God save the Republic.

Clinton was a corporatist tool who let Rwanda happen, but at least he wasn’t a total incompetent.

Ford played without a helmet one too many times, but at least he didn’t appoint incompetents.

Eisenhower liked destabilizing foreign countries that were insufficiently deferential to US capital, but at least he didn’t give his cronies the keys to the larder.

An honest conservative would be fighting to put people like Ike back in charge of his party instead of pretending there’s nothing wrong with asshat loser kleptocrats.

TomY nails it.

If FEMA, the other agencies, and the White House had done their jobs, there would have been a potential evac plan already laid out. To say that it’s difficult for them to figure out what to do and how to get help to affected areas is a crap argument. THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PLAN ALREADY LAID OUT. The city flooded over the course of a day or two. What if they levees broke sooner; what if the city flooded immediately? Dare I ask what the plan was for that scenario?

I get sick of all these wimps out there that keep whining about blaming, fingerpointing, and the like. Why is it we can only point the victory and success finger at the administration and our government agencies? What about the accountability finger? No one wants to hear about mistakes. Well, people are dieing. For some reason, I think the survivors will not be sympathetic to our government’s claim of unn

“The White House battled a chorus of criticism throughout the day as bloggers made much of the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, vacationing in New York during the disaster, where she was spotted at a Broadway show and was to attend the U.S. Open. By Thursday evening, Ms. Rice had cut short her vacation and returned to Washington, where she headed to a staff meeting to discuss ways of coordinating offers of foreign assistance from more than 30 countries and organizations.”

Here (http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/5146.html) you’ll find just what it takes to get Hastert to recall Congress to provide aid. In short: Political pressure. It’s a fucking disgrace that this is what it takes to get these people to do something.

In you. In MRC. In MMA. In everyone here, there and everywhere who believes that the partisan, liberal vs. conservative, Democrat vs. Republican sniping is appropriate at this time.

Have the evacuated the dead? Have they evacuated the living? The logistics of moving hundreds of thousands of people along the gulf coast is tremendous, and you and many others are pointing fingers, casting blame, and worrying about what he said/she said.

Instead of trying to exploit this tragedy to grab a political edge, I would hope that you (not you specifially but you as a part of all of you) would shut up, grab your wallet or grab a shovel or grab a loved one (and hug them for all they’re worth), and do something constructive.

I applaud the “liberal” fund raiser you have become a part of. I don’t think the people of Louisiana and Mississippi give a shit about whether the money and help comes from liberals or conservatives or Democrats or Republicans. They will just appreciate the help.

Save your “bomb throwing” and your faux rhetorical outrage on this one for the next election cycle.

“It did not have an earthen levee,” Dr. Penland said. “It had a vertical concrete wall several feel thick.”"

Try a new tack. Maybe it was the waste of money on the Endangered Species Act. Or maybe it was spending extra money on Medicare. Or maybe it was money wasted on subsidizing farmers not to grow stuff. Etc, etc. etc.

Geta clue, people. It was a natural disaster of unfathomable proportions. Despite the hubris of the “environmentalist” crwod, once again we see that we can not control nature.

If one of these entities wanted to get a big helicopter, fly it to a Walmart, load it up and fly it to the convention center or the dome, don’t tell me the Guard wouldn’t let them.