Bush’s Hurricane Catch-22
A co-worker pointed out this morning that President Bush is damned-if-he-does-and-damned-if-he-doesn’t in this whole Hurricane Rita thing. Already he’s been making more of a show of interest regarding Rita than he did regarding Katrina.
If his administration and their underlings like FEMA are more on the ball with the Rita recovery, some will say that he learned from his mistakes less than a month ago, but some will say that he’s showing his home state, a state with a Republican Governor, preferential treatment while leaving the state with a Democratic Governor to drown in quicksand…or swampland.
However, if FEMA and Bush’s administration bungles about as they have been with Katrina, then he’ll be blamed for their and his own incompetence and that could be the nail in his popularity coffin.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens.
tags: George W. Bush, Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Katrina, FEMA
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on September 23, 2005 at 1:26 pm
Tamara said:
Well, he’s been Teflon-if-he-does-and-Teflon-if-he-doesn’t on Iraq and a host of other things for so long, I think the heat he’s taking is a bit overdue, and a lot misplaced. But mostly overdue!
on September 26, 2005 at 3:11 am
BadTux said:
But it’s not as if it matters. The only way Bush is leaving the White House before the end of his term is if he gets bored, resigns to let the Bigus Dickus be formally recognized as President (it’s not as if the Bigus Dickus isn’t calling the shots already anyhow) and retires to his condo in Houston (not the movie set in Crawford, he hates Crawford, he bought that pig farm in Crawford because it was necessary for defusing his “city slicker playboy” reputation). But he likely isn’t going to do that. As far as I can tell, he *likes* being President. It’s “hard work”. He has people to tell him what to say, where to go, what to do. He doesn’t have to think for himself, he has the Bigus Dickus and Turdblossom to do that for him. All he has to do is look good a few times a year, and otherwise kick up his heels on the desk at the Oval Office and daydream of drunken sorority girls that he balled in college.
The situation is not yet dire enough where the majority of Americans would support removing the Busheviks via force, the way that the evil Slobodan Milosovic was removed in Serbia. Thus the Busheviks simply DO NOT CARE. Because they don’t have to. This merely appears to be teflon. It’s more an impenetrable barrier of “don’t give a sh**”….