George W. Bush demonstrates his continuing class as he awkwardly tries to jam Hurricane Gustave into an argument for offshore drilling. "This storm should not cause the members of Congress to say, well, we don't need to address our energy independence; it ought to cause the Congress to step up their need to address our dependence on foreign oil. And one place to do so is to give us a chance to explore in environmentally friendly ways on the Outer Continental Shelf." He must be responding to all those congressional speeches that suggested heavy rains would fuel our vehicles. Glad he's standing up to Rep. Nonexistent (D-Bush's Head). On a related note, I started reading Robert Draper's Dead Certain
, as the Bush administration remains a sort of black box to me and I've been looking for a good sympathetic account of its internal processes. Draper's unprecedented access, however, appears to have led him to the conclusion that George W. Bush is a huge asshole, and this fact has remarkable explanatory force when you try to understand his political career.
