So I just get this e-mail from Barbara Boxer, and her "Pac for Change". Now I love Barbara Boxer. She seems to be one of the few leaders the Democratic Party actually has.
But in this e-mail, she fails to hold George Bush accountable for anything. She barely mentions his name.
Instead, she says this:
"But what is also unacceptable to me is that the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has absolutely no experience in disaster relief. It is unacceptable to me that after four years of being told that our homeland security is improving, the system utterly failed its first test. It is unacceptable to me that an untold number of people died or were needlessly traumatized in the horror of the Superdome and New Orleans Convention Center because of a chaotic federal response."
Sure. That's all fine and dandy. But why is everybody failing to mention the blindingly obvious failings of George Bush? Bush's failures resulted in the deaths of untold numbers of people.
Why is Jon Stewart doing the ENTIRE job of the Democratic Party? (and the media for that matter)
If you watched The Daily Show last night, you saw, laid out very simply, the timeline of Bush's activities while the hurricane hit and while people died. Why do we have to watch a comedy show on a small cable channel to be informed about what our goddamn PRESIDENT is doing while people are DYING?
Why can't we depend on people like Boxer at the very LEAST to call these people out on their bullshit?
Why can't she, and people like her, at LEAST MENTION the smoking gun of Bush's ineptitude -- the Commander Sean Kelly story, where in the BBC interview he reveals that Northern Command was ready and waiting to evacuate, water, and feed people, their ship the U.S.S. Bataan having literally followed the hurricane through the gulf, only to WAIT for Bush's order to go to work?
I'm ready to just say "fuck it" to this entire country. When even Barbara Boxer can't point out the bad guy in the lineup, this country is absolutely fucking hopeless.
Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me why I should ever support ANYONE ever again, Democrat or otherwise.