Oh, about the Katrina rescue operation: Our Bullshitter-in-Chief “blithely announced at a photo-op cabinet meeting that he, personally, was going to ‘find out what went right and what went wrong.’ We can’t imagine a worse idea,” The New York Times said today in an editorial we wish we had written. Since we didn’t write it, we’ll quote it.
It went on to say, “[W]e have learned through bitter experience — the Abu Ghraib nightmare is just one example — that when this administration begins an internal investigation, it means a whitewash in which no one important is held accountable and no real change occurs.” The chief bullshitter himself “signaled yesterday that we are in for more of the same when he sneered and said, ‘One of the things that people want us to do here is to play a blame game.'”
What did we expect? Here he is in his photo-op cabinet meeting with the other bullshitters:
— Tireless Staff of Thousands