For you Bush apologists out there...

[quidditchgrrl]

How SHOULD a president respond to impending disaster.

I think they call it "taking care of business." There was no blaming of local/state government for not following some sort of bureaucratic protocol - they just got the job done.

The icon on that post is cracking me up something fierce.

I promise there will be a return to boring entries about daily life at some point in the near future. I'm just too sad and disgusted to hang up the political/current events banner just yet, though.

Comments

[ladybug-rjc.livejournal.com]

I love your icon. It's so me. :D I'll admire it from afar though.

Tea. Yum.

[critch.livejournal.com]

I think the main problem at this point is that the only people that are ripping into Bush are the same people that have been ripping into him ever since he won back in 2000. It's a boy who cried wolf effect, and it doesn't help anything that this was labeled to 'Bush apoligists'. It's troubling that everyone who dares think that things may not just be one person's fault is labeled like that.

There were great failings here at all levels of Government, from Mayor to Governor to yes, President, but this problem should have been fixed in the Nixon era. It wasn't, and here we are.

Continuing to vilify Bush for everything he does is what is seriously hurting your party, and I believe it brings out more people against you than it brings out for you. I believe this is why the Democrats lost in 2004. The party needs to be changed, completely fresh leadership needs to be put in, and the most verbose of this side (Michael Moore, the inane Air America) needs to tone it down, before it's too late, and 2006 is lost. And they need to back a different candidate, because Hilary is unelectable.

And with that, I'm out of the political debates for good, I think. Same old arguments, nothing gets accomplished, waste of time.

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

I am NOT a democrat/Democrat. I am leftist, so far left that I swing right on several issues, actually. I dislike most politicians, because they tend to kiss the ass of whoever happens to be in power rather than working for the good of their constituents. Michael Moore's opinion means nothing to me. I might hear 20 seconds of Air America a month.

I'm also a leader. I am in charge of people in both my professional and private life. If I don't take charge at the right time, *I* take the fall. Not the people who report to me. I can't claim ignorance no matter how ill-informed I might be about the situation at hand, and I don't have a huge staff of people paid to keep me informed about what's going on.

All the president had to do was ask for a briefing about how to handle the approaching hurricane, and make a decision about what was to be done *before* the storm hit land. That's what the other presidents did.

I'm just frustrated that our president never seems to be able to take charge of anything, ever. He just runs circles around the issues, which doesn't make him any different from any other politico out there. This time it happened to kill a lot of people who might have lived had help come sooner. No one in America should die of dehydration and exposure after a natural disaster, and refusing to admit that makes me hopping mad.

[authenticjoy.livejournal.com]

Hey! I was a politician. Not all of us kiss ass. Then again, we don't make it out of the local arena and we don't get things done when we don't pucker up.

The best kind of people are the ones who are willing to say "The Buck stops here."

THAT'S a real hero. (And Conservative. Oh, Teddy. *swoon*)

Bush appealed for evacuations before the storm hit. Yessir, that he did. That's all he did. Everyone followed through without blinking or finding anything unusual. They've ridden out hurricanes before. You can't drag people from their homes at gun-point, after all.

No one thought the levees would break and no one thought the storm would turn as fast as it did. It's when the unexpected happens that flummoxes Bush and every other politician in the world. It's when you are expected to react without your speechwriters and your researchers - And your team of Rovian Backers - That really counts. And Bush fails every single time.

But... It's Rove that kills me.

I'm more frustrated that Bush always seems to come out of these things smelling like a rose. He fucked up 9-11 in major ways and came out looking like a hero. He LIED about Iraq and dragged us around like we were puppets and people are only mildly uncomfortable about things there.

Why? Because of Karl Rove the Minister of Information Insemination.

Now the whole thing in LA and MS is being spun as if he knew what was going to happen, tried and tried to get something done, but those gosh-durn democrats frittered away the hours, and wouldn't listen to the littlest hero.

Okay, now I am ranting on your journal. Are you cool with my rants? Cuz I am really pissed off now.

I'll go quietly...

(Sorry about the double post - I forgot the link...)

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

You can only get above the borough-parish-county political level with your lips puckered and chapped. Want some chapstick? LOL

What I wouldn't give for another Teddy at ANY level of government! Getting stuff done, oh man...

Could someone put Karl Rove in his pod and send him back to whatever planet he came from? Please?

Sorry about all the responses coming at once tonight!

[authenticjoy.livejournal.com]

He lied to the entire country, he continues to lie, he is a horrible leader in the time of crisis and sloughs off blame at the first opportunity, he laughs when people are at death's door, and so on. People are literally dying in massive numbers because of this president. People have to speak out or we will certainly be stuck with leaders like him over and over.

I am *certainly* not a Democrat. Do not think that everyone who criticizes Bush is a Democrat. That's nothing but Rovian propaganda speak. He's quite good at getting his message out. I encounter this all the time.

I am an old school conservative and am quite distressed over what the Neo-Cons are doing to the good name of Conservativism and the GOP.

BTW, you are quite wrong about Michael Moore and Hill>ary Clinton.

Do you suggest that everyone on the Left sit down and shut up - Let the Right Wing run things as they see fit? Because that's certainly what it sounds like. That's what the current administration would like, I'm sure.

This only means that we should be yelling all the louder. Purebloodgryff because she needs her issues on the left heard. Me? Well, I want my party back from the dito-heads and freepers who are currently laying waste to it.

If you aren't part of the solution, you are part of the problem.