You know, Dubya was not perfect. Exactly ZERO Presidents have been perfect, thankyew, primarily because that role is, ipso facto, typically played by a human being.
However, his apparent desire to finish strong, as it were, in the approval rating category, is just kind of pathetic:
President Bush on Tuesday declared the District a federal emergency area, clearing the way for the city to receive federal money to help cover the overwhelming cost of providing security for official inauguration events.
Officials said it was the first time the designation had ever been used for anything other than a national disaster, such as a hurricane or widespread flooding.
Unless, of course, this is some D.C.-insider joke, a slam at the indubitably disastrous incoming regime. Then it’s just fucking funny.
Wow. We really have reached a point where anything the gubmint says, goes. Rules? Regulations? LAWS? Who needs ‘em, right?
Maybe I can get my congresscritter to declare my neighborhood a disaster area because it’s too cold here? It’d bring “much needed stimulus” to the “community”, and maybe I could get a new house out of the deal. Anything’s possible with hopeychange!
Sheesh…
D.W.
January 14th, 2009
This is hope and change I can believe in.
dogette
January 14th, 2009
“typically played by a human being”
UNTIL NOW!!!! The Messiah has come to show us how it’s done.
(P.S.) The quibbles I have with Bush are ones that result from his “reaching across the aisle” and abetting the Dems in spending money on social programs like a drunken sailor in Bangkok. I liked all the parts where he kicked ass and took down the names of scumbags…)
jana
January 14th, 2009
Well, if ya ask me, DC’s been a disaster area for many decades. Obama? A disaster? Who’d-a-thunk it? (chortle)
B Smith
January 14th, 2009
I read somewhere that the bars will be open until 4 a.m. and that there will be one porta-john for every 5,000 people. Might well turn out to be a genuine disaster, beyond, of course, the mega disaster of the installation of an empty suit, socialist, Chicago pol in the most powerful job on the planet.
Jim - PRS January 15th, 2009