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Saturday, September 03, 2005

Lift every voice and scream

Some of yesterday’s highlights:

The Dauphin lands in the Gulf Coast and does a bizarre parody of George W. Bush, waving his arms woodenly and stumbling through simple sentences until he gets to that funny little joke about sitting up on Trent Lott’s porch.  And let’s not forget the immortal line, “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.” I see a Medal of Honor in Mike Brown’s future.  (You really do have to watch the video if you haven’t seen it.  Even by Bush’s standards, it’s stunning.)

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist announces that the Senate will vote on the permanent repeal of the estate tax next week.

The Navy hires Halliburton to restore electric power, repair roofs and remove debris at three naval facilities in Mississippi.

The American Family Association puts out a press release in which the Reverend Bill Shanks says that the decadent city of New Orleans got what it deserved.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency continues to funnel funds to Pat Robertson’s charity, Operation Blessing.

Mike Brown continues to chastise the poor for not evacuating New Orleans.

Condi Rice makes an urgent appeal to all Americans to donate funds to help her buy shoes on Fifth Avenue.  (No, that’s not quite true.  She did something almost as strange:  “in an unusual foray into domestic affairs,” notes the New York Times, Rice “sharply disputed any suggestion that storm victims had somehow been overlooked because of their race.” Well, it’s a good thing she cut short her New York vacation to bring us that critical intervention.  But why isn’t anyone asking Rice how she liked Spamalot?)

Rise up, O my people.  You are being governed by incompetents, thugs, idiots, crazed clerics, and vicious looters.  Lift every voice. 

(And many thanks to AmericaBlog for keeping track of the atrocities and outrages as they pile up.)

Posted by Michael on 09/03 at 09:25 AM
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