Because he's been looking up while everything turns to shit at his feet. He's making everyone focus attention on every place except for where it needs to be.
First he cut funding for upkeep and repairs on the levees that failed in NO. That's to pay for the 'war' in Iraq and for his tax cut package. I got a check in the mail, so I guess it was for me.
Second he folded FEMA into the Homeland Security program, essentially making it weaker and less organized. I wasn't sure that was possible until now. The whole mess got lost in a pile of bureaucracy is what the final story is going to be.
Third has to be a bit of the croneyism that exists in Bush's world. What did this "Brownie" guy really have under his belt that prepared him for just exactly what happened in the Gulf Coast? If you're the main FEMA dude, shouldn't you be ready to Federally Emergency Respond to something? Seems like Geraldo managed to get his powdery ass into the floodwater LONG before Federal resources got there. You've got to wonder if a person had trained and been schooled in emergency management might be better served to handle the sitatuion.
Next is the vacation thing. We saw it coming. People were calling it a disaster on the verge of happening on Saturday. The hurricane struck and was devastating at first glance, but no end to photo ops and brush clearing until after much pressure from the media. Okay, that one may be a bit nit picky, but well. I coudn't resist.
Now he's going to ask Congress for a gajillion or so dollars for emergency aid and payola to the "victims". But where is that money going to come from? Is anything going to get cut from the Iraq budget? What about the fight over the "death tax"? Can we at least table that so there is some money out there to pay for this special relief package? Probably not because that would be resonsible and intelligent. Can't have that in Washington.
Mostly you've got to look at a president who says he's the president who is going to protect us from the War on Terror. He's constantly telling us that terrorists are out there trying to get us and we need billions of dollars to protect us from bad things happening. But then when something bad does happen, nobody knows what to do. And even worse, this was a bad thing we could see coming at us. It wasn't a dirty bomb or chemical weapons. It wasn't anthrax or nerve gas. It was weather and there were these cloud geeks on the TV for days saying that big rain and possible levee problems were headed for the Gulf Coast. SURPRISE!!! What have we been getting ready for these last four years if not quick response to a desperate situation?
I'll admit freely that I have a beef with the president. I didn't vote for him either time and wouldn't even if he was the only candidate. But take all that away. Strip away the political parties and the red vs blue bullshit and you still have a colossal screw up of epic proportions. At some point Republican/Democrat doesn't matter. If someone screwed up that bad at my company, I'd fire them. If my husband screwed the pooch as much as this guy does when it's important, he'd be sleeping in the truck and maybe not even in the garage unless he said "sorry" and meant it. I just don't understand how thinking people can sit back and say that all this stuff going on within and from our leadership is okay.