Cheney Speaks.

NOLA Times-Picayune Newslogs

Vice President Cheney says no new taxes Thursday, 7:50 p.m. By John-John Williams IV Staff writer Vice President Dick Cheney said new taxes are not the answer to finance the Hurricane Katrina disaster effort, as he assessed the now infamous 17th Street Canal levee early Thursday evening. Cheney, who was sent by President Bush, said he was pleased with the work that has been done to repair the levee so far. Cheney arrived by helicopter shortly after 4 p.m. on a makeshift landing strip where 7,000-pound sand bags used to block the leak in the levee are currently being filled. The vice-president met with officials of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, levee repair workers, members of the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Army. The whole visit last about an hour. Cheney said he was impressed by the job of the Corps at the levee site. Cheney was accompanied by his wife, Gov. Kathleen Blanco, Sen. David Vitter, R-Metairie and Rep. Jim McCrery, R-Shreveport, Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff and Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. "You've got to recognize the severity of what Mother Nature did to us," Cheney said as he stood several yards away from a West End neighborhood that was submerged in water up to rooftops.

"New taxes are not the answer" he said. What he meant was, let's pass the cost onto our children and grandchildren so that I and others like me can continue to rape the national treasury (and the future of the nation) with our tax cuts.

We must "recognize the severity of what Mother Nature did to us" US? Is he f*cking kidding? He was hiding out in Wyoming for God's sake, did to US? Sorry Dick, WE not only recognized the severity of what Katrina did, we also recognized BEFORE Katrina made landfall that she was going to wreak havoc and destruction as never seen in NOLA and not seen on the rest of the Gulf Coast since Camille brought her destruction here over 30 years ago. The only people who didn't have a clue was PrezNitwit and his clueless cohorts, "Who me?" Chertoff and "Resume Inflator" Brown. Crashcart comes to NOLA for his photo op and acts like the clueless, insensitive and cowardly lout he is. He is only worthy of scorn and contempt.

"We lost everything at once . . . communications, power grid, infrastructure." ... Cheney left shortly after addressing a small group of reporters before getting back on a helicopter and heading back to Baton Rouge. The visit was the first by Cheney to the area since the hurricane struck on Aug. 29.

So he was surprised that everything was lost at once. DUH! Who could have ever thought that a hurricane could knock out the power grid, telephone system, overwhelm civil services like water, sewer, etc.? Certainly not the ignorant, inept f*ckers at DHS and FEMA, partisan hacks who were rewarded by Preznit Horsefluffer for political services and now, NOW, they have the balls to tell everyone to not play the blame game?

At long last have these incompetent bastards no shame? Evidentially not for Preznit HardWork is going to the disaster area for another photo op. Karl Rove is working overtime to make this sorry excuse for a man look like something other than the steaming pile of horse manure he is.

Here's a free clue Karl baby, you best worry about how your own ass is going to look in an orange jumpsuit rather than how to make a pile of garbage look like a man.