"Maybe Mr. Cheney is going down to New Orleans to hunt looters."

[dajoki]

NYThttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/opinion/07dowd.html?th&emc=th

Haunted by Hesitation

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: September 7, 2005
WASHINGTON

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?

This time we can actually see the bodies.

[daninthemoon]

1. Like the image of Cheney riding in a boat with a shotgun, the SS

wading through the water flushing out "looters" like grouse. "PULL"

[no name no slogan]

2. Well, the devil went down to Georgia

So it only makes sense that Cheney would go to Louisiana

[FormerRepublican]

3. What are you talking about? Cheney IS the devil.

So now you have to say the devil went down to Geogia and Louisiana.

[dajoki]

4. good one!! n/t

[2Design]

5. looking for land for his friends n/t

[dajoki]

14. haliburtin n/t

[The Gunslinger]

17. Yea

Hes going down there to write up some estimates, and maybe pick up some cheap coastal property.

[dajoki]

18. and seal the deal n/t

[Wilber_Stool]

6. Not likely

looters shoot back.

[dajoki]

7. rest of paragraph says it all

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.

[AValdoux]

8. Cheney is the dark lord

I made the comment last night to my son, "I bet GW hopes there is nothing to that Voodoo thing". My son pointed out that that is why Cheney is a no show, "He's back at his lair, everyone knows he has the dark powers in the administration. He is feverously working on antidotes for all the evil spells flung GW's way in the past week."


AValdoux

[mzteris]

9. checking on the duck hunting conditions

remember this:

According to the Times, Scalia and Cheney were duck hunting together "at a private camp in southern Louisiana"

[dajoki]

12. i remember...

but didn't remember it was LA.

[faithfulcitizen]

10. Wow-"This time we can actually see the bodies." so true...nt

[dajoki]

11. they would not show...

the bodies comming back from iraq. now it's on live tv.

[dajoki]

13. kick

for night owls

[Mairead]

15. Going down to hunt VICTIMS, if anything (nt)

[SomewhereOutThere424]

16. Maybe he's doing more mansion shopping

and his presence is merely coincidential? :shrug:

They always say criminals return to the scene of the crime...