So many lies, so many failures yet they manage to prevail. So many avenues for impeachment all but abandoned with only flickering outrage, tossed onto the stinking rotting heap - layers buried under still more weightier layers of lies, failures and corruption. We keep hoping this will be the one thing we can use to go for the throat only to abandon that cause to take up the next more promising one that has been lobbed our way like a dud grenade. Then the next. We are loosing what we know we should be winning.
While this administration may be all stocked up on un-elected cronies prone to political career feeding frenzies and war mongering left-overs from previous war eras. And while they are inarguably predatory, belly-slitting, pack-hunting, velociraptor dinosaurs with black crude coursing through their veins - "Bunglers and Fools" they are not .
Administration officials responsible for top level decisions made in the initial hours and days after hurricane Katrina hit did not function in some clueless bubble where they failed to factor in the events on the ground. To think they unwittingly ignored reports, denied the seriousness of recommendations and simply failed to act is dangerously naive.
Before landfall 1,500 Louisiana guards were ready to be deployed - food, water and ice were already in place and transport vehicles were standing by. The only plausible explanation well trained, pre-positioned DMAT and USAR teams experienced and capable of acting in unison failed so miserably to get help where it was needed when they were ready willing and able is simple. They were prevented from responding. Nothing on the order of magnitude of the colossal failure that occurred could have occurred without intentional intervention by this administration.
To blame Bush is to blame but one tiny faction of this much larger whole. To believe any decision large or small originates from one person is to not understand what is most effective about the Republican party. While motivated by self interest, they function as a collective. A cesspool of highly charged minds, and richly funded think-tanks drawing on generations of planning and strict almost religious adherence to any decision once it has been made. Behind the policies stamped with this president's seal is an organized cooperative so powerful at this moment, with the third branch of government all but assimilated, that "Resistance is Futile. They are BORG.
We are about to lose this country.