"They had nothing before the storm anyway, so things are working out nicely for them."

- Babs

"And so it's -- my attitude is this: New Orleans, better days are ahead. It's sometimes hard for people to see progress when you live in a community all the time. Laura and I get to come -- we don't live here, we come on occasion. And it's easy to think about what it was like when we first came here after the hurricane, and what it's like today."

Um, so New Orleans looks better to Bush because he's never there?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070829-5.html

The misery incompetence, ineptitude, corruption, cronyism, hopelessness, despair, and lack of accountability in New Orleans is in its last throes.

The president and Chertoff should be strapped to chairs and forced to listen to Linkin Park's "the little things give you away" until they really get it.

Only 16 1/2 months left to Bush's reign of terror...

Did Miss Pissy read to the "chilren" in the new "skuel"?

Her face ought to be enough to send the swamp rats swimming all the way to Baton Rouge.

When Bill Clinton was president I could never understand the loathing that Republicans had for him and Hillary.

Now I do. I'm so sick of looking at Laura's insipid cow-face and listening to her idiot-boy husband mangling the English language that I just have to keep reminding myself that it's just 17 more months until we are finally rid of them both.

There's a special Hell reserved for this man and his enablers.

I have never heard a better spin on "I know I hardly ever come here, but there's a really good reason why."

Maybe it would work with a girlfriend: "Honey, I know I never call, and I never come to see you, but you look beautiful. If I saw you every day, I would tire of your remarkable good looks. But because I spend so much time with my other women, when I come by you look so pretty, so sexy. I'm glad I don't see you very often, or I would tire of you. Let me toss this condom in the trash. Well, gotta go!"

I marked the anniversary of Katrina by reading James Lee Burke's short story, "Jesus Out to Sea." After reading Burke's description from the point of view of a man sitting on the spine of his roof in Katrina's aftermath, I can think of nothing more obscene than GW Bush holding his head high while speaking in New Orleans. Stomach turning.

...sadly, this exposes the loopy logic behind the president's rosy outlook regarding Iraq as well. 17 months seems brutally long to me.

BY his own word, he is "seeing things" that others cannot.

While I have heard him referred to as psychopathic and sociopathic, this is the first time he himself has given testimony to hallucinations.

Has he dressed as Napolean yet?

No surprise here. He sees progress in Iraq that is invisible to the rest of the world. He sees progress in rebuilding our armed forces so we can invade Iran that is invisible to the Military. He sees all kinds of stuff that others apparently don't. Where I come from, that's one of the hallmarks of insanity.

I can think of nothing more obscene than GW Bush holding his head high while speaking in New Orleans.

I can.

Holding his head high and mouthing empty platitudes while using as stage props the local black children he and his administration have done so much to help. And since there's at least one or two emergency rooms in New Orleans still open, they all have "health insurance," too.

["Go to Hell

There's a special Hell reserved for this man and his enablers."]

--Anonymous

Sadly, as so many of his enablers will be following and continuing to tell him how great and divine he is, he won't even know the difference in the spiritual world.

Take a minute to put on your special Karl Rove designer spectacles and see what W sees:

A poor, predominantly African-American city that is now a predominantly white, smaller city and soon will be even whiter when real estate developers buy out the few remaining blacks with empty lots. Luxury homes, co-ops and condos to follow. Thanks to the insurance companies for dragging their feet paying off claims. "Here's your check. Too bad the housing market collapsed. Keep the trailer as FEMA's going away gift. I-10 is that way."

Southeastern Louisiana will now be a red zone in a purple state. Katrina (and Rove) drove out 200,000 mostly black, mostly Democratic, voters to other red states. This diaspora of African-American voters will help Republican candidates in state-wide elections.

The casinos are back on the Gulf shore. The $4 billion aimed at wealthy Katrina victims helped them recover sooner than the poor victims who are still fighting for their federal aid. Shout out to Governor Haley Barbour! Who dat?!

W is not delusional. Everything is going according to plan. The Chinese character for chaos is a mix of the characters for confusion and opportunity. Bush, Rove and company saw opportunity in Katrina's destructive power and took advantage of it.

Bush once said, "Some call you the super rich. I call you 'my base.'" People still think W is visiting the poor and homeless in New Orleans and the Gulf coast. He's actually visiting his prospering base.

Sweet.

Because, after two years, the White House can't think of any ways to make it worse?

No doubt Cheney will try to run that place as well.

Oddly, he claims that if only the rest of us spent more time in Iraq, we'd understand that amazing progress is being made. We simply can't know how wonderful life is there because we're not there.

In a complete reversal, he claims that you can only see the progress in NOLA by NOT going there.

Somewhere, the Mad Hatter is pissing himself.

about my son, that he's growing so much bigger, and how I "just can't tell" because I see him every day.

Oh, yeah, because even though I'm lifting him up 17,000 times a day, I'd never notice he was bigger if Gramma didn't tell me. Just like I'm sure the person living in NO, neck-deep in rubble, "doesn't notice" the condemned houses on his block that say "DOA" on the door in red letters until the President comes and points it out.

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