Inside the Bush Dynasty...

Certainly there are reports that President Bush has been distant from the Katrina catastrophe, especially in the early days. After all, it took him nearly three days to decide to interrupt his five-week long vacation and "fly over" the area on the way back to Washington. Even then of course he showed more interest in protecting loaves of bread from looters/survivors than in preserving the lives of those who were trapped in New Orleans and surrounding areas. So I suppose some people might get the idea that Bush II was somewhat insulated from the suffering of his subjects. That maybe he just didn't care.

To make matters worse, his mother, consort of George Bush the First, responded to the plight of the poor as if 1789 had never happened..."Let them eat Astroturf!" she declared. No, it was easy to see that naysayers might begin to reason that the Bush clan had lost touch with the common, folksy people whom Yale-educated millionaire George W Bush tries so hard to emulate.

Not so fast, people. Along comes Laura Bush, current First Lady of our fair republic, who announces that she just doesn't understand why some people don't see her husband for the truly caring man that he is:

"I mean I am the person who lives with him. I know what he is like, and I know what he thinks, and I know how he cares about people."

Thank you, Ms. Bush, for the intense insight into Dear Leader.

She also came out with this gem:

"I do think -- and we all saw this -- was that poor people were more vulnerable. They live in poor neighborhoods; their neighborhoods were the ones that were more likely to flood, as we saw in New Orleans."

Wow! Poor people live in poor neighborhoods. Next she'll tell us that poor people live in poverty. That means they don't have a lot of money. Or that poor neighborhoods are likely to have poor schools.

Which could lead me to her husband's ridiculous idea of education reform, entitled No Child Left Behind, but this post is long enough anyway.