Please point to where I said Katrina was a cat 5 storm Oh fact filled rancorous one?

Is that flow of money coming towards you or away from you? How does your net worth compare to say 2000 when Clinton was still in power?

You have a uncontrolable reflex reaction like when the doc hits your knee with the little hammer. When someone syas Katrina you say Bush did it. When someone says the mayor of NO and the Gov of La were incompetent, you say Bushite. When someone says they did not evacuate accordibng ti their plan you say NRP.

On CSpan book TV the other day there was a guy named George Lakhoff speaking. He was the campaign advisor for Howard Yehaaaaa Dean.

Some one asked him "explain why you say George Bush is not incompetent?" He said of course. Take for instance the Katrina incedent. He talked about Brownie and the guy before him and then he sid the GWB considered the threat of terrorisim greater than the threat of a disaster like Katrina. It is not a matter of incompetence, it is a matter of Republican conservative ideology.

That is the Bobert fixation. He has to blame everything on GWB.

http://www.booktv.org/afterwords/index.asp

George Lakoff says the United States is divided by two dramatically different worldviews on the notion of freedom. As he explains in his book, "Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea," progressives and conservatives have different value systems that expand the notion of freedom in opposite directions. According to Mr. Lakoff, progressives encourage social security, the minimum wage, universal health care, and college for all -- ways to guarantee freedom from want. Comparatively, he argues that conservatives believe giving people things they haven't earned creates dependency and robs people of their freedom.

Hey Bobert, did you earn yours?

Yesterday, Dr. George Lakoff, Director of the Rockridge Institute, published an article pointing out that Progressives have fallen into a trap: thinking and saying that the failures of the Bush Administration are Mr. Bush's alone.

Emboldened by President Bush's plummeting approval ratings, he argues that progressives increasingly point to Bush's "failures" and label him and his administration as incompetent. Self-satisfying as this criticism may be, Lakoff says it misses the bigger point, and I agree: Bush's disasters—Katrina, the Iraq War, the budget deficit—are not so much a testament to his incompetence or a failure of execution. Rather, they are the natural, even inevitable result of his conservative governing philosophy. It is conservatism itself, carried out according to plan, that is at fault.It's not Bush the man who has been so harmful, it's the conservative agenda.

To Bush's base, his bumbling folksiness is part of his charm—it fosters conservative populism. Bush plays up this image by proudly stating his lack of interest in reading and current events, his fondness for naps and vacations and his self-deprecating jokes. This image causes the opposition to underestimate his capacities and deflects criticism of his conservative allies. If incompetence is the problem, it's all about Bush. But, if conservatism is the problem, it is about a set of ideas, a movement and its many adherents.

It's NOT Incompetence

The incompetence frame drastically misses the point: that the conservative vision is doing great harm to this country and the world. Incompetence obscures the real issue; Bush's conservative philosophy is what has damaged this country and it is his philosophy of conservatism that must be rejected, whoever endorses it. Unless conservative philosophy itself is discredited, Conservatives will continue their domination of public discourse, and with it, will continue their domination of politics.