(2008-08-31) — Delegates to the Republican National Convention will have a sharply curtailed schedule of events Monday because, in the waning months of his presidency, George W. Bush has apparently lost the ability to control the intensity and paths of hurricanes.
With Category 4 Hurricane Gustav bearing down on the Gulf Coast, President Bush can do little more than monitor the situation and coordinate the response from Washington D.C..
Just three years ago, at the height of his second term, even the president’s critics acknowledged he was responsible for a direct hit by Hurricane Katrina on the poor neighborhoods of New Orleans.
This week he has canceled a planned speech at the convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, so he can supervise the federal government response to the potential disaster from the White House, which is 106 miles closer to New Orleans than St. Paul is.
In the nation’s capital, Mr. Bush will have access to the presidential cell phone, allowing him to direct distribution of relief supplies to specific homes, as well as specify the exact placement of sandbags and industrial pumps in the Ninth Ward.
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1 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 1, 2008 at 6:25 am
Exactly, Scott.
The strings aren’t quite visible but I wonder if Bush has started to believe that he actually is supposed to micromanage each and every aspect of each and every task everywhere in the USA in real-time.
Of course, revelry would be in poor taste and therefore, as president, I would have commandeered the auditorium and set up a Weather Room with ever-updating NOAA satellite imagery on no less than 100 High-Def Weather Maps 2.438 meters tall encircling the rotating Weather Podium where I would be standing, directing Hannah to go up the East Coast to divert attention as I decree that, in 2012, both conventions will be held on separate mountaintops (chosen by a non-partisan, blind-folded dart-thrower) at the same time.
I’ve got blisters on my fingers!!!!!
2 gafisher // Sep 1, 2008 at 6:28 am
The Mighty Obama is trying to fend off Hurricane Sarah.
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God Bless America!
3 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 1, 2008 at 6:38 am
Here’s another view of Gustav (I’m just north of where the track ends). It won’t be much when it gets here as a Depression but I’m glad I just put on a new roof as these things tend to create tornadoes, I think.
Around here, it’s never a good thing when weather arrives from the southeast.
4 onlineanalyst // Sep 1, 2008 at 7:19 am
You forgot about the intrepid Cheney’s ability to direct Navy Seals to blow up the levees.
(Has Sean Penn patched up his rescue boat yet? Or will he still rely on red plastic cups?)
I really have to admire President Bush. He has had as many challenges as Job and has still not lost his faith.
Go, GOVERNOR Palin! Expose he media fools for the shortsighted commentariat that they are.
5 Fred Sinclair // Sep 1, 2008 at 9:43 am
There are different degrees of sickness and some of the sickest aren’t even aware of just how sick they really are.
Based on this snippet from Townhall.com I just about ‘lost it’ but I regained at lest some modicum of composure, reminding myself to pray for those at Daily Koz that they can get proper help, possibly by immediate involuntary commitment to a Mental Health Facility.
With no flaw to use in an attack on Governor Sarah Paulin this stretch is an abomination to mankind in general and a slur on liberals everywhere (like they need an additional slur).
“Sarah Palin is NOT the Mother” is the title of this DailyKos blog that accuses Bristol, a completely fit-looking adolescent teen, of having a “baby bump” in a photo they allege was taken March 9th of this year.
“Sarah, I’m calling you a liar” wrote blogger ArcXIX. “And not even a good one. Trig Paxson Van Palin is not your son. He is your grandson. The sooner you come forward with this revelation to the public, the better. ” Photos of Bristol with detailed commentary about her abdomen are contained in the post.
Not only is the DailyKos disgustingly inspecting Bristol’s midriff with all the fervor of LA paparazzi examining J-Lo’s or Jennifer Aniston’s washboard stomachs for evidence of a “bump,” the DailyKos is wrong on when the photo was taken. It was taken, and published, by the Anchorage Daily News in 2006. Baby Trig, a child with Down’s Syndrome, was born on April 18, 2008. That’s a long time for a teen girl to be carrying a “bump” which looks nothing more than the curve of a tight sweater.
Shortly after Palin was announced as McCain’s VP, bloggers at the Kos started ginning up the rumor Palin faked her pregnancy, allegedly to cover for an illegitimate grandchild, because she looked so fit and trim in photos taken a few months before giving birth.”
The main positive I get from this is that Sarah must have such an impeccable reputation and background that they have to attack her daughter! If this isn’t sick, then there is no sickness.
Hopefully this will rebound to bite them.
GO SARAH, GO!!!
6 Fred Sinclair // Sep 1, 2008 at 9:45 am
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7 joylily514 // Sep 1, 2008 at 10:45 am
And we all know that everything that goes wrong is most certainly President Bush’s fault.
Thanks, Scott, for a really good belly laugh today.
8 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 1, 2008 at 11:25 am
Hey wait. President Bush stood in front of the surge, ocean that is, and said, “Behold, stop in the name of the President of United States.”
The category five, er four now has been tamed to a category two. He has overcome the powers of Al Gore once again.
But, according to Wailing Kos, Bush slowed down the storm so secret operative soldiers could move in to destroy the weak and nearly inoperative pumps that the government gave New Orleans 14 million dollars to repair. Money barely unspent.
Bush wants to destroy them so they will no longer be an albatross around his neck. No pumps, according to the Wailing Kros, means no New Orleans, which would only hurt the Obama campaign.
Wake up America. Over a thousand miles to the north, as you follow the Mississippi River to the almost beginning of the Father of all Rivers, Republicans are trying to gather to destroy our country as we never knew it.
WV: What is happening many miles from the gulf
9 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 1, 2008 at 11:27 am
This (there’s also another good link within) is the sort of info emerging from the release of the documentation regarding the murdering terrorist socialist revolutionaries for whom BO is more than pleased to
associateTap Dance.Names crop up, people are following up and a context is materializing. There’s a paper trail, too; and a money trail. I predict-without much glee, to be honest- that the news/entertainment industry’s collective heads will explode.
Reminds me of John LeCarre and Robert Ludlum with a dash of Jessica Fletcher.
10 mig // Sep 1, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I think it’s cuz Rove is no longer at the White House.
11 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 1, 2008 at 2:23 pm
The projected track of Gustav has, of course, changed since I posted the info above. He’s purportedly going to turn right sometime and head north to OK instead of continuing across TX.
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