Blogging Rita

A number of bloggers are writing about Rita. Lawrence Simon is coordinating their efforts at his site: "isfullofcrap.com" There is a list of bloggers plus other weather and news links being posted at the top of his page. He writes about a conversation with a Moonbat:

Moonbats in Hurricane conditions
Wandering around, feeling the light wind and drizzle, a neighbor walks by.

"Well, it's this a bummer? I say.
"Yeah, it's a cat 3, gonna be a cat 2 when it hits way away."
"I guess this was all just a practical joke?"
"Yup."
"Something to sell a buttload of gas."
"Yeah, well, Bush wanted all that money."

Even under Hurricane Warnings, moonbats thrive. They must be stomped...

"Look, the man loves to be on his ranch. You think he'd give that up 11 months a year just to take shit from the media and all the people in the country? He's not brilliant, but he's not THAT stupid."

And I went back inside.

Laurence absolutely nails something that has been rattling around my brainpan for the last couple weeks after Katrina. Crawford is not a "vacation", it is The Other Whitehouse. Bush has held State Meetings with Spanish President Aznar, Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Uribe of Colombia, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, the Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Mexican President President Vicente Fox, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, Australian Prime Minister John Howard and NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson, all at his ranch at Crawford. I got this information from here and this is just the first hundred links of the 703 that this search returns to me. Bush has also conducted meeting there, both F2F and Teleconferencing. He has met with Lance Armstrong, Powell, Rice and all of the other movers and shakers in his administration. He is working for us when he is down there. He would rather run the government surrounded by the ranch than by a bunch of blue-state ninnies. With today's Internet and Satellite connectivity, he can do just as much at Crawford as he can at the Whitehouse. I would imagine that the dignitaries visiting him would much rather stay at a comfortable and secure facility that had a definite Western sensibility than at a comfortable and secure facility that was culturally sterile (Washington D.C.) I mean when was the last time that Pooty-Poot danced to Cotton Eye Joe.