Here they come--America's Drill Team! Out front are the two high-strutting leaders, John McCain and George W, thrusting their drum-major batons and chanting "Drill! Drill! Drill!" Right behind them are the famous Marching Lobbyists of Big Oil, and--look!--prancing alongside are House minority leader John Boehner and the Merry Pranksters of the Republican caucus, doing a precision routine of call and response
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QUOTES FROM THE CLUELESS
"We are going to move fast." —FEMA director Michael "Brownie" Brown 8/28/05—the day before Katrina made landfall.
"I have not heard of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food or water." —Homeland Security honcho Michael Chertoff on 9/1/05, three days after the first of what became 25,000 people sought shelter in the convention center.
"We just learned of the convention center—we being the federal government—today." —Brownie 9/1/05
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." —George W to Brown 9/2/05
"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."—George W 9/1/05*
"We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans.We couldn't do it, but God did." —GOP Rep. Richard Baker, 9/8/05
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this— [chuckle] —this is working very well for them." —GW's momma, Barbara Bush, after viewing flood evacuees packed into Houston's Astrodome 9/5/05
"What I'm hearing—which is sort of scary—is that they all want to stay in Texas." —Momma Bush again 9/5/05
"Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" —Tom DeLay to three young evacuees, at the jammed Astrodome 9/9/05
"What didn't go right?" —George W, 9/6/05
"I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina [sic] to make sure their children are in school."—Laura Bush 9/8/05
"I'm going to go home and walk my dog and hug my wife, and maybe get a good Mexican meal and a stiff margarita and a full night's sleep." —Brownie after being relieved of his hurricane relief command
*Among those who did just that are FEMA, the Army Corps of Engineers, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the National Hurricane Center and National Geographic.