President Dumb Ass - Take Two

So .. after having to live through the tragedy of cutting his five week vacation short by two full days, President Dumb Ass has hit the road on Idiot Tour ’05. I don’t know about you, but I feel much better knowing that the President is out there flying over the affected areas. I have no doubt that to all those who have not eaten or had fluids in 5 days can take some solace in the fact that the President has flown over New Orleans. It takes a lot of courage to spend 5 weeks on vacation while the nation is at war, and just as much courage to fly over what now looks more like Afghanistan than the Big Easy.

My new hero is the Mayor of New Orleans. This guy is so pissed off by the response of the administration that he is lambasting their pathetic effort. It is inconceivable to me that in this post September 11th world, that we are incapable of delivering the basics of food and water to people stuck in New Orleans. It is truly a national disgrace. That the Feds have no contingency plans for moving these kinds of materials, or evacuating large numbers of people it truly shocking. What the hell has the Bush Administration been doing since September 11, 2001? What the hell has the Department of Homeland Security been doing? I mean seriously … what have they spent all these tens of billions of dollars on? Not on planning or communications – really – what do you think they have been doing? Even the President had to admit today his response has been unacceptable.

It is a joke to hear the FEMA people talking about how hard communication is in these areas. They express shock that the cellular network is down – making it hard to communicate. This is the emergency communication network our federal and state officials reply upon in the wake of a national emergency? I can’t even get a damn signal on my Cingular phone in downtown DC. We are so screwed.

If President Dumb Ass say one more time “no one cold have seen this coming” … he said it about September 11th and now he saying it about Katrina, I am going to puke. Maybe he should watch the weather channel. I knew it was coming. I heard them talking about the vulnerability of the levee system. I guess President Dumb Ass was to busy riding his bike or clearing brush or reading Archie comics.