Is this a find?

While having been plotting to write about the many subtle satires of Bush a la Iranian film, I happened across Mr. Bush's own assessment of when fingers should be pointed:

"Some one of my visits—one of the reasons I'm visiting here is to ask the question, you know, to people, because if there's moving too slow or people are saying one thing and the other thing is not happening, now's the time to find out."
—Bush, talking about hurricane relief
Source: Federal Document Clearing House, "George W. Bush Delivers Remarks on Tornado Damage," May 13, 2003

This is widely available, though I found it here. I'm too lazy to find an actual link to just that comment, but I trust my avid readers to not be lazy enough to use the search function.

A couple of things

To all my adoring fan, I haven't written for weeks. But a couple thoughts on Kiss me Katrina. Horseman Mike Brown (not to be confused with that other incompetent Mikey Brown of Cincinnati Bungles fame) has so proved me right that, even if it didn't get tested out, Governor Fletcher appointing someone with no NO law enforcement experience as Chairman of the DHS was an unforgivable act of hubris and cronyism that I'm just glad didn't come back to haunt him.

Second, based on Bush's idea that he didn't know why the poor didn't evacuate, and his further assertion that no one could have predicted how bad it would get, if Nero had been getting his freak on in the Big Easy last weekend, he would have ended up in the Superdome. With his daughters, who I'm sure would have gotten Stockholm syndrome, if'n it's not already too late to go back.

Third, and most important, I believe the best days of the Bush administration are ahead. Look at the emasculation of Clint ton after his brazen displays of manhood: The market went crazy during his second term. The internet bubble, budget surpluses. Hell, America likes it when the POTUS and Congress are so embroiled in trying to out one another's improprieties that the country is left to it's business. I foresee the offer from RUsh: "$1M offered for information on any Democratic member of Congress who neglected a natural catastrophe" Chris Dodd, what about that mudslide at the Hartford Courant festival that claimed the lives of 12 pigs while you stood there and did nothing? NOTHING?!?!?? "Youthful cowardice," you say? We're on to you, buddy. Yeah.

Himicane

Something strikes me about Bush's defense of his reaction to hurricane Katrina: Based on his arguments, had he been vacationing in New Orleans, he would have been among the stranded there. He doesn't know why the people didn't evacuate, but claims that there was no way for them to have known how big a problem their not evacuating would cause, so, why, then, would they evacuate? It's a circular argument of the most frustrating sort.

Political Appointments

All my friends said I was beating a dead horse. It was a political appointment, it didn't matter if the person was qualified. I feel a little bit of vindication next to my sadness at the destruction in the South land after feeling Katrina's wrath. Unfortunately, the incompetence of cronyism and unqualified political appointees may end up wreaking more havoc than Katrina.

Do you get it now, libruls? Do you?