It's typical. Another 7 minutes staring at a book.

Simply, the man is not a leader - just pass him a violin and set something on fire.

Where are the national guard?

Where are the emergency funds?

Why is he refusing international aid?

Where is the leadership?

Their families are OK - that's all that matters to these guys. People just need a little prayer is all.

Maybe he can get Haliburton to return the gobs of our money earmarked for such infrastructure.

what a lazy dolt

B

Wes Clark this week on leadership:

From my days in the Little Rock Boys and Girls Club and all through my years at West Point and the Army, I learned and taught that leadership means lifting people up; challenging them to push themselves to succeed where they before thought success was out of reach. That philosophy was captured well by our Army motto, "Be All You Can Be," which also means helping others to be all they can be. What we need to do as individuals and a party is to stand up and speak out to create equal opportunity for economic success. To treat others the way we want to be treated. To reach out and help those who are in pain. Most importantly, leadership means calling on others to do all these things too.

In short leadership is everything we are not getting from this White House. Instead of challenging us to push ourselves to accomplish great things, we get platitudes. We can do better than that.

I hope you had a chance to read today's editorial in the New York Times, called "Waiting for a Leader." If you haven't read it yet, please take a few minutes to do it. The Times is asking an important question. It's one I've been asking for a long time as well: Where is the leadership in America today?

With respect to Iraq, "stay the course" is only a slogan, not a strategy. What is our strategy for success in Iraq? Where is the leadership?

--snip--

Then just this morning, the President claimed that no one could have anticipated the levee breaches we've seen in New Orleans after Katrina hit. That's not leadership, that's an excuse. In fact, people have predicted this kind of disaster for many years, including President Bush's own FEMA in 2001, when they ranked hurricane flood damage to New Orleans among the three likeliest, most catastrophic disasters facing America. Instead, funding was significantly cut back, leaving key engineering projects on hold. Instead, this Administration focused on the war in Iraq, tax cuts, and private sector economic growth without asking the American people to make needed sacrifices for the good of the country. Again I ask you, where is the leadership?

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http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/9/1/123536/7907
and for the conservative "see, government doesn't work when needed" crowd. It's not that government doesn't work. It's people who don't believe in government being in government that doesn't work.

or Bush - people who just don't work.

enjoy the tax cuts and rising energy and haliburton stocks (nice rise yesterday) folks. Just don't kid anyone that these guys and their gawking supporters give a shit about anyone but themselves and their bottom line.

B