NYT's Maureen Dowd: "Disney On Parade"

[babylonsister]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/opinion/17dowd.html

Published: September 17, 2005
WASHINGTON

The president, as he fondly recalled the other day, used to get well lit in New Orleans. Not any more.

On Thursday night, Mr. Bush wanted to appear casually in charge as he waged his own Battle of New Orleans in Jackson Square. Instead, he looked as if he'd been dropped off by his folks in front of a eerie, blue-hued castle at Disney World. (Must be Sleeping Beauty's Castle, given the somnambulant pace of W.'s response to Katrina.)

More Columns by Maureen Dowd All Andrew Jackson's horses, and all the Boy King's men could not put Humpty Dumpty together again. His gladiatorial walk across the darkened greensward, past a St. Louis Cathedral bathed in moon glow from White House klieg lights, just seemed to intensify the sense of an isolated, out-of-touch president clinging to hollow symbols as his disastrous disaster agency continues to flail.

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[NJCher]

1. make the pie higher

Her point is that because jr. slacked off on the job, he now has to promise the world to the Gulf coast. Again, on our dime. How high the cost of his "leadership" is.

This also struck me as a good observation:

The president is still looking for a tiny spot of unreality in New Orleans - and in Iraq, where a violent rampage has spiked the three-day death tally to over 200.





Cher

[babylonsister]

2. The lengths his people go to to show him in a good light

are amazing; and to think all the blivet's actions could be the result of trying to 'one-up' his dad. We are all the losers for this rivalry.

[rodeodance]

5. what was the $ amount for Jr (and all the equip) to make speech in NO?

[rodeodance]

6. recall Jr said we need to cut un-necesary expences.

[OneGrassRoot]

3. She really comes up with the great one-liners..........

"The president, as he fondly recalled the other day, used to get well lit in New Orleans. Not any more."



:o absolutely brilliant......:bounce:

[rodeodance]

9. they only turn on the street lights for him now.

[Missy M]

4. Did they forget the banner this time.....

I guess old Karl couldn't come up with the right words.

[Catchawave]

7. Proof he's out of touch with reality.....

"As Elisabeth Bumiller, the White House reporter for The Times, noted in a pool report, the image wizards had put up a large swath of military camouflage netting, held in place by bags of rocks and strung on poles, to hide the president from the deserted and desolate streets of the French Quarter ghost town."

He really does need to hire a new staff of handlers!

[rodeodance]

8. E-mail: [email protected] --tell her thanks

......Bush père did make a real mistake in responding slowly to Hurricane Andrew in 1992, but that blunder has been dwarfed by what the slothful son hath wrought. Because of his fatal tardiness, W. now has to literally promise the moon to fix New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast, driving up the federal deficit and embarking on the biggest spending bonanza and government public works program since F.D.R.

In his address from the French Quarter, the president sounded like such a spendthrift bleeding heart that he is terrifying the right more than his father ever did.

Read my lips: By the time all this is over, people will be saying that Poppy was the true conservative in the family.

E-mail: [email protected]

[chelsea0011]

10. His NO policy sounds like his Iraq policy. "It's gonna cost what it's

gonna cost", he says. It was a simple question of what the cost is expected and this is his answer. This guy is the worst President ever. A complete moran. The public is just beginning to understand what we have been saying for six years. He can't lead because he can't see beyond his next planned vacation. We can spend any amount of $$$$$$$$$$$$$ on anything and still line the pockets of the wealthy and screw everyone else. Three more years of hell.

[moose65]

11. If a Democrat said that....

Can you imagine what would happen if a Democrat went on national TV and said "it's gonna cost what it's gonna cost" ?? The outrage from the right would be deafening. I find it hilarious that W's supporters are now in the odd position of defending an FDR-like rebuilding program! O the joys of irony.......

[chelsea0011]

13. Agreed. That smirky retort pissed me off, but he getsw away with it

[oasis]

12. Bravo MoDo. Good stuff.