“”I hope people don’t play politics during this period of time,” Mr. Bush told Diane Sawyer of ABC’s “Good Morning America” in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. “This is a natural disaster, the likes of which our country may have never seen before.””
Wrong. This is the time to play politics. We are supposed to be a democracy, and that requires the active engagement of the citizenry in assessing matters of policy. It is our responsibility to listen and observe the decisions of our leaders, and toss out the rascals who do badly and promote the ones who do well. It is exactly in these situations of crisis where policies are tested and we are in the best position to judge. And contrary to Mike, while we clearly have failures at all levels of the process, this is the time where it is our job to stand up and point to specific points of error. It is also obvious that there is one huge, dominant factor that has been operating over decades to culminate now, in this problem and many others: the Republican party. The party of know-nothings, incompetence, greed, bigotry, religious intolerance, and irresponsibility. We now have the government they wanted, and that we allowed them to have.
Exactly. This is the way Republicans want it – poor people dying because they lack the resources to do something as simple as get out of the way of disaster.
Stop blaming the victims, and put the blame where it belongs – on an ineffective do-nothing president who lied his way into an office he has no business holding. He lied about his drug use, his military service, his leadership abilities, Iraq, and now, the ability of our government to respond to disaster.
We cannot trust this man to protect us. it’s time for him to do the honorable thing, and resign.
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