Cheney Back, Vacation Resumes

Now that Dick Cheney have finished his own long summer vacation in Wyoming, he is speeding to the Gulf Coast only a week and and a half after the hurricane hit. This schedule is in keeping with "Brownie's" FEMA rapid response plan. The president of vice was also delayed as he had to be sure that the ink had dried on all no-bid contacts for Halliburton to take over the administration of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. There was a further delay as he had to help Halliburton open new off-shore accounts to accept direct deposit of federal Treasury funds for these new contracts, as the current off-shore accounts for Iraq war profiteering are all full. Now that his boots are on the ground, we can expect things to really happen. While en route to New Orleans (via stage coach, apparently) Cheney noted that the hurricane was in its "last throes." I'm sure the refugees will get a little misty eyed when they see his General McCarthy-like figure step out of a helicopter and roll up his sleeves and get to work ensuring that all reconstruction work is carefully doled out to the highest contributors of the 2004 campaign. The only refugees who may have felt better than these are the ones in the Houston Astrodome who were visited by that paragon of compassion, Barbara Bush, who pointed out how "those people" huddled on the floor of yet another sports stadium were "already poor" and so were so much better off. As they say, the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.
With Cheney's steady hand in charge, Barb's boy is able to put in for the two days of vacation he was "cheated" out of by the inconvenience of this hurricane. He did try to get his whole five week vacation in as he waited for three days after Katrina hit before doing anything. But finally, he did agree to return to Washington two days early. Bush will probably ask Cheney if he can have a whole week off as several of his August days were "ruined by that dead kid's mother who was so rude as to camp a few miles from my ranch."