Do they hold something over you, and call the favor in when needed? Or are you just this gobsmackingly, unbelievably, and appallingly craven and stupid?
Ex-FEMA director Michael Brown today claimed that President Obama waited to respond to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico because he wanted an excuse to shut down offshore drilling.
Brown, who directed FEMA under George W. Bush, is famous for his own botched response to Hurricane Katrina.
So what does he have to say about this latest environmental disaster?
“The delay was this,” Brown said on Fox News today. “It’s pure politics.”
Again, one of the advantages that Republicans have over Democrats is that they’ve plenty of people willing to demonstrate this kind of stupefying ignorance of reality.
Warren
That’s right up there with claiming that Bush delayed Katrina relief because he hates Black people.
MB
Clearly. Everyone knows that Bush delayed Katrina relief because he was an incompetent fool who appointed incompetent fools and was rewarded for it at the polls by incompetent fools.
Warren
What are you babbling about? Bush did not run for anything after Katrina.
MB
Bush was rewarded at the polls in 2004, for appointing incompetent fools, by incompetent fools. For evidence of that incompetence, please see 2001-2008.
It’s not terribly complicated.
Warren
So, was 0bama elected by incompetent fools, too?
MB
What is “0bama”? Is that you being clever? If so, you’re welcome to bounce right on out of here. I’m not interested in juvenile shit like that.
Obama was elected by a pretty broad range of people, some of whom knew what they were getting, and many of whom were projecting on him things that weren’t there. I’m fairly certain, however, that most were motivated by the enormous malfeasance and incompetence of the last administration, yes.
Warren
I’m Scottish — 0bama saves a keystroke over Obama, just as we spell Whisky without an E, and my clan is McMillan instead of MacMillan.
Bush was also elected by a broad range of people, some of whom knew what they were getting, and some of whom were projecting on him things that were not there (like that he was a fiscal conservative). Perhaps it was Clinton’s malfeasance and incompetence that cause Gore, Clinton’s VP, to lose that election.