in AUSTIN!
The master of optimism in the face of death and despair, our own Vice President Cheney offered an upbeat analysis of the catastrophe in New Orleans. Read this quote from our Darth Vaderish Vice President.
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Vice President Dick Cheney visited an emergency management center in Austin, Texas, and said the government was finally gaining control of the situation.
"I think we are in fact on our way to getting on top of the whole Katrina exercise.
You can read it here
Excuse me...You call death and destruction on this scale an exercise. Maybe if you took this whole government thing a bit more seriously, it might seem less an exercise but a duty.
Now I know that when duty calls you Mr. Cheney you tend to have other priorities. For example, in this case you had a vacation plans in Wyoming. And then there was that beach house in Maryland that you and Lynn had to buy. I am certain that home buying is an exercise for you... kinda like the whole disaster thing. After all there is a need for lots of new housing. Please share your recent house buying experience with the FEMA leadership. Don't bother with Brownie, he can't get shit right anyway. If you trust him he might screw you over too, like he did to about 500,000 other Americans.
Oh and another thought... the disaster is not in Austin, Texas. Now I know visiting an emergency management center where the emergency did not take place is much cleaner than visiting disaster victims. Besides no one at the center in AUSTIN will likely tell you to go fuck yourself. But rest assured many will be thinking it. I know you will not forget how the crowds greeted you at the shelter in Austin: (Hat tip to Mlle L)
From the wwltv.com website
6:24 P.M. - AUSTIN (AP) -- As Vice President Dick Cheney toured Hurricane Katrina shelter operations in Texas' capital city today, a group of about two dozen protesters gathered outside chanting -- "Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide."
Afterall aren't there just waaaay too many black people among the victims at the shelters. I can just imagine how this race thing bothers you. I know that during your Wyoming days the only time you saw blacks was when you went to the Cowboy basketball games in Laramie. You were so proud of the diversity of your state.
Well Mr. Cheney, sir your interst in getting on top of this exercise in Louisiana now is piqued that contracts for rebuilding is about to take off in earnest. Some things cannot be told in memo's and just have to be face to face. Kinda like the face time that you had at the CIA...you know before the war and theat business with Niger and mushroom clouds and such. Those CIA analysts certainly understood what you meant by certainty of evidense, huh?
Well a little face time with Admiral Hall and Secretary Chertoff will help your pals at Halliburton and their construction subsidiary KBR get things going. And wasn't it nice of the President to suspend that bothersome Davis Bacon prevailing wage nonsense. Yes we know...Greed is good and you loved the movie WALLSTREET.
Well Mr. Cheney, I hope the delay and the added death and destruction are all worth it. Your pals are going to hit it big and I am sure that they will remember you. And since you most certainly did not hear it in Austin today, hear it now. Go fuck yourself Mr. Cheney.