BLOBBY'S BLOG

Another Nail in the Shrub Legacy

Is it wrong to internally gloat at W's misfortunes? During Congressional hearings the administration tried to play down what they knew, when they knew it and the importance levee at which they knew it.

In a government video briefing the day before Hurricane Katrina struck on Aug. 29, Bush didn't ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared."

Whooops!

"I'm concerned about ... their ability to respond to a catastrophe within a catastrophe," Brown told his bosses the afternoon before Katrina made landfall.

For all the flack we have given Michael Brown as being a doofus (and I'm not convinced he isn't) I think he was definitely being made THE scapegoat.

The White House and Homeland Security Department urged the public not to read too much into the video footage. "I hope people don't draw conclusions from the president getting a single briefing," presidential spokesman Trent Duffy said, citing a variety of orders and disaster declarations Bush signed before the storm made landfall. "He received multiple briefings from multiple officials, and he was completely engaged at all times."

Umm....doesn't this make Shrub's ignorance inherently worse?

If he was completely engaged - which I doubt - his lack of understanding and compassion have sunk to a new level. I also find it laughable in this 24 news-cycle-world that a few weeks earlier the White House can refute the things Brown was saying under oath and that this wouldn't eventually surface....and that months before that, an aide was quoted as saying he had to beg Bush to watch news reports of what was going on down in New Orleans.

A very overlooked news clip of the week: Bush will have 5,000 people protecting him on his trip to India. FIVE THOUSAND. If that doesn't say: the most reviled man alive today, I don't know what does.

(I couldn't let these timely news pieces pass and seem like an after-the-thought blogger. Unfortunately, my funnier post will have to wait.)