Tweak My E-ltr to the Sunday Yakkers

[UTUSN]

The George W. Bush Personality Cult

The Sunday yap circuses will be spewing that BUSH’s New Orleans reconstruction plan is FDR-LBJ-ish.

It is not. It is not an ongoing, socially conscious PROGRAM. It is a frat boy, drunken-sailor binge of throwing money at an unpleasant situation with the hope of making it disappear---say, like paying for a couple of abortions.

At this point, it is completely unfathomable what Republicans/Conservatives find to admire in BUSH . He has turned his professed ideology topsy turvey, while claiming to be faithful: He has pursued international meddling and agression, has blown the national treasury to bits, has pandered to constituencies his actual adherents abhor.

At his first inaugural speech, the only genuine applause he got was for tax cuts. Since then, he has been all about carpetbagger contracts --first and always in the energy sphere, then for reconstruction in Iraq, now in New Orleans.

Apparently this is enough for Republicans/Conservatives to continue their support of him: Bluster and greed. Their support is not principled, it is merely a cult of personality, like those in the various, supposedly “Axis” places.

[BOSSHOG]

1. Love your passionate letter UTUSN

but drunken sailors rarely throw money at unpleasant situations and any one drunken sailor has tons more integrity and discipline and patriotism than a Super Bowl full of conservative republicans. Bush's support is solely ignorant and proud people not wanting to admit they were wrong and rich people who just stay quiet and enjoy the tax cuts. You keep giving them hell shipmate.

[UTUSN]

2. LOL, Thanks Shipmate n/t

[babylonsister]

3. Is this true -

"The Sunday yap circuses will be spewing that BUSH’s New Orleans reconstruction plan is FDR-LBJ-ish."
The only person I heard who compared that pathetic speech to LBJ was Tweety. I suggest you don't give them any more ammunition.
Please read this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/opinion/17dowd.html

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On Thursday night, Mr. Bush wanted to appear casually in charge as he waged his own Battle of New Orleans in Jackson Square. Instead, he looked as if he'd been dropped off by his folks in front of a eerie, blue-hued castle at Disney World. (Must be Sleeping Beauty's Castle, given the somnambulant pace of W.'s response to Katrina.)

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Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

More Columns by Maureen Dowd All Andrew Jackson's horses, and all the Boy King's men could not put Humpty Dumpty together again. His gladiatorial walk across the darkened greensward, past a St. Louis Cathedral bathed in moon glow from White House klieg lights, just seemed to intensify the sense of an isolated, out-of-touch president clinging to hollow symbols as his disastrous disaster agency continues to flail.

In a ruined city - still largely without power, stinking with piles of garbage and still 40 percent submerged; where people are foraging in the miasma and muck for food, corpses and the sentimental detritus of their lives; and where unbearably sad stories continue to spill out about hordes of evacuees who lost their homes and patients who died in hospitals without either electricity or rescuers - isn't it rather tasteless, not to mention a waste of energy, to haul in White House generators just to give the president a burnished skin tone and a prettified background?

The slick White House TV production team was trying to salvage W.'s "High Noon" snap with some snazzy Hollywood-style lighting - the same Reaganesque stagecraft they had provided when W. made a prime-time television address from Ellis Island on the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. On that occasion, Scott Sforza, a former ABC producer, and Bob DeServi, a former NBC cameraman and a lighting expert, rented three barges of giant Musco lights, the kind used for "Monday Night Football" and Rolling Stones concerts, floated them across New York Harbor and illuminated the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop for Mr. Bush.

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[UTUSN]

4. Oh, They've Never Bit My Ammo Either Way

I have a bin-ful of e-ltrs dating back to the FAKE impeachment, all ignored as far as I can tell. As for Tweety being the only one, perhaps for the FDR-LBJ language, but there are plenty of threads around here grousing about examples of media-Shrub-love.