Cheney is an a**hole

This is the latest example of how out of touch with reality and ordinary people this administration really is. When, finally, a reporter found the guts to ask Vice President Dick Cheney why he hadn't immediately returned to Washington DC from his vacation when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, this is the matter-of-fact answer Cheney gave him:

"I came back four days early."

Some hubris from this arrogant hack! Who cares if people died and/or lost everything, he has nothing to apologize for. After all, he's Dick(head) Cheney and his interests trump all others.

See, he came back four days early, so we should all be thankful of his magnanimousness and shut the hell up! Imagine if he had had a bad day, or if we had pissed him off. He might have stayed on vacation till the end. Nice guy the religious right "put" in charge last year. Very Christian-like.

Just in case you don't already know (since the mainstream media hasn't been very good at reporting this,) while Bush was strumming a guitar in California and Rice was shopping for $3,000 shoes on Fifth Avenue, New York, Cheney was mansion-shopping a just-shy of $3 million second home. And wasn't spotted in DC until Saturday, a full five days after the storm had devastated New Orleans.

This is more from the article:

And you can see why Cheney is so testy. He had to miss four days of his vacation to help a bunch of people who probably had never voted Republican in their lives.

The same sense of irritation was noticeable in the initial post-Katrina public appearances by President Bush (though his handlers now seem to have him under control).

It was a sense of "Why me?" Wasn't a quagmire in Iraq enough of a burden? In addition to his own man-made disaster, did he have to deal with a natural disaster, too?

WHY ME?! How about because you ran for the job (twice!) and unfortunately got it both times (and not the just and fair way, may I add.)