How’s That Workin’ for You?
We didn’t learn this lesson when Karina devastated New Orleans, and National Guard troops were for some reason largely elsewhere. Give a trigger-happy president free access to your state’s troops, and they won’t be available when disaster strikes home. We’re fighting them over there so that we can’t do much of anything over [...]
Seven Minutes, My Ass
The now-famous footage of President Bush sitting in a classroom following the al-Qaeda strikes of 9/11 is not the most damning of records from that summer. Digby elaborates on Bush’s nonchalant manner when begged to act against terrorism. His Pet Goat moment was only what we should have expected from a dilettante Chief [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“He that trusts to you,
Where he should find you lions, finds you hares;
Where foxes, geese.” —Coriolanus, 1.1.169-71
