Arkansas Blog

What does the "Magic Negro" link have to do with Katrina?

ARK. BLOG: Nothing. Bad cut-and-paste. Now corrected.

Some how, Katrina did not do Nagin in though with the public. The idiots elected the top idiot back to office after he was warned time and again the levy would not hold. But hey at least he had lots of meetings about it.

Mayor Nagin was repeatedly promised assistance from the Feds- Dept of Homeland Security.

He fucked up and believed them.

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I agree that the administration's handling of Katrina did the president in with the public. Certainly, scales fell from millions of eyes in that fiasco, though it was far from singular in the reign of error. Clumsy, incompetent, insensitive -- all these are adjectives applicable more than once.

But for at least quite a few had had enough of with the earlier social security fiasco. Can one even imagine the shape of our economy if the SS checks were not still rolling.

MAK,

obviously scandal and or ineptitude have nothing to do with getting reellected in LA. Jefferson (Mr. $90,000 in the freezer) and Vitrow (Mr. My wife has forgiven me for my ho hoppin) are a case in point.

Jefferson got beat in the main election but did get a healthy % of votes and after winning the primary.

I think this is the correct link to the story Max noted.
(Now I gotta go back and read it before I trash it.)

Click.

"I think the fact that we have really made foreign assistance not just an issue of giving humanitarian aid or giving money to poor people, but really insisting on good governance and fighting corruption," she said"
Condi

Nine Billion gone missing in Iraq. Some good governance, eh?

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Only in Monkeyboy's dreams is Katrina the single disaster that sank his horrid presidency. Sure, his 'heckuva a job Brownie' epitomized his clueless nature, his penchant for hiring solely based on ass-kissing ability and his arrogant stubbornness. But his failure to protect us from 9/11 and his self-serving response to it should have already clued us in to the state of our government and the depth of his blind incompetence. In what sane world does our country attack Iraq because of a terrorist attack by a bunch of Saudi terrorists who were led by a Saudi whose base was in Afghanistan/Pakistan? And it was quite special of Monkeyboy to allow his Saudi buds to scoop up their Royals and fly them out of our country while we were too stunned to notice it was Saudis who attacked us. Of course that wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that much of the Bush family fortune is tied to the Saudi Royals/their oil...while the rest came from Prescott's Nazi connections (love link at name). No wonder using our government to rob people of their retirements came so naturally to Dubya.

Guess historians will be quite busy arguing which of Monkeyboy's disasters was the worst. I'll be thrilled when he quits creating new ones.

Of course Nagin was culpable...as was Blanco...but the buck ALWAYS stops with the President (whether he/she is a Democrat or Republican). And the sad truth is that rich white people would never have been abandoned like the poor black/white folk of New Orleans.

The co-dependent Condi still can't admit the love of her life is a loser. Laura is tied to the dope thru marriage, but Condi truly seems to have an emotional problem that reveals that giant fault in her ability to ever hold a serious public office. She isn't her own person, and is easily enamored with cunning frat boys.

Though it was horrible beyond my imagination, saying that Katrina unfairly ruined Bush's legacy is like saying Hitler's really took a hit after the Reichstag fire. The only thing Bush-Cheney have done right is enrich themselves, their oil company buddies, Haliburton, hedge fund operators, Wall Street insiders, Blackwater, and the magic top 1%. Everything else has been Katrina over and over and over.

Last night I learned that since Bush has been in office OSHA has issued 86% less fines for dangerous work place violations. This is Republicanism working just as they planned. The wingnuts think it's all about abortions and prayer in schools. What a laugh! Bush-Cheney has been 100% about enriching Big Business, killing unions, killing pensions, killing inspections, killing environmental rules and restrictions, stacking the Supreme Court with pro-biz judges and anything else they could monkey with in an effort to produce 100% pure profit for the business people who put them in office. They have screwed Jesus and you and me.

Our nation will not survive if Cheney-Bush are allowed to go free. If they get off.....there will be many more Cheney-Bushes in our future. This bunch nearly destroyed America, the next Bush-Cheneys will. Nixon's pardon directly gave us Cheney-Bush. If Obama in effect pardons Cheney-Bush by letting them go, the next batch of Republican criminals will be the death of us. Oh how happy that will make Osama. You don't really want to make Osama happy, do you?

Hmmm. No real disagreement with the story, but in total agreement with Phaedrus. No Social Security? Can you imagine? What I can imagine of the Social Security recipients I know are shotguns and deer rifles being broken out of the closets and government officials and their partners in crime -- yes, crime -- heading to any relatively safe (for them) country.

Here's the crux of the story in my opinion:

"It allowed everybody to believe that this Sarah Palin-like president - because, let's face it, that's what he was - was going to be protected by this national-security elite, tested in the cauldrons of fire," Wilkerson said, adding that he considered Cheney probably the "most astute, bureaucratic entrepreneur" he'd ever met.

"He became vice president well before George Bush picked him," Wilkerson said of Cheney. "And he began to manipulate things from that point on, knowing that he was going to be able to convince this guy to pick him, knowing that he was then going to be able to wade into the vacuums that existed around George Bush - personality vacuum, character vacuum, details vacuum, experience vacuum."

Cheney as Rasputin? Yeah, I suppose there is that aspect. The religious right swallowing the administration's line? Yeah. The economic house of cards no one could see tottering? (And some still can't see? Clinton did it! Clinton did it! Or Carter. Or anybody but their boy.)
Oh crap. There's too much to dredge up and keep what little remains of my sanity.
Think January 20 . . . January 20 . . .

"It allowed everybody to believe that this Sarah Palin-like president - because, let's face it, that's what he was - was going to be protected by this national-security elite, tested in the cauldrons of fire,..."

Wonder what Carryboo Sary thinks about that comment. GW of course is a stick of firewood, and for him, just add it to the list of other things that he hopes will disappear over time. I 'spect he has already hired his biographer to "shed" the "true" light on his administration for future generations. Currently Laura & Condi gonna have to put the ole spin machine in top gear to twist this crap into cotton candy.

The stupid idjit also has said or done nothing since the fighting started in the Gaza Strip 4 days ago. The only thing to come out of the Whitehouse was that it was the fault of Hamas. Not a hint about a cease fire or anything to prevent civilian deaths, over 100 so far. He's gonna be a shitbird to the very end and I knew that before I wrote the comment but still had to say it as it galls me to no end. Oh he is on "vacation again".

But for his staff to call him an empty headed asshole, that is just so delicious.

Katrina didn't sink him.. He was still renominated by his own party and almost reelected with the help of folks like Ken Blackwell in '04. (clicky)

I'm not even sure it put a dent in his supporters, but perhaps put a minor dent in those on the fence or already weary.

His numbers didn't take serious dive until what, '06?

Jr was never a winner, he arguably stole both elections.. he is a runaway spoiled bully criminal who managed to put together an adept team of intimidating lawless propaganda spewing war criminals. One need not look back but simply look at Wall Street, Main Street USA, and Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan today.

We let him rob us blind, both financially and morally. He and VP Cheney told us we as a nation were going to the dark side.. after we were already there. And we the people cheered with a blood thirst for a non existent boogie man... instead of removing our own boogie men, Bush and Co.

The whole thing says much more about all of us a nation than it does about a couple thousand criminal sycophants.

And if we don't investigate and prosecute them this time.. they absolutely will return with renewed vengeance.

What did W. in was he misidentified the spiritual voices speaking to him.

"His numbers didn't take serious dive until what, '06? "

Hmmmmmm...what happened in 06??? HMMMM, let me think...something....AHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!~!!!!!

Democrats.

"His numbers didn't take serious dive until what, '06? "

Hmmmmmm...what happened in 06??? HMMMM, let me think...something....AHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!~!!!!!

Democrats.

Earlier this afternoon, I caught a few minutes of a discussion on NPR about Bush's legacy. An Rwinger was defending Bush and trying to denigrate Obama. His voice sounded full of anger, resentment, and bitterness. It was music to my ears.

If W does not go down in history as our WORST president in history, you can't say he didn't try to garner that distinction. If I had to give him a grade, it would have to be an F-, or better yet, a Withdrew Failing. No Mission Accomplished anywhere!