On Monday, I was reading a weather forecast from NOAA that might best be summarized as HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS IS THE BIG ONE. Any minimally competent President, regardless of his political platform, could have started the movement of rescuers and supplies to the Gulf Coast then, if not sooner, so that he could be riding in on Marine One and photogenically passing out water bottles as soon as the rain stopped.
This crowd can't even do the lame political gestures right any more. Are they so full of hubris about winning (or fixing) the next election that they don't care about such things? Do they think that if they don't look at the impending catastrophe, it might not happen? (I used to do that with credit-card bills. It didn't work out too well.) Or is Karl Rove too busy talking to his lawyer to tell the boss which hand to wipe his ass with?
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Date: 2005-09-02 07:12 pm (UTC)On Monday, I was reading a weather forecast from NOAA that might best be summarized as HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS IS THE BIG ONE. Any minimally competent President, regardless of his political platform, could have started the movement of rescuers and supplies to the Gulf Coast then, if not sooner, so that he could be riding in on Marine One and photogenically passing out water bottles as soon as the rain stopped.
This crowd can't even do the lame political gestures right any more. Are they so full of hubris about winning (or fixing) the next election that they don't care about such things? Do they think that if they don't look at the impending catastrophe, it might not happen? (I used to do that with credit-card bills. It didn't work out too well.) Or is Karl Rove too busy talking to his lawyer to tell the boss which hand to wipe his ass with?