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Bush Smites Gulf Coast

To date, I've held my tongue (fingers) for the most part on the Cindy Sheehan front.  While the vigil-cum-media conniption out west has become steadily more farcical, grief can make people behave in peculiar ways, and I'm somewhat loathe to criticize someone so clearly in despair (especially when there are so many other issues ripe for rebuke).

But the situation - I must acknolwedge, perhaps belatedly - has officially become fatuous beyond all measure.

Brit Hume expounds (emphasis and excerpting mine):

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, who was camped outside President Bush's Texas ranch for the past few weeks, says Hurricane Katrina is all President Bush's fault, insisting that the president is "[now] heading to Louisiana to see the devastation that his environmental policies and his killing policies have caused."

What's more, she says, "Recovery would be easier and much quicker if almost half of the three states involved National Guard were not in Iraq."
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Sheehan is not the only one blaming President Bush for Hurricane Katrina. Germany's environmental minister says, "neglected environmental policies" in the U.S. have led to global warming and catastrophic weather. Minister Jurgen Trittin insists, "The Bush government rejects international climate protection goals by insisting that imposing them would negatively impact the American economy. The American president is closing his eyes to the economic and human costs his land and the world economy are suffering under natural catastrophes like Katrina."           

Do you suppose it's only doomsday weather that Bush has the power to summon?  Or if he were only less malevolent, could he offer us a meteorological paradise, crammed with sunshine and rainbows, where all our moons are blue and all our Christmasses are white?

Consider this shark jumped.  The good news (probably moreso for Democrats than Republicans) is that this ought finally to cast this debacle firmly, perhaps belatedly, into a state of irrelevance.

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Bush Smites Gulf Coast

To date, I've held my tongue (fingers) for the most part on the Cindy Sheehan front.  While the vigil-cum-media conniption out west has become steadily more farcical, grief can make people behave in peculiar ways, and I'm somewhat loathe to criticize someone so clearly in despair (especially when there are so many other issues ripe for rebuke).

But the situation - I must acknolwedge, perhaps belatedly - has officially become fatuous beyond all measure.

Brit Hume expounds (emphasis and excerpting mine):

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, who was camped outside President Bush's Texas ranch for the past few weeks, says Hurricane Katrina is all President Bush's fault, insisting that the president is "[now] heading to Louisiana to see the devastation that his environmental policies and his killing policies have caused."

What's more, she says, "Recovery would be easier and much quicker if almost half of the three states involved National Guard were not in Iraq."
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Sheehan is not the only one blaming President Bush for Hurricane Katrina. Germany's environmental minister says, "neglected environmental policies" in the U.S. have led to global warming and catastrophic weather. Minister Jurgen Trittin insists, "The Bush government rejects international climate protection goals by insisting that imposing them would negatively impact the American economy. The American president is closing his eyes to the economic and human costs his land and the world economy are suffering under natural catastrophes like Katrina."           

Do you suppose it's only doomsday weather that Bush has the power to summon?  Or if he were only less malevolent, could he offer us a meteorological paradise, crammed with sunshine and rainbows, where all our moons are blue and all our Christmasses are white?

Consider this shark jumped.  The good news (probably moreso for Democrats than Republicans) is that this ought finally to cast this debacle firmly, perhaps belatedly, into a state of irrelevance.