In today's bleat he posts:
If anything put me off reading the internets today, it was the two themes of perfidy and nuance. The former being the Bush-is-evil sites that can’t wait for the President to show up at a tent city to do a photo-op in the breadline so they can drag out plastic turkey jokes, and the latter being sites that obsessed over the President’s remarks today. I heard them. I was very underwhelmed. I suppose a bitten lip or a moist eye would have helped to part the waters of Canal St. like the Red Sea, but I don’t expect moving rhetoric from him anymore. I think the White House has a tin ear these days – I heard another speech the other day about how They Hate Our Freedoms, and true though it may be it’s as fresh as a Pink Floyd tune on a classic FM station. I know; impressions are everything, appearances count. But as I get older I care less about the political value of a particular address and more about what actually happens, and I would prefer the 1950s sci-fi movie Authority Figure as the societal default, i.e., someone who bluntly states the facts and says “that’s all, boys” before leaving through a pebbled-glass door to do something, leaving the reporters shouting questions. Sometimes you just tire of spin, the endless carping, the incessant pissy miserabilism, to quote the Pet Shop Boys. It’s as if there’s a superior breed of humanity, uncorrupt and all-knowing, waiting in the wings to solve all our problems if only we’d let them have the reins of power and speak the honeyed words. Listen to them and human failings will be erased, nature turned aside like a man who enters a French restaurant in tennis shoes.I've looked over on Kos. I can understand the natural urge to blame someone for all this - but...Wait a week, and let’s see what's accomplished by the humans we have, and then we can start throwing javelins.
Well, shit. I won't be wading in that cesspool again soon. One post actually advocated the Red Cross. But most put much more more emphasis on hatred of Bush than anything else. (Like I should really have expected better from Kos?)
And Neal Boortz has an interesting little clip up. Seems a number of his readers have been sending in clips from DU, and he's got two cute ones up.
Here are just a few postings Boortz listeners found on democraticunderground.com. Listen, my friends, to the voices of American Democrats:Well, I'm convinced.... but you'd better not ask me of just what I'm convinced on regarding DU and Kos.and...BTW, does anyone else think it's suspicious that the levees didn't break until AFTER the hurricane passed and it was clear the storm surge was not going to swamp the city. It would probably only take a couple of sticks of dynamite to get those things flowing. Seems like someone wanted Bush to have another pile of debris to climb on top of.
I didn't think of deliberate destruction of the levee, but that's sure possible. No one was there to see. I HAVE been wondering why Bush looks so perky and happy - like he's very PLEASED about the hurricane. It seems like more than his usual sociopathic cluenessness. Is there something about the oil infrastructure, the neighborhoods that were destroyed (surely not strongholds of GOP support), the probable availability of cheap land now that so much has been destroyed. Or perhaps just that the cost of oil has soared so high? He's a sociopath who is incapable of empathy, yes, but doesn't he seem really, really tickled to you? Like he's gotten something he thought he might not be able to pull off?There you have it. George Bush may have ordered the flood wall in New Orleans destroyed for some political advantage.
J.