Posted on 09/06/2005 8:50:14 PM PDT by nj26
It took a while, but the president finally figured out a response to the destruction of New Orleans.
Later this week (no point rushing things) W. is dispatching Dick Cheney to the rancid lake that was a romantic city. The vice president has at long last lumbered back from a Wyoming vacation, and, reportedly, from shopping for a $2.9 million waterfront estate in St. Michael's, a retreat in the Chesapeake Bay where Rummy has a weekend home, where "Wedding Crashers" was filmed and where rich lobbyists hunt.
Maybe Mr. Cheney is going down to New Orleans to hunt looters. Or to make sure that Halliburton's lucrative contract to rebuild the city is watertight. Or maybe, since former Senator John Breaux of Louisiana described the shattered parish as "Baghdad under water," the vice president plans to take his pal Ahmad Chalabi along for a consultation on destroying minority rights.
The water that breached the New Orleans levees and left a million people homeless and jobless has also breached the White House defenses. Reality has come flooding in. Since 9/11, the Bush administration has been remarkably successful at blowing off "the reality-based community," as it derisively calls the press.
But now, when W., Mr. Cheney, Laura, Rummy, Gen. Richard Myers, Michael Chertoff and the rest of the gang tell us everything's under control, our cities are safe, stay the course - who believes them?
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
She is so stupid...
She's not stupid,she's just plain nuts.
Thanks... that's one of my favorites.
OOOOH...I hear a lot of class envy here from Miss Dowdy.
Poor bitter old woman.
I live for MoDo threads.
Perhaps we should just forget about MoDo and focus on CZJ.
amazing this women can make a living from throwing a childish snit in the paper every week.
Logic? Facts? Adult behavior? Nope, this is a maureen dowd column!
Don't let facts confuse you, Mo.
Maureen Dowd is like that bitter employee that never moves on. They hang around the water cooler, ascribing the most nefarious of motives to any action taken by managment, then are utterly suprised when no one will sit by them at the company picnic.
It took a while, but the president finally figured out a response to the destruction of New Orleans."
Another IDIOT.
BUSH DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY ON SATURDAY. US MILITARY AND FEMA WERE IN ACTION SINCE THEN:
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1125213007249320.xml
"On Saturday at 7 p.m., the Hurricane Center placed the storm 360 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River, with winds of 115 mph. The forecast projected the storm sweeping directly over the city.
The Hurricane Center posted a hurricane warning from Morgan City to the Alabmama-Florida line.
President Bush declared a state of emergency in Louisiana, authorizing federal emergency management officials to release federal aid and coordinate disaster relief efforts.
By mid-afternoon, officials in Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, Lafourche, Terrebonne and Jefferson parishes had called for voluntary or mandatory evacuations.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin followed at 5 p.m., issuing a voluntary evacuation.
Nagin said late Saturday that he's having his legal staff look into whether he can order a mandatory evacuation of the city, a step he's been hesitant to do because of potential liability on the part of the city for closing hotels and other businesses. "
You'd think they'd just get tired of being WRONG eventually...
The media just loves windy ladies, Katrina, Dowd, Sheehan, etc,etc,etc.
"You'd think they'd just get tired of being WRONG eventually..."
:-)
Nah. With the New York Times, it's the CONSISTENCY that counts.
You can always rely on them to find out what an upper eastside liberal elitist thinks of an event.
Maureen has this picture next to her bed in a silver frame, only she's cut out Catherine's face and put a picture of her's there. So she can pretend Michael and her are still together. Sometimes when she's really lonely (which is often), she dresses up her cats in dresses and pretends its an afternoon tea party with Manhattan A-listers. She brags about how wonderful life is being Mrs. Michael Douglas and her "guests" meow back at her.
Is there some scatalogical need with some Freepers to even give that sack of crap the time of day?
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