A Frightening Thought

Frances Townsend: "I reject outright that President Bush was anything less than fully involved," referring of course to the White House's response to Hurricane Katrina.

Does that not frighten you? It would imply that either President Nero fiddled while New Orleans drowned or that it was really the best the Shrub could do, clear brush while New Orleans drowned. The former implies a complete indifference on Bush's part, the latter complete incompetence.

You make the call. Personnally, I think Crawford misses its idiot.

In a surprising turn of events, a Harvard study indicates Bush's educational policy benefits white, middle class students. The uniform standards proposed but never funded by the Edjumicator in Chief never happened, instead, school districts have negotiated exceptions. And since largely white, middle class school districts can afford better lawyers, guess who got the exceptions. Result: His constituents never fail. Forget the fact that half of our children never finish high school, that isn't important. Tax cuts are.

And the U. S. and Israel claim there's no plot to weaken Hamas, the Democratically elected ruling party of Palestine. As cleverly pointed out by NPR, there is no plot. A plot is secret. The plan is to cut off money to the democratically elected Palestinian government, forcing them to hold new elections. Using hope as a strategy, the Administration, ours, believes that Fatah will be forced by their short time out of power to reform and will take over the government. I rather believe the democratically elected government of Iran will step in and provide assistance, further destabilizing the region and further diminishing our standing among our oil providers. Israel will withhold the taxes they collect for the Palestinian Authority, we will withhold our aid and Hamas will harden its position. The party of choice, the one we hoped would win the election, will become less and less influential as the Palestinians are given another enemy to go along with Israel, us. And nothing, as we saw after 9/11, unifies a people more than a good enemy.

Hope is not a strategy. Ain't democracy wonderful, W?