Jeb Bush on Hurricane Wilma: "Why us?"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article320807.ece

Wilma will be the seventh major hurricane to hit the state in the past 16 months. There have been 150 deaths and some $20bn (£11.4bn) in damage, a battering even by Florida's standards.

"Why us?" lamented Governor Jeb Bush, echoing the mood of storm-weary Floridians. "How could the storm take a sharp, 90-degree turn to the east? It's something that we're going to have to live with and prepare for."

Mindful of the lessons of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans and Mississippi's Gulf coast on 28 August, US authorities are taking no chances. It is now accepted that only the military has the resources to cope with a major hurricane and the Pentagon has already designated a command centre to handle the aftermath of Wilma.

Most meteorologists say the storm is likely to weaken slightly when a strong front from the north-west pushes it to the east. But even if it hits the US as a category 3 or 4 hurricane, with maximum winds of 130mph and 155mph respectively, it could cause substantial damage. "This storm will become even larger," Max Mayfield of the National Hurricane Center in Miami said yesterday. "We are expecting a very high storm surge - possibly 15 to 20 feet, especially on the Keys. "You could compare this to Katrina and Rita. I don't see how the Florida Keys can avoid a major impact."

[ixion]

1. It is now accepted that only the military has the resources

it is? News to me. :grr: :wtf:

[thinkingwoman]

6. that was the entire point of Katrina

The non-response of Katrina was designed to wipe out the memory of states (like, Florida, actually) coping with the aftermath of Cat 4s and 5s, including Hurricane Andrew in the early 90s. Didn't happen folks. Move along and do what the soldiers say.

[Mind_your_head]

13. This statement is Outrageous! (and untrue)

It is now accepted that only the military has the resources to cope with a major hurricane and the Pentagon has already designated a command centre to handle the aftermath of Wilma.

These people just don't stop peddling their militaristic agenda. They may want us to 'accept it', but just saying so, doesn't make it true! I 'second' your :grr: :wtf:

[cassiepriam]

2. Karma Jeb Karma

[blm]

15. Take a HINT from GOD, Bushboy. You stole the 2000 election and wreaked

havoc on the world since then.

God doesn't like YOU or your brother.

[malaise]

3. Hmmmmmmmmmm

something about the laws of nature. Even nature remembers November 2000. Karma is a bitch. Sadly nature does not exclude the innocent from her wrath.

[Taxloss]

4. Oh, so it's "thank God" this, and "praise God" that, and

"God told me to do it" the other, but He's mysteriously missing now? I thought He was on the WH payroll.

[leesa]

20. They must have stiffed Him.

[kurth]

5. Maybe it's God's punishment for his failure to save Terri

Or more likely his involvement in his idiot brother's installment to the Oval Office.

Wilma had better hit Florida and get it over with before Fitzgerald speaks.

[jackster]

12. or maybe it's god's punishment

for Floridians for having elected him - TWICE!

[BeyondThePale]

7. "Why us?" -- must be intelligent design!

Another BushCo P.O.S.

[CottonBear]

8. Faux's Brian kilmeade said that it was best that Wilma hit Florida because

Jeb Bush is the governor. :eyes:

Even his co-host, Steve "Goofy" made fun of him for that comment. Brian said that Jeb was the best prepared governor and that when he puts on his bi-focals and tells people to leave, they do. :eyes:

What an idiot.

[tanyev]

11. Uh, people certainly left when Rick Perry told them to leave.

Too bad Mr. Perry didn't know what to do with them when they actually did what he asked.

[tocqueville]

9. it's GOD's will Jeb.... REPENT NOW !

[Jacobin]

10. Gee, if you'd stop your bible thumping and read a little

meteorology, Jeb, you might find some answers.....like a big fucking cold front coming down from the midwest.

Spare me the idiot fundamentalist politicians....PLEASE

[FizzFuzz]

14. welll gee wiz, when it happens to others, its the fault of gays

and feminists.

Somehow, I don't think jebby fits either of those categories.

But he is a lying, filthy, corrupt, vote-cheating, hate-pushing, christofascist, racist POS.

Do you suppose god hates evil liars more than he hates loving gay folks or women with self-respect?

[hatrack]

16. Well, Jeb, since more sunlight hits the tropics than elsewhere on Earth .

. . . and since hurricanes form over warm tropical waters and then move on the prevailing winds from east to west, removing that heat in patterns that follow the Coriolis effect, and since Florida lies in the path of these storms, I think that all of the above probably has a lot to do with answering this particular question.

But why bother with that icky elitist "science"? Jebthro, since you and Jayzus are apparently on a first name basis (judging by your campaign statements), why not have him ask the Big Guy?

Dumbass.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

17. I agree with very little this man says

but I hear him on this one. One the other hand, better us than New Orleans, where it would finish the job Katrina started.

[no_hypocrisy]

18. Karma Blowback, Asshole! For making sure Florida's vote count

went to your dim-witted, morally-corrupted brother to install him as dictator of this country since 2001. Your family is cursed. The Kennedy Curse was a warm-up. You ain't seen nothin' yet.

[leesa]

19. Because you are an eeeeevil, gluttonous charlatan. Maybe because you

harbor all your terrorist friends? Where are the 9-11 "terrorist" flight school records, Jebbie?

[PurityOfEssence]

21. Captain Wallace Burton Binghamton, USN

(Actually, that's a more apt caricature of his older brother.)

[banana republican]

22. Why Not!!! G.O.D. n/t

[OneTwentyoNine]

23. Because you RIGGED the election in Floridia for your brother in 2000

Paybacks are a SOB Jebby.....

[Cocoa]

24. Can't Jeb unleash Chang on Wilma?

[donsu]

25. good one :)

nt

[shance]

26. That picture is so obviously a picture of a little boy who got caught.

It says I AM GUILTY.

[laugle]

27. Interesting how Dobson, Robertson, Falwell, etc.,

talk of Divine intervention in NOLA, because of decadence and immorality, oddly, they are quite silent when it comes to Florida!!

Their hypocracy is soooo obvious, they are such fakes!!

Hey Jeb, Karma's a bitch!!

[Totally Committed]

28. Self-deleted...

That was too rude, even for me! LOL!

TC