Switched from Lou to watch Ass IN Chief on ABCNews

[liveoaktx]

He should NEVER do close up one on one interviews. He's such an idiot.

[liveoaktx]

1. Tell me again, WHAT DAY did he actually watch television?????

boo,hoo "Unsettling for me"

[babylonsister]

3. Nice to know he was informed of

current events by his staff.:sarcasm: Unless that too was a cop-out.

[Pirate Smile]

9. His "people" made him a DVD on Thursday which was a compilation

of news coverage.

Katrina hit early Monday morning.

[liveoaktx]

10. So, he watched the DVD on a television, not the news itself?

[Pirate Smile]

12. Exactly. I'll find the Newsweek article that said that. I guess

the words of the people around him couldn't penetrate his pea brain.

[Pirate Smile]

14. Here you go - the article:

How Bush Blew It
Bureaucratic timidity. Bad phone lines. And a failure of imagination. Why the government was so slow to respond to catastrophe.


A woman walks in the flooded streets of the 9th Ward of New Orleans

Sept. 19, 2005 issue - It's a standing joke among the president's top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news? Warm and hearty in public, Bush can be cold and snappish in private, and aides sometimes cringe before the displeasure of the president of the United States, or, as he is known in West Wing jargon, POTUS. The bad news on this early morning, Tuesday, Aug. 30, some 24 hours after Hurricane Katrina had ripped through New Orleans, was that the president would have to cut short his five-week vacation by a couple of days and return to Washington. The president's chief of staff, Andrew Card; his deputy chief of staff, Joe Hagin; his counselor, Dan Bartlett, and his spokesman, Scott McClellan, held a conference call to discuss the question of the president's early return and the delicate task of telling him. Hagin, it was decided, as senior aide on the ground, would do the deed.

The president did not growl this time. He had already decided to return to Washington and hold a meeting of his top advisers on the following day, Wednesday. This would give them a day to get back from their vacations and their staffs to work up some ideas about what to do in the aftermath of the storm. President Bush knew the storm and its consequences had been bad; but he didn't quite realize how bad.

The reality, say several aides who did not wish to be quoted because it might displease the president, did not really sink in until Thursday night. Some White House staffers were watching the evening news and thought the president needed to see the horrific reports coming out of New Orleans. Counselor Bartlett made up a DVD of the newscasts so Bush could see them in their entirety as he flew down to the Gulf Coast the next morning on Air Force One.

How this could be—how the president of the United States could have even less "situational awareness," as they say in the military, than the average American about the worst natural disaster in a century—is one of the more perplexing and troubling chapters in a story that, despite moments of heroism and acts of great generosity, ranks as a national disgrace.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9287434/site/newsweek/

edit to add - I guess Bush didn't get it until Friday, not Thursday, when he watched it flying on AF1.

[Stephanie]

19. oh right! So the STAFF didn't know until THURS & Asshat learned on FRIDAY

I weep. I weep for this country and those poor, poor abandoned people in NOLA. I really do literally as I type this.

[liveoaktx]

2. "I don't buy your premise that there is going to be a civil war"

duh, there already is, pinhead.

[liveoaktx]

4. Vargas "No matter what, the US troops will stay there" Bush "The

US troops will stay there"

What an incompetent

[liveoaktx]

5. Bush to Vargas "Let me finish"

[liveoaktx]

6. "If I opened up my newspaper and saw Bush turning over ports to

terrorists, I would be concerned"

That PROVES he doesn't read the paper.

[NightOwwl]

18. Oooh - that's his code for "You're pissing me off."

Was Vargus actually asking hard-hitting questions?

[liveoaktx]

7. Vargas-If OBL still not caught by the time you're not president

any more will you consider that a failure?

heh

[liveoaktx]

8. Vargas asks him about his poll -Bush "I've got ample capital"

yeah, sure....

[Pirate Smile]

11. Has he said "I REJECT that" yet?

I just love :sarcasm: that WH line which they all use.

If you don't like something, just "reject it" then it "doesn't exist".

[Arkansas Granny]

13. Look at his body language. He is very uncomfortable. When

she asked questions about the response to Katrina he leaned toward Vargas in a manner that looked like he was trying to intimidate her. Same reaction when she tried to pin him down about the investigation into the UAE and the ports. Never would give her a straight answer to her questions.

I can just hardly wait until she finishes up at the end of the broadcast with the real important question: What would it take to have a wedding at the White House. Woo hoo! A real hard hitting interview.

[MichiganVote]

15. A shotgun wedding with Cheney in attendance??

[Arkansas Granny]

16. Oh, I can see it now.

:bounce: :woohoo:

[MichiganVote]

17. If only!! :)

[Kansas Wyatt]

21. Cheney's daughter is going to have a shotgun wedding

At the White House with her partner?

What will the Fundies and Freeps think about this?

[MichiganVote]

22. They'll say she's abstains...from you know what

[Iris]

20. I have nothing to add to this conversation, but the phrase "Ass in Chief"

gives me the giggles.