S'il Vous Plait?


Thanks to Ashley Morris for the link.

Might as well--Team Bush is giving us the finger, if not the shaft:

Shortcomings in aid from the U.S. government are making New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin look to other nations for help in rebuilding his hurricane-damaged city.

Nagin, who has hosted a steady stream of foreign dignitaries since Hurricane Katrina hit in late August, says he may seek international assistance because U.S. aid has not been sufficient to get the city back on its feet...

"France can take Treme. The king of Jordan can take the Lower Ninth Ward," he said, referring to two of the city's neighborhoods...

Nagin said his message to President George W. Bush would be that the federal government needs to refocus on the devastated area.

"We need your undivided attention over the next six months," he said. "We need backup. We need for you to make the words that you spoke in Jackson Square a reality."

Nagin was referring to the president's Sept. 15 address to the nation from New Orleans, in which he pledged "we will do what it takes, we will stay as long as it takes" to rebuild.

French Transport Minister Dominique Perben, leading the French delegation to a city that was founded by France in 1718, said, "This catastrophe has deeply upset the French people and the French government."

France, Perben said through a translator, "wants to be a long-term partner for Louisiana and New Orleans."

Whatever else you want to say about Nagin, he's spot on with this: first, the inattention and incompetence by Smirk-Chimp's administration is beyond outrageous, and second, the Gulf Coast region REQUIRES the nation's undivided attention. Washington has made it clear that it gives not one shit...which, in normal times, would alone be grounds for impeachment, if not grounds for running the entire gang out of government on a rail.

Morris got it right: "Fuck America. They aren't helping us, fuck them."

I don't recall the rest of the country abandoning California in 1989, or 1994...nor do I remember Smirk-Chimp telling Indonesia "well, that's a lot of money." In 2001, we ALL became New Yorkers. No one looked at Ground Zero and announced that it was mostly landfill...landfill held in place only by a slurry mix hardened into a concrete "bathtub."

But in 2005, Team Bush couldn't be bothered, then they could only point the finger at others...we now know WHAT finger they were pointing.

You know, I actually hope France and Jordan DO provide aid and assistance--and I hope it's heavily publicized in such a way that it humiliates the administration (though that'll be tough...that gang of shitheads has almost NO shame).

And, hell yeah, I'll learn French, if that's what it takes. And I'll at least give Arabic a shot (I learned exactly three Arabic words/phrases on a trip to Morocco ten years ago...well, it's a start...and they were nice enough to put up with my survival French).

Merci beaucoup, France and Jordan...