I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
You're drinking WGG's coffee, aren't you.
Jeepers
holy batshit
atrios is on the chocolate coated rocket fuel coffee beans.
heard this yesterday
sat in my car another 10 minutes after I got to where I was going
Bush's unqualified cronies deserved those vital FEMA jobs; it was their due. And, when the demi-trillions of hurricane recovery money start flooding out of the taxpayers pocket, Bush's cronies deserve to direct the flow; it is their due.
Your money; your government; their due.
I agree with Atrios. You should really listen to both of these.
In olden times, sunspots were seen as augurs of ominous events. Now they just predict Atrios posting a gazillion times an hour.
Y'know, the exterminator was just here and I figgered I'd fire up Eschaton and leisurely join a morning open thread about coffee and breakfast and bad puns and stuff....
Guess not, huh?
Guess not, huh?
bj
it hard work
My daughter and I were trying to figure out why it has become okay for the press to start reporting the truth of what has been going on for the past five years. Is it because w can't run again? Because his poll numbers are so low? Because the fuck up happened here in the U.S. where they couldn't cover it up? My daughter believes it is because the press corps is just bored and this gives them a good story. Pretty cynical. I think it is a combination of everything converging in NOLA.
BUSHCO LIED, PEOPLE DIED!
Plain and simple.
When a movie of Katrina gets made, I nominate Ann Coulter to play Chertoff.
The seemingly endless cadre of oily, well-connected Texas ReTHUGlicans in top federal jobs
is just one more manifestation of the utterlycorrupt and tone-deaf Administration of Chimpy Le Codpiece. Karen Huge is already off to an off-key, witless start. With any luck, she'll have all the world's militaries attacking us by next summer.
atrios , lets see your teeth. make sure theres no methmouth thingy'
You're drinking WGG's coffee, aren't you.
I haven't tried that coffee, yet.
Now I'm afraid to--will I end up posting every 21 seconds, with multi-screen screeds that, upon closer inspection, boil down to "all paranoia and no puns makes Uncle Smokes a dull boy?"
QL,
Because the reporters actually have boots on the ground, unfiltered, unembedded. They're seeing the extent of the damage and suffering. And there's nobody looking over their shoulder, intimatinig that they can't report on certain aspects of the story.
Y'know, they're acting like reporters.
Hey all, it's worth a stop on the thread below to check out Merkin --
including the brilliant "A MUSLIMINAL MESSAGE"
Well, maybe context is all....I hope someone is making a book a la Father Guido Sarducci
From Bumiller's "analysis" of the Brown demotion in the NYT:
One prominent African-American supporter of Mr. Bush who is close to Karl Rove, the White House political chief, said the president did not go into the heart of New Orleans and meet with black victims on his first trip there, last Friday, because he knew that White House officials were "scared to death" of the reaction.
"If I'm Karl, do I want the visual of black people hollering at the president as if we're living in Rwanda?" said the supporter, who spoke only anonymously because he did not want to antagonize Mr. Rove.
It's very important to make sure the facts are widely known - Fox News has spent the morning lying about th events and making Gov Blanco the target. It is clear this is a Federal failure for the most part and the result of Republican policies and they should not be allowed to lie their way out of it and the media that presents the lies as options should be called on it --the facts are known
"If I'm Karl, do I want the visual of black people hollering at the president as if we're living in Rwanda?" said the supporter, who spoke only anonymously because he did not want to antagonize Mr. Rove
I would give my left kidney to see that.
I have my problems with NPR as everyone else here does, but when NPR is good, it is very, VERY good.
From Addiestan via Gilliard. Read and weep.
My daughter and I were trying to figure out why it has become okay for the press to start reporting the truth of what has been going on for the past five years.
Also the mess presents a lot of good visuals. It helps ratings. The old "if it bleeds, it leads" stuff.
When a movie of Katrina gets made, I nominate Ann Coulter to play Chertoff.
Nah, not feminine enough.
Notice that Daniel Zwerdling is a real reporter. It could account for it.
This morning's Scott Sop he complained about the onsight reporters blowing around in the storm. While he had a point, it's bound to happen a few times a year, the bigger point is that for a change the cabloids had actual reporters, on site, doing what? Reporting. That could account for people being shocked by what they saw.
Today the typical "news" program doesn't consist of reporting but having talking idiots talking about how they fell, talking about how "the public" feels, talking about the political implications about what they aren't reporting about and playing Jeanne Dixon.
See your point Scott, but it's off the mark.
News is made of reporting, propaganda is made of "opinion" ""journalism"".
"If I'm Karl, do I want the visual of black people hollering at the president as if we're living in Rwanda?" said the supporter, who spoke only anonymously because he did not want to antagonize Mr. Rove
I would give my left kidney to see that.
watertiger
After this story Bush will be avoiding large groups of African Americans for quite some time. Patronizing bigoted jackass that he is.
Thanks for posting this NPR stuff Atrios, I'd been seeing folks comment on it without detail for the last couple hours.
What I think should be asked right now is what the people who run FEMA were doing all these years?
Were they just sitting in their offices palying solitaire on their computers or were they holding meetings and running scenarios on what to do to gather information of what to expect?
What do these people do with their 40 hour weeks?
What about the command structure?
Who do they report to?
How do they coordinate with people on ther ground and with the states?
Who is in charge when this happens?
Do local law enforcement have to answer to decisions made by FEMA? Or do they answer to their own local laws about the situation?
What were the heads of FEMA doing all this time? What were they doing with their hours at the office?
Is there a timeline of what their regular duties were and how they spent their time?
Were steps taken to ensure efficiency in the process? What are their jobs and responsibilities at FEMA? What do they do?
It seems to me that these peopele are nothing more than rich white collar CEOs who play golf and attend expensive luncheons to discuss politics than actually do their jobs.
MYOB'
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After this story Bush will be avoiding large groups of African Americans for quite some time. Patronizing bigoted jackass that he is.
That's why I keep asking if Mehlman is going to continue his tour of black churches, wherein he tries to convince black Americans that they need to vote Republican because liberals despise and disrespect them.
???
nominate Ann Coulter to play Chertoff.
If they make the movie really fast they can do it justice by having Anthony Hopkins play Chertoff.
attaturk,
he's been avoiding large groups of African-Americans since he was sworn in the first time.
Patronizing bigoted jackass that he is.
ditto.
If they make the movie really fast they can do it justice by having Anthony Hopkins play Chertoff.
Nah, they just need to get permission from Tim Burton.
One prominent African-American supporter of Mr. Bush who is close to Karl Rove
OK -- how many guys could this possibly be? Or should I say, women?
Just a bit of the Gilliard thing, from a volunteer psychologist on the ground:
Therefore, there is no consistent answer or approach or forethought. I am no infection guru but as soon as I heard on day one that people with no water were forced to drink water with bloated bodies, feces, and rats in it, the thought of cholera, typhoid, and delayed disease immediately occurred to me. What if the fears of disease are correct? People are fanning out throughout America. Where is the CDC?
In the age of computers, we are doing worse than the pencil squibs and the rolls of paper to log in the displaced after World War II. Literacy and computer access seems to be considered as a given for people who have lost it all. Accessing FEMA is through a website. People are in shelters waiting for FEMA to come "in a few days." "Be patient." The Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana pumped my hand and replied to my desperate queries about how to help people find their parents and babies, "Be patient--give us a few days."
The mothers who have lost their children, and there are many, and the children who have lost their parents, have had it with the "be patient" response. The shelters are surprisingly silent. It is hard to find the traumatized mothers because they cry silently. One mother asked how patient I would be if my five-month-old was somewhere unknown for over a week. Over and over, others would ask," Do you think my baby has milk and diapers?" "Do you think they are being kind to my baby?" And then, so softly that I would have to ask them to repeat, "Do you think my baby is okay?" My response--the convenient lie. Every time I said, "of course"; I prayed to God that it was true.
I am sure that there is a special ring of hell for the media: The survivor stories end-on-end for the titillation of the public. I heard Soledad O'Brien say something about the still unrecognized need to address the psychological trauma. I sent a response to the CNN tip-line that there were hordes of every manner of mental health professional working 24/7. CNN's response? Dr. Phil and the stories of the survivors" on Larry King. They went to the guy who lost his clinical license for serious professional infractions to tell the stories? I could see the "entertainer" down there gathering tales of the already exploited so that he and Larry could both pimp their ratings. The real unsung mental health heroes, the counselors, psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists dealing with un-medicated psychosis and severe traumatic responses were represented by Dr. "Keep-It-Real"? We don't need tabloid help from the media.
And if you haven't been reading it it, our own Otter is on the ground too.
Going to 4 shelters w/ ~650-700 DPs. PHS drug warehse 1 min walk from Command Ctr. Office faxed our supply list ~0600. "Never got it." Just have supplies we scraped together from leftovers & CVS. (Aside: CVS will only sell 2-3 items at a time--anti-hoarding. Our nurse bought 2 bags of OTC drugs & wound care mat'ls ringing them up 3 items at a time.)
PHS warehse manned by 1 beleaguered worker-bee w/o authority to buck regs . Worst lack--we don't have the 500 doses of Hep A, Hep B, Tetanus, Flu, & Pneumococcus vaccines we were supposed to give. We can do sick call, make lists of Rx's we can send by courier tomorrow, tend wounds, etc., but prevention? Fuggettaboudit!
Brown was undoubtedly stupid, but that's a must for any Chimp appointee. The whole shebang, Chimpy included, should be tossed into prison, and fed on toxic stew.
In positive news, Edgar Ray Killen's wrinkled old racist murdering ass is back in prison where it belongs.
Bush's popularity ratings are below 40% -is he still popular?
I am sure the media apologists will be talking about the post recovery bounce now that the feds have "boots on the ground"
Chris Matthews should go ont he Bush payroll -or his salary from GE should be counted as a political contribution he is a lying sack of shit
Gilly has been on fucking fire lately, i guess you get like that when they start killing your people.
OK -- how many guys could this possibly be? Or should I say, women?
Immanentize | Email | 09.10.05 - 10:34 am | #
I guarantee she's the only African-
American voting Republican in 06.
Seriously....
One prominent African-American supporter of Mr. Bush who is close to Karl Rove
OK -- how many guys could this possibly be? Or should I say, women?
Could be Richard D. Parsons, chairman and CEO of AOL Time Warner, a prominent Bush supporter and fundraiser who also happens to sit on Bush's Social Security destruction committee.
YOU LIBERASL ARE NOT ONLY TRATORS YOUR HATEFUL RACISTSS TOO YOU NOTICE COLOR AND I DONT - I NEVER KNEW THERE WERE BLACK PEOPLE IN NEW OLREANS I THOUGHT THEY WERE FRENCH WHICH PROVES GOD IS AN AMERICAN
YOU PROBABLY WANTED BUSH TO GO DOWN THERE SO THAT THE NATIVES COULD TOSS HIM IN A BOILING POT AND EAT HIM
I initially posted this three threads down, shortly after that thread came into existence, only to have it left hopelessly in the dust. So I am posting it again, with the curtailed preamble that WE ALL NEED TO GIVE FEEDBACK TO OUR MEDIA SOURCES about what they are doing that we like and don't like. If we keep up the pressure, they may just not snap back into fellate mode. If we don't, we can all be sure that all those wounded wingers will, and this whole pisode will somehow swirl down the memory bowl as having been the Clenis' fault.
My email to CNN:
I would like to congatulate your organization on having the courage to file suit over the issue of being excluded completely from the body recovery process and on winning a restraining order restoring your access.
Nobody wants to see recognizable images of their deceased loved ones on television, and it is reasonable for those in charge of the operation to place constraints on the coverage that will prevent that from happening. But for the administration to have the temerity to categorically exclude all journalists from the process, thus allowing no unbiased and unrestricted observer to bear witness to what has happened, is an outrage. It is an affront to the sanctity of the truth, and at the risk of being ghoulish, it stinks.
My hat is off to you for refusing to be cowed by an administration that seems to have more interest in covering its backside than in the media covering what has taken place.
Sincerely,
Herb Kasler.
That felt good, although I suspect nobody will read it. What matters is that iot will be counted, and that I clicked the "positive" button.
BOILING POT AND EAT HIM
i didnt know we could have asked for that...
I've been dying for the past two weeks to speculate that Georgie played with gollywogs when he was younger. The Bush view of minorities seems to be about at that level. If that's beyond the pale, it at least has the virtue of explaining something.
Derrick Jackson's column in today's Boston Globe is excellent and if I wasn't using a strange computer I'd give you a link.
Robert Kuttner's column is excellent too as is the letter pointing out the limits of Jeff Jacoby's compassion.
The
whole shebang, Chimpy included, should be tossed into prison, and fed on toxic
stew.
Lime Rickey | 09.10.05 - 10:35 am | #
You have nothing but hate.
Thanks for 04.
hubris: Gilly has been on fucking fire lately, i guess you get like that when they start killing your people.
Hubris Sonic | Email | Homepage | 09.10.05 - 10:36 am | #
troll and intellectual, black and white, gay and straight:
if you're an american, then all of the above are "your" people.
YOU PROBABLY WANTED BUSH TO GO DOWN THERE SO THAT THE NATIVES COULD TOSS HIM IN A BOILING POT AND EAT HIM
I'd have to talk to Paul Prudhomme about that....
oops,
Well, I guess everybody knows my real name now. Oh well...
This is not entirely OT: Rasmussen reports that a majority now believes the US has changed for the worse since 9/11.
I guarantee she's the only African-
American voting Republican in 06.
I just realized--Delay's massive (illegal) gerrymandering stunt in Texas might be thrown into a cocked hat.
His attempt to divide and to marginilize minority votes did not account for a hug influx of the kind of people he and his supporters fear will take them out.
Never fear--the newly relocated people may find it hard to cast their votes in '06, and by '08, Delay will have arranged more shananigans to suppress "undesirables."
He'll do it from prison if he has to.
troll and intellectual, black and white, gay and straight:
dont forget Vets.
hell, its everybody except the hate mongering racist fucknuts.
YOU PROBABLY WANTED BUSH TO GO DOWN THERE SO THAT THE NATIVES COULD TOSS HIM IN A BOILING POT AND EAT HIM
I'd have to talk to Paul Prudhomme about that....
Immanentiz
Reminds me of the ONION'S "Our Dumb Century" which recounted the demise of the Kingfish thusly:
"Huey Long Assassinated Cajun-Style: Dies real Spicey Like"
I heard Soledad O'Brien say something about the still unrecognized need to address the psychological trauma. I sent a response to the CNN tip-line that there were hordes of every manner of mental health professional working 24/7. CNN's response? Dr. Phil and the stories of the survivors" on Larry King. They went to the guy who lost his clinical license for serious professional infractions to tell the stories? I could see the "entertainer" down there gathering tales of the already exploited so that he and Larry could both pimp their ratings. The real unsung mental health heroes, the counselors, psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists dealing with un-medicated psychosis and severe traumatic responses were represented by Dr. "Keep-It-Real"? We don't need tabloid help from the media.
Priceless. Thought it needed repeating.
The residents of New Orleans are used to one of the most distinguished cusines in the world. If they boiled Bush they might feed him to stray dogs but not to dogs they care about.
If such a disaster strikes here and I'm in psychological distress, do me a favor, shoot me before Dr. Phil arrives.
Jesus Mary - I have been talking about typhus and cholera since the flood. This is so scary, and we are so utterly unprepared. If there is any justice in this world these idiots will be the first to be stricken.
How can basic vaccines not be available? And when there is a shortage of flu vaccine this year they will blame it on Katrina. Just watch.
(How you feeling btw?)
Bush's approval rating is below 40% this morning.
Yeahhhhh!
hell, its everybody except the hate mongering racist fucknuts.
Hubris Sonic | Email |
sadly friend, i have to disagree and say "especially the racist fucknuts." they have always been an important part of this country, since the genocide of the First Nations onward.
clean coffee beans, y'all.
Huey Long -- I did some historical research on him a long time ago in college and one fact is stuck in my head:
Huey was struck with one bullet from his assassin while that fellow ended up withover 100 bullets in him from Long's bodyguards.
Superior firepower is not enough
Chris Matthews should go ont he Bush payroll -or his salary from GE should be counted as a political contribution he is a lying sack of shit
Liars for Bush
You got that right. His one claim to fame is he completed a tour in the Peace Corps close to thirty years ago. But what has he done lately?
Daniel Zwerdling also did a report on torture in U.S. prisons of people swept up post-9/11.
He is a real reporter and should definitely get some turkee.
Anyone here ever figure out why, back when Operation Blessing was third on the FEMA list, NPR's website listed it second?
If such a disaster strikes here and I'm in psychological distress, do me a favor, shoot me before Dr. Phil arrives.
EPT
Does he get on YOUR nerves, too?
He would probably yell at cholera victims to "get over it."
thread sine!
This is really heart-breaking. And it accentuates the lack of resources and manpower because of the war.
Troops over there don't have adequate supplies or protection, and we don't have what we need over here in the face of the greatest natural disaster in out history.
WTF is going on?!!! The Bush administration needs to go. NOW!
NYMary - From Addiestan via Gilliard. Read and weep.
Did and did.
I've thought about the culture that has been drowned in the floods of the Gulf Coast and I don't know what will happen to this country without it. And the people who were part of it, who are now all over the place - I've wondered and wondered how they were going to start over.
Shit.
Chris Matthews should go ont he Bush payroll -or his salary from GE should be counted as a political contribution he is a lying sack of shit
Liars for Bush
He's a waste of space!
ATRIOS -
Thanx a lot for posting this. It would have taken me hours to make my own transcript.
If Dr. Phil gets within 6 feet of me, ever, he will regret it.
Fatuous ass.
blerb
It will be forgotten.
Bush's approval rating is below 40% this morning.
Which poll?
It's gonna get lower after this.
QL,
It's worse than that. Gilliard's psychologist noted that we're exposing people to these diseases, then fanning them out across the country, to the proferred apartments and beds, which shows the generosity of this nation to its compatriots, but is also an epidemiological nightmare.
Otter talked about the burns on the legs of those who walked through The Water (he said tou can hear the capital letters when they discuss it) and the complete lack of facilities to deal with those kind of wounds too.
I feel okay, though I'm not recovering from the weekend as I should. Tired all the time. It makes me emotionally vulnerable, so I end up doing dumb shit like posting paragraphs and paragraphs from someone else's blog. Sorry.
Terry C, Dr. Phil is a psychological vampire.
he's been avoiding large groups of African-Americans since he was sworn in the first time.
watertiger - True.
Commander CooCoo Bananas can only deal with African Americans who don't think of themselves as African Americans.
Thus we find that the goddess Oprah, like Shiva, is a saver/destroyer:
She went to NO and righteously pronounced "We are not amused" at the government's malfeasance and dereliction of duty.
But was it not Oprah who jump-started Dr. Phil's career, and is he not her familiar?
Bush avoids Americans who think of themselves as Americans. He only sees those who think of themselves as Freedonians.
meanwhile mark shitsteyn in the sun, calls nagin "foulmouthed".
no mention of cheney's remark on the senate floor.
NYMary, btw, congratulations! Looking forward to a new round of baby-blogging to accompany Rosie's.
troll and intellectual, black and white, gay and straight:
if you're an american, then all of the above are "your" people.
cd beat me to it.
Exactly.
Thanks, pie. Another couple of weeks and I should be my sunny old self again.
Coulter as Chertoff would be a waste of her talents..She could be in the part of the movie where they save the pets.... I can see her playing the lead bitch part with no problem at all.
f you're an american, then all of the above are "your" people.
Chicago Dyke - Thank you for that - I couldn't agree more.
Another couple of weeks and I should be my sunny old self again.
Yes, the old energy is zapped the first couple of months, but you seem pretty much your usual self.
Hard to be sunny these days anyway. 
Republicans do not believe in government. Therefore, they do not know HOW to govern. Democrats DO believe in government, and nobody complained about FEMA for 8 years during the Clinton administration.
They complained about filegate, and travelgate, and how Hillary had drug Vince Fosters lifeless body--big, big issues that affected the lives and security of every American.
Why would anybody preserve their loyalty to a party that doesn't like government, cannot govern, and obsesses over things like giving estate taxes back to multi millionairs and posting the 10 commandments on government buildings. The Republicans are a shallow, frivolous, party with false ideals, false values, and false leadership.
If Dr. Phil gets within 6 feet of me, ever, he will regret it.
Fatuous ass.
Tena | Email | Homepage | 09.10.05 - 10:49 am | #
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his very well balanced son ,obviosly well parented also,just married ...A PLAYBUY CENTERFOLD, very deep ya know
NPR drifter to the right after Bush won his lawsuit. Then, they sprinted to the right following the start of the Iraq war. I prefer ThinkProgress' timeleine.
wonder if Mr. A-man got the Limoncello I sent him at Eschacon? 
playboy = playbuy
" I have my problems with NPR as everyone else here does, but when NPR is good, it is very, VERY good.
Andrew | Email | 09.10.05 - 10:27 am | # "
They didn't offer any explanation for why Chimpy wanted Blanco to relinquish control over the NG. That story has never been fully explained.
No doubt partisans will think either that Blanco didn't give because Bush and the feds had already shown their incompetence, or Blanco was to blame for being stubborn and turned down Bush to make him look bad. Or something.
Atrios -
You missed the best part. As a diarist at Kos pointed out last night, Bush held up sending in troops and approving the transfer of the Natl Guard from other states as a bargaining chip against Blanco.
I posted this on another thread here last night.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonl...9/10/01516/
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Blanco was to blame for being stubborn and turned down Bush to make him look bad. Or something.
jri
How do you make that pathetic little fuck look any worse than he already does!
his very well balanced son ,obviosly well parented also,just married ...A PLAYBUY CENTERFOLD, very deep ya know
sittenpretty
God forbid that type would marry someone with a working brain.
troll and intellectual, black and white, gay and straight:
if you're an american, then all of the above are "your" people.
Trolls aren't MY people!
Send your comments to NPR:
http://www.npr.org/contact/confirm.html
Ahhh,,,,, NOW produced a segment on Public TV as well,,, I T1V0'd that... guess who the reporter was?
Zwerdling
his very well balanced son ,obviosly well parented also,just married ...A PLAYBUY CENTERFOLD, very deep ya know
Repug family values.
Tomlinsen will be gutting the NPR budget any minute now.
Or something evil.
Fascinating reading.
Bushies are saying they didn't have powers since Gov did not hand over the city. But then afer Gov rejected Bush's request, he still sent 82nd a day later. He could done that 3 days sooner. So their argument that Blanco didn;t make up her mind; she didn't give the powers to Bush, etc does not wash.
Refusing to Leave Them Behind, Evacuees Smuggled Their Pets Out With Them
Then there was Lola. Earlier this week, Boller was helping with pet intake at the Astrodome in the middle of the night when the lovebird arrived. The young woman who brought the bird obviously hadn’t slept for days, and she mentioned having come from the Superdome. All she and her little boy had with them was a small plastic bag of personal items, and Lola—although the bird was not immediately apparent to Boller’s eyes. The woman told him, “I’ve got something for you,” and then pressed her breasts together slightly and rolled her shoulders in a way that might have seemed suggestive in another context. Lola the lovebird popped up out of her cleavage, having spent most of the bus trip tucked inside her owner’s bra.
Don't miss This American Life this weekend. I posted about it below, in a dying thread, but it's almost all first person witnessing of the effects of Katrina and lack of disaster relief/rescue.
Very good. The woman who was part of the EMS couple whose write-up was posted was on, along with another out of town witness.
I got the impression when listening to NPR last night that there was an actual written timelime available on the NPR website, but I can't find anything. Is it only the transcript?
Anyone else hear that?
From the NY Times article on FEMA:
One prominent African-American supporter of Mr. Bush who is close to Karl Rove, the White House political chief, said the president did not go into the heart of New Orleans and meet with black victims on his first trip there, last Friday, because he knew that White House officials were "scared to death" of the reaction.
"If I'm Karl, do I want the visual of black people hollering at the president as if we're living in Rwanda?" said the supporter, who spoke only anonymously because he did not want to antagonize Mr. Rove.
At the same time, news reports quickly appeared about Mr. Brown's qualifications for the job...
As mind-boggling as the first two paragraphs are, look at the third.
Here is what has occurred: the NO situation degenerated to the point where all the coordinated spin about "the mayor and the governor", while not doing those two any favors, was NOT deflecting blame from the Bush White House.
So, new plan: yes indeed, "mistakes were made" (AEI whore James Glassman used that one last night, to the universal groans of the panel and audience on "Real Time With Bill Maher"!). Yes indeed, the Feds fucked up.
IT WAS ALL MICHAEL BROWN'S FAULT. But we've moved on, now. Crisis over. Everything's fine. Go back to your homes.
How do we know this was Karl's scheme? Because:
At the same time, news reports quickly appeared about Mr. Brown's qualifications for the job...
NEWS REPORTS ONLY "QUICKLY APPEAR" WHEN KARL ROVE MAKES THEM "QUICKLY APPEAR".
Meaning that, while the MSM and the left (in an uncharacteristic alliance) are patting themselves on the back that they've "uncovered" Brown's inadequate background with the horsies, and "forced him out"... the truth is that there's only one reason that they know all this in the first place.
Because Brown was, calculatingly, made the Media Blame Sponge for EVERYTHING.
Who does this? Who regularly creates Blame Sponges, like Dan Rather, Jim Hatfield, the Mark White campaign, etc? Rhymes with "tove" (as in "slithy").
Do not let this one stick!
Might be good to include links to the audio files --
http://www.npr.org/templates/
sto...storyId=4839666
http://www.npr.org/templates/
sto...storyId=4839669
Barry, I voiced this exact theory yesterday to someone. SOMEONE set them on Brownie, and it was totally after the failure to smear Nagin/Blanco.
But doesn't that beg the question still of how Bush put him in in the first place, how the FBI checks went, etc.? All I'm left with is them trying to pin it to JoMo's 42 min. confirmation hearing. But ALL fingers still point back to the Retarded Monkey, so I think was an endgame KKKarl was a little too desperate at the time to follow thru to its actual logical conclusion.
IO like that they made clear that Bush's offer of the 82d Airborne was contingent upon federalization of the National Guard. In other words, Bush said, "I'll help, but you have to turn the state's only real remaining resource over to the same incompetents who have dilydallied all week." THAT"S what Blanco had to think about, and I don't blame her a bit.
To reiterate the point made by others. Daniel Zwerdling is the best of NPR, and it's a shame that he has been relegated to an ever more limited role in recent years.
" The Republicans are a shallow, frivolous, party with false ideals, false values, and false leadership.
c4logic"
It's a subtle form of schizophrenia...
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, it's mental illness, plain and simple.
Being a Republican IS a mental disorder.
his very well balanced son ,obviosly well parented also,just married ...A PLAYBUY CENTERFOLD, very deep ya know
Repug family values.
Tena
Yep - Bimbolina will keep her mouth shut, not burden him with her opinions and stroke his ego....among other things...so long as he keeps her in furs and jewelry.
One prominent African-American supporter of Mr. Bush who is close to Karl Rove, the White House political chief, said the president did not go into the heart of New Orleans and meet with black victims on his first trip there, last Friday, because he knew that White House officials were "scared to death" of the reaction.
"If I'm Karl, do I want the visual of black people hollering at the president as if we're living in Rwanda?" said the supporter, who spoke only anonymously because he did not want to antagonize Mr. Rove.
If he's a staunch supporter of preznit asswipe, why does he wish to remain anonymous?
" My daughter believes it is because the press corps is just bored and this gives them a good story. Pretty cynical. I think it is a combination of everything converging in NOLA.
ql in ny"
CNN filed a lawsuit against the Fed, and apparently won.
George Will and Rush Limbaugh have had their private emails hacked: Rush loves McLaughlin.
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