President Bush Is Classless

Either That, Or He Just Doesn't Care

In his statement this morning, President Bush segued directly from his heart-felt message to the people of Minneapolis to political hackery, whacking the Democrats for not completing the appropriations bills and including $22 billion of "extra" spending he said would cause us to "raise your taxes."

The bodies aren't even out of the water yet, but Bush can't pass up a chance to try and take the Democrats to the political woodshed. My first inclination is to think it's just another example of Mr. Bush's classlessness. But then I remember his Mom's comments during the Katrina fiasco about all the refugees trapped at the Superdome and how it was "working out well for them." Bush's comments about the Democrats on the heels of his words about the Minnesota tragedy stinks of the same inappropriateness.

So it seems more likely the Bush clan simply are missing the "compassion" gene. I don't think they care about the plight of other people, particularly those who are beneath their socioeconomic class. It explains his willingness to continue sacrificing our brave soldiers on the alter of an unnecessary and failed war. He doesn't really care about them, or their pain and suffering.

And incidentally, Mr. Bush, that extra $22 billion the Democrats want to spend is a drop in the bucket compared to the $1 trillion this war is going to cost us. I think we might have fixed quite a few bridges with that kind of money, don't you?