WTF Is It Now?!?

Stuff I saw on the internets
"A president who flew from Crawford to Washington in a heartbeat to intervene in the medical case of a single patient, Terri Schiavo, has no business lecturing anyone about playing politics with tragedy." - Frank Rich.

“Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.”
–President Bush, to FEMA director Michael Brown, while touring hurricane-ravaged Mississippi, Sept. 2, 2005.

Presidential Debates 2008:
Question 1: What can be done to improve the government that has gone screaming downhill since Dubya's Daddy gave him the White House to play in?

Dumbfuck republican candidate: I don't believe that my esteemed opponent understands the intricacies of national politics.

NOLA Mayor Ray Nagin: I'd make it so that if you didn't shut the fuck up, get off your ass, and DO WHAT YOU ARE PAID TO DO, you'd be out trying to find a goddamn job at McDonald's.

-Nagin wins.
(email from Kathy A)

This time, during a catastrophe, the president did not merely dither for seven minutes, but for three days, and his top advisors followed suit....

While a rising chorus in the press has taken the White House, FEMA and the Pentagon to task for performing miserably in their response to the human disaster on the Gulf Coast, few have focused on the most telling aspect of the entire failure. It’s not just incompetence. It’s a shameful lack of concern: The 9/11 “My Pet Goat” dithering on an administration-wide scale.

Simply stated, the president and his top advisers chose vacation over action.

While the media has done a good job in portraying the overall deadly failure of leadership, it has not focused enough on this deadly dereliction of duty....


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