Cynical Nation

Let me get this straight. The entire right wing is a bunch of "sick racist fucks" because of one off-hand comment from... Don Imus??

O-kaaaaaaaaayyy.

I'll bring s'mores!

One thing forgotten is that since it took Bush and FEMA 3-5 days to get to NO, hat means that the LA governor and Mayor of NO took at least 2 days to ask for help. The feds are more than willing to help when they're asked. Key word: asked. I've got a friend who's recently ex-military who brings up a good point: Where was all the outrage about the levees, government funding, and outrage at preparedness the day before th hurricane?

It really pulls on the old heartstrings.

It is astonishing that noone in this administration is willing to take responsibility for the disastrous response of FEMA and the catastrophic results of such inaction in the first critical days. It is not surprising however. It takes guts and honesty to admit mistakes, and thats too much to expect from this administration. Afterall, this administration created the Iraq mess, based on false intelligence, but they still insist everything is going great there.

Ok, Blue wind. Let us allow, for the sake of argument, your point that this mess is something the administration should take responsibility for.

Now, tell me: how do you get from that to "the political right" being made up entirely of "heartless racist fucks"?

And if your answer is a totally sane "I don't believe that to be the case", then explain to me exactly why you are arguing that the administration should take responsibility for FEMA's alleged "disastrous response" in a post about Atrios accusing all rightwingers of being heartless racists?

Do you find the prejudice of people like Atrios against those who disagree with him to be a completely trivial matter, or was I wrong in assuming that you disagree with the blanket statement he made?

It's on now!

Adam,
I dont think that Atrios was talking about the entire political right. In any case, I dont agree with what Atrios wrote and I find any sort of prejudice unacceptable. However, I also find completely unacceptable the fact that this administration never assumes responsibility for anything they do and goes wrong.

"In any case, I dont agree with what Atrios wrote and I find any sort of prejudice unacceptable. However, I also find completely unacceptable the fact that this administration never assumes responsibility for anything they do and goes wrong."

Point me to a single President of any political stripe who has gone up to the podium and said "I made a mistake when I made _____X Decision, but here is how I am going to correct it", and then I will understand the criteria on which you are judging Bush.

Whoops, I just realized the obvious answer to that request.

Let me amend that: give me an example of a president of any political stripe who said the above, when the mistake made in question was not something as trivial as receiving a blowjob and then trying to avoid making it public.

Nixon when he resigned. If Bush did the same thing it would be great for the country :)

Hahaha, fair enough. We'll agree to disagree, then :)

Reagan during the Iran-Contra scandal, and he didn't have to resign.

Ok, good example, That Guy.

So we've established that my very clever attempt to make a point was, in actual fact, the opposite of clever and the point was a poor one t'boot.

That said, I don't think that the response to this mishap of mine was swift enough. As fellow commentors, Blue Wind and That Guy have failed in their assigned duties as fact checkers by not arriving on the scene in time to salvage my dignity in any managable way.

I think you'll understand if I want an Adam's-Bad-Analogy Commission established so that we can find out the root causes of this horrible incident and, upon identifying them, build up a layer of bureaucracy on top of them. Thus, progress can be achieved.

I also think that the world would be a better place if more people admitted to making a mistake, but then attempted to obscure it by way of satire.

But that's almost a non-sequitor, isn't it?

you are my hero