"Hello, this is your pilot, George W. Bush."

"The nose wheel on our landing gear is jammed ninety degrees in the wrong direction."

"I'll be getting around to taking a look at the problem sometime in the next four to six days. Hey, nobody could've predicted that there might be a problem with the landing gear, anyhow."

"At any rate, I'd like to thank the Senior Vice President in charge of Repairs, Michael Brown, for his fine work in preparing us. You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie."

"So long, and thanks for flying Jet Blue"

"Hello, this is your pilot, George W. Bush."

"The nose wheel on our landing gear is jammed ninety degrees in the wrong direction."

"I'm going to be pretty busy flying the plane for a while, so I'm going to have to depend upon my flight attendants who are trained and responsible with making sure that the passengers are ready to evacuate the plane as quickly as possible once I've landed."

"What do you mean, the flight attendants are running around blubbering like idiots?"

"Yikes! Ok, I'll what I can as soon as I've landed this mother. So long, and thanks for flying Jet Blue"

Hey! Anybody can play this game!

Pious--your metaphor would work better if Dubya hadn't been vacationating. "Busy" implies...well, "busy."

OOOOOH! Let me try!

"Hello, this is your pilot, George W. Bush ."

"The nose wheel on our landing gear is jammed ninety degrees in the wrong direction."

"But you have to understand, landing this plane is hard work. HARD WORK! But we're making progress... We're progress-i-fying... to make it... make it... make it MORE better...

But now's not the time to play the "Blame Game". After we land, we'll have plenty of time to ask questions about what went right... and what went... You see, we're making progress... Real progress... making progress... definately making progress... Uh oh, fifteen minutes to Judge Wapner... Definately making progress...

"Hi, this is your pilot, Howard Dean. The nose wheel is jammed 90 degrees in the wrong direction. I'm sure this wouldn't have happened if everyone on this plane werent' poor and black. The FAA let you down, people."

"My friends at MoveOn.org are organizing a protest, at the bulkhead between First Class and Coach, to start in ten minutes. Let's show the FAA who's boss!"

"And then we're going to fly to Wisconsin! And we're going to fly to Ohio! And we're going to fly to Michigan, we're going to fly to South Daktoa, we're going to fly to East Dakota, we're going to fly to Colorado...YEEEEEEAAAAAAH!"

Ah, JF, when New Orleaneans and Louisianians choose to elect, time after time, corrupt thieves and useless pretty faces, and if those New Orleaneans and Louisianians can't seem to object when the corrupt thieves and useless pretty faces use the let's-build-up-the-levee money to buy new suits and pretty fountains, and if those New Orleaneans and Louisianians accept it as okay when the corrupt thieves and useless pretty faces can't really do their jobs but also can't admit to the feds that they've screwed the pooch and need help, well, it seems to me that the New Orleaneans and the Louisianians have a big, big problem.

Can't see how it might be my problem, though. Certainly can't see how it might be $200B worth of my problem.

And yet, it's my money that you're outraged that Bush didn't spend in time?

Sorry - finance it yourself if it's important to you.

Bobby, Bobby Bobby... the 200 billion isn't for the city of New Orleans, it's for the no-bid - cost plus contracts given to Cheneys company. The actual costs might hit 40 billion but hey, if you can charge as much as you want without oversight, go for it! Besides, it's not your money anyway. It's China's and Saudi Arabia's money... Yeah, I know... ultimately, it's my kids and my grandkids money but hey you got your yours right!!!

"Hello, this is your pilot, Doug Stavro Blofeld Fecke."

"The nose wheel on our landing gear is jammed ninety degrees in the wrong direction, probably because taxes need to be raised for some reason."

"Taxes are great for establishing broken welfare states towards the back of the plane consisting of poor people conditioned to expect the federal government to help them at any moment of crisis. We think that's pretty cool. We're unable to understand much beyond that."

"The federal government is kind of like Superman, and can react and respond to natural disasters before they even happen. Local and state governments are never responsible for anything, because local and state governments aren't Bushitler, good God we hate the President all the time about everything and he's responsible for our bad breath."

"So long, and thanks for flying Jet Blue"

This IS kind of easy. Mitch. . . new game!

Doogie!

Actually, the "you got yours" comment was off the mark. I had mine, but then New Orleans took most of it for a levee, and built fountains and casinos instead. The rest is going for the Golden Fleece Bridge. I got this cool T-shirt.

But, I see a win-win for you and me here. No money for Cheney, Haliburton, crooked pols, pretty faces, or the entitlementerati. No debts for our kids. No pain for the Sauds or the Reds.

No $200B.

Ryan: Pull me into this, will you?

CAPT. RHODES:
Folks, if you look out the right side of the airplaine, you can see the city of New Orleans and the devastation wreaked upon it by Hurricane Katrina. If you look closely, you can see a family standing on the rooftop of their house... They're waving their arms at us... Looks like they've painted a message on the roof... SOL? You can say that again, chumps!

Now please settle in and enjoy the remainder of the flight. If you'd like to take a nap, flight attendants will be handing out pillows, blankets, and IM transcripts with my girlfriend.

Hello, this is your pilot, Capt Dejure."

"The nose wheel on our landing gear is jammed ninety degrees in the wrong direction."

"Since it is not the responsibility of the President of the United States to fly or land commercial airplanes, any more than it is responsibility to save cities from hurricanes, we are on our own up here."

"That's OK because we have prepared for that. I'll be landing the plane according to well rehearsed precedures, drawn up for just such an occasion."

"Thanks for flying Jet Blue"

Why is it so many people think those IM transcripts are with my girlfriend? Caroline is my co-worker, for crying out loud. My girlfriend doesn't use IM.

Looks like you touched a nerve, Mitch.

Not that it's hard with certain people.

"Hello, this is your pilot. Our nose wheel is jammed 90 degrees in the wrong direction.

Unfortunately, the CEO of our company is on vacation in such a remote, God-forsaken place that he has no phones, no internet access, no aides, no way to keep in touch with the situation or to run the company - hell, he doesn't even have access to the satellite TV you're watching on the seatback monitors. Nothing but the 10,000 reporters covering some crazy woman's peace protest camp-out in his front yard.

So I guess we're on our own. Luckily, we have a disaster plan, your aircrew has read it, each of us know what we're supposed to do, and we're taking immediate action to implement the plan to get you to safety.

Thank you for flying Jet Blue."

Just in case any of you cared to actually entertain reality in your minds..?

The Gov of LA issued a request to the Pres 72 hours prior to landfall of Katrina. He did precisely nothing out of the norm, he continued with speeches, he stayed on vacation, he went to San Diego and spoke of his glorious fatherl..err I mean war, he engaged his FEMA director.. err, well, he did nothing, and the military noticed.

This is at CBSNEWS.com.. you might try reading something other than pre-packaged right-wing echo-machine propoganda, it does wonders for the ability to speak coherently and not appear to 80% of Americans that you are a nutball.

CBS/AP) Military officials told President Bush on Sunday that the U.S. needs a national plan to coordinate search and rescue efforts following natural disasters or terrorist attacks.

Mr. Bush said he had stopped at Randolph Air Base in San Antonio and the U.S. Northern Command to better understand how the government can prepare for natural disasters and ease their effects.

He said he also wanted to know whether there was times when the Defense Department should take charge during such disasters.

“Clearly, in the case of a terrorist attack, that would be the case, but is there a natural disaster of a certain size that would then enable the Defense Department to become the lead agency in coordinating and leading the response effort?” Mr. Bush said.

“That's going to be a very important consideration for Congress to think about,” he said.

Mr. Bush got an update about the federal hurricane response from military leaders at Randolph Air Force Base. He heard from Lt. Gen. Robert Clark, joint military task force commander for Hurricane Rita, and Maj. Gen. John White, a task force member, who noted confusion in search and rescue operations after Hurricane Katrina.

CBS’s Mark Knoller reports that the generals issued blunt talk to the president. One called the federal response in New Orleans to Hurricane Katrina “a train wreck." He was talking about an incident in which five helicopters responded to rescue one person....

The issue folks is, I'm not some leftist, I'm just not a fascist, you consider me an extremist when my views are in alignment with the VAST MAJORITY of Americans, or is it that you hate America, and any of those who disagree with you, so those folks are all extremists too?

PB

"I'm just not a fascist"

Prove it.

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