More neo-con spin...

The blathering jerks at Power Line think they have some wry commentary on people like me who think that Bush has been too slooooow to respond The frequent poster Hindrocket, which I assume refers to dookie since that's the quality of his work, wrote:

Oh, I don't know. I supposed he could have ordered an aircraft carrier and a Marine strike group to the disaster scene. That would be more important than giving a useless press conference, which would have done nothing at all to help anyone. These press complaints are typical of the elevation of symbolism over substance that permeates newspaper coverage of many issues.

What assblast at Power Line fails to realize is that we expect a real press conference where stuff is actually announced.  Not the kind of press conference that we have come to expect from Bush where he doesn't say anything substantive or just fumbles his words and answers.

The President should have come out on Monday morning, which for the chronologically challenged was almost 36 hours after the tsunami hit, with an announcement that ships were sailing, planes were loaded and flying, plenty of food/medicine/clothes/shelter en route and America pledging to work with the U.N., or at least the Coalition of the Willing, to raise whatever financial assistance was necessary.

Instead the President dicked around for 4 days before coming out with a paltry $15 million. Only to turn around and raise it to $35million two days later and ultimately raise it to $350 million after he was trumped by just about every other western nation.  As far as humanitarian aid is concerned the U.S. continues to be the largest volume donor but when you look at donations per capita or a percentage of GDP the United States comes in last. Yes, last.

The guy wants to be a leader. He declares himself a leader. Well, a real leader just leads. They don't sit around debating how they will be perceived for giving a press conference. Where is that guy that stood on the rubble of the World Trade Center with a megaphone?  I could overlook his politics if he inspired faith in government and the United States. Instead he trips over his dick (Cheney?) every chance he gets.

Many others have commented on this but the aforementioned assblast at Power Line also is upset that yet another tell-all by a GOP big-wig is slamming BushCo. Apparently he is unable to piece together that every faithful Republican that works for this Administration is incredibly upset. We're not talking naive college grads but life-time public servants. The only people in the admin that are happy are the Neo-cons. But I wouldn't expect the dolts at PowerLine to actually pay attention to anything other than their own gloating over Rathergate.

And one last thing for the fact challenged Mr. Assblast, Richard Clarke is a Republican and was originally appointed by Ronald Reagan