Who made George Bush an incompetent pandering bitch?

Why, those darn blue-staters in New York City did, of course. It's their fault Homeland Security cut their funding [1] :

Federal officials said yesterday that the city had not only done a poor job of articulating its needs in its application, but had also mishandled the application itself, failing to file it electronically as required, instead faxing its request to Washington.

Everyone knows that when you file a federal application for Homeland Security money you have to do it by email and not by fax! Oh, and you also have to be in a a city that looks like a 2006 electoral uncertainty. Oh, and you have to vote for Bush. It's not the feds fault, though. I mean, if they knew there was a problem then surely they would have communicated that during the application process, right?

City and state officials insisted that they had made no mistakes. And a state official provided a written acknowledgment from the federal government saying that the city's application for grant money had been "successfully submitted" and said that the city could "log in" any time to view the application. ...

Elected city officials were especially stunned that the report said New York had no national monuments or icons. The city's application was evaluated by so-called peer-review panels of five to seven people with varying backgrounds from 47 states and affirmed by government analysts at the Department of Homeland Security.

So there's the problem, it clearly takes far more than 'five to seven' feds to realize that NYC has the Empire State Building, Times Square, and, oh yeah, the Statue. Of. Freakin. Liberty! Well, either way, I'm sure the Bush administration would never do anything so blatantly irresponsible for NYC's safety unless the funds were desperately needed elsewhere, right?

"We tried to do an analysis of some of the moneys and whether or not they were given out for political reasons, and in fact in many of the places where they got money — but arguably there's no threat — there are close elections either at the Senate level or the House level," the mayor said. "Now, whether that was their motive I have no idea." ...

Gulp.  Well, as the direct victim of the 9-11 attacks, you've been receiving good money so far, so you're probably got some of that leftover, right? 

Officials in New York said the impact of the cash drain would be felt.

"We have a counterterrorism center that would deal with all of the potential scenarios that we have been studying that we have to be prepared for that could be dramatically affected by any cut in funding," said Fire Commissioner Nicholas A. Scoppetta. "It's as though Washington is not going to be convinced of the need until they have another terrible incident in a place like New York or Washington." ...

Mr. Schumer called the episode an "absurdity," saying the grading system did not make sense.

"It would be as if you got 800's on your boards and Stanford Law School rejected you because you put the stamp on upside down," he said.

Oh but you did stamp it upside-down you whiny little turd. You probably even used black ink instead of the Bush-approved pink glitter marker. I mean, really, New York only has itself to blame if the next attack is in the city. That'll teach 'em to let homosexuals and Mexicans run loose in the streets.

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