Pretend leadership
Aug 3rd, 2007 at 12:38 pm by Dr. S
Oh, goody, just what the people in Minneapolis need: A couple of cheap photo-ops.
US President George W. Bush on Saturday will travel to Minneapolis, Minnesota to visit the site of the bridge that collapsed over the Mississippi river, the White House announced Thursday.
The hastily announced trip will come after Bush’s wife Laura visits the bridge site Friday to talk to rescue workers, in the course of a previously scheduled trip to Minneapolis.
This should be a big help. Just ask the people of New Orleans how helpful presidential visits were to them.
George must be soooo pissed that he has to delay his trip to Camp David.
Clearly, you don’t appreciate the sacrifice he’s making: This trip is coming off his vacation time.
Cars fall in Mississippi after collapse…
A freeway bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis collapsed Wednesday, sending many cars in…
Thanks sooooo much for validating the opinion I posted on the left’s using this as the latest Bush/The War/
It’s ALL The Republican’s Fault political bashing tool.
bad news for Bush bashers
We didn’t get here overnight and won’t get fixed overnight.
Perhaps it’s time for Minnesota’s true progressive roots to show up and make a big stink.
Hey Kevin, do you remember Bush’s first public comments after the tragic bridge collapse? It went a little something like this:
“This doesn’t have to be this way. The Democrats won last year’s election fair and square, and now they control the calendar for bringing up bills in Congress. They need to pass each of these spending bills individually, on time, and in a fiscally responsible way.
The budget I’ve sent to Congress fully funds America’s priorities. It increases discretionary spending by 6.9 percent. My Cabinet Secretaries assure me that this is adequate to meet the needs of our nation.
Unfortunately, Democratic leaders in Congress want to spend far more.”
Nothing about the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. He’s too busy bashing Democrats.
So tell me again who makes political hay out of tragedy.
I saw some guy on Fux News this AM saying that the WH staff was working hard to determine the right time for Dear Leader to make his appearance. Rumor has it they sacrificed a staffer and read his entrails. No word on whether it was one of Cheney’s people or one of Rove’s.
Now, now. Kevin is absolutely right. Everything that’s happened to our country in the last 77 months–ignoring the warnings about 9/11, using falsehoods to rationalize invading a country that was no threat to us, losing NOLA and the Minneapolis bridge after years of being told that the infrastructure needed tending, the utterly foreseeable mortgage market collapse, the unnecessary and violent deaths of 3,664 soldiers (not counting other casualties), the willful attacks on the Constitution after swearing before God that he’d defend it, etc–every bit of it has one cause: George Bush has had the worst luck in the history of the world.
I’m stunned that you can imply otherwise. Certainly, none of what happened is Bush’s fault. Kevin’s right: The Republicans are not responsible for this. The Republicans are never responsible for anything.