Maureen Dowd says Andy Card is vacationing in Maine!

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/03/opinion/03dowd.html

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It would be one thing if President Bush and his inner circle - Dick Cheney was vacationing in Wyoming; Condi Rice was shoe shopping at Ferragamo's on Fifth Avenue and attended "Spamalot" before bloggers chased her back to Washington; and Andy Card was off in Maine - lacked empathy but could get the job done. But it is a chilling lack of empathy combined with a stunning lack of efficiency that could make this administration implode.

When the president and vice president rashly shook off our allies and our respect for international law to pursue a war built on lies, when they sanctioned torture, they shook the faith of the world in American ideals.

When they were deaf for so long to the horrific misery and cries for help of the victims in New Orleans - most of them poor and black, like those stuck at the back of the evacuation line yesterday while 700 guests and employees of the Hyatt Hotel were bused out first - they shook the faith of all Americans in American ideals. And made us ashamed.

Who are we if we can't take care of our own?

[MarianJack]

1. andy card is a HUGE...

...fuckhead!

As a transplant to Maine here for 3 years, I love the tourists and wish each and every one of them a safe trip home and a welcome back for next year.

In card's case, I'll make an exception.

[Maine-ah]

12. Hey MJ!

Haven't seen ya in a while...:hi:

Tourists? They seem to have dropped of the face of the Midcoast. Usually this weekend is big...It ain't happening this year. We already have restaurants and businesses closing up for the season. It's going to be a tight winter around here. Thank goodness I got my heating contract three months ago...

[SpiralHawk]

2. Card goes Coastal. Shit, not a one of them is going to give up a day

of taxpayer-funded vacation to help the people of the Gulf Coast.

What a bunch of skunks.

[Cha]

3. MoDo Excoriates them well..

"Michael Brown, the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA - a job he trained for by running something called the International Arabian Horse Association - admitted he didn't know until Thursday that there were 15,000 desperate, dehydrated, hungry, angry, dying victims of Katrina in the New Orleans Convention Center."

"Was he sacked instantly? No, our tone-deaf president hailed him in Mobile, Ala., yesterday: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."


Hope a lot of people read that!

[ticapnews]

4. Where is he staying?

I just want to give him a proper welcome and say hi. :hi:



I found it. He's in Poland Spring with family...

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/07/news/letter.php

President George W. Bush left for his summer vacation last week, and so did a lot of the White House senior staff. Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser, headed for his house in the Florida Panhandle. Andrew Card Jr., the White House chief of staff, was with his family in Poland Spring, Maine.

Nicolle Devenish, the White House communications director, had plans to leave late in the month for her September wedding on the Greek island of Mykonos. Another White House staff member was cruising travel Web sites last week for cheap airfares to Brazil.
Bush, of course, was in the less exotic blast furnace of his Texas ranch, settling in for a five-week stay on the prairie that will be his longest time away from Washington as president.

Bush cut short his time at the ranch last summer because of his re-election campaign. His full August idyll is not only the length of a classic French vacation but also grist for the Democrats, who have accused the president of fleeing Washington to escape the federal investigation into who leaked the name of a CIA officer to reporters, a potential crime.

But in his first days away, Bush was relatively busy. He gave a speech in Grapevine, Texas, on Wednesday and met with the president of Colombia at the ranch on Thursday. He is scheduled to travel to New Mexico on Monday, meet with his economic advisers and hold a news conference at the ranch on Tuesday, travel to Illinois on Wednesday, meet with his foreign policy team and hold another news conference back at the ranch on Thursday, go to a Republican fund-raising lunch at a neighboring ranch on Friday and attend a Little League championship game in Waco, Texas, on Saturday.

[TomInTib]

5. May Card choke on a lobster, Condi on a Ferragamo heel...and

Cheney on a cow pie!

[MaineDem]

6. He has a summer home here in Maine

He's here a lot, unfortunately!

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. If I see him I will be sure to tell him off

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Maine is a fine state. Why do these morons have to go there and ruin it?

These bastards should be turned away at the NH-Maine border.

[cyn2]

9. Agreed, but then they'd contaminate NH

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Yeah, you're right. I mean correct. NH deserves better, too.

[Totally Committed]

11. I'm sorry,

anyone who can stay on vacation, go shoe-shopping, or "go on with his life" while the people of New Orleans are suffering in a Bush-made hell-on-earth is INHUMAN.

But, when these same people have a RESPONSIBILITY to the people of New Orleans, and they STILL stay on vacation, go shoe-shopping, and "go on with" their lives, they go from INHUMAN to CRIMINAL.

TC