Day: January 13, 2009

Good Job Brownie: Bushie’s remarks invite a blizzard of editorial reaction. Historical forecast? Ask the ghost of Herbert Hoover….

To the political left “which way did they go George” is the biggest gift in 80 years. A quick sampling courtesy of Editilla and the Times Picayune.

First off is a particularily insightful post over at We Could be Famous. I’ve been threatening to redo our blogroll for a while now. Consider this is a sneak peek because these guys are in when I get around to re-arranging the left sidebar. A short snippet:

It has been quite frustrating as a progressive living in New Orleans. Here’s part of what I think happened:

Within the first few weeks of the storm, conservative talk radio had effectively galvanized listener opinion against storm victims. They intoned against victims of Katrina, simultaneously using racial imagery to depict victims of the federal flood and of slow administration response as responsible for their own predicament while pushing back hard against a caricatured interpretation of Kanye West’s allegations of overt racism on the part of the administration.

While the vast majority of the American public tithed generously and remained largely sympathetic, the larger Right found refuge from accountability on the issues of poverty and race within the bosom of their base. This proved to be enough political cover to kill Democratic efforts for an independent commission on the Bush administration’s Katrina response. Continue reading “Good Job Brownie: Bushie’s remarks invite a blizzard of editorial reaction. Historical forecast? Ask the ghost of Herbert Hoover….”

Bushwacked: Bushie goes down swinging. Deaf dumb and blind ’till the bitter end

Nothing gets a 30 percenter’s blood pressure up more than pointing out the complete failure of the Presidency of their hero George Bush. And instead of spending his last week in office pointing out the few good things he can claim for his presidential legacy he’s managed to remind the country exactly how completely inadequate he was as the Chief Exec during this country’s worst natural disaster in US history. Of course the local media is lapping it up like a boozer on a beer binge while the few remaining true believers take extra blood pressure medication.  Today’s front page Sun Herald story includes some quotes from our own Gene Taylor.  Good job Brownie and good riddance Bushie:

In his last press conference as commander-in-chief, President Bush on Monday forcefully defended his response to Hurricane Katrina, saying that the federal rescue of 30,000 people from rooftops was a tribute to the Coast Guard, but critics countered that FEMA was the president’s failure.

“I’ve thought long and hard about Katrina — you know, could I have done something differently, like land Air Force One either in New Orleans or Baton Rouge,” said Bush. “The problem with that … is that law enforcement would have been pulled away from the mission.”

Bush, who famously looked at the damage from the presidential plane without landing, has the specter of Katrina as a damaging part of his legacy. Continue reading “Bushwacked: Bushie goes down swinging. Deaf dumb and blind ’till the bitter end”