As Randi Rhodes put so succinctly, "George Bush is facing a Category 5 political disaster." The sad thing is republican operatives likely to realize that faster than Democrats. Here, we have a visceral, tragic, Hiroshima sized example of why we need an effective and accountable federal government and I haven't heard so much as a peep from a prominent Democrat about the political reality that created this tragedy. Democratic activists
can, will and must communicate with the public about how this disaster relates to policy.
As Randi Rhodes put so succinctly, "George Bush is facing a Category 5 political disaster." The sad thing is republican operatives likely to realize that faster than Democrats. Here, we have a visceral, tragic, Hiroshima sized example of why we need an effective and accountable federal government and I haven't heard so much as a peep from a prominent Democrat about the political reality that created this tragedy. Democratic activists
can, will and must communicate with the public about how this disaster relates to policy.
As soon as The Gang gets their talking points straight, look for these things to be exiting your friendly wingnut's cakehole in the next few weeks:
Don't politicize this disaster. - Every decision that went into complicating and cascading this disaster is political. All that anti-government pro theft tripe being spewed by your buddies effectively gutted the infrastructure. The free-market isn't capable of dealing with up this kind of catastrophe. Want to know why government is around? Well, here you are.
Why are (those people) looting and shooting? - Yeah, the looters who shoot guns at rescuers are evil, as evil as the looters who stole all the aid money from the treasury to fatten mercenaries, arms dealers and torturers. This is not to mention the National Guard troops who are fighting looters in Iraq instead in Biloxi. Will we get a response anything similar to Andrew? No. Neither Clinton nor Gore is president anymore. Your boy is. Thanks to The Real, Real Gangstas, FEMA is through.
God sent the hurricanes because of gays | Jesus hates abortions and that's why he sent the hurricane. - ?????? This level of mental displacement doesn't dignify anything more than the gas face, or maybe some nervous laughter and a quick exit. Anything remotely rational wouldn't register anyway.
Lets hurry up and drill for oil off of California/Florida/Alaska | Let's invade Venezuela | Let's trash the Clean Air Act - It's kind of stupid to drill for oil while our existing rigs and transfer facilities are shot. We should be diversifying our energy economy. Given how long it takes to put a refinery online, and how fast do you think new refineries will make a difference? Not any difference at all. Unless you enlist, we don't have the military capacity to invade Canada, much less Venezuela.
Look out for these things to be exiting your friendly Democrat's cakehole in the next few weeks.
Nothing - They will say next to nothing, and likely do nothing, because they are scared of sounding too political. They might sheepishly rally behind the Gang responsible for foisting this debacle on us in the first place. Sorry guys, but even the nutters are pissed at this debacle. Even in the mind of the most `fair and balanced' moderate, this debacle is the final, over-arching, smoking-gun proof of this administration's towering, malfeasance and ineptitude. This isn't a two-week event, this isn't going away anytime soon.
This is our political capital for the sake of the next victims of an unnatural disaster Democratic operators must use all means available to size the political high-ground.