has Shrub ever told the truth about anything

This video obtained by the associated press and linked from crooks and liars shows shrub sitting in via video conference on a FEMA briefing the day before Hurricane Katrina made landfall. During the briefing the director of the national hurricane center talked about the potential of the New Orleans levees being breached. Even Mike [...]

Shrub doesn’t only dislike black people

Shrub actually actively disdain’s anyone who isn’t wealthy enough who bail him out of his business disasters or finance his political campaigns. Now in the wake of hurricane katrina he has suspended the prevailing wage laws in the affected areas. The purpose of these laws is to require government contrators to pay same wage [...]

CapitolBuzz: Santorum Blames National Weather Service For Katrina

Rick Santorum should be confined to House Arrest in what was the ninth ward of New Orleans for the rest of his life. This evil scumbag earlier this year introduced a bill in the US Senate that would prohibit the National Weather Service from providing weather information free to the public if any private [...]

At least Trent Lott will be taken care of…

I found this via boing-boing. These are the words of shrub direct from a White House press release yesterday:

We’ve got a lot of rebuilding to do. First, we’re going to save lives and stabilize the situation. And then we’re going to help these communities rebuild. The good news is — and it’s hard [...]

Watch out for Turd Blossoms

This item appeared in the Salon.com war room:

As the authorities shuffle hurricane refugees from the Superdome in New Orleans to the Astrodome in Houston and other venues scattered around Texas, ordinary people from all across America are posting offers on the Web to let people stay with them. As Salon reader Sandy Harbanuk [...]

Uncensored interview with New Orleans mayor

Go here to hear the uncensored version of the interview that New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin did with a New Orleans radio station last night. CNN played parts of this but censored it.

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Our incompetent “leaders”

I have been hearing comments repeatedly in recent days about America coming to everyone elses aid when they have an emergency, but no one coming to our aid in this crisis. Well it appears that other countries want to help, but the incompetent political hacks running our country into the ground won’t let them. [...]

Does Shrub Lie Every Time He Opens His Mouth?

This morning on Good Morning America Shrub made the following statement:

I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.

This is just one of countless versions of the same warning over the past several years,

From Gone with the Water, in National Geographic, October 2004: The storm hit Breton Sound with [...]

The Katrina Diaspora

Dave Winer makes some good comments on the aftermath of hurricane katrina:

The disaster is continuing. The national response is wholly inappropriate. I think we have to get ready to welcome the refugees into our homes, to absorb the population of New Orleans and the surrounding area into the rest of the country. I [...]

An Absence of Real Leadership

Over Dave Winer’s Scripting News blog he quotes the following from Daily Kos

Fair question: “How is it that today, nearly four years after 9/11, we have no cohesive plan to deal with the region’s refugees, the potentially one million American citizens without work or a home or basic care?” Permanent link to this [...]