Cody
Williams
How is Hurricane Katrina
a lot like Monica Lewinsky?
Both
women gained notoriety by blowing a US presidency. Katrina hit with
130-mile an hour winds and a 20 foot storm surge. Lewinsky blew under the
presidential desk in the Oval Office and came in with a 20-month media
surge.
Katrina, like Lewinsky was bigger than anyone would have expected.
Katrina, like Monica got the President’s attention by showing him her ass. Lewinsky flicked up her skirt and exposed her thong to a red nosed Bill Clinton. Katrina’s fury awakened Bush from a month long Crawford Texas vacation.
Can we say Toxic Stain? One is on the streets of New Orleans, and the other was on a certain little blue dress.
Katrina, like Lewinsky humbled a man who thought the public had given him a mandate to change the world. Lewinsky ended Clinton’s hopes of nationalizing health care and installing Al Gore as his hand picked successor. Katrina forced George Bush, the man who just last year couldn’t think of one single mistake he had made while in office, to admit full responsibility for the colossal ineptitude and disaster-mismanagement that cost lives and left many in New Orleans stranded and terrorized.
Both Katrina and Monica exposed weaknesses in two of the world’s most powerful men; Clinton a weakness in character, and Bush a weakness in competence.
Until Lewinsky Clinton had dodged accusations that dogged him all the way from the Arkansas statehouse to the White House that he was a philandering cheat. Until Katrina, Bush had managed to skirt blame for wrecking the US economy, under estimating the task of nation building in the Mid-East, diminishing US world influence and exposing our homeland to blood thirsty terrorists.
Just as we had “Monica-Gate,” calls for a full Congressional investigation will lead to, (I’ll say it here first) “Katrina-Gate,” on which millions of tax dollars will be spent.
Katrina, like Lewinsky, is getting a bigger rise out of a once perceived impotent opposition party than even Viagra. The republicans used Monica-Gate to launch an attack on the presidency and overturn the will of the electorate. Democrats, no doubt, will attempt to use Katrina-Gate and the mismanagement of FEMA and Homeland Security to wrest control back of a least one branch of government they lost over the past ten years: Congress, the Senate, the White House or the Supreme Court.
Clinton’s “I did not have sex with that woman,” and Bush’s “Our response was no slower because they were poor and black,” both came across with the same degree of insincerity.
And, Katrina, like Lewinsky, will be around a lot longer than the one-night-stand each man had hoped his mistress would be.
© 2005 Cody Williams www.codywilliams.com
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