The WORLD according to Bush

Yes, there are tens of thousands of people in dire circumstances; but they are poor, black, and to the extent they vote, Democrats, so what's the hurry -- it's not like they are "real" Americans:

Not long after some 1,000 firefighters sat down for eight hours of training, the whispering began: "What are we doing here?"

As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters - his own are exhausted after working around the clock for a week - a battalion of highly trained men and women sat idle Sunday in a muggy Sheraton Hotel conference room in Atlanta.

Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were going to be deployed as emergency workers.

Instead, they have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf Coast region to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA.

On Monday, some firefighters stuck in the staging area at the Sheraton peeled off their FEMA-issued shirts and stuffed them in backpacks, saying they refuse to represent the federal agency.

Federal officials are unapologetic.

"I would go back and ask the firefighter to revisit his commitment to FEMA, to firefighting and to the citizens of this country," said FEMA spokeswoman Mary Hudak.

Via Talking Points.

First of all Ms. Hudak is such a complete and utter ass that she is obviously held in high regard in the Bush Administration.

What a complete and utter fucked up nightmare.

While people are dying, they are making 1,000 ready, willing, and able first responders sit in a ball room 1,000 miles away from where they could do the most good.

How many died because of this.

And how many more, when many of these volunteers -- highly trained volunteers -- found out what their first job was going to be -- PROPS!!!

Firefighters say they want to brave the heat, the debris-littered roads, the poisonous cottonmouth snakes and fire ants and travel into pockets of Louisiana where many people have yet to receive emergency aid.

But as specific orders began arriving to the firefighters in Atlanta, a team of 50 Monday morning quickly was ushered onto a flight headed for Louisiana. The crew's first assignment: to stand beside President Bush as he tours devastated areas.

Just when the outrage reaches a dangerous level -- they pump it up another notch. I just don't know what level of self-denial it takes to think that Bush is absolved of ever doing not just wrong, but catastrophic incompetence, but obviously there are some strong-ass psychotropic drugs available to white, pasty, middle-aged people in this country...or perhaps it is just those FoxNews subliminal messages.