Just Wondering

Would Christopher Shit Shays (R-CO) have addressed Rudolph Guiliani or George Pataki like this?

"You are aggressively making an excuse when no excuse should be given. [the evacuation of the South Tower] should have been mandatory. It should have happened sooner. And I think that the fact that you don't recognize that is more troubling to me than I can express."

After all, it should've been obvious to anyone that the WTC South Tower was as much a target as the North Tower, which had already been hit...right? And wouldn't an evacuation order come from a city or state official?

Um, the above is sarcasm for the irony-challenged: of course a question like that wouldn't be asked...and indeed, it wasn't. Because a question like that reeks of crass attitude and behavior. But it didn't stop Shit, um, I mean Shays, from basically accusing Blanco and Nagin of negligent homicide.

The article doesn't mention this, but while channel flipping last night I also came across more of Shit's grandstanding--this time it was the non-issue involving the picture of the buses...which has been beaten...and beaten...and beaten with a stick, switch, electrical cord, you name it.

Let's be clear about this: Shit is grandstanding, as opposed to making anything approaching a valid point. In hindsight, should a mandatory evacuation have been called, say two days in advance? Of course. Hell, in hindsight, they should've called the evacuation a week or more in advance, now that we know what the storm wrought. However, Shit's bloviating tells us much more about his limited attention span than anything: indeed, early warnings were issued to some officials almost as soon as the storm crossed into the Gulf. But I still recall that Friday (August 26th)before the storm hit, PUBLIC forecasts called for landfall in Florida--as late as Saturday evening, there was still a question as to whether the storm would hit Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama.

Chris Shit apparently also forgets Hurricane Ivan, forecast to slam into the Gret Stet a year ago: Mobile suffered its wrath instead. And I guess Shit thinks residents and businesses are so flush with cash that they're able to drop everything anytime a storm is even in the vicinity of a particular area.

Oh--and I don't recall Shit so much as batting an eye when money was dumped by the ton into Florida during the 2004 Hurricane Season, which just happened coincide with the 2004 Election Season. Just as I don't recall him berating Con-Ed when Team Bush bailed that company out to the tune of $250 million dollars. Why didn't he make caustic references to their reputation for swindling and greed?

You know, I normally don't wish ill of anyone--but I wouldn't shed even a crocodile tear for the likes of Shit--or anyone like him--if their own house was destroyed by a fierce storm (maybe a nor'easter hitting the Nutmeg State). It'd be all the better if he lost his power, too, i.e., let him freeze in the dark.

Crass bastard.