United States of Shame [THERMONUCLEAR BARF ALERT!]

New York Times ^ | 9/3/05 | Maureen Dowd

[Enchante]

When the president and vice president rashly shook off our allies and our respect for international law to pursue a war built on lies, when they sanctioned torture, they shook the faith of the world in American ideals.

When they were deaf for so long to the horrific misery and cries for help of the victims in New Orleans - most of them poor and black, like those stuck at the back of the evacuation line yesterday while 700 guests and employees of the Hyatt Hotel were bused out first - they shook the faith of all Americans in American ideals. And made us ashamed.

[RasterMaster]

"...they made us ashamed to call the New York Times a newspaper..."

That rag isn't fit to be called fishwrap. The NY Slime could certainly keep from wasting a few trees for what is nothing more than bird-cage liners.

[ElderEdda]

Just because they (Dowd and company) keep up the mantra "a war on lies" doesn't make it true. The more and more they say it doesn't make it any more factual. She is flat out wrong on so many levels. Why let a little thing like being factual get in the way of a good story. What does 30% of the guard being in Iraq have anything to do with the hurricane. She doesn't answer that but throws the number out to sound smart--it MUST mean something.

Here's the real skinny on the guard situation, by someone who actually did their homework--just the facts please: http://www.nationalreview.com/robbins/robbins200509020719.asp

She doesn't know the facts and doesn't care. Dowd is a dud and parasite and lives off the lives of others. Her Bushworld book was about, what else another person's life.

[smoothsailing]

Well done,Enchante!

And I'm not talking about Dowd's drunken bile.I'm talking about your solution to her,her cronies,and the NY Times.

Well done!

[thoughtomator]

The sign at Checkpoint Sanity

[Cougar66]

shes off on book leave the NY Slimes says but she does get emails liberties@nytimes.com

[Wild Irish Rogue]

"W. drove his budget-cutting Chevy to the levee, and it wasn't dry. Bye, bye, American lives."

I know she's a frustrated , barren spinster, but, there is no excuse for such sickness.

When did the Bush coup d'etat happen ?
When did George Bush take over the Governorship of Louisiana ?
When did George Bush appoint himself Mayor of New Orleans ?
When did the Bush family take control of all governmental agencies in Louisiana at the state and local level ?
I'm surprised that the left kept this big secret for so long.

[SAJ]

Likely a considerable amount of good, all things considered (wups, pardon me please, NPR).

[kaiser80]

Looks like the New Orleans tragedy shall be the subject of the
stupid fat white man's movie...

[SAJ]

GREAT shot, wonderful !!

LMAO at this one... ;^)

[Jet Jaguar]

[endthematrix]

They must keep the focus on the Administration for fear of exposing the corrupt democrat local machine.

[tbeatty]

Can you imagine if John Kerry or Bill Clinton were President?

There would be a lot of lip biting. A lot of empathy. But not a lot of saving. Anyone remember the Wildfires in New Mexico that burned those towns down?

I don't get it. Mississippi and Alabama are doing much better than Louisiana. There is one big difference. Democrats in Louisiana and Republicans in Alabama and Mississippi.

[tbeatty]

like those stuck at the back of the evacuation line yesterday while 700 guests and employees of the Hyatt Hotel were bused out first

Ummm, that was the Dem mayor that was complaining that there was no way to get people out. I guess "his people" were Hyatt employees.

[kcvl]

When they were deaf for so long to the horrific misery and cries for help of the victims in New Orleans - most of them poor and black, like those stuck at the back of the evacuation line yesterday while 700 guests and employees of the Hyatt Hotel were bused out first - they shook the faith of all Americans in American ideals. And made us ashamed.

She is a liar. President Bush didn't do that, the Mayor did!

[pepsionice]

Oh, the shame, the shame, the shame, the shame of it all. What will we do to prevent such a episode in the future? I say...shoot anyone who remains behind after being offered a chance to leave in their car or a seat on a free bus. Don't waste time or effort...just shoot them on the spot. They don't have a will to live...then let them rest in peace.

[SeaWolf]

This really should have been a Dowd Alert!

[beyond the sea]

Hi, sis!

[putupjob]

She is a younger Haggy Helen Thomas. She is already just as bitter, and at the end she will be just as haggy.

[Cementjungle]

She a vapid shrew. Does anybody even read her mewlings??

Unfortunately, yes. Many read and believe this crap.

[manwiththehands]