Four days later, here he comes:  Bush to the podium, to set the world straight.  No, we are not cheap.  No, we are not late.  Yes, you are all assholes for even suggesting such.

Four days later, after an embarassing pledge of 15 million dollars relief from the good old US of A, Bush gives a thirty second sound bite where he manages to mangle a couple of the few words he utters (has uttered since the beginning of the tragedy).

Here's the ugly truth:  It's God's will.  That's what George W. Bush and the religious right know. They won't say it out loud, with the possible exception of the Reverend Jerry Falwell, who will say anything, but they all think it.  This is God's revenge on those people.  This is God's way of sending a warning to the terrorists.  This is yet another indication that they are right and that we have God On Our Side.

This is an event of "Biblical" proportions.  This tsunami was sent for a reason, so there is no urgency on the part of our government to help out.  We'll do what we have to, but they had it coming to them.  Anyway, most of the victims are brown and the foreigners vacationing there were all heathens.

That may sound harsh, but it's the truth.  I know whereof I speak.  I grew up in the belly of the beast, as the son of a lifelong Southern Baptist minister.  I loved my father, but I would not have wanted him to be President.  He had all of the answers.  He was right and those who didn't believe were doomed to hell.  George W. Bush could be my dad.

The only way those poor tsunami victims will  get relief from this administration is if the Bushies are shamed into it by the rest of the world, which, thankfully, seems to be happening.

This disaster certainly takes the focus off the Iraq debacle, doesn't it?

As the Reverend George W. Bush might say (and certainly thinks), "God moves in mysterious ways."

:oops: :oops:

..was Bernie Kerik thinking?  The "nanny" issue was the least of it, although the spectre of an illegal alien living in the Homeland Security chief's house is hilariously funny.  Did he think the arrest warrants, the simultaneous mistresses, the illegal work on his house (as well as in it), the millions he made selling products to that selfsame agency would go unnoticed?  By whom? Well, congress perhaps, and maybe the media, given their Casper Milquetoast take on the war.  But frustrated Kerry supporters/Bush haters?  Not on your f***ing life!

..was Rudy Giuliani thinking?  Here is a guy who was about to get run out of NYC before he lucked into 9/11.  He parlayed 9/11 into untold wealth, a position as "America's Mayor" and frontrunner status as the GOP presidential nominee in 2008.  And he knows this guy.  Knows him well.  Knows him very, very well.  So he drops Bernie's name in Bush's ear, and W. trots right out and announces his appointment.  Now Rudy's presidential aspirations are Milquetoast. (This is more fun than a human being should be allowed to have!)

..was George Bush thinking?  Oh, I forgot.

..were "senior administration officials thinking when they stated that "there had been no way to discover- without Mr. Kerik volunteering the information- that his family's nanny was most likely an illegal alien, or that he had failed to pay the proper taxes related to her employment."*  Say what?  May I volunteer some help, since this selfsame issue has laid low a number of high profile nominees in the very recent past.

   (1)  Mr. Kerik, do you have a nanny for your children?

   (2)  Is she legal?

   (3)  Will you please provide documentation to that effect?

..were the American people thinking when they gave these clowns four more years to run the world?

But I have to admit it, watching this bunch of bumbling bobbleheads trying to get anything right is great fun.  This may be better than having Kerry in the White House.  Once we got over the cheap thrill of watching the Bushies slink out and hire attorneys the fun would have ended.  Now our perverse pleasure is going to increase exponentially, in lock step with The Bush Administration's gaffes.

Four more years!  Four more years!  Four more years!

*_{New York Times, December 13, 2004}