Q I'm asking a direct question. Is he confident --
MR. McCLELLAN: We're going to remain focused on the people.
Q -- that he can secure the American people in the event of a major terrorist attack?
MR. McCLELLAN: We are securing the American people by staying on the offensive abroad and working to spread freedom and democracy in the Middle East.
Q That's a talking point. That's a talking point.
MR. McCLELLAN: No, that's a fact.
Go ahead.
Q No, it's not. And you think people who are watching this think that's -- from what does he derive that confidence, based on the response --
See, it's the BLAME GAME when it's the media's asking a legitimate question like: "What would happen there were a major terrorist attack tomorrow, would DHS/FEMA respond the same way as they have last week?", and expects any substantive answer at all...on the other hand, it's never too early to begin Swift-Boating Governor Blanco, or Jefferson Parish President Broussard, or any of the other unfriendly elected officials in Louisiana who will be facing actual constituents, not photo-op Potemkins like Preznit Wholly Incompetant, and have to do actual work and be actually accountable.
Read the gaggle, between Valerie Plame and Hurricane Katrina, some of the press corpse might have awakened from their kewl-kidz stupor.
Holy Crap, I missed this exchange:
Q But why didn't he -- but why weren't teams deployed to the Convention Center? Why weren't teams deployed to the Superdome? Why were people without water, without food? Why was there looting in New Orleans for survival? And you're talking about zero tolerance. Why did these things happen over a period of days, and you start seeing Mr. Brown on the air talking about he didn't know about the Convention Center and other things. Why?
MR. McCLELLAN: Look, you're getting into all the after-action analysis, and I can't tell you all the --
Q And you're saying there is not a blame game, but you open the door to the response --
MR. McCLELLAN: I can't tell you that everything you said is factually correct, and they've got -- we've got to look at all the facts. We've got to determine what worked, what didn't work, and apply -- (my em)
Was fucking Mcclellan living under a rock last week? Talk about detachment from reality "can't tell you that everything you said is factually correct". This quote pretty much symbolizes the whole 1600 Crew attitude towards the whole thing.
"We didn't See It. Therefore, It Didn't Happen"
posted by Jo Fish on 09.06.05 at 07:59 PM
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Here's the deal y'all. This IS NOT A BLAME GAME. This is a RESPONSIBILITY GAME. The "Royal Dickless One" appointed Chrome Dome (Chertoff) - NO EXPERIENCE REMOTELY RELATED TO THE POSITION; Chrome Dome appointed The Boy Wonder (Brown) - EVEN LESS EXPERIENCE RELATED TO THE JOB. This dear friends is a chain of responsibility. Being retireded military myself (Army), I'm somewhat familiar with a thing called "chain of command." Someone tells Someone to do something and (s)he tells Someone else to do it. The first Someone is STILL RESPONSIBLE if the third Someone FUCKS IT UP. The first Someone is "Head up his ass" living at 1600. Oh I'm sorry. Just heard "Fuck Everybody But Me" is going to head up an investigation into what went wrong. Yeah, yeah that's the ticket. I'll just investigate myself, declare I've done nothin wrong, everything's O.K. See that's how things work in Shrubland.
posted by: Ross on 09.06.05 at 11:45 PM [permalink]
Just had another thought (I do that occasionally). Sumbody splain to me. The price of a barrel of crude goes up $00.25, within an hour the price of a gallon of gas goes up $00.10. The price of a barrel of crude goes DOWN $2.50, the price of gas goes UP $00.05 per gal. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!!!!! Oh sorry, fergot "Shit For Brains"/"Where The Hell Is He (Chaney)" + Big Erl. And the gas was already in the GD tanks at your local retailor's.
posted by: Ross on 09.07.05 at 12:35 AM [permalink]
Snotty ain't detached, he's outright lying. He knows he's lying. The only ones who don't know he's lying are the morons who voted for President Dicknose twice.
