Random thoughts.

GratisNet: "Can Bush not button a shirt properly? Was there no one in his entourage of flunkies that had the nerve to tell him that he didn't button his shirt right and consequently looked like a three year old on national television? Once again Bush proves to be unequal to the task at hand.

The big question is, of course, how could the wheels have fallen off the Bush bandwagon so quickly and completely? From the 'May I go to the bathroom' episode at the UN to looking like a toddler after buttoning his shirt for the first time, the Bush White House seems not to be getting anything right. Could it be that Karl Rove is so preoccupied with what Fitzgerald can do to him, as to lose focus in such fundamental ways?

The White House talks about Katrina unfortunately forcing them into deficit spending, showing how little they think of the intelligence of the people. They think the people have missed the fact that they have spent more money on dubious items than can scarcely be imagined. One could compare their money squandering habits to those of drunken sailors on liberty after months at sea but that would be an insult to drunken sailors. Any suggestion regarding repealing certain of the tax cuts is met with the standard, 'That would hurt the economy' as if the tax cuts have ever been shown to to be of benefit to the people in the Bush economy, in the form of jobs, salary growth (other than CEOs, that is) and increasing revenue.

Cutting taxes in times of vital increased spending would be like a person taking a cut in pay while they are trying to buy a new house. Whatever happened to the tried and true republican mantra of old, 'Pay as you go?' It has been conspicuously missing since the days when Ronald Reagan brought his tax and spend modus operendi to Washington and for 25 years republicans have shown less fiscal discipline than a crack addict.

Why do we continue to see people involved in the recovery and clean up effort in NOLA walking around without any protection such as protective gloves, boots, masks, etc.? By all accounts the water flooding the city is a mix of toxic waste including chemicals, oil, gasolene and other petroleum products not to mention decomposing bodies (both human & animal), raw sewage, trash, etc. all known biological hazards both in the water and in the thick coat of sludge where the water has receded, yet we see workers go about their grim tasks unprotected while the EPA remains silent on the dangers to the health and well being of anyone coming in contact with the hazardous residue left in the wake of Katrina.

Yet another example of the moral bankruptcy of the Bush regime?"