Just a quick thought.

In August of 2001 George W. Bush was on vacation at his Potemkin ranch in Crawford Texas when he read a briefing entitled “bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S.”…and in less than a month did just that. Bush’s reaction? “No one could have anticipated” such an attack.

In August of 2005 George W. Bush is on vacation once again at his Potemkin ranch in Crawford Texas when he is briefed by the National Weather Service on the intensity and deadliness of Hurrican Katrina as she bears down on the Gulf Coast taking aim at New Orleans as a category 5 hurricane, already identified by his Federal Emergency Management Agency as one of the 3 most catastrophic events that could happen in the United States. The other two? One was a terrorist attack in New York City (one can imagine Bush treating this as a checklist of accomplishments for his legacy, “yep, got that one crossed off”) and the third was a massive earthquake in San Francisco, which I’m sure he’ll avoid for the rest of his term in office, just in case.

Two days later, as predicted in the briefing, New Orleans is flooding, hundreds of thousands of American citizens are homeless, untold numbers are dead or will soon die of neglect for lack of a response and the nation is just beginning a nightmare of epic proportions and what is bush doing?

He’s off playing guitar, still on vacation and pretending to be a country western star:

He could not be sending a clearer message to America and the world. Don’t bother him when he’s on vacation, no matter what.