Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Without Care
NY Times gets it right:
I think "casual to the point of carelessness" might more accurately be termed "careless to the point of casualness." He literally does not care because he cannot. And he's not casual, nor is he relaxed, nor is he calm. He's just empty. There has possibly never been such an empty [shit-filled] shell of a "person."
posted by Blicero : 8/31/2005 11:34:00 PM
Sacrifices may be necessary to make sure that all these things happen in an orderly, efficient way. But this administration has never been one to counsel sacrifice. And nothing about the president's demeanor yesterday - which seemed casual to the point of carelessness - suggested that he understood the depth of the current crisis.
While our attention must now be on the Gulf Coast's most immediate needs, the nation will soon ask why New Orleans's levees remained so inadequate. Publications from the local newspaper to National Geographic have fulminated about the bad state of flood protection in this beloved city, which is below sea level. Why were developers permitted to destroy wetlands and barrier islands that could have held back the hurricane's surge? Why was Congress, before it wandered off to vacation, engaged in slashing the budget for correcting some of the gaping holes in the area's flood protection?
It would be some comfort to think that, as Mr. Bush cheerily announced, America "will be a stronger place" for enduring this crisis. Complacency will no longer suffice, especially if experts are right in warning that global warming may increase the intensity of future hurricanes. But since this administration won't acknowledge that global warming exists, the chances of leadership seem minimal.
I think "casual to the point of carelessness" might more accurately be termed "careless to the point of casualness." He literally does not care because he cannot. And he's not casual, nor is he relaxed, nor is he calm. He's just empty. There has possibly never been such an empty [shit-filled] shell of a "person."
posted by Blicero : 8/31/2005 11:34:00 PM
