My Out of Office message is on and my boarding passes are printed. I'm off to collect my luggage and do a "what did I forget?!" spin around the house, and then I'm off to meet up with Dana at Dragon*Con.

Bye!

Maybe Bush Sr could use his CIA connections to raise some cash from a Middle Eastern theocracy and a war-torn Central American country. If only there were some precedent...

I hope it sticks - I feel a LOT more secure with Bush Sr. and Clinton calling shots than with Karl Rove and Dick Cheney.

Oh, I don't know how many shots they'll actually call, but they make a great visual.

I'm kind a surprised Jimmy Carter hasn't shown up with his tool box yet.

I know, right? I heart Jimmy Carter.

I think the Daddy Bush + Clinton combo is brilliant, and I'm sure they'll be doing all of this kind of thing for the foreseeable future.

Despite the serious of this whole situation, the re-teaming of these two makes me want to come up with a filky variation on the intro to the Odd Couple. They do seem to work amazingly well together though.

My in-laws visited Jimmy Carter's church last weekend and got a great photo op with the man. President Carter's surrounded by about eight people (my in-laws are on his left), and everyone's beaming except for two very angry looking ladies on the President's right. They remind me of the King of the Hill episode where Hank and Bobby get their picture made after Bobby's started working with his dad. Hank tells Bobby not to smile because he's a working man now.

But hey, Jimmy Carter is one of the 100 most dangerous people in America.

I don't deny that the President's proposed budget didn't give Louisiana the funding it asked for and now, it seems, it desperately needed. But he's ultimately not the one who makes the budget, Congress is.

The White House proposes a budget, so they aren't automatically off the hook. I'd like to know what was proposed vs. what Congress approved. There may be plenty of blame to go around.

I'm kind a surprised Jimmy Carter hasn't shown up with his tool box yet.

I'm sure he'll be there once the water recedes and rebuilding can start.

The White House proposes a budget, so they aren't automatically off the hook. I'd like to know what was proposed vs. what Congress approved. There may be plenty of blame to go around.

I think that in most cases Congress increased what the White House proposed.

Congress approved more than what the White House proposed.

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Damn.

Pump prices rose to just under $6 a gallon at some retail outlets in the south. CNN showed footage of a gas station in Georgia advertising regular gas for $5.87 a gallon.

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