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ACLU Sues Bush For ‘Hurricanist’ Remarks
The ACLU has announced that they intend to file a lawsuit against President Bush over remarks he made in the days following Hurricane Katrina. In a statement released on August 28th, President Bush alternately referred to Katrina as a “disaster” and a “storm” as well as the decidedly non-politically correct term, “hurricane”.
“President Bush’s callous remarks have put even more pressure on the the already strained relationship between human beings and Tropical Wind Distribution Entities (TWDE),” stated ACLU spokesman Drab Futar. “Many TWDE’s come from impoverished areas of the world. Areas that have been financially devastated by President Bush’s nearsighted foreign policy. If we take a good hard look at their upbringing in this context, can we really fault them for lashing out in anger?”
The ACLU’s suit seeks the following:
- The creation of a Looter’s Rights Defense Fund
- All U.S. troops out of Iraq
- One of President Bush’s kidneys
- Ward Churchill’s likeness to be carved into Mount Rushmore
- Federally funded TWDE sensitivity training
In other news Baltic Avenue has seceded from the Monopoly board. No word yet on whether or not Mediterranean Avenue will follow suit.
This post is also available at Blogger News Network. Thanks to Mudville, Basil & OTB.
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Federally funded TWDE sensitivity training That’s all we need, more sensitivity training. GAH!
Category 4 Hurricane Determined to Strike U.S. — Cont.
by Hunter on dailykos.com
Thu Sep 1st, 2005 at 10:28:22 PDT
George W. Bush was once known as the C.E.O. President, a term his handlers eagerly coined in order to convey that the country would from now on be run like a business. That quickly evolved into the less flattering Enron President… then the War President… now it’s looking like we can all finally settle on one. George W. Bush: the Disaster President.
“I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.”
He honestly said that. If that brings up more than a passing twinge of familiarity, being a more than remarkable restatement of Condi Rice’s now-famous assertion to the Senate panel — then I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised.
But it does bring up something that we joke about often, but apparently have never taken quite seriously enough: our President is an idiot. I don’t mean an average, run-of-the-mill idiot. I mean an idiot who apparently, for the entire duration of his presidency, literally was paying absolutely no attention to even the most life-threateningly critical tasks of government.
The administration specifically cut the funds to fix these specific levees, in order to specifically divert that Corps money to Iraq, despite urgent warnings and predictions of catastrophic disaster if the levees were breeched. The administration specifically cancelled the Clinton-backed flood control program to preserve and restore the wetlands between New Orleans and the gulf, instead specifically opening parts of that buffer zone for development.
Nobody anticipated this disaster? It was identified by FEMA as one of the top three likeliest major disasters to strike America. (That link, one of countless stories, was from 2001, by the way.) It has been a major disaster scenario for years. Everybody anticipated it, which makes this single statement by George W. Bush possibly the most dishonest, lying, craptacularly false thing he has ever said in his presidency — even surpassing his now-infamous State of the Union Address. Truly, this is President Bush’s blue-dress moment.
And yet, funneling the money into Iraq was more important. You better bet your crapulent, lying, one-track, drink-addled ass that’s a political issue.
He also said today:
“I hope people don’t play politics at this time of a natural disaster the likes of which this country has never seen.”
Oh, I’m touched. Utterly touched. After 9/11, the entire Republican Party went en masse to get Twin Towers ass tattoos. The Republican convention was a wholesale tribute to crass exploitation, the sets themselves designed to evoke the aftermath of the attack. Every domestic and international policy this administration — no, this entire Republican government — has produced has been heaved up before the public while waving the spectre of 9/11 as the catch-all vindication of every administration whim. Every tax cut, every civil rights issue, every budget cut, every budget expansion, no matter how tortured the logic must be, has some Republican senator standing on the Senate floor and proudly raping the corpses of that day as justification for their particular agenda item.
Oh, we’ve seen politicization of disaster. Every Republican campaign for the last four years has revolved around the politicization of disaster.
But Lord help us, George W. Bush is going to get the vapors if anyone asks him to explain his administration’s active cuts of the very programs designed to keep New Orleans safe.
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