Well, thousands of people are dead in the miserable city of New Orleans, and once again all across the United States, there is a sentiment of sympathy and an outpouring of charity for the victims of this horrible tragedy. Somehow, lost in the shuffle, is the fact that if one tenth, or even one hundredth of the money that is being sent now was sent before and used to shore up the damns and levees that were in place to prevent exactly this type of disaster, the whole damn thing could have been avoided.

The thing I don't understand, is why conservative assholes who refuse to recognize that anybody anywhere is a victim of anything other than their own poor planning and incompetence, are suddenly willing to turn on a dime and offer help to people that they had, only weeks or months before, completely blown off. Why don't they stay consistent with their ideology and just say the people of New Orleans got what they had coming to them? It would make things a lot clearer for the general public come voting day, but then again, the general public is so damn stupid you still couldn't count on them to get anything right.

There are people out there who actually love disasters like this because it allows them to swoop in like heroes and do something on a grand stage that everybody can see. Look, there's president Bush personally tossing aside the rubble to help free some children trapped in a flooded school! Hurray, what a great guy, let's change the constitution and give him four more years. Never mind that he delayed getting National Reserve troops into New Orleans until thousands of people had needlessly died.

Nobody gets any props for PREVENTING a horrific tragedy like this because the average Joe doesn't get to see the images of pain and suffering on the TV.

Sick shit.

I was watching a show the other day and the Mayor of New Orleans was piping mad because the government was taking so damn long to respond to the disaster. The Mayor said he went to Bush and told him to sit his ass down and get shit sorted out right now because people were dying. Apparently, Bush was startled to hear such a criticism (he only surrounds himself with yes men who pat him on the back and jerk him off incessantly) but he nevertheless went off to a couple more meetings to see what the deal was. When he finally returned, he had another scapegoat to blame for the slow response. This time, the villain is the Democratic Governor of Louisiana, who said she needed 24 hours before she could approve of the National Guard involvement.

It must have just given the brain trust of the Republican party a big chubby that the governor of Louisiana was a Democrat. That gave them the ability to yet again use their own incompetence as a weapon against their enemies.

So let me get this straight, the big, bad, evil Governor of Louisiana has more power than the President, and it's her fault that all those people had to die needlessly? Somehow, we, the American people are supposed to be reassured that the reason our President didn't send in the troops on time was because he was being thwarted by a relatively minor player in his own political machine?

Remember how it was somebody else's fault when the Iraqi prisoners were being tortured?

Being President isn't the goddamned blame game. YOU'RE THE PRESIDENT, TAKE SOME FUCKING RESPONSIBILITY, THAT'S WHAT BEING THE PRESIDENT MEANS!!!!!!

But it's always somebody else's fault isn't it? Geeze, if only those big meanies would stop messing things up, you could have had such a perfect term.

You know, I bet if it was some rich, jerk-off town in Texas filled with W's oil buddies, and the Governor of Texas got in the way, Mr. President would have figured out a way to blow in there and get his boosters out.

But then again, rich assholes never get into problems do they? They've stolen enough money from the impoverished and the oppressed that they have been able to buy up all the high ground, and they only let their friends and cock-sucking buddies live there with them.

But somehow, when the levee breaks, they're there, along with everybody else, smiling smiles of sympathy and sending checks for a pitiful billionth of a percent of their total net worth. Just enough to keep the rabble from charging the hill and taking over Neverland.

And people eat that shit up. What the hell is wrong with everybody?

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