First up, Nancy Pelosi: "I asked him at the White House, 'Mr. President, why do you think this time it’s going to work?’ And he said, Because I told them it had to.' Pelosi then reportedly asked Bush, "Why didn’t you tell them that the other two times?"
On the list of brain-dead Bush quotes, you'd have to put "Because I told them it had to" right up there with Bush's response to Pelosi when she urged Bush to fire FEMA head Michael Brown after Katrina "because of all that didn't go right last week." Bush replied, "What didn't go right?"
(Late edit: Doonesbury has more of the same.)
Speaking of Katrina--Chicago Bears fans are notorious for taunting opposing fans well beyond the limits of sportsmanship. During last weekend's NFC championship game, they approached the limits of human decency, as some apparently thought it would be clever to taunt New Orleans fans with Hurricane Katrina. Somebody hung a banner in Soldier Field saying: "Bears Finishing What Katrina Started."--and that was only the beginning. Another candidate for Quote of the Day (actually Quote of a Couple of Days Ago, but I just saw it this morning) comes from a commenter to the post linked above who said of Bears fans, "They should all die in a giant fire started by a cow."
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