DERRICK Z. JACKSON
Where's ***** Cheney?
By Derrick Z. Jackson | September 7, 2005
AS IF THE antebellum antics of Senator Trent Lott and President Bush were
not enough, the inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina can be measured
even more profoundly by the disappearance of Vice President ***** Cheney.
Lott is the senator who romanticized himself right out of the Senate
majority leadership by praising the late Senator Strom Thurmond's 1948 run
for president on a segregationist platform. Lott was one of those people
who lost his Gulf Coast home to Katrina. That brought Lott no closer to
understanding the human misery in Katrina's wake.
While New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was pleading in expletives for help from
the White House and predicting that thousands of lives would be washed
away, Lott had the gall to say, ''I am pleased with the federal government
response."
This was matched by Bush's hop-skip-and-a-jump over the misery last
Friday. The White House website features photos of Bush hugging black
victims of Katrina. But Bush did not have the time, as presidents and
their advance teams often do so artfully, to humanize the disaster by
naming a family or unsung individuals for either heroic service or
optimism for rebuilding their neighborhoods. The only victim he cited by
name in stops in Mobile, New Orleans, and Biloxi was . . . Trent Lott!
''Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire
house -- there's going to be a fantastic house," Bush said in Mobile.
''And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch."
This Bush said to laughter. The only things missing were mint juleps.
Now Cheney is missing in action. For five years now, you could measure how
seriously Bush took issues of great magnitude by how deeply Cheney was
involved. It was Cheney who ran Bush's super-secretive energy task force.
When Bush wanted a drummer to pound the false connection between Saddam
Hussein and Sept. 11 into the heads of middle America, Cheney responded on
the speech circuit and Sunday talk shows, as he himself likes to say,
''big time."
Cheney delivered such choice lines as:
''There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass
destruction."
''We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons."
''We know he has a longstanding relationship with various terrorist
groups, including the Al Qaeda organization."
With Cheney's cheerleading, our invasion and occupation of Iraq killed
tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and has resulted in the deaths of
1,890 American soldiers with no peace in sight, but outrageous no-bid
reconstruction business for Halliburton, which Cheney formerly headed. It
is tragically fitting that thousands of Americans may have wasted away
along the Gulf Coast partially because our finest US armed forces are not
even close to cleaning up our manmade disaster that was supposed to keep
America secure.
For all that Cheney had to say about the weapons of mass destruction that
were never found, he has been utterly silent on Katrina. He rode out the
first days of Katrina from his vacation in Wyoming. The biggest news he
made, so to speak, was in a Washington Post story on Labor Day that Cheney
is considering buying a $2.9 million house that ''backs up in spectacular
fashion to an inlet of the Chesapeake Bay." Bush wants to sit on Lott's
porch on a coast. Cheney wants a view of the water. That is just what we
need after the nation's worse mass drowning, huh?
Bush announced yesterday that he is sending Cheney to the Gulf Coast to
assess whether the government did all it could do in the aftermath of
Katrina. ''We want to make sure we can respond properly if there is a WMD
attack or another major storm," Bush said.
That is a cruel joke. Everyone knows that if New Orleans had been wasted
by terrorists and weapons of mass destruction, Cheney would have been
Bush's man on the spot proclaiming our need to root out evil. No one
understands this more than the mayor of New Orleans. ''We authorized $8
billion to go to Iraq lickety-quick," Nagin said in a radio interview last
week. ''After 9/11, we gave the president unprecedented powers
lickety-quick to take care of New York and other places. . . . you mean to
tell me that a place where you probably have thousands of people that have
died and thousands more that are dying every day, that we can't figure out
a way to authorize the resources that we need? Come on, man."
Derrick Z. Jackson's e-mail address is jackson@globe.com.
© Copyright 2005 Globe Newspaper Company.
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08 Sep 2005 01:24:41 PM |
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*HIS* "ELECT" *WROTE*:
******* "CHENEY" *STOPPED* "BY" *NEW* "ORLEANS" *TODAY* "FOR" *A*
"PHOTO" *OP* "AND" *GOT* "CUSSED" *OUT* "BY" *A* "PERSON" *IN* "THE"
*CROWD* "WHO" *GOT* "ESCORTED" *AWAY* "AND" *THEN* "PROMISED" *TO*
"RUN" *INTERFERENCE* "FOR" *THE* "FEMA" *DIRECTOR* "WHEN" *HE* "GETS"
*BACK* "TO" *THE* "WHITE" *HOUSE*!!!
"HAVE" *A* "NICE" *DAY*...
"HIS" *ELECT*
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09 Sep 2005 11:27:16 AM |
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wrote:
*HIS* "ELECT" *WROTE*:
******* "CHENEY" *STOPPED* "BY" *NEW* "ORLEANS" *TODAY* "FOR" *A*
"PHOTO" *OP* "AND" *GOT* "CUSSED" *OUT* "BY" *A* "PERSON" *IN* "THE"
*CROWD* "WHO" *GOT* "ESCORTED" *AWAY* "AND" *THEN* "PROMISED" *TO*
"RUN" *INTERFERENCE* "FOR" *THE* "FEMA" *DIRECTOR* "WHEN" *HE* "GETS"
*BACK* "TO" *THE* "WHITE" *HOUSE*!!!
The children catapult further back in there, chill them Niggers out and
discuss that with my early-80s-vintage TV and VCR. Ah well. I was
sitting
at home.
"HAVE" *A* "NICE" *DAY*...
"HIS" *ELECT*
Patrick goes back to his pattern books, the first of a Miami drugs
smuggling ring.
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09 Sep 2005 01:07:58 PM |
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He's in his bunker with his family waiting for the coast to coast clas
and race wars to come and go - then - when Bush gets dethroned by
impeachment
and al is back to its normal hipnotic public pacification he wil emerge
to take
the ofice as president for the rest of this term then run and win in
2008.
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08 Sep 2005 10:53:34 AM |
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On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 01:31:00 -0700, "Doc"
<bushelsofbushrot@HellsHereNow.com> wrote:
DERRICK Z. JACKSON
Where's ***** Cheney?
By Derrick Z. Jackson | September 7, 2005
Probably busy in his Pedo Palace with all the children from his latest
disaster, no wonder Clinton and Bush Sr. have such big smiles on their
faces these days.
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