Failure Of Leadership

New Orleans is being evacuated. The president has just gotten back to work. He spent the last few days playing golf, strumming guitar, talking about WWII and Social Security Privitization.

Here's Senator Lautenberg according to the BBC:

Democratic senator Frank Lautenberg has accused the Bush administration of taking too long to respond.

"We are watching this devastation unfold on our televisions for days and you have to ask: where is the federal government?" the Reuters news agency quotes him as saying.

"We should have had a significant amount of troops and supplies there on the ground Monday."

And here's the same exact same event on the other side of the looking glass

Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) complained that President Bush should have had troops on the ground in New Orleans on Monday and then whined: "President Bush's wake-up call came awfully late." Idiocy! The fact that President Bush has dispatched the US Military to assist, including the USS Iwo Jima and the medical ship USNS Comfort, to help those in the hurricane ravaged areas seems to have escaped the New Democrats' attention--or at least their pontificating. But, if they had mentioned these it wouldn't have suited their ever-increasing-politically-motivated invectives against President Bush.

This piece of bile was written by Sher Zieve with The Conservative Voice. Fuck her (him?)!!!! Really, what the fuck! This president is sending in the navy after 4 DAYS! While people have been dying. And it's going to take several more days for them to get there. What the hell was the hold up? How low do these people want to set the bar? There is still not NEARLY enough rescue workers there, and a big part of that problem is that the people who's job it is to deal with this kind of shit, the National Guard, is IN FUCKING IRAQ! Good God, was overthrowing Saddam and helping to create an Islamic Republic really worth this? We were unprepared to deal with a disasater that could easily eclipse 9-11. The war in Iraq has demonstrably made us LESS SAFE. Remember there are dangers out there other than Islamic terrorism, and we don't have the capabilities to deal with them because our armed forces are tied up in Iraq, and while you're at it you can certianly make a damn good argument that we're less safe from terrorism now, too. In the years since the begining of the Iraq war, the number of international terrorist attacks has increased DRAMATICALLY. Coincidence?

Fuck I need another drink. These people are disgusting.