Comments on: No Magic Bullet for Bush http://www.mahablog.com/2005/10/30/no-magic-bullet-for-bush/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:42:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: The Mahablog » Snoopy http://www.mahablog.com/2005/10/30/no-magic-bullet-for-bush/#comment-10186 Fri, 12 May 2006 12:47:15 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2005/10/30/no-magic-bullet-for-bush/#comment-10186 [...] My answer is that the Bush Administration is all about grant gestures and magic bullets, not about doing the practical, basic, unglamorous, hard-slogging things that actually need doing. I wrote last October: George W. Bush appears to be a “magic bullet” kind of guy. I have read that his oil businesses failed because he was determined to make a big strike rather than slowly and patiently build a business. “To George W. Bush, a Texan who revels in the myth of the wildcatter, running risks in pursuit of the big gusher is a quintessential part of the American character,” says this May 16, 2005 Business Week article. “But as the scion of an aristocratic Eastern dynasty, the budding young tycoon always had a network of family friends and relations to call on. Those golden connections bailed George W. out of his early forays into the oil business.” [...] […] My answer is that the Bush Administration is all about grant gestures and magic bullets, not about doing the practical, basic, unglamorous, hard-slogging things that actually need doing. I wrote last October: George W. Bush appears to be a “magic bullet” kind of guy. I have read that his oil businesses failed because he was determined to make a big strike rather than slowly and patiently build a business. “To George W. Bush, a Texan who revels in the myth of the wildcatter, running risks in pursuit of the big gusher is a quintessential part of the American character,” says this May 16, 2005 Business Week article. “But as the scion of an aristocratic Eastern dynasty, the budding young tycoon always had a network of family friends and relations to call on. Those golden connections bailed George W. out of his early forays into the oil business.” […]

]]> by: Kaleberg http://www.mahablog.com/2005/10/30/no-magic-bullet-for-bush/#comment-107 Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:54:04 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2005/10/30/no-magic-bullet-for-bush/#comment-107 I don't think it was Bush's disinterest in governing that led him to gut FEMA. As it turns out, his political career seems to have been heavily invested in disaster management, and FEMA's failures have affected his interests negatively. You can probably make a better argument that he was uninterested in FEMA, and he would have done better to have been more interested. I don’t think it was Bush’s disinterest in governing that led him to gut FEMA. As it turns out, his political career seems to have been heavily invested in disaster management, and FEMA’s failures have affected his interests negatively.

You can probably make a better argument that he was uninterested in FEMA, and he would have done better to have been more interested.

]]> by: jerri http://www.mahablog.com/2005/10/30/no-magic-bullet-for-bush/#comment-106 Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:37:27 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2005/10/30/no-magic-bullet-for-bush/#comment-106 bush has no good news to deflect attention to. Betcha bush wishes he could deflect himself to 2008 so he can go home to TX and not have to please anyone. bush has no good news to deflect attention to. Betcha bush wishes he could deflect himself to 2008 so he can go home to TX and not have to please anyone.

]]> by: Lynne http://www.mahablog.com/2005/10/30/no-magic-bullet-for-bush/#comment-105 Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:23:19 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2005/10/30/no-magic-bullet-for-bush/#comment-105 Barbara, Your right hand Blogs column is overlapping your center cool Barbara,
Your right hand Blogs column is overlapping your center cool

]]> by: Swami http://www.mahablog.com/2005/10/30/no-magic-bullet-for-bush/#comment-104 Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:27:14 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2005/10/30/no-magic-bullet-for-bush/#comment-104 Pikes peak or bust! I don't think Iraq is going to allow him to rebound. It's the equivalent of being bitten by a gila monter...it's not the bite, but the infection that brings you down. Pikes peak or bust!

I don’t think Iraq is going to allow him to rebound. It’s the equivalent of being bitten by a gila monter…it’s not the bite, but the infection that brings you down.

]]> by: erinyes http://www.mahablog.com/2005/10/30/no-magic-bullet-for-bush/#comment-103 Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:52:15 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2005/10/30/no-magic-bullet-for-bush/#comment-103 Back to basics.... I'm looking for a reality based government, to hell with these political theorists. FEMA blew it again in Miami, I was there last week.The people of Miami and all South Florida should be very thankful that a cold front followed Wilma. Few expected Wilma to hit Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Indian River Counties with such fury, but FEMA is the ambulance. Citizens have the responsibility to prepare and share with neighbors, but the ambulance has a reasonsibility to serve those that cannot help themselves. The tornados spawned by Wilma did unimagineable damage, thankfully they were not widespread. Don't listen to the blow hards spewing the personal responsibility B.S. ,disasters in dense urban areas like Miami- Dade are vastly different than what we had in mostly suburban Orlando because Wilma was so large. Back to basics….
I’m looking for a reality based government, to hell with these political theorists.
FEMA blew it again in Miami, I was there last week.The people of Miami and all South Florida should be very thankful that a cold front followed Wilma.
Few expected Wilma to hit Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Indian River Counties with such fury, but FEMA is the ambulance. Citizens have the responsibility to prepare and share with neighbors, but the ambulance has a reasonsibility to serve those that cannot help themselves.
The tornados spawned by Wilma did unimagineable damage, thankfully they were not widespread.
Don’t listen to the blow hards spewing the personal responsibility B.S. ,disasters in dense urban areas like Miami- Dade are vastly different than what we had in mostly suburban Orlando because Wilma was so large.

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