bush v bus

the current focus of the bush legion appears to be buses. from wall street journal op-ed contributor to c-span phone-in listener, they rally defensively round the great leader by attacking the big easy mayor—who just happens to belong to the other party—for not using all the city's school buses in the evacuation.

well, i almost hate to remind them, but by the time then fema director brown had persuaded bush to tell nagin to evacuate the city, it was well into the last saturday in august.

how you gonna find enough school bus drivers on the last saturday in august?

and once you find some, how you gonna find all the scattered folk who need a ride but don't know you're looking for them on the last sunday in august?

according to at least one televised report, some of those school buses did get used to evacuate folk and even returned for second loads but then got caught in the flood.

if bush-worshipers are so concerned about busing, why don't they ever ask about the hired buses (and helicopters) fema officials commandeered before they could carry out the job they were contracted for: rescuing trapped nursing home and hospital patients?