I finally took some time to read Peter Daou’s — of Salon.Com’s Daou Report –latest essay on the limitations of political blogging. Given the line of work I’m in, it’s pretty much required reading. It’s also pretty interesting reading, though I have a somewhat different view than the one Daou seems to reach at the […]
Between the Katrina aftermath and the war in Iraq, I can’t help wondering what the final body count of the Bush administration’s policies will be; and that’s in American lives, since we’ll probably never have an accurate count of just how many other countries have their own Bush body counts.
Anyway, the American body count in […]
I’ve been coming across these links for days, and finally collected enough to post them. Whatever the political fallout from Katrina may be, it’s definitely the first hurricane with it’s own video (Quicktime, Windows Media).
With a line of George W. Bush dancers, no less.
The music in the video is “George Bush Doesn’t Like Black People,” […]
If I didn’t know better, I’d swear that FEMA is actually trying to do the exact opposite of its job. When I saw the first story about FEMA today, I let it slide, hoping there was a reasonable explanation for why the agency is burning food intended for Katrina victims.
Hundreds of tons of British food […]
Remember this picture? It was a favorite of conservative bloggers in the days immediately after hurricane Katrina, and was used to signify the failure of state and local officials in preparing to evacuate people. Particular criticism was aimed at governor Blanco.
Well, come to find out that the federal government — via FEMA — had promised […]
I’ve seen this piece from The American Spectator linked in a couple of places today , and I finally decided to check it out. If even Bush insiders are saying they’ve pretty much blown it, what’s next for those of us on the other side?
“You run down the list of things we thought we could […]
Only FEMA would order a doctor who volunteered to come down and help hurricane victims in New Orleans to stop saving lives.
In the midst of administering chest compressions to a dying woman several days after Hurricane Katrina struck, Dr. Mark N. Perlmutter was ordered to stop by a federal official because he wasn’t registered with […]
This morning, the first thing I saw on the train into D.C. was a headline I read over a fellow commuter’s shoulder. It read “Katrina Ushers in Return of Big Government,” apparently a response to Bush’s speech and the amount of money now being allocated to relief and reconstruction efforts.
The era of big government is […]
I confess, I did not watch Bush’s speech last night. We don’t watch the president’s speeches in our house, mainly because hearing him speak — or attempt to speak — is usually a painful experience. I prefer to read the transcript that come out shortly after the speech is over which is what I did […]
I resisted posting about this picture last night, even as it rocketed around the blogosphere last night. Though it appeared at an opportune, and perhaps auspicious moment, I held off because I couldn’t help wondering about the veracity of the picture. After all, I’ve been fooled before, by embarassing photos of Bush that later turned […]
I missed this, so I’m clipping from Americablog because it’s too good not to share.
Wanda Sykes, on Jay Leno, says of president Bush.
Jay: "But President Bush took responsibility."
Wanda: "I don’t think the President should have taken responsibility…. I don’t blame the President. I blame the American people. Y’all knew the man was slow […]
Not literally, but he might as well have been sitting around yankin’ it for 36 hour after Katrina struck. I don’t know what he was doing, but he wasn’t about sending help to people who were in harm’s way and in need of it.
The federal official with the power to mobilize a massive federal […]
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Conservatives/Republicans think that the poor — even those who find themselves in the path of a hurricane, with no escape — generally deserve whatever they get. Most conservaties won’t come right out and say it. Some will express a thinly veiled contempt for the poor (working […]
Last week Condi Rice said race was not a factor in the response to Katrina.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended President Bush on Sunday against charges that the government’s sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina showed racial insensitivity.
"Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race," the administration’s […]
At last, a theory that explains not only how Micheal Brown ended up at FEMA, but also explains how Bush got into the White House, along with many other mysteries of life. It’s the Mediocre Fratboy Theory.
All this illustrates what might be called the Mediocre Frat Boy Theory of Life. One of the things that […]