I Needed A Laugh

But instead I kept refreshing cnn.com. Serendipity struck when the breaking news on top was a link to...try not to laugh...Bush speaking in New Orleans to talk about hurricane Katrina recovery. It's kind of hard where to begin as I listen to him talking about thanking the American taxpayer for help providing the money to help rebuild the area. He "understands people are hurting". He says "a brighter day is coming". He talks of all the infrastructure improvements and sets a goal of 2011 for all the levees to be complete. He informs us that the governor and the federal government agreed on a 30 year loan for improvements for the state. He didn't say the amount, but said he granted the governor's request to a standing ovation that seemed very staged, then Bush said, "this isn't supposed to be self-congragulatory." But what else is it? His strategy is not to repeat (his) mistakes of the past, and then talks about how people still haven't been provided what they need (how many years later?) but they're working on it. He self congragulatorily outlines how so many social services have been restored like health care, etc. He outlined in a one liner that there will be a series of community health care clinics (he needed to read that part) to provide preventative care. Funds given to the police for cars, computers, etc. crime lab, so they can do their back log of work. Crime is a problem but there are notable improvements. Education he goes on to say has improved with 'many' schools having re-opened. He's reading off his script, then he improvises Bush-isms after that with the smirk on his face. "This part of the world" he uses to describe New Orleans in terms of a place other kids are sent to go to university. Strange statements. He jokes that there are more

...oops, mother calls and there goes my Bush-ism coverage on Katrina. I still don't know how the guy has the nerve to show his face there after screwing so many people over with all the resources misappropriated to other states and all. But that's our Bush for ya.