They had 3 years, NOW all of a sudden it's important
posted by
Wally
11:45 AM
Just over 3 years ago, while Dubya was pretending to play guitar and help John McCain (you've heard of that guy, right?) blow out his birthday candles, New Orleans was drowned by hurricane Katrina. Back then, even though they had been given a full week of warning, Bush and McCain had more important things to worry about than a silly little storm. Important things like fundraising to get John McCain re-elected.
Since then, they've had three years to repair and rebuild New Orleans. After grand promises about rebuilding it better than before, Bush has done essentially nothing in the past three years. While the city is rising from the floodwaters, it is doing so primarily through the effort of volunteers, and the people who live and love in New Orleans. Bush and McCain ignored New Orleans while Katrina was looming on the horizon. The ignored New Orleans while Katrina was ravaging the city. And they've ignored it for the past three years since.
How times change....
Now that Gustav is bearing down on New Orleans, all of a sudden Dubya is taking interest. In fact, he and Cheney feel that it's of such critical importance that they can't even be bothered to tap dance their way through Minneapolis for the Republican Convention.Bush, Cheney to skip Republican convention
White House says president, vice president will focus on Hurricane Gustav
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will skip the Republican National Convention because of mounting concerns about Hurricane Gustav, the White House said Sunday.
His Homeland Security chief warned that Gustav could prove more challenging than Katrina and the nation's disaster response coordinator worried about New Orlean's fragile levees. About those fragile levees, what the fuck has the Bush administration and FEMA been doing for the past 3 years? It's not like these are back to back storms. It's been THREE FREAKING YEARS! All of a sudden now it's a number one priority? Bush planned to get an update on preparations for the storm, which could make landfall along the Gulf Coast as early as Monday Right on time for the RNC. Right on time to highlight and remind the voters of yet another grand failure of the Bush administration. Right on time to make them all rethink the past 8 years - to rethink it enough to not even want the Prez and Vice Prez to show up. What does it say when the President isn't even welcome at his own party's convention?
And to James Dobson and his "Focus on the Family" group, and all those good "christians" who were praying for rain to fall during Obama's convention speech.... your prayers have been answered. Here's your rain. Lots of it. Right on time for the convention. More proof that, if there is a god, he (or she or it) is definitely not a republican.
And STAY out!!
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And yet it's practically a neck in neck race at this point, pretty damn close to Nov. What's the fucking story? This is just so so strange that SOMETHING'S up. I don't know what it is, maybe they've learned how to lobotomize people from a distance or something but I tell you, this by any rational criteria should be fucking impossible, yet nearly half of likely voters WANT McCrone! I'm going to stay the hell away from big buildings, Washington D.C., New York and go camping up at Convict Lake with a gun and a shitload of food.
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