The Tide is High
October 20th, 2005Despite the spin of the White House and it’s cronies, here’s more proof that FEMA was run in a horrible fashion. It would appear that Brownie did not in fact do a heck of a job. At least at anything other than making people wait for him. Who had the idea to blame the locals? Because, like so many other things (WaPo, registration may be required) in regard to the current administration, it just keeps getting worse. Especially when your own people turn on you. For all of the post 9/11 talk of Bush leadership, it’s getting very hard to see any credibility where the words “leader” and “George W. Bush” are linked.
This all seems so similar to the Watergate era of the Nixon administration in so many ways. Unpopular war, inflation, high energy costs and growing dissatisfaction with the way things are going. I remember being perplexed as a child by Watergate. All the players, the constant news and the hearings interrupting my afternoon TV were too much for my young head. When Nixon resigned, my family was pretty upset and I wanted to know why. One of my sisters explained that the President lied and that for a person in that position to lie meant that he needed to leave.
What about this President and his players? It will be interesting to see who, if anybody falls in the next few weeks.
All of the links in this blurb were found via Talking Points Memo. Crazy times, man. o
October 20th, 2005 at 2:23 pm
I have a quick analogy:
Village Voice : Liberal
Fox News : Conservative
I can’t say that I’m surprised that such a liberal media outlet is bashing Bush. Just like I’m not surprised when Fox News bashes Democrats/Liberals.
/just saying
//here come the flames in my direction
///putting my asbestos suit on…
////slashes are fun.
October 20th, 2005 at 2:24 pm
Thinking back over all presidents in my memory(Ford and later), I think that Jimmy Carter was the only one that didn’t have a blemished reputation by the time they left office. Strange days we live in, and strange standards that are required of our leaders.
October 20th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
1- Go to Google (http://www.google.com )
2- Type in the word “Failure”
3- Instead of clicking “Google Search,” click “I’m Feeling Lucky.”
4- Spread the word before the people at Google “fix” it.
October 20th, 2005 at 2:52 pm
You really need to stop swalowing liberal media stories hook, line, and sinker. One of the soldiers that was part of that little news conference stated in a communication to his family, dated prior to all the stupid hubub you people are spreading, that his comments and questions were not prepared in the way the liberals are stating. So the soldiers wouldn’t come off as the rubes that the liberal media loves to make them out to be, they did a practice run of the conference a few minutes beforehand. All the words coming out of their mouths were their own. Grow up. Move on.
Yes, the Bush administration is mired with stupidity and scandal. Insert Clinton for Bush and what do you have… the same thing. do we have to bring up Waco, Ruby Ridge, Oklahoma City, Intern/Sperm-gate, White Water?
Someday, I would love for the wacko conservatives and the bovine liberals to stop slinging mud and actually do some good, maybe reform the federal government so that it doesn’t take three days to react to disasters or $5000 to buy a hammer.
October 20th, 2005 at 2:52 pm
My neighbor has a great new bumpersticker on his car:
VISUALIZE IMPEACHMENT
October 20th, 2005 at 3:00 pm
OMG Stephanie - your Google “Easter Egg?” is hilarious…..I hope it keeps working….
October 20th, 2005 at 3:26 pm
That’s “Googlebombing” at work. Nothing more.
October 20th, 2005 at 3:33 pm
Either way, I think the tribe has spoken.
October 20th, 2005 at 3:38 pm
Yea, as long as you didn’t mind a little stagflation or one of your embassies being taken over by a bunch of students, Jimmy Carter was great.
October 20th, 2005 at 4:00 pm
while some of the blame for the debacle that was new orleans certainly must land on fema and the federal government, you certainly can’t think that the local and state governments in louisiana are blameless. while i am, by no means, a bush fan, there is just so much evidence out there, if you choose to see it for what it is, that both blanco and nagin dropped the ball on this thing, and then pointed their fingers at everyone else. how do you explain the hundred or so school buses, sitting in two feet of water, just a few miles from the superdome? nagin has said, over and over again, “this is my city”, and yet he did nothing, except curse in front of the television cameras, to help “his people”. great effort on the cursing, but not so much with the helpful. don’t make bush out to be the only bad guy in this thing, there is enough blame for every one involved to go back for seconds! let’s not like bush, but let’s not like him for the right reasons.
October 20th, 2005 at 4:02 pm
No one said that the local authorities in Louisiana or Mississippi were blameless. Just that President Bush appointed the wrong person for the job. For a president who deals in loyalty and absolutes, his loyalists absolutely suck.
October 20th, 2005 at 4:08 pm
Independent Thinker, what a bunch of blah blah blah. What media outlets that you are reading make the soldiers out for rubes? I have been reading the traitorous liberal media since before The Spanish-American War II: Iraqi Boogaloo started, and I don’t remember ever reading an article that made soldiers look like fools (outside of the Abu Gharib coverage). They are usually portrayed as either a) brave folks trying to do a tough job or b) brave folks being screwed by the incompentents running this show.
Clinton certainly had his share of scandals, blunders, and disasters. Every President in my lifetime has. But there has been nothing since Vietnam (a Bi Partisan/Wink Martindale production) that has made us look as arrogant, bumbling, and vulnerable as Iraq. It’s like we volunteered to build the sets and provide the extras for a terrorist propaganda film.
October 20th, 2005 at 4:09 pm
Yep, Carter definitely had Iran and his beloved Shah to deal with.
That, a bletcherous economy (I believe my family had a 14% mortgage in 1980 when we moved into our house in Virginia, and that was discounted), odd/even gas days, energy crises (crisises? crisii? Whatever)… I could go on.
Carter and the Dems haven’t been shining beacons of reason over the past few decades any more than the ‘Pubs. I say throw ‘em all out and start over.
October 20th, 2005 at 4:17 pm
Frodo failed…Bush has the Ring!
October 20th, 2005 at 4:52 pm
two words.
Karl. Rove.
’nuff said.
October 20th, 2005 at 5:02 pm
Two more words.
Tom. Delay.
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Nice.
October 20th, 2005 at 5:59 pm
Am I the only one that has noticed the soft-porn, gretchen liebrem ad? Or just the only one that will mention it?
October 20th, 2005 at 5:59 pm
urs says:
“Frodo failed…Bush has the Ring!”
That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time!
October 20th, 2005 at 6:35 pm
Bovine liberals?
October 20th, 2005 at 6:41 pm
Soft porn?
October 20th, 2005 at 8:58 pm
i so agree with you
but quesiton! where is your wife? lol she hasnt updated and i almost stopped breathing when i wasnt able to get at least a brand new sentence funny update from her page! lol.
hope all is well with you and your family!!
October 21st, 2005 at 1:46 am
A bit of trivia for you… who has the record for the highest approval ratings ever by a US President? Dubya. ( http://ask.yahoo.com/20051011.html ).
Doesn’t that just make you want to move to another country?
The good news is that he’s on his way to also setting the record for the lowest ever, too.
The wonderful decisions he’s been making lately are assisting with that, I’m sure.
October 21st, 2005 at 5:56 am
Not only is he on his way to the lowest approval ratings EVER, (at the expense of thousands of American lives), BUTTTTT, he also is going to set the record for MOST vacation days taken as President, eclipsing even Ron. Reagon.
whodathunk?????
October 21st, 2005 at 8:11 am
Well, you gotta give Reagan some credit: he took so many vacation days because he couldn’t remember if he’d already taken them. Bush takes ‘em ’cause he needs frequent breaks, what with that short attention span of his.
October 21st, 2005 at 10:11 am
Not to be the straw man, but, who the hell cares. Tell me how many Presidents have dealt with the shit that Dubya has? Not that I agree with everything he’s done, I’m far from that. But, I would love to see any of you ‘finger pointers’ dare to name a single person on the face of this planet that would WANT to be president of the good ol’ USA following Sept 11, Katrina, etc. etc. etc. You keep pointing fingers at his ineptness, but I guarantee you, none of you so called, ’self proclaimed experts’ could even stay sober let alone calm and collect with all that has transpired during this presidency (granted there was the crazy idea of going into Iraq.)