The Flim-Flam Man, Details at Nine
The setting will be awesome, appropriate for George Bush’s Shock and Awe bombardment of his spiraling approval ratings.
St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans’ famed Jackson Square, illuminated by financial smart-bombs, shuddering under the weight of administration wage-agreements that further depress the region and line the pockets of contractors and blitzed by the president’s carefully scripted words, is the opening scene of the federal flim-flam.
Tonight at 9, with no audience, no reporters, not a soul in sight as if the shame were so great that no witnesses were allowed.
The screenplay is vintage Karl Rove.
The goal is not recovery of the Gulf, but recovery of the presidential approval ratings.
The cost is $200 billion, unless it's more.
One wonders if we cannot just buy off this tragically mismanaged administration before they harm us further. This president cares so much for the displaced, depressed and disadvantaged that he has set aside the law requiring that they be paid prevailing w…