WTF Is It Now?!?

"Apparently in the current atmosphere where national security is the number one priority, it never crossed anyone's mind that perhaps the Federal Emergency Management Agency might be important." - from this week's Top 10 Conservative Idiots, at DU.

Accountabilitude
"We stand for things." - George W. Bush, Aug. 5, 2004.

"Part of the facts is understanding we have a problem, and part of the facts is what you're going to do about it." - George W. Bush, April 15, 2005.

"Give me a chance to be your president and America will be safer and stronger and better." - George W. Bush, July 13, 2004.

"It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States." - Dick "dick" Cheney, August 2004.

The Bush administration's attempts to shift accountability elsewhere - first to the victims stuck in New Orleans for not leaving, later to Louisiana officials and "bureaucrats" - are an appalling use of political tactics.

These are beyond outrageous. No state, no locality can take the lead in dealing with an emergency like Katrina. That's why FEMA was created in the first place, dickheads.

Incompetence is bad enough; not taking responsibility for it is shameful. Blaming it on others is a national disgrace.

- from an editorial in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Mostly.

Fun fact: the Independant reports that "toxic chemicals in the New Orleans flood waters will make the city unsafe for full human habitation for a decade, a US government official said on Sunday. And, he added, the Bush administration is covering up the danger."

Fun fact 2: "America's Mayor" has called for a for Sept. 11-style probe into the government's Katrina failure.


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