Who's Bush's Daddy?
A Republican President
can't get his nominee to the Supreme Court through a Republican controlled Senate??? And come tomorrow
his brain will be under indictment. It must suck to be him right now.
Those damn technicalities
Apparently
perjury isn't a crime these days... at least to Republicans:
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press," compared the leak investigation with the case of Martha Stewart, "where they couldn't find a crime and they indict on something that she said about something that wasn't a crime."
Hutchison said she hoped "that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and
not some perjury technicality where they couldn't indict on the crime and so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waste of time and taxpayer dollars."
Elevator to Space...
Or a
ladder to heaven?
"Just tell her that I just ate an MRE and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome"
The
entire exchange sheds a lot of light on how inept Brown and others were. Marty Bahamonde though deserves a medal. My favorite snippet below:
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Sharon Worthy, Brown's press secretary, to Cindy Taylor, FEMA deputy director of public affairs, and others, Aug. 31, 2 p.m. "Also, it is very important that time is allowed for Mr. Brown to eat dinner. Gievn (sic) that Baton Rouge is back to normal, restaurants are getting busy. He needs much more that (sic) 20 or 30 minutes. We now have traffic to encounter to get to and from a location of his choise (sic), followed by wait service from the restaurant staff, eating, etc.
_Bahamonde to Taylor and Michael Widomski, public affairs, Aug. 31, 2:44 p.m.
"OH MY GOD!!!!!!!! No won't go any further, too easy of a target. Just tell her that I just ate an MRE and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome along with 30,000 other close friends so I understand her concern about busy restaurants. Maybe tonight I will have time to move my pebbles on the parking garage floor so they don't stab me in the back while I try to sleep."
Michael Brown, "confused". Who knew?
Courtesy of the
Washington Post:
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As Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans on Aug. 29, Michael Brown, then director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, appeared confused over whether Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had put him in charge, senior military officials could not reach Brown, and his team became swamped by the speed of the unfolding disaster, according to e-mails to and from Brown.
The e-mails also show that the government's response plan, two years in the making, began breaking down even before Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. Before the storm made landfall, Brown's deputy chief of staff, Brooks Altshuler, said White House pressure to form an interagency crisis management group was irrelevant, even though a task force and principal federal officer are key parts of the plan.
"Let them play their raindeer (sic) games as long as they are not turning around and tasking us with their stupid questions. None of them have (sic) a clue about emergency management," Altshuler told Brown and Brown's chief of staff, Patrick Rhode."
What a tool.
Vetting
The Wall Street Journal (not known as a liberal voice)
breaks down the breakdown of the Harriet Miers vetting process. Some of the highlights:
"Mr. Lubet, the Northwestern professor, says "all the built-in incentives" of the vetting process were perverse. "In business you make an effort to have disinterested directors who know all the material facts to resolve conflicts of interest," he told me. "In the Miers pick, the White House was sowing its own minefield."
"It was a disaster waiting to happen," says G. Calvin Mackenzie, a professor at Colby College in Maine who specializes in presidential appointments. "You are evaluating a close friend of the president, under pressure to keep it secret even internally and thus limiting the outside advice you get."
Indeed, even internal advice was shunned. Mr. Card is said to have shouted down objections to Ms. Miers at staff meetings. A senator attending the White House swearing-in of John Roberts four days before the Miers selection was announced was struck by how depressed White House staffers were during discussion of the next nominee. He says their reaction to him could have been characterized as, "Oh brother, you have no idea what's coming."
Sage Advice
George W. Bush was thrilled at finally being able to spend his first night in the White House, but something very strange happened. On the very first night, he was awakened by George Washington's ghost. Bush asked the ghost,
"President Washington, what is the best thing I could do to help the country?"
"Set an honest and honorable example, just as I did," advised Washington.
With all the excitement of the White House, Bush still couldn't sleep well, and then, later on that night, the ghost of Thomas Jefferson moved through the dark bedroom.
"Tom, what is the best thing I could do to help the country?"
Bush asked.
"Cut taxes and reduce the size of the government," Jefferson answered.
Bush still couldn't sleep well, and much later he saw another ghostly figure moving in the shadows.
It was Abraham Lincoln's ghost.
"Abe, what is the best thing I could do to help the country?"
Bush asked.
Lincoln replied, "Go see a play."
Overheard at the White House
Donald Rumsfeld is giving the President his daily briefing on the Coalition Forces in Iraq.
He concludes by saying, "Yesterday, three Brazilian soldiers were killed."
"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
Finally, George W. looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"
