Monday, September 12, 2005

Washington sends in the Rapid Emergency Graffiti Reduction & Eradication Teams (REGRET) in advance of W's hurricane photo-op













This photo accompanied an article in yesterday's Washington Post.

3 comments:

Virginia Gal said...

What an interesting photo....I concur on the sentiment (of course I never voted for Bush the first two times).
I hope something good does come out of this tragedy by making politicans more accountable to the people. Though I still wonder if the Dem's are strong enough to really clean out Congress. The country is quite divided and I don't know, I've seen Bush down and still come up fighting - that's what happens when you have Karl Rove on your team.

True Blue Liberal said...

Hi Alan. Thanks for stopping by and straightening me out once again. How could I have been so silly? The fact that FEMA has become a home for rewarding political hacks (and failed horse show executives) had nothing to do with the slow response, nor did the fact that the entire head of the executive branch (Bush Cheney Rice et al.) was on vacation or giving speeches comparing Iraq II to WWII while New Orleans sank.
The spin on the Right is to blame the locals now, but no one said anything negative about the local and state response until a light was shone on the slow response of the Bushies. But here's the thing that really mystifies me. After his father was hurt by the slow response to Andrew, how could the son make the same mistake (only worse)?

True Blue Liberal said...

Alan, Your sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling are all significantly improved in this comment. Congratulations! However, if I were an English teacher I would suspect a degree of plagiarism. Only the telltale knee-jerk Clinton bashing shows that every word of this must have been written by you.
And you're absolutely right. George W. Bush would have responded much more quickly than Bill Clinton to the Oklahoma City bombing. He would have bombed Baghdad the very next day.