Larisa Alexandrovna: Bush Is MIA - Again...

[Hissyspit]

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/06/bush-is-mia-aga.html

Bush is MIA, again...

Nearly three years ago as people were drowning in NOLA, the so-called leader of this nation dashed eagerly from one side of the country to another -fund-raising for his party- without a moment's care for his fellow Americans in their time of crisis. In fact, whenever a national crisis has occurred, Bush has been conspicuously absent. During the fourth or fifth day of the Katrina massacre and the missing leadership of this nation, I wrote the following:

We have no leadership, no captain at the helm as it were. We are, in effect, being led from disaster to disaster by a headless horseman run amok with stuffed pockets and an empty conscience.

We are here, again. This time in Iowa, where tens of thousands of Americans are without a home, many dead, many injured and once again, during this national crisis Bush is busy playing voodoo politics (This time in Europe).

Here is what is happening in Iowa:

- More national guard troops deploy into disaster territory
- Iowa in a drinking water emergency
- Culver City, 36,000 homeless
- Des Moines is mostly underwater
- Death toll as of today at 20 (from what they have been able to determine in the chaos)
- 83 Iowa Counties declared disaster zones

Where is the god-damn president of this nation? After Bush was told on 9/11 that the nation was under attack, he did not even turn around to ask if the attack happened to be nuclear. He ate cake with John McCain while the people in and around NOLA died, begging for help. He is once again MIA in a time of crisis now. Is it that George W. Bush does not consider Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New York as part of the Union? I remember Kanye West saying "George Bush does not care about black people," and thinking it probably right. But I have come to reconsider that opinion. It is not that George Bush does not care about black people in particular, he simply does not care about Americans. It is that simple. His legacy - on which he often opines with great pride - will be a single ground zero, like a crater the size of the moon, filled with ashes, bones, bodies, and the stench of lies and decaying flesh.

And the media? Well, you don't even have to wonder. Tim Russert has passed and therefor all news will be suspended until further notice.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. K&R

[az chela]

2. EXCELLENT POST

THANKS

[babylonsister]

3. You rock, lala. And my contempt for this man and this media?

:puke:

[Kool Kitty]

4. The words you wrote in 2005 are, unfortunately,

true again. Instead of the endless tributes to Tim Russert, this should be the top story. On every news channel. Has Bush even declared all of affected areas disaster areas yet? Shouldn't he be back in the US overseeing relief efforts? This fucking administration has learned nothing and Letterman was right-Bush and Cheney don't give a damn about the American people or the country.

[Richard Steele]

5. K&R

[horseshoecrab]

6. Where is the god-damned president of this nation?

Wouldn't that question look fine and dandy (and to the point) in the email boxes of every senator and congressman in this nation?


k'd and r'd

horseshoecrab


edit: punctuation

[babylonsister]

7. Just imagine: the entire m$m asking that question. nt

[petwlkr]

8. I'll tell you where he is

He's over in Europe trying to bully our allies

:grr:

Bush warns Brown over plan to cut Iraq force
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/15/georgebush.iraq

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. And the Chimp poo-pooed Brown's efforts to try to bring down oil prices

That's also mentioned in the article. Brown wants to convene a series of international conferences to investigate the rise in oil prices and Bush said he would not attend, seemingly disparaging the idea. I think this should be broadcast on every news program in America; that Bush doesn't want to make any effort to try to lower oil prices. That should put his poll numbers in single digits.

[Hissyspit]

12. ...in an attempt to gild the turd that is his legacy.

"Hey, you English guys. You'd better catch bin Laden now! I'm leaving office soon."

What a horrible excuse for a human being he is.

[tavalon]

10. While this is appropriate, to slap him for not being present,

one cannot help but bring up the fact that the people in Iowa have no current need for any photo ops, so Dubya isn't really needed. FEMA is greatly needed and didn't bother to show up on time, either and that's a real problem but then, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, does it?

[Bluzmann57]

19. As an Iowan, I say screw bush

We sure as hell don't need him hanging around and getting in the way. Just send FEMA funds, we are perfectly capable of rebuilding our own cities. We have many great craftsmen and women who can take care of this stuff. But they deserve to be paid, just as bush's allies do. So bush, stay away and let us handle it.

[spag68]

35. help for Iowa

In case you hadn't noticed, FEMA gave away all the stuff it bought for Katrina relief to "other agency's". Millions of $ wasted and now they can give another phony contract for more, and not get that to the right people again.

[Swamp Rat]

11. k&r

[Hissyspit]

13. .

[malaise]

14. Great post

K & R

[TBF]

15. Outstanding post - Kucinich should add it to his articles of Impeachment.

And yes he should be impeached. I adore Barack Obama, and cannot wait until he is president, but that is months away at best. Right now we should be focusing on Impeachment.

[pacalo]

16. Their lives turned upside down, inside out -- & he's having tea with the queen.

[xxqqqzme]

17. '...And the media? Well, you don't even have to wonder.

Tim Russert has passed and therefor all news will be suspended until further notice....'

I'm sorry Russert died and I'm certain it was a shock to his family, friends & colleagues, but come on, he had a TV program! BFD! just because his colleagues were shocked and reminded of their own mortality doesn't mean I have to listen to it 24/7

Over the weekend HBO ran a program about Jim McKay. I found his story, his telling of events and the fact that he narrated it much more compelling than anything I heard about Russert. I just don't get it when TV goes overboard and expects an audience to follow.

[BrklynLib at work]

18. Nero is fiddling again while Rome burns...

[Liberty Belle]

21. Just like he played air guitar in San Diego when NO's levees broke.

http://www.iflipflop.com/2005/09/george-bush-plays-air-guitar-while-new.html

[cascadiance]

26. Yes, it was like he was saying "Damnit! i came here to sell stuff! They're NOT messing me up!"

While Katrina was boiling, he was trying to sell his Medicare scam changes to seniors here in San Diego, and now in the UK, he's gotta sell his probably upcoming war with Iran to the Brits!

Selling his lines of sh*t is far more important than mainstream American's lives!

And don't forget how he and his agencies neglected their responsibilities before the first set of California wildfires, and made it worse through doing so!

http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=26708&keybold=drought%20forests%20die

[acmavm]

20. Not unexpected for the pointy earred sociopathological chimp-in-chief.

People here get all hissy and pissy when he's compared to Hitler. And I agree. He's nothing like Hitler. Hitler had a brain. He could probably ask Poopy about that. I'm sure there some good old family stories about Granpa Prescott and his business partner Adolph.

[OwnedByFerrets]

22. K and R gladly

Says it all.

www.wearableartnow.com

[leveymg]

23. KNR - Good points, LaLa. Surprising how many missed it, and even

declared that anything other than dirge was inappropriate during the last four days. What's a decent mourning period, anyway? Through January 2009?

[uppityperson]

24. k&r

[paparush]

25. He's too busy Speachifyan on his European Farewell Tour of Doom (tm)

[theaocp]

27. Puh-leeeeeze!

...obviously, this is all about class. That's right. Class.

It's been the tide-marker for time-immemorial (sp?). You got the haves and the have-mores. Then, you got the rest of us. We're bigger, but more ignorant. Again, that's right ... not stoopider, but more ignorant. We can learn, but only if we realize our interests are not cognizant with the have and havemores' interests. Straight up, yo.

Cheers.

[mnhtnbb]

28. Here's the letter I sent to our local newspaper (Raleigh News Observer) this morning

this morning:

In the subject line: Where's Bush while Iowa drowns?

Editor:

While George W. Bush was having tea with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle, biking in a Paris park and the "lush German countryside", and taking "a rare stroll with the Pope in the Vatican's private gardens", (In Europe, Bush takes a turn as tourist p. 9A June 16) the swollen Iowa River was flooding 16 buildings of the University of Iowa, forcing the evacuation of 500 to 600 homes in Iowa City and voluntary evacuation of hundreds of others after sandbagging by thousands of volunteers and National Guard couldn't hold back the river. Earlier in the week, almost 24,000 people were evacuated from their homes by flooding in Cedar Rapids, and pictures of almost the entire downtown underwater could be viewed on the internet. The threat continues for serious flooding downriver in other towns (Hundreds flee Iowa City deluge p. 3A June 16) Millions of acres of corn and soybean crops have been lost.

At what other time have we seen such callous disregard for the lives and homes of others by George W. Bush? Does anyone remember Katrina? Has this administration not learned anything about disaster?

Barack Obama is right. We need change in the worst way in this country. We need our National Guard at home to help with disasters instead of fighting illegal wars in other countries; we need our levees and roads and bridges rebuilt here in the United States not built for other countries because we bombed them to hell and back; we need a President that knows that the meaning of compassion requires action to help others not just talk.

Signed,

mnhtnbb

[cornermouse]

29. Please.

Do NOT send him to lightly stumble around the midwest. We don't want him.

[donco6]

30. And he won't be there until Thursday.

Not that they need him. But fer chrissakes, if you have any sense of respect for America, wouldn't you cut short your do-nothing tour and get back to the US?

[lonestarnot]

31. We haven't had a President in this nation for 7 years and a few months. Why the fuck start now?

[juno jones]

32. K&R! n/t

[Zambero]

33. Another helluva job!

Brownie? Uh...Where are you Brownie?

[zeemike]

34. A great post but one large mistake

The term Missing in Action means he was lost while engaged in battle. And of course we know that is not what you meant.
What you meant to say is that he was AWOL...Absent With Out Leave. And he has been there before.

[RedLetterRev]

37. Hah! Bon mot! n/t

[Tutonic]

36. Where are Pelosi, Reid, Kerry, Biden, Obama, Clinton, et. al.

I think that we need for our Democratic leaders to step forward and denounce the coward Bush and to point out once again that when all signs pointed to Iowa he turned and went off shore. SOmebody--anybody--please speak to what is going on in Iowa.