Live Thread: Presidential Address on Katrina

I won't be liveblogging this; I'll be watching Survivor, currently being recorded.

Prediction for the speech: Bush will do what he always does when he feels political heat. Spend, baby. Spend like the wind.

In the current situation, I'm not sure that money spent on rebuilding the ravaged Gulf Coast is wasted or "liberal." If my city got whacked -- wait it minute, it did get whacked pretty nicely, didn't it? -- I'd want America to pitch in and rebuild.

But what's all this talk of dedicating ourselves anew to eradicating the scourge of poverty? Yes, it's a nice goal. But what the hell does job training have to do with rebuilding New Orleans?

If you can't get a job in New Orleans in the coming year, with all the thousands of major construction operations that will be going on, you don't need job training. You need a clue.

Anyway. That's Bush. Everytime he gets caught politically flat-footed, he opens up our collective wallet to buy himself out of trouble.

No Liveblogging: I was liveblogging last night's Hitchens debate for ten minutes before I realized I was just transcribing (badly) what everyone else was listening to. In fact, I seemed to have a delay of some sort; stuff showed up in the comments before I heard it mysefl.

In other words, I felt like a complete asswipe, but perservered, just out of stubborness.

So I won't be liveblogging. Liveblogging something being broadcast on the radio or tv is just, how you say, moronic.

posted by Ace at 08:29 PM

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