Defending Bush vs Katrina

How do you take blatant proof of a lie, that the President was unaware of the devastation and loss of life Hurricane Katrina was to inflict on the Gulf coast, and spin it into some kind of a defense?

The videotape is out there. Bush knew full well what Katrina was capable of before she drowned New Orleans. It is on tape. Days after the tape, Bush said he had no idea that Katrina could have caused the level of devastation he observed. This leaves us with two possibilities. Either Bush was lying in an attempt to provide air cover for the White House in the wake of the botched response to the storm or he really didn't know. If the former is true, we know our Shrub's born-again front is just that: Thou shalt not lie, remember? If the latter is true, then Crawford really does need its idiot back and we need to be rid of him along with his entire cabal.

"President Bush participated in briefings, phone calls and conversations throughout this process, and his administration was focused on making sure that the federal assets were in place to help the people of New Orleans," said Bush spokesman Trent Duffy in an attempt at absolution. I'm surprised the "blame game" card hasn't been played. "We are fully prepared," Bush claimed at the end of the briefing. If that is the truth, we are well and royally screwed.

As all this is going on, another serious error in judgement is being committed. The Bush foreign policy is apparently to scrap the Nucular Nonproliferation Treaty (another worthless piece of paper, along with our Constitution) and allow anyone capable of fusing two pieces of enriched uranium into a critical mass entry into the club of legitimate nuclear weapon holding countries. Pakistan is certainly next on the Shrub's list of nucular wannabes. Will he extend the hand of nucular welcome to Iran or North Korea, two slightly less savory nucular powers? Or will he just give his best Alfred E. Neumann grin and refuse to take questions?

Anyone willing to bet Bush eventually goes lower than Nixon's twenty-five percent? While I doubt that, if the mainstream media ever plays the Bush briefing tape, I'd bet on thirty. That's nucular, excuse me, radioactive in an election year.