WTF Is It Now?!?

Pic by Koscsó Gábor.

The bungling Bush presidency is falling apart
"A massive failure."

I don't think anyone anticipated that a videotape would come out showing Bush was warned about the breach of the levees.

[A] former member of Republican administrations whose foreign policy views are decidedly hard-line recently had this to say to a friend about the Bush administration: This might be the most inept administration in American history.

[Chimpy's] lack of historical perspective, his crusading religiousness, his Texas-style shoot-first-ask-questions-later approach to complex problems - that is, all the shortcomings that were obvious from the beginning of his presidency - seem to be catching up with him now. It's one thing to be a decisive leader. It is quite another to be consistently making the wrong decisions.

The tape of him being briefed on Katrina by Federal Emergency Management Agency officials is particularly damning.

"He was completely engaged at all times!" Even when he was cutting brush on his photo-op "ranch," eating birfday cake with eager patsy John McCain, and happily strumming the guitar at another fundraiser!

But where, then, is the first-hand evidence of this engagement? Where is the evidence of Bush's leadership?

[The] newly leaked video shows President Bush sitting passively as he is briefed on the killer storm heading directly for the Gulf Coast. Senior officials voice dire predictions including the distinct possibility of severe flooding in New Orleans.

He asks no questions. And when he spoke it was to offer what turned out be unfounded assurances...

But the fraudulence of Bush's words, of course, was caught on tape as well, in the now-familiar but still searing images of thousands of New Orleans residents stranded for days on rooftops or hellish disaster shelters. Not to mention those who died waiting for help that never came.

Those videos are enabling the hurricanes, you merica-haters. Besides, it was Kathleen Blanco's fault.