There isn't an Emmy Award big enough...
"Now, for you people who are saying, `Well, stop pointing fingers at the president...left-wing...the media's being too hard:
No. SHUT...UP! No! This is inarguably---inarguably---a failure of leadership from the top of the federal government.
Remember when Bill Clinton went out with Monica Lewinsky? That was inarguably a failure of judgment at the top. Democrats had to come out and risk losing credibility if they did not condemn Bill Clinton for his behavior. I believe Republicans are in the same position right now. And I will say this: Hurricane Katrina is George Bush's Monica Lewinsky. The only difference is that tens of thousands of people weren't stranded in Monica Lewinsky's vagina."
--Jon Stewart
Ed Helms: While everybody else is busy setting up commissions and finding fault, through the president's leadership he'll end up building a billion dollar dam in Arkansas.
Jon Stewart: Why would he build a dam in Arkansas?
Ed Helms: His plan will be to fight the water there so we don't have to fight it here.
Jon Stewart: So no one's going to be held accountable for this at all?
Ed Helms: No. In fact, if history is any indication, they'll be hard-pressed finding enough medals to pin on these guys. My sources tell me the head of FEMA will be dipped in bronze and turned into an award to be given to other officials.
This is your C&J thread. Step inside and see what we were cheering and jeering about one year ago today. It's kinda frightening. Oh, and there's a poll...
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Cheers and Jeers Flashback: September 8, 2004. It was a surprisingly eventful day...
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CHEERS to counting your blessings. Hurricane Frances was a puppy dog compared to the Galveston hurricane of 1900--104 years ago today. 23-foot waves and winds up to 135 mph combined to kill 6,000 people. Somehow we suspect that doesn't provide much comfort to you Floridians without roofs.
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JEERS to terrorism. As in, Dick Cheney terrorizing Americans with lines like, "...if [voters] make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again, and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating." [9/8/05 Update: You may now remove your shoe and smack your computer.]
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JEERS to #1000. No parade. No happy homecoming. Just a flag-draped pine box and a free ride home on a cargo plane for the 1,000th American soldier to die in Iraq. Bush says the killers must be brought to justice. "Now, watch this drive."
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CHEERS to getting caught. Boston Globe exposé shows Bush didn't fulfill his obligations in the National Guard. But...he went about not fulfilling them with unwavering resolve and steely-eyed decisiveness. Four more years!
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JEERS to business as usual. Congress reconvenes, and what is the most pressing concern in the House? The deficit? The 1,000th death in Iraq? Global warming? No, silly... gay marriage! And we thought they might disappoint us.
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CHEERS to Trekkies. On September 8, 1966 the first episode of "Star Trek" aired on NBC. It was regularly beaten in its time slot, and it placed #52 among all series in 1966-1967, its best season. And then it quietly faded out and remains a minor footnote today.
Floor's open. Let'er rip...
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