A Suspension of Pride and Faith in my Nation
Hyperlinking text in today’s bit of of rightous indignation from Mme. Dowd:
Michael Brown, the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA – a job he
trained for by running something called the International Arabian Horse
Association – admitted he didn’t know until Thursday that there were
15,000 desperate, dehydrated, hungry, angry, dying victims of Katrina
in the New Orleans Convention Center.
Was he sacked instantly?
No, our tone-deaf president hailed him in Mobile, Ala., yesterday:
“Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.”
It would be one thing
if President Bush and his inner circle – Dick Cheney was vacationing in
Wyoming; Condi Rice was shoe shopping at Ferragamo’s on Fifth Avenue
and attended “Spamalot” before bloggers chased her back to Washington;*
and Andy Card was off in Maine – lacked empathy but could get the job
done. But it is a chilling lack of empathy combined with a stunning
lack of efficiency that could make this administration implode.
If I can cut weekend trips short to take on unexpected research
assignments, surely, these people could have put their lazy August /
September plans on hold.
*I am aware that this link is to a rather dubious publication, but I wanted something out of the blogosphere.
**
Otherwise, two things learned yesterday: (1) mixing HLS and Stanford
Law alums is a caustic combination; and (2) a handy phrase from SF
lesbian vernacular, “Marina Gina.”
badxmaru
September 3, 2005 @ 5:36 pm
you figure public servants that have so much power and so much prestige would go through countless trials to make their characters well known and respected.
condi did, however, go to stanfurd.
Saheli
September 4, 2005 @ 4:48 pm
public servants and hacks and cronies are not quite the same thing.