Molly Ivins: George Bush investigates!

[Dudley_DUright]

George W. Bush has come up with his worst idea since he decided to have the military investigate torture by the military at Abu Ghraib prison. He, George W. personally, plans to investigate to "find out what went right and what went wrong" in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

It's hard to guess where Bush will look first, but maybe he should start with the appointment of "Brownie" to head FEMA, the federal disaster relief agency. "Brownie" is Michael Brown, who was appointed by some president.

At the time, Brownie was deputy director of the agency under Joe Allbaugh -- because he was Joe Allbaugh's college roommate, you see, and Allbaugh was Bush's campaign manager in 2000, you see, which made both of them qualified to manage disasters.

The FEMA press release announcing Brownie's appointment started with his other obvious qualification, "From 1991 to 2001, Brown was the commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association." It's unclear whether "Brownie" was fired or resigned from the organization in the wake of financial mismanagement and lawsuits.

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http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=19583

[katty]

1. bush investigates: takes a peek under his desk,OK, I'm done

[Catfight]

2. Molly's right on as usual. FIRE BUSH. nt

[Briar]

3. Molly gets it

The racism is endemic and it is being used to scapegoat and demonise the black population of NO - all tarred with the same brush as "rapists" and "looters" and so on, and therefore all undeserving of help. White America can look away and get on with its own smug concerns (with an extra gun in the bedside drawer, maybe. For protection against the black underclass which has boiled out of the sewers. "I can't be a good Christian about this" they will say, self righteously).

Molly says:

"The bottom line is they're playing the race card. As many of you have noted, it IS a racial issue that poor people suffer most in any natural or economic disaster. Because Katrina hit the Deep South, a great many of the poor people affected are black, especially in New Orleans -- both hit hardest and majority black to begin with.

"I'm not sure what to say about a cable news station that plays a "loop" of black looters over and over -- about 20 seconds of actual footage, replayed for four minutes, while the voiceover dwells on the looting problem. Obviously, there are some looters in New Orleans and elsewhere, and equally obviously, there are lots of people who were without food or water for days...

"Watch carefully, listen carefully -- minority groups have always been blamed after natural disasters, since the days when the Hungarians were supposed to have cut the fingers off bodies to get the gold rings in the wake of the Johnstown Flood. Dirty Bohunks."

Don't let them get away with it!

[texpatriot2004]

4. Ivins is so good. She cuts to the chase. This part is funny.

"...But the Bush administration officials are in full blame-shifting mode: First, they announced repeatedly they don't want to "play the blame game." Then, they start blaming everybody else..."