Complete Failure

There is almost no place to start, everyone has seen it for themselves. There is that one image that sticks, there are too many others to register. Mistake after misjudgement after incompetence, one after the other, each making things worse.

Bush strumming a guitar as the levies broke - their funding previously cut to finance the folly in Iraq. The LA National Guard is in Iraq as well.

This hurricane is our terrorist attack - they all said it would happen - and the Federal Government was completely ill-prepared, caught off-guard, without plans, and most important factor of all:

COMPLETE FAILURE of LEADERSHIP

I hope they just don't come up with tax cuts as the solution to this mess, but that's about all I expect.

This is a total repudiation of the Republican view of government: every man for himself, if you're poor, you haven't worked hard enough. Whatever happened to helping the least among us? The Christian values of charity? Honour thy neighbor? - they are nothing but p.r. slogans for the Republicans.

Yeah, politicizing this mess may be in bad form right now; I hesitate to do it. But would Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, Rush, Hannity et. al hesistate for 1 nanosecond on whether to blame the Democrats if we were in charge? NO.

Oh and by the way, the head of FEMA worked earlier at the International Arabian Horses Association (!!!!!!!!!!), a position from which he was forced to resign in the face of mounting litigation and financial disarray. (go see Gilliard)

One p.s. re politicization: everything from day 1 of BushII was anti-Clinton: don't do what Clinton did, remove his rules, remove his people, reverse the policies. Well, if Bill Clinton was so bad, how come Junior has to beg him back into service while the largest crises occur in our land? I think you know the answer.

A b.j. wasn't so bad after all, was it? (that's a rhetorical question for our Republican friends and neighbors)