And The Beat(ing) Goes On

As I posted HERE it looks as if the press has finally decided to do its' job. And now we have an even more pointed editorial appearing in The New Yorker, calling the fascist King George to account for his lack of response to the Katrina disaster. You could sense, watching him being interviewed by Diane Sawyer on ABC's "Good Morning America" - defensive, confused, overwhelmed - that he knew that he had delivered a series of feeble, vague, almost flippant speeches in the early days of the crisis, and that the only way to prevent further political damage was to inoculate himself with the inevitable call for non-partisanship: "I hope people don't play politics during this period of time." It's not called playing politics you self-centered bastard, it is called being held responsible. Of course responsibility is something you know nothing about. Well on to the rest of the editorial: And yet, to a frightening degree, Bush's faults of leadership and character were brought into high relief by the crisis. Suntanned and relaxed after a vacation so long that it would have shamed a French playboy, Bush reacted with fogged delinquency, as if he had been so lulled by his summer sojourn that he was not quite ready to acknowledge reality, let alone attempt to master it. His first view of the floods came, pitifully, theatrically, from the window of a low-flying Air Force One, and all the President could muster was, according to his press secretary, It's devastating. It's got to be doubly devastating on the ground." The moment demanded clarity of mind and rigorous governance, and yet he could not summon them. The performance skills Bush eventually mustered after September 11th., in his bullhorn speech at Ground Zero, in his first speech to Congress—eluded him. The whole conceit of his Presidency, that he was an instinctive chief executive backed by "grownups" like Dick Cheney and tactical wizards like Karl Rove, now seemed as water-logged as Biloxi and New Orleans. The mismanagement of the Katrina floods echoed the White House mismanagement - the cavalier posture, the wretched decisions, the self-delusions'in postwar Iraq. The chickens are finally coming home to roost and it doesn't look like the loving relationship King George has had with the press will continue much longer now temperory realize the Emporer has no clothes. The REAL George is finally being seen by the press for the selfish, immature asshole that he is. The one who's daddy bought him his way through college and out of the Armed Forces. The one who wouldn't know the meaning of the word RESPONSIBILITY if it bit him in the butt. MORE....