'We fight them over there, so we can't take care of disasters here'

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

[blackcatpgh]

1. so fucking true...n/t

[acmavm]

2. This week may be bush**s downfall. It looks to me like the beginning

of the end.

And McCain better get his nose out of bush**s ass, he might find that whatever popularity he may have will suffer from all this groveling to the guy who had no qualms about calling his family every name in the book.

[Rainbowreflect]

4. I hope you are right, but it seems this end just keeps beginning,

I want the end of the end of bush.

To all lurking government agencies, that is not a threat in any way, shape or form, I am only speaking of his time in office. Thank you.

[gmoney]

3. wonder how many LA/MS National Guard are in Iraq?

I've not heard anyone else ask the question posed by the OP above...

I've not heard Pat Robertson blaming God for the hurricane yet...

I've not heard any Republicans from the stricken area protesting the influx of Blue State Federal Tax Dollars...

I've not heard Grover Norquist saying we need to shrink the Federal Government to the point where it could be drowned in the streets of NOLA...

I've not heard any of the residents complaining about Federally subsidized flood insurance...

I've not even heard any freepers asking "what sort of idiot dies in a few feet of water?"

I guess I was expecting to hear at least some of these things this week. Because we've certainly heard them all before under different circumstances.

[Trigger Hippie]

5. I was wondering about the NG thing myself.

I know personally of a woman in the Guard from New Iberia, LA, who got shipped off to Iraq. I used to work at a paper in central Louisiana so I know stories of many more Guardsman who would have helped the people in this disaster in my home state.

God, I'm so depressed today. :(

[CBHagman]

6. The Bush administration has also been dismantling FEMA.

I had no idea how bad it was until The Washington Post ran an editorial about it. Then today I met a woman who works for FEMA and says that things are very much up in the air and that employees are facing the prospect of having to move, including to -- wait for it -- TEXAS.

She's been at the agency for seven years, which means she was there when James Lee Witt, generally credited with marked improvements at the agency, was heading it up. She had extremely kind words for him.

At any rate, it just burns me up to see how thinly they're stretching the National Guard. For crying out loud, this country KNOWS natural disasters are part of the reality of life on the continent. Where is the prudent planning and so forth?

May Bush's name be forever disgraced for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on bloody incompetence in the Middle East when real leadership and help were needed. MAY HE BE DISGRACED.