by James Glaser
September 5, 2005

I know, I find it hard to believe too, but George Bush sat at his ranch in Texas while people were dying on the Gulf Coast. It took the President several days to wake up to the fact that America was facing a National disaster that will take us years and hundreds of billions of dollar to get over.

Even today the President is still saying that no one could have foreseen the possibility of what has happened because of Hurricane Katrina. The rest of us have been watching stories in the news about studies over the years that predicted just about everything that happened. George sat at his ranch and vacationed, and nobody in Washington took charge until our National media woke up, and started demanding that somebody do something.

Four days after Katrina hit, Michael Brown, Bush's "Point Man" for disaster relief figured out that thousands and thousands of Americans were really suffering in New Orleans. Its true, the man went on National television on Thursday to say that he had just found out that so many people were without food and water, bathroom facilities, or even a place to put dead bodies. What does George Bush say about that? "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

When the President said that, no body had done anything yet to help the people in distress.

George was on vacation for over a month. August was the third most deadly month for American troops in Iraq. Remember George Bush is the Commander-in-Chief of all American forces. George is the leader of all of our troops, and while American troops were dying in Iraq, and American civilians were dying on our Gulf Coast, George Bush was on vacation.

Think back to 9/11. When America was attacked, George Bush got on a plane, and flew around the country all day. It took hours and hours before he had anything to say to the country.

Today in the Washington Post there is a story about how fighters loyal to Abu Musab Zarqawi, have taken over the Iraqi town of Qaim, and have posted a sign that says, "Welcome to the Islamic Republic of Qaim." Also in the report, "The US Army warned noncombatants to leave a portion of the northeastern city of Tall Afar ahead of an expected assault on an insurgent stronghold there."

The Commander-in-Chief remains on vacation, while Americans are dying at home and in Iraq. George finally visits the scene of Disaster in our Southland, and walks around with his shirt-sleeves rolled up, looking like he is ready to work or has worked, but he turns around and says, "I want you to know I won't forget what I have seen." He then heads out without breaking a sweat. A couple of years ago, it wasn't shirt-sleeves, but a pilots combat gear, and it wasn't the scene of a hurricane landfall, but the deck of an aircraft carrier. George knows how to dress the part for the camera, but when it comes down to leadership, it is vacation time again.

The Gulf Coast is a mess, and Americans are dying, Iraq is a mess, and Americans are dying there too. Thousands of illegal aliens are flooding into our country every month, gas prices are going higher, and the National debt is growing.

All of these things are going on, and President Bush takes a month of vacation, and won't let anything cut that vacation short until there is an outcry from thousands of suffering Americans, who have just gone through maybe the greatest natural disaster our country has ever seen, and if not the greatest, then the most costly one.

Three and one half more years, you think we will make it? How many more vacations do you see George taking?

Post Script: Gas in Tallahassee, Florida on Labor Day. $3.42 a gallon on the east side of town, and $3.01per gallon, 30 miles north of town in Thomasville, Georgia.