Where's the follow up Tim?

After being caught in a lie, a fib, a half or full untruth or as I say to Lex jr. a “story,” the inbred looking Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard took to Meet the Press again yesterday, ill fitting ball cap firmly in place, to clean up his own Katrina mess. Mr. Broussard, in an earlier appearance with Russert, had accused the federal government of killing the 92-year-old mother of the parish's emergency services director. Turns out Mr. Broussard’s account of the woman’s death was embellished a bit so that Mr. Broussard could make the strongest possible case against the federal government while giving local and state officials a total pass. In his usual no nonsense “the buck stops somewhere” style, Mr. Broussard said yesterday that he had been misinformed by his staff about the sequence of events in the woman’s death.

But then Mr. B lashed out at those who had pointed out that his story about how and when the woman died just didn’t add up. Trying to blame those who discovered his lie instead of taking responsibility, Mr. B whined loud and long "What kind of sick mind, what kind of black-hearted people want to nitpick a man's mother's death?" For his part Russert just let the obvious slide by without note. A good follow up, Tim, might have been, “What kind of sick mind, what kind of black-hearted person, what kind of inbred nitwit, what kind of low-life Louisiana politician would use a man's mother's death to score political points, then bitch about the people who caught him in his own lie?”

But wait, like a Popeel knife ad, there’s more. After Mr. B left, Tim was back with three New York Times opinion writers. Gee, I wonder what nice things they’ll say about the president? MoDo, Tomas L. Friedman and token “conservative” Michael Brooks all took shots at Mr. Bush under the leading questions and to the delight of Tim Russert. Friedman for his part whined about high oil profits going to the Saudis. This is the same guy who has advocated high oil prices and now that he’s gotten exactly what he wants is bitching. TLF advocates high oil prices, but those prices should only rise as a result of federal taxes not market pressure. TLF admirably wants to rid the US of foreign oil dependency. But how? Again, Tim misses the obvious follow-up, “So Tomas L. Friedman, you are advocating drilling on the California coast, ANWAR and elsewhere to wean us off foreign oil? You are advocating more oil refineries here in the US? You are advocating more nuclear, or as GWB says nucular, energy?” And of course TLF is not for any of that. 1) Because it might actually solve the problem. 2) He’s Lib and Libs hate all of those things. 3) Bush might get credit for actually solving the energy dependency problem. 4) Where are the higher taxes in that solution?

TLF’s solution is to raise taxes. Ruin what’s left of the economy. Then raise taxes more. Return to an agrarian solar powered economy. Then raise taxes on solar devises. Ride bicycles. Then raise taxes on bikes. Forfeit our position as the world’s only hyperpower. Then raise taxes. Then when he gets everything he wants, he’ll blame all of the results on Bush for not raising taxes more. Only in TLF’s world is getting what you’ve asked for Bush’s fault and cause to bitch.