Tuesday, August 30, 2005

 

Newsflash: Bush Didn't Make It To Ararat

I watched a few minutes of CNN tonight, and thought to myself: He's been so careful to avoid Cindy, he didn't even see Katrina coming.

The American media may take the opportunity to show us, up close, over the next few days and weeks, what they haven't been permitted to show us in Iraq and Afghanistan: The Bush administration's appalling incompetence, in delivering even the rudiments of government services. This time, though, we'll get to see Americans die, in real time.

What Bush must do, of course, in the face of widespread evacuations, perhaps hundreds dead, and maybe a million newly homeless, is to mobilize a massive effort to first rescue the living, then find and bury the dead, then house and clothe hundreds of thousands of survivors, at least temporarily. There should be emergency laws passed to prevent profiteering, too.

Sheeyeah; right!

You know, the kind of things they've been doing so well in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But if oil spikes up near $100 a barrel, and let's say the widespread southeastern flooding causes the housing bubble to burst --

-- I'd say all bets are off. And at that point, Bush may want to "armor up" all the White House vehicles . . .

posted by Michael 9:20 PM