W's response to the disaster.

[sweetnpetite]

This thread is not what you've heard before... I promise.

First he said:

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

Then later:

"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government. And to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility. I want to know what went right and what went wrong. I want to know how to better cooperate with state and local government. But, I want to assure you all that I've just got some good news. I Just Saved a heck of a lot of money on car insurance by switching to Geico.


ok- I made that last part up, but how far off is it really?
for actual quotes:
http://www.dubyaspeak.com/hurricane.phtml

 

[sweetnpetite]

If it was truly awful, just say so.

 

[SeaCat]

This thread is not what you've heard before... I promise.

First he said:

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

Then later:

"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government. And to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility. I want to know what went right and what went wrong. I want to know how to better cooperate with state and local government. But, I want to assure you all that I've just got some good news. I Just Saved a heck of a lot of money on car insurance by switching to Geico.


ok- I made that last part up, but how far off is it really?
for actual quotes:
http://www.dubyaspeak.com/hurricane.phtml

*snicker*

Cute one. I can't wait to hear him say it.

Cat

 

[CharleyH]

This thread is not what you've heard before... I promise.

First he said:

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

Then later:

"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government. And to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility. I want to know what went right and what went wrong. I want to know how to better cooperate with state and local government. But, I want to assure you all that I've just got some good news. I Just Saved a heck of a lot of money on car insurance by switching to Geico.

DO you people listen to yourselves?

 

[SeaCat]

DO you people listen to yourselves?

I know I surely do, then again I'm one of the few people who seem to get my warped sense of humor and the lovely reality of day to day living that spawns it.

Cat

If you can't laugh at yourself what can you laugh at?

 

[sweetnpetite]

DO you people listen to yourselves?

The point is this, if you actually look at some of the clueless things that he has said in response to this very topic, it pretty much boils down to what I posted. I'm not laughing at the disaster victims. I'm pointing out what I see as total ignorance and apathy by the preseident and his piss pour response. Such as calling a national day of prayer a week after the event. He's the President- he doesn't need to be praying, he needs to be *acting.* DOING SOMETHING. (something even amicus can probably agree with) In the case of this president I fully get the feeling that he thinks that prayer is an adequate sustitute for actually helping people. I'm sure that he thinks that now that he's prayed, he can move his attention to other things and God will help all those who diserve it.

I just happen to see those gyco comercials all the time and for some reason the similarity just struck me all of a sudden. I don't know if you see those comercials in Canada. I guess I forgot (stupidly) for a minute that this is a multi-national board and lots of people probably don't even know what i'm refuring to.

Anyway, it wasn't meant to be insensitive on my part, but to show an extreme example of Bush's insensitivy.

And for Seacat, Bush is just dumb enough, if someone on his staff had thought of that, he probably would make the joke. This is the guy who said he 'hit the trifecta' when the world trade center was bombed.

 

[sweetnpetite]

"Brown said he was stepping down because he was an ineffective leader who had lost the confidence of the people, to which Bush said, 'That's no reason to quit your job.'" --Jay Leno
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/hurricanekatrina/a/katrinajokes.htm

"Seriously, Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you anymore. There's no more money to spend; you used up all of that. You can't start another war because you also used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people." --Bill Maher

"The president has vowed to personally lead the investigation into the government's failed response to Katrina? Isn't that a job perhaps someone else should be doing?" –Jon Stewart
"No, not at all, Jon. To truly find out what went wrong, it's important for an investigator to have a little distance from the situation. And it's hard to get any more distant from it than the president was last week." –-"Daily Show" correspondent Samantha Bee

 

[Fohi80]

He's a moron

But what can I say, half of you Yanks voted for him (at least this time).

 

[sweetnpetite]

"Finally today convoys of troops and aid started to arrive along the Gulf Coast. Five days after the hurricane hit. Kind of makes you miss the innocent days when Bush only sat on his ass for seven minutes. It only took him four days to make a plan, but finally today he said he had a plan. Unfortunately it's a faith-based plan that involves getting two of every animal onto a big boat." -- Bill Maher


"Everyone is still talking about Hurricane Katrina. Experts say it could take 80 days to drain all of the flood water out of New Orleans. When President Bush heard this he said, '80 days, that's half a vacation.'" --Conan O'Brien

"Our president isn't exactly getting high marks for his handling of the catastrophe. People don't seem to realize, yes the hurricane has been devastating to the people who live in that area, but it has also ruined the last three days of his vacation. He has suffered too." --Jimmy Kimmel

If you could do surgery and put Bush's brain into a young leggy blonde, would you be able to tell him apart from Paris Hilton? Posted by: refugee in the UK at September 6, 2005 04:32 PM
http://216.109.125.130/search/cache...ake+meaning+gwb&d=bqaJ5WFULfqz&icp=1&.intl=us


Barbara Bush's NEXT statement - stay tuned: "This hurricane really had some marvelous side-effects: Now EVERYONE in Houston can have a maid!"

"Congress announced a plan to rename the Gulf of Mexico. They want to call it Persian Gulf 2 in hopes that President Bush would send troops there faster." --Jay Leno

"Even President Bush, almost a week later, President Bush said his administration's response to Katrina was unacceptable. Then he said 'Hey, don't blame me, I was on vacation.'" --Jay Leno

"Welcome to the Late Show. I am so glad you people are here, because last night what an awful audience, oh, my God. Remember those people? What a horrible audience, and I hate talking about people when they're not here, but God, I thought it was the Bush Administration, because...they were so slow to respond." --David Letterman

 

[sweetnpetite]

But what can I say, half of you Yanks voted for him (at least this time).

I don't think it was half. He never even had a clear cut victory, with questions about the validity of his 'election' both times.

 

[sweetnpetite]

for more about the Geico "I just saved a ton of money" ad compains:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/virgin/190979_virgin16.html

The Geico ads people liked most feature the gecko, particularly a TV ad showing a family on a car trip singing old favorites such as "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain." Suddenly a voice pipes up from the back singing the 1970s song "Kung Fu Fighting." It is, of course, the gecko. The final shot is of the entire family singing along to that tune.

That specific ad got more mentions than any others. But readers had much less kind things to say about a separate series of ads Geico is running in which a character, oblivious to the plight of someone else in the ad, smugly announces that he just got a great deal on car insurance.

But this seemed to sum up what the bulk of readers thought about the "good news" campaign: "We see Geico as the insurance of choice for the immoral, the inane and the inconsiderate. Such commercials have certainly fixed the name Geico in my mind, but with a very strong negative connotation. My fear is that the managers who selected these commercials would do just as badly when making decisions about me and my insurance."