Thursday, March 09, 2006

"Bush is the syphilis president."

Kurt Vonnegut expresses a little candor in a recent speech at a Ohio college.

And it would seem appropriate now given that everyhing that BushCo touches turns to shit. With failure after failure, it makes you wonder how long America can hold onto this reject. It would have to be time to find someone who can fulfill his or her duties as President - security, lawful, democratic...

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Video killed the Homeland Security Star...

Apparently, video footage shows that Bush and Chertoff were warned before Katrina hit.
Bush didn't ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared."

The footage - along with seven days of transcripts of briefings obtained by The Associated Press - show in excruciating detail that while federal officials anticipated the tragedy that unfolded in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, they were fatally slow to realize they had not mustered enough resources to deal with the unprecedented disaster.
Fatally slow is an appropriate use of wording here. Brownee has complained about the "fog of bureaucracy," and is unwilling to take the fall for this tragedy. It seems to me that the fog is in all their heads. Looking worried doesn't minimize the colossal error BushCo made. And this is supposed to instill confidence that they are protecting us from terrorists?

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