Hey, you know how I know that they knew the levees might break? BECAUSE I FUCKING KNEW THAT THE LEVEES MIGHT BREAK. Just in the course of being an informed citizen, I've heard this on and off for years now on things like Science Friday, and just in the general news. I remember thinking when Katrina became a category 5, 'Oh wow, this is what they've always been talking about.'
Besides, Led Zepplin warned of this years ago.

ITMFA...

Impeach the motherfucker already????

...NICE!

:-)

no, brah, it's IMPEACH THAT MOTHERFUCKIN ASSHOLE!

I agree - impeach the asshole. But do it for the spying issue. That's an impeachable offense. While the Katrina disaster outraged me - still outrages me - it's incompetence and a flagrant indifference, but I'm not sure it's impeachable. The spying issue is clearly a breaking of the law and Bush is on record many times supporting and defending it.

Unfortunately, Congress as it is currently made up, will not impeach him. Even if they did, we'd still have Cheney to deal with. Cheney is evil and incompetent.

The only way Bush might get impeached is if he was caught fucking very young boys. Even then most likely not.
What a fucking joke. I was recently in South America and individuals where asking me why americans where stupid enough to vote the fucker back in office and, most important why was he still running the country when he clearly can not do the job and is a lying idiot.

Just lets us and SF know exactly what (won't) happen during the next big earthquake.

Why doesn't the stranger make the first ever Brownie-the-horse-judge memorial pullout with basic first aid ("How to stop someone from bleeding to death.") and survival ("How to make water drinkable") guide?

This story and the subsequent Nero-like vacation are so bizzare that I have just begun to wonder if George Bush isn't on some very heavy medications, that cause him to have serious ongoing memory loss (and difficulty putting together phrases more than 6 words long).

I'm serious. If at the time of Katrina Cheney was undergoing secret recovery from another heart attack or on an alcoholic bender and Bush was wacked out on anti-depressants and tranquilizers, it would explain a lot. I find it very difficult to believe this level of incompetence in anyone over 9 years old who isn't severely mentally and emotionally incapacitated.

"I was recently in South America and individuals where asking me why americans where stupid enough to vote the fucker back in office"

I dont know, maybe is for the same reason "some" South Americans elect right wing douchebags like Uribe in Colombia, former bolero singers and insane personalities like president

Ooops my post didnt come through. Sorry, here is all of it. ;(

"I was recently in South America and individuals where asking me why americans where stupid enough to vote the fucker back in office"

I don’t know, maybe is for the same reason "some" South Americans elect right wing douchebags like Uribe in Colombia, former bolero singers and insane personalities like former president Bucaran in Ecuador.

Or former fascists like Fujimori in Peru who actually might make a comeback along with former crook Alan Garcia from the APRA party.

Argentina’s recent tilt to the left with Kichner is a new thing, and before people were electing massively corrupt politicians like crazy ass Menem and a list of others who sacked the national bank and gave amnesty to all the generals who carried out mass murder in the dirty war.

In Brazil, Lula’s progressive government’s support is falling faster than Bush’s approval rating.

I am happy with South America’s recent tilt to the left, but is a new thing and there are still thousands upon thousands of supporters for right wing douche bags. They don’t need to ask North Americans why crazy imcompetent people get elected, they just need to ask their neighbors.

Hey, I lived there, I should know.

I agree SEME. I did pose the question that you asked in your first post. The theory I was given there is a shift is that South America is shifting as a protest against the Bush administration and what they believe is is bullying tacts on how to run there countries. Again this is just the threory that was given to me. I also lived there for many years. There are crazy people in power all over the place.

OOPS! please forgive the miss spelled words and duplications.

Aint not thang.

And yes I agree with you, insane people all over the world. There is a guy in one of the former Soviet Republics who orders dissidents boiled.

Where did you live in SA?

Chile, Santiago. Born and raised there for sevral years before my parents moved to the USA. I go back every few years to get back in touch with my roots and family members. What part did you live in?

Im from Central America, but I lived in Colombia for a bit.

Chile's center left goverment seems to have massive popular support, it is by no means anything like Allende's Unidad Popular, but despite being one of the most pro market economies, president Bachelet is one smart woman and her party continues to be very popular, specially after they won The Si and No vote against Pinochet back in the 80's when he was trying to become president for life.

Who knows with her in office, it very well could be that Senator Lourdes Flores in Peru starts rising in the polls.

One thing is true about Latin American politics, they seem to be more real as oppose to politics here where folks are only concerned when election time comes around.

The center left does have massive support. I was in Chile during the Si or No vote (I hope Pinochet burns in hell!) It was a weird experince walking downtown during the protests and riots. I belive that President Bachelet will do good things for Chile. Since the dictatorship ended, the country has changed alot, and with Bachelet and her vision for Chile it will continue to grow for the better, for the people and there economy (I hope)

I hope Bachelet's leadership will help infulence for the positive Senator Flore. Time will show.

Indeed - may Pinochet burn in hell!

(this coming from a Chilean-American who grew up in Peru)... a bittersweet irony is that some of the economic reforms that have led to Chile's *RELATIVE* prosperity in recent years (compared to the rest of South America...still a long way to go) were strong-armed into place by El General and his handpicked "Chicago Boyz". That said, having been there not too long ago, it's clear that there's still so much to do about the sizable thievery-creating rift between rich and poor, rooted in the incredibly immense concentration of wealth in but a tiny group of Chilean families. Sound familiar? ;-) Not much "trickles" down, naturally, and their free-market-gone-wild has created quite an every-man-for-himself environment. As expected. However, the camraderie that oppressed peoples tend to display has not been completely eroded by their mad post-Pinochet me-first scramble: the people have spoken, as Bachelet's "we can do better" vision resonated right to the humble, brotherly core that will always persist within most Chileans. And the constraints that have been put in place in recent years to counterbalance todos los "WEONES" poderosos ;-) in the military (and the constitutional appointments/abuses they accumulated over time) are QUITE ADMIRABLE INDEED! Viva Chile!!! And may she better her schools instead of her F-16 Air Force! (and quit taking such blatant advantage of the Mapuche indians down south...) Well, as you can see from all my chatter here, thoughts of Pinochet have got me worked up a bit, like the bombs I remember going off nearly every damn night back in the mid-eighties... More than enough said, JLK
p.s. - one more thing: may our liberal activists learn from the nationalistic brand of environmentalism many practice down there: taking care of the beauty of one's land ought to be a patriotic duty, no? The Dems ought to frame it more in those terms come 2008, methinks. Hmmmm. Yada yada!

James you said it all. :-)

Read the latest Harper's imploring Someone to impeach the mf already. It's a great article written by a guy who thought that no way would it be legal or possible to even talk about impeachment. But he looked into John Conyer's report and is not a convert. An articulate one too.

and is *now* a convert.

sorry for the typo. I was excited.