple minded platitudes.

[Roland99]

1. WWL reported he's cut his vacation short in San Diego...going to D.C.

to prepare a response/statement.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

20. But he's going to Crawford first.

He's spending the night, then leaving for DC on Wednesday.

What a leader.

[sui generis]

2. yeah he should keep up with the duck billed platitudes

fool me once, fu fu fuf ffffff, uh, what was I sayin'? Cain't fool me!!!!

They make him come across as so . . . presidential!

[H5N1]

His base loves it when he behaves like a selfish asshole

[H5N1]

3. His base loves it when he behaves like a selfish asshole

[mikeytherat]

4. Not at all. Bush is RACING back to Washington to help!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/30/katrina/index.html


Racing to help

"President Bush was returning to Washington two days ahead of schedule to help oversee Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, the White House announced."

See? Ignore all that crap about fundraising and eating cake while his fellow citizens drown -- he's WonderBush!

mikey_the_rat

[billkurtmeyer]

5. Can anyone confirm if he attended a fund raiser last night?

It wouldn't put it past the compassionate conservative.

[Sandpiper]

6. Photos of the Hotel del Coronado

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4509124&mesg_id=4509124


We need to make sure that people know that Dubya was lolling around on the beach at world class hotel while disaster struck.

Pictures really are worth a thousand words in this instance.

[jmm]

7. I wish he would stay on vacation

Do we really want a man who needs a cue card to tell him that people are suffering to take any kind of role in the relief effort?

[madeline_con]

8. Would anything he did help anyway?

He's just a windbag full of himself jerk who'd do well to step back out of the way.

[Totally Committed]

9. We keep looking for one of his non-reponses to be seen

negatively by his "base". So far none of his evasion has affected their affection for him. No-show with Cindy, still no-show with Katrina, Rove is still in the WH, and Bush is biking along seemingly unfeeling and unaware there are others out there in pain.

Better question would be: What does it say about the people who actually support him if none of his evasions of responsibility are an Achilles Heel? What does it say about us as a nation? And, finally, with few Democrats willing to come forward and call him on ANY of this, what does it say about us, as a Party?

TC

[Stinky The Clown]

10. I would bet that if he went to a disaster area, he'd be poorly met ......

I'm not even talking about New Orleans. Let him go someplace else, even. And allow real people to see him. I would be he'd be booed. Even by 'southern red-staters'.

[calimary]

11. I doubt that. This IS red state territory, after all. He's their hero.

They'll probably be comforted and enthralled that his lordship actually bailed out of his vacation a little ahead of time to come and throw them some crumbs and phony sympathy. They'll think they've been visited by the Almighty. Especially considering that some of them are telling reporters that - if they weren't religious before, they are now.

Keith Olbermann reported, last night, that just a few months ago, bushco CUT FUNDING TO A PROJECT THAT WOULD HAVE SHORED UP THE LEVEES AGAINST A POSSIBLE CATEGORY FIVE HURRICANE. JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO THIS HAPPENED. I wonder how many people know this, or how many people in the media will report this. Yeah, I know, I know. None of them. They'll be busy finding him a donkey to ride in on, while they wave their palm fronds at him and shout "hosanna!" :grr:

[Stinky The Clown]

12. I would bet that story about cutting levee funding is on local teevee

and that it is known in the disaster area.

This is where all politics get local ... and as a local story he ain't gunna play so well. Poeple are hurting and when hurting the natural tendency is to assess blame somewhere .... anywhere. Gievn an understanding of the facts (no National Guard, no funding for the levees, etc.) he makes one hell of a sweet target.

[MissMarple]

14. Perhaps Olbermann should reiterate that point tonight.

Expand on it even. :nuke:

[Rufus T. Firefly]

22. Not New Orleans.

I was there the day after the election. Trust me. Heavily Democratic.

[BronxBoy]

24. Have you seen the pictures of this tragedy?

It looks like the majority of the victims have been Black. LA may be a red state but NOLA is Blue through and through.

I think we need to stop this red state/blue state crap. Human suffering is Human suffering.

I think I read a few threads here where the local newscasters were speaking pretty sarcastically about Bush cutting his vacation short.

Bush would be torn to pieces if he went down there right now.

[Imagevision]

13. Red staters will get a taste of their what me wrong president

Bush could care less about Katrina's victims, isn't it obvious by his actions afterwards?!?!?!

[Skidmore]

15. He has more Achilles heels than the average human is allowed.

[lateo]

16. No.

Thanks to the MSM...all of Bush's numerous achilles heels are just glossed over.

[kodi]

17. huricane andrew did in his daddy too

acts of god to show their complete inadequacies of empathy towards fellow human beings?

[txaslftist]

18. Look at his poll numbers.

A better question might be, "Is George Bush the Republicans' Achilles' Heel?"

[Stinky The Clown]

21. An excellent point indeed!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

19. Patton Oswalt had a point.

His recent CD mentioned that *'s verbal screw-ups occur when he's having to pretend to give a shit about other people. But when it's war, very clear speech.

[Stinky The Clown]

23. How can it be so clear to some, yet to others he's a savior

I can NOT imagine how anyone can miss his complete lack of compassion and empathy.

:banghead: