What Would Clinton Do?

More appropriately, what DID President Clinton do?

Found this interesting piece over at Daily Howler

When hurricanes, much smaller than Kat, hit the US on Clinton's watch, FEMA was more than ready to hit the mats fighting:

USA Today (Steve Marshall, 7/11/96)

As Hurricane Bertha churned toward the Southeast coast Wednesday, a massive exodus of tourist havens began... Bertha's immediate effects:

- NASA moved the shuttle Atlantis off its Cape Canaveral launch pad to a hangar.

- Olympic officials in Georgia moved yachts inland.

- Navy officials ordered 54 ships out to sea to avoid being battered against the docks.

- President Clinton canceled appearances set for today in Orlando and Tampa.

And then there is this regarding the aftermath of hurricane Floyd in 1999:

Clinton was unwilling to be away from Washington when the storm struck the East Coast last week. He called off plans to golf in Hawaii after a five-day trip to New Zealand and returned to the nation's capital... Clinton took the highly unusual step of issuing disaster declarations for North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida even before the hurricane's high winds and rains hit the states.

Gosh, those were the days, weren't they?

Let's compare:
Clinton: Canceled appearances as a storm approached.
Bush: Took a nap, cleared some brush, then took a nap as Katrina was upgraded to a Cat 5. However, AS the storm hit, he went to California to a fundraiser, then pretended to play the guitar for Photographers (then he went home for another nap).

Clinton: "Clinton was unwilling to be away from Washington when the storm struck"... He called off plans to go to Hawaii... Hawaii!!!
Bush: What the fuck was he doing for four deadly days?

What do you call it when you are responsible for a death (or deaths) through incompetence or indifference? I think the police call it negligent homicide (I'm not a cop or a lawyer, I just like to watch other people pretend to be them on TV) so I don't know...

What do you call it if incompetence or indifference leads to the deaths of 40,000 people? And suppose the great majority of those people are members of a disenfranchised minority and you are the fuck-up oldest son of Old Moneyed White People?

Negligent Genocide?

Worst president ever? I would say yes... makes Nixon look sort of like a grumpy Jesus.

Bush, like Katrina, has been a disaster for the American people, our economy, our culture (think of the one of a kind culture, if not destroyed in New Orleans and the deep south, then dispersed and traumatized)... this president has been catastrophic to the core ideals we Americans supposedly hold so dear...

He has severely damaged the image and reputation of America.

He has defamed and disgraced his office, and used and manipulated the nation for his own purposes.

and we have never been so vulnerable as his policies and despicable leadership have baught us.

His basic understanding of his duties and his roll in the legacy he leaves for all of us, and all of our children for generations to come, are flawed and incompetent.

This cocksucker should fire his entire DHS staff, and bring in some grown-ups who know what they are doing.

As disastrous as the Bush presidency has been over the last four years, imagine the damage he has done to our national karma.