Pic from BartCop.
Alicia writes: Hello Maru...The picture of Bush w/guitar aside the picture of Katrina refugees should remain at the top of your blog and every like-minded site in the blogoshere as a reminder of what utter failure of leadership looks like.
Alicia, I thought it would be hard to top that pic, until I found the one above at BartCop. God help us.
"Despite continuous warnings that a catastrophic hurricane could hit New Orleans, the Bush administration and Congress in recent years have repeatedly denied full funding for hurricane preparation and flood control." - the Chicago Trib, via The Sideshow.
"Despair is escalating on the streets as corpses rot on the flooded sidewalks, thousands are stranded without food or water and survivors plead for help. This what the "Master of Disaster" Bush has done with all the billions of dollars to protect the homeland: Wasted the money on incompetent appointees and contracts with campaign contributors like Halliburton... People are dying of dehydration and gross neglect, not the storm!" - BuzzFlash.
"They don't have a clue what's going on down there. They flew down here one time two days after the doggone event was over with TV cameras, AP reporters, all kind of goddamn — excuse my French, everybody in America, but I AM PISSED." - Mayor Ray Nagin ripping into the misadministration.
"Congress approved a $231 MILLION bridge to nowhere in Alaska... and halved hurricane and flood prevention programs in NO. And people wonder what's wrong with the government." - headline at Fark.
'Bush administration launches "Operation Bureaucratic Clusterfuck".'
A 'national disgrace'
Mayor blasts feds: "They are spinning and people are dying"
"... corpses rotted along flooded sidewalks and bands of armed thugs thwarted fitful rescue efforts..."
Fires, dead bodies, anarchy, snipers... people left with no food or water... hospitals being looted and fired upon. It's like Somalia in Black Hawk Down.
"It's like 'Lord of the Flies'."
I’ve got to tell you something, we got 500-600 letters before the show even went on the air. No one -- no one -- says the federal government is doing a good job in handling one of the most atrocious and embarrassing and far-reaching and calamitous things that has come along in this country in my lifetime. I’m 62, I remember the riots in Watts, I remember the earthquake in San Francisco. I remember a lot of things. I have never, ever, seen anything as badly bungled and poorly handled as this situation in New Orleans.
Where the hell is the water for these people? Why can’t sandwiches be dropped to those people who are in that Superdome down there? I mean, what is going -- this is Thursday. This storm happened five days ago.
It’s a disgrace, and don’t think the world isn’t watching. This is the government the taxpayers are paying for, and it’s fallen right flat on its face, as far as I can see, in the way it’s handled this thing.”
- our new hero, Jack Cafferty, on CNN 9/1/05.
And when they hear politicians slap -- you know, thanking one another, it just, you know, it kind of cuts them the wrong way right now, because literally there was a body on the streets of this town yesterday being eaten by rats because this woman had been laying in the street for 48 hours. And there's not enough facilities to take her up.
Do you get the anger that is out here?
- Anderson Cooper barely manages to keep from tearing Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu's head off on CNN, 9/1/05.
- Ted Koppel blasts FEMA's Michael Brown.
Fun fact: The director of FEMA, Michael Brown, was fired for incompetence, financial mismanagement and mounting litigation from his previous job.
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