God Bless the USA

Can the Bushies EVER not aggrandize themselves?

"The United States, at the president's direction, will be a leading partner in one of the most significant relief, rescue and recovery challenges that the world has ever known," Trent Duffy, deputy White House press secretary, said in Crawford, Tex., where President Bush is spending the rest of the holiday season. (NYT)

In other words, the story is not the atrocious devastation in South Asia, it's the unprecedented magnanimity of the USA. Un. Fucking. Believable.