Go go Modo

You know, I once recall this statement from Rush Limbaugh in October 2002, that "all she's got now is bourbon for mouthwash". Considering that at this time Limbaugh was downing 30 Oxycontin a day this stupid statement from a stupid prick carries its own brand of hilarious irony.

However, as with many columnists, I have had my problems with Dowd in the past, from her Dorian Gray picture accompanying her column, to her tight-jawed arrogance (as opposed to Babs Bush's upper class bigoted stuck-up arrogance). But, she has been spot on in her last several columns (and in the one Limbaugh had such problems with when she called Bush the "boy emperor").

Today, she kicks Bush's slovenly, incompetent, ass all over the place, and then comes back and places a few in his stuffed crotch:

The administration's foreign policy is entirely constructed around American self-love - the idea that the U.S. is superior, that we are the model everyone looks up to, that everyone in the world wants what we have.

But when people around the world look at Iraq, they don't see freedom. They see chaos and sectarian hatred. And when they look at New Orleans, they see glaring incompetence and racial injustice, where the rich white people were saved and the poor black people were left to die hideous deaths. They see some conservatives blaming the poor for not saving themselves. So much for W.'s "culture of life."

The president won re-election because he said that the war in Iraq and the Homeland Security Department would make us safer. Hogwash.

W.'s 2004 convention was staged like "The Magnificent Seven" with the Republicans' swaggering tough guys - from Rudy Giuliani to Arnold Schwarzenegger to John McCain - riding in to save an embattled town.

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But now that the people of New Orleans need an ark, we have to question the president's arc. He's stumbling in Iraq and he's stumbling on Katrina.

Let's play the blame game: the man who benefited more than anyone in history from safety nets set up by family did not bother to provide one for those who lost their families.