{"id":6164,"date":"2009-01-09T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T07:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6164"},"modified":"2009-01-09T00:00:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T07:20:01","slug":"worst-bush-moments-13-the-katrina-flyover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6164","title":{"rendered":"Worst Bush Moments: #13, The Katrina Flyover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like Iraq, Hurricane Katrina will show up repeatedly on this list. Its first appearance: Bush&#8217;s immediate response. Well, not <em>immediate<\/em>, of course &#8212; that involved partying and having birthday cake&#8230;but that shows up in the single digits.<\/p>\n<p>No, this is Bush&#8217;s delayed response, the one where he woke up one day to find his advisers were demanding he do something, anything, to stop appearing to be the world&#8217;s biggest douchebag. As that simple act was beyond his ability, he decided to do this:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"bush-and-katrina.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bush-and-katrina.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bush-and-katrina.jpg\" alt=\"bush-and-katrina.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because nothing says &#8220;Message: I Care&#8221; like looking out a window at a destroyed city when you&#8217;re flying 15,000 feet over it at 450 miles per hour. Heckuva job, Bushie! With hands-on involvement like that, I can&#8217;t believe that you didn&#8217;t actually come up with a decent response to the Katrina disaster, you know, ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Iraq, Hurricane Katrina will show up repeatedly on this list. Its first appearance: Bush&#8217;s immediate response. Well, not immediate, of course &#8212; that involved partying and having birthday cake&#8230;but that shows up in the single digits. No, this is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6164\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}