Yet another Katrina topic: Bush cracking jokes in New Orleans?

[elprincipe]

Okay, given my job I've listened to all Bush has had to say during this hurricane crisis, and it seems like still he's in la-la land.

1. He came to Mississippi and cracked a joke about Trent Lott's house being desroyed, then how he wanted to be on his new porch. Good God, thousands may have died in New Orleans and the best you can do is come down there and joke with your buddy the senator about visiting his new house?

2. In New Orleans itself, this is a direct quote:

[quote name='Bush']I believe the town where I used to come from -- Houston, Texas -- to enjoy myself -- occasionally too much -- (laughter) -- will be that very same town that will be a better place to come to. That's what I believe.[/quote]

What the hell? You're in a city mired in crisis, thousands possibly dead, and you're joking about your youthful indiscretions? Yeah, haha, that's a funny one. Can you spare some clean water, Mr. President?

What a ing shitty job DHS has done with this crisis, the department that never should have existed in the first place because it stupidly created a massive new bureaucracy, leading to crap like this happening due to government inefficiency and -ups.

 

[Drocket]

The man is a jackass. But I think we all knew that already.

 

[dennis_t]

During that same trip, he referred to the FEMA chief at one point as "Brownie," as in "Brownie's doing a good job."

Good God.

Not to mention that his tour actually hampered relief efforts:

http://www.nola.com/weblogs/print.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/print076556.html


Three tons of food ready for delivery by air to refugees in St. Bernard Parish and on Algiers Point sat on the Crescent City Connection bridge Friday afternoon as air traffic was halted because of President Bush’s visit to New Orleans, officials said.

The provisions, secured by U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville, and state Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom, baked in the afternoon sun as Bush surveyed damage across southeast Louisiana five days after Katrina made landfall as a Category 4 storm, said Melancon’s chief of staff, Casey O’Shea.

“We had arrangements to airlift food by helicopter to these folks, and now the food is sitting in trucks because they won’t let helicopters fly,” O’Shea said Friday afternoon.

The food was expected to be in the hands of storm survivors after the president left the devastated region Friday night, he said.