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."