Ah, the juxtaposition of the symbol of a great warrior’s heart next to a heartless bloodsucker … and the bust of the founder of our nation next to the founderer of our nation …
Note: O.I.L. stands for Oligarchs In League
A screen capture of the Veep’s Web site, Sept. 6, 2005. There isn’t a word about Katrina’s victims, or any report since mid-August.
A search of news stories finds this to be the sole top story on the Veep:
Cheney cancels Canada oil trip after hurricane
Reuters via Yahoo! News – Vice President Dick Cheney has canceled a planned trip to Canada’s main energy producing region [designed to give Cheney an insight into Alberta’s vast oil sands region, where steam is used to extract oil from oil-bearing rocks] because of Hurricane Katrina, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said on Sunday. … […]
Cheney had been due to visit Calgary, Alberta, on Thursday for a meeting with provincial and federal officials and then travel on Friday to Fort McMurray, center of the oil sands operations. Cheney’s office was not immediately available to comment.
Nor in that news story is there a statement from Cheney’s office about the Gulf tragedy — which appears to infer that the the V.P. office’s announcement of the trip’s cancellation didn’t include any expression of concern for Gulf victims.
If anyone has a better title, please share! I just couldn’t think of something punchy and short.
I REFUSE to go to his web site, so someone else is going to have to answer this for me:
What the bleedin’ hell is a picture of a Purple Heart doing superimposed with a picture of the Vice-Chickenhawk-In-Charge who had “other priorities” during Vietnam?
There may be a good reason. In fact there may be a very good reason. But to me that picture dishonors my father, John Kerry and every other combat veteran who received the Purple Heart.
Maybe it’s a stupid thing to be outraged about in the middle of such a surplus of things to be outraged about, but that’s just the way it hit me.
And is there any proof yet that the reason he didn’t cancel the trip and isn’t commenting on Katrina isn’t because he’s DEAD???
It’s way too early for this.
“Vice President Dick Cheney speaks to the attendees at the 73rd National Convention of the Military Order of the Purple Heart in Springfield, Missourri, Thursday, August 18, 2005. The organization was formed in 1932 for the protection and mutual interest of all who have, as a result of being wounded in combat, recieved the Purple Heart. White House photo by David Bohrer.”
That is the caption below the photo. I had to crop/reduce the image so much that the already tiny print below that photo just can’t be read … sorry ’bout that.
NOTE THAT THE BOZOS misspelled Missouri.
P.S. Is Louisiana still under water? Mr. Chertoff said it was. (Thank you, Keith Olbermann.)
I figured it was something like that, but that still disturbs me that a group of men who actually took one for the team is going to be addressed by someone who not only wasn’t on the team, but didn’t even play.
To me this is misrepresentation…
My first impression as well. I was thinking, “How is it that the vets didn’t club the bastard to death for having the audacity to flap his pie-hole at them.”
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CASPER, Wyoming (Star Tribune) August 30, 2005 — Asked whether he was suggesting that Cheney was not healthy enough to do his job, Rangel said, “Why do you think people are spending so much time praying for President Bush’s health?”
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I took a double take on this one as well!!!!!!!!!! What the hell??!! I do not care if he talks to the order of any purple heart, he has NO RIGHT to do this picture this way!!!! NONE what so ever……….
Oh but, Brenda, the juxtaposition of the symbol of a great heart next to a shriveled heart and the head of the founder of our nation next to the founderer of our nation … it’s great photography6.
YOu can say that one again!!!!!!!!!!! This just makes me so sick to my stomach… It just keeps getting worse and worse. Who the hell invited such a man to speak to that convention, I would like to know…probably some republican in the group…I hope they give him a very bad reception. Those who gave more than this man could even beging to think of giving for his country. This man has not lost one drop of blood for our country. What gives him the right to speak to any of our groups like this…like bush speaking to the American Legion…what a strange bedfellow IMHO
And didn’t he say the reason he avoided service was that he had “better things to do”?
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– CNN BREAKING NEWS
Too bad my diary dropped off without any comment or recommend?
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Oui, I knwo what youa re saying. I relayed this concern early on before the middle of last week. I asked my friend to relay it on to the powers that be and demand action. Not only will this be of ecoli but that of dysantery and typhus and cholora other diseases along this. Typhoid and tetnus….all of this is capable of happening..plus this is being transmitted to the over all general of society, by moving these ppl around. contamination is the major concern now. I sure hope that the CDC is working on thsi as we speak!!!!!!!!
I forget who put it up, but someone did a diary pointing out that New Orleans right now is like the mother of all breeding grounds for mosquitos, so any mosquito-borne disease from West Nile virus to malaria is not out of the question. (I know we said we wiped it out after World War II, but we’re breaking new ground here.)
And that doesn’t address diseases carried by other airborne critters — I’m thinking of flies who will find New Orleans a smorgasbord.
is that Cheney has been in hiding ever since he/they realized that New Orleans was going to drown and that a whole lotta African American people were going to be concentrated in one desperate area with access to weapons.
It continues to stun me, right between the eyes, how many innocent lives have been sacrificed due to the fear of a full-scale racial uprising in the minds of the people running FEMA.
So, since Bush more or less had to make some photo-op visits to the region, putting himself somewhere in the vicinity of potential harm — that required Cheney to disappear into super-secretive safety.
Yeah, but didn’t Cheney issue statements from hiding after 9/11?
I think they’re hiding him in case they have to sacrifice George on the altar of public opinion…they can claim he had nothing to do with the mess.
From AP story:
(Cheney’s gonna make sure the government is doing all it can. Repress urge to break out in mirthless laughter.)
So we’ll be hearing some sort of phony expression of concern, unless they’re too politically braindead to write that into his soundbites. At least there will be some expression of concern for the disruption of oil production down there. That we can be sure of.
— Stu
Check out Rhymes for Our Times and Part IV of New Orleans Died for Bush’s Sins. Also includes some very good links to the continuing outrage over the events.
Peace
James Wolcott calls it like it is, doesn’t he??
And you are surprised . . .
the V.P. office’s announcement of the trip’s cancellation didn’t include any expression of concern for Gulf victims
. . . exactly, why?
Cheney is the sort of nasty, narrow-minded, soulless jock who, in high school, no one could stand because he was such a complete and utter jerk.
He grew up to be the same sort of nasty, squat, stupid ex-jock with no brains and no comprehension that there are people in the world who do not think he is tough shit.
He and Rumsfeld have been around together, doing stupid and evil things, since the Nixon administration, and not one of their foreign-policy decisions has been anything less than a complete and utter disaster.
and pass the ammunition
I wouldn’t take any pronouncement of concern from Cheney’s office seriously, so I don’t find it very remarkable that there hasn’t been one. A little less politically astute than I would expect, but otherwise unremarkable.
The vice-smirk, does he look upset over the possibility of 10,000 Americans? No, he and Lynn have been busy closing the deal on a $2.9 million home in St. Michaels, MD.
Washington Post, Monday, 5 September 2005
sent to me by JPol:
Bush, Congress pledge investigations of Katrina response
Associated Press
September 6, 2005
WASHINGTON — President Bush and Congress pledged separate investigations into the widely panned federal response to Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday…
For his part, Bush told reporters he was sending Vice President Dick Cheney to the Gulf Coast region on Thursday to help determine whether the government is doing all that it can…
“What I intend to do is lead an investigation to find out what went right and what went wrong,” Bush said. “We still live in an unsettled world. We want to make sure we can respond properly if there is a WMD (weapons of mass destruction) attack or another major storm.”
But Bush said now is not the time to point fingers and he did not respond to calls for a commission to investigate the response.
“One of the things people want us to do here is play the blame game,” he said. “We got to solve problems. There will be ample time to figure out what went right and what went wrong.”
…Earlier, McClellan rejected suggestions that the poor, and particularly blacks, had been abandoned when New Orleans was evacuated.
“I think most Americans dismiss that and know that there’s just no basis for making such suggestions,” McClellan said.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5599039.html
Baghdad Bob once again repeated that the defenders of New Orleans were repulsing the flood waters at the gates of the city.
I miss that cutie.
I’d so much rather have him do the daily briefings than Scott McClellan.
Voltaire would surely have been appreciative of performance such as that.
that’s a good one. The Debutante Daddies. The Baddie Daddies. The Hopeless Husbands.
They may be daddies, they may be capable of spawning, but this bunch of administration cranks, should be banned from breeding.
If only the Scandavian Brigade could scuttle shipments of Viagra to these founderers…
that Bush seems taller these days? š
it might just be ’cause those around him have shrunk in recent days. š
Nope – I think its the viagra – you understand the effects of the drug?