sharky
New Yorker
I feel like I'm on some bad 70's game show set with Bob Barker or something. [that being said, the Price is Right ran a rerun today that included the Showcase being a trip to New Orleans and a speedboat, they have since apologized noting they just show the stuff and don't know what the actual prizes are for reruns].
This is not a thread to ACTUALLY play the Blame Game, but more a thread to highlight how many government officials don't want to play the Blame Game -- I think this is their new talking point. Like flip flopper except tooootally not as believable.
I don't know why no one wants to play -- I think the winner gets the following super prizes:
-- a box to clean the crap out of their desk
-- a sample bottle of sludge that has been pumped back into Lake Pochatrain
-- a bottle of Evian water [because, as we all know, Evian spelled backwards in naive, which is what they think we are]
-- five-night stay the Superdome paid for by the government
-- a rocking chair on Trent Lott's new front porch
From Wednesday's WH press briefing:
Q Scott [McClellan], does the President retain confidence in his FEMA Director and Secretary of Homeland Security?
MR. McCLELLAN: And again, David, see, this is where some people want to look at the blame game issue, and finger-point. We're focused on solving problems, and we're doing everything we can --
Q What about the question?
MR. McCLELLAN: We're doing everything we can in support --
Q We know all that.
MR. McCLELLAN: -- of the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA.
Q Does he retain complete confidence --
MR. McCLELLAN: We're going to continue. We appreciate the great effort that all of those at FEMA, including the head of FEMA, are doing to help the people in the region. And I'm just not going to engage in the blame game or finger-pointing that you're trying to get me to engage.
Q Okay, but that's not at all what I was asking.
MR. McCLELLAN: Sure it is. It's exactly what you're trying to play.
Q You have your same point you want to make about the blame game, which you've said enough now. I'm asking you a direct question, which you're dodging.
This is not a thread to ACTUALLY play the Blame Game, but more a thread to highlight how many government officials don't want to play the Blame Game -- I think this is their new talking point. Like flip flopper except tooootally not as believable.
I don't know why no one wants to play -- I think the winner gets the following super prizes:
-- a box to clean the crap out of their desk
-- a sample bottle of sludge that has been pumped back into Lake Pochatrain
-- a bottle of Evian water [because, as we all know, Evian spelled backwards in naive, which is what they think we are]
-- five-night stay the Superdome paid for by the government
-- a rocking chair on Trent Lott's new front porch
From Wednesday's WH press briefing:
Q Scott [McClellan], does the President retain confidence in his FEMA Director and Secretary of Homeland Security?
MR. McCLELLAN: And again, David, see, this is where some people want to look at the blame game issue, and finger-point. We're focused on solving problems, and we're doing everything we can --
Q What about the question?
MR. McCLELLAN: We're doing everything we can in support --
Q We know all that.
MR. McCLELLAN: -- of the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA.
Q Does he retain complete confidence --
MR. McCLELLAN: We're going to continue. We appreciate the great effort that all of those at FEMA, including the head of FEMA, are doing to help the people in the region. And I'm just not going to engage in the blame game or finger-pointing that you're trying to get me to engage.
Q Okay, but that's not at all what I was asking.
MR. McCLELLAN: Sure it is. It's exactly what you're trying to play.
Q You have your same point you want to make about the blame game, which you've said enough now. I'm asking you a direct question, which you're dodging.
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