The Rude One Speaks

Such a love as this can only come from a true patriot & The Rude Pundit is a true patriot. Read the whole piece, damn you, & see if you came up with the same answer to his final question as I did. Hint: it's - no.

"There he sits, in a tiny room, like a safe room in a drug lord's family home, like a bomb shelter in a Cold War suburban backyard, a tiny room in the middle of his massive faux ranch, a vacation home, a mockery of everything that the West stands for, because a real rancher, real ranch hands, on real ranches, would shake their heads in pity at the idea of a ranch being a retreat from work. In that appropriately grainy video of the conferences before Hurricane Katrina took out a large chunk of the Gulf Coast, there he sits, our goddamned President, being told everything he would lie about later: that lives would be lost, that the levees wouldn't hold, that so much was going to be needed.

And all he says is: 'I want to assure the folks at the state level that we are fully prepared to not only help you during the storm, but we will move in whatever resources and assets we have at our disposal after the storm to help you deal with the loss of property. And we pray for no loss of life, of course.' Property before life, always, always, always with this President. And prayer, of course."

Emphasis added.