Thank you for calling 911, this is George, hold please.
Thank you for calling 911, this is George, hold please.
Thank you for calling 911, this is George, hold please.
Thank you for calling 911, this is George, hold please.
Thank you for calling 911, this is George, hold please.
Thank you for calling 911, this is George, hold please.
Whoa! Lunch time!

Via Cold Fury:

Thousands of people stranded in two swamped parishes south of New Orleans are just as desperate for supplies as those trapped in the city but can’t get the attention of federal disaster relief officials, their congressman said Friday.

And to make matters worse, says Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-La., he was unable to deliver that message to President Bush during his visit to New Orleans because the president’s security detail couldn’t clear him to board Air Force One.

After waiting 90 minutes Friday while a U.S. marshal using a satellite phone repeatedly tried, and failed, to contact Bush’s plane – located just 300 yards away at New Orleans’ Armstrong airport – a disgusted Melancon left.

“After an hour and a half of that, and two hours to get down there, I am now back on my way, without seeing the president, not accomplishing anything in my mind today. I’ve wasted time while people are dying in South Louisiana,” he said in a telephone interview. “It’s not personal to the president. It’s just that this whole thing has been handled terribly.”

Okay, let’s switch into rightwing spin mode (bang head with hammer…put pants on backwards…grow second and third chins):

Well, you know the President is already dealing with the professionals who are doing a bang-up job of providing needed services to the good people of Louisiana and he doesn’t need some nitpicking first-term congressman Monday morning quarterbacking him and really, Melancon has already spoken with the President previously this year and why does he think that the President should stop from doing what all right-thinking people will agree is an almost God-like job of parting the waters and feeding the masses with fish and loaves, and if Melancon wants to talk to him he should make an appointment well in advance and not expect any special treatment unless, of course, he’s either a Bush Pioneer or is bearing a letter of recommendation from Dick Cheney that is sealed with wax and bears an imprint from Cheney’s ring made from the thigh bone of a Guatemalan orphan who failed to avert his eyes in time when in the presence of the VP.

Wow. That was fun.