So It Goes: Natural Disaster

Padow hits the mark. We all know where BushCo's priorities lie and they are not with us - the 98% of us that matter. The incompetence is a sign of mismanagement, delusion of power, and most importantly, lack of respect - for those poor victims in the Gulf Coast, USA and those poor troops in Baghdad, Iraq. How do you except there to be enough money and peoplepower, if BushCo cut them all? Do you really think this wasn't going to happen? Robert Scheer, on AlterNet, explains BushCo's priorities, even after the storm and how finally everyone is catching onto the ruse. He comments:

Unfortunately, what the Bush White House is good at when it comes to national security is providing flash over substance, as Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana found out the hard way. After riding in a helicopter with the president and seeing machinery apparently working on the breached 17th Street levee, she was shocked the next day to find the work mysteriously stopped. "Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment," said the senator in a press release.

Landrieu finally speaks up. Why does it take something so shocking and calculating in the wake of a horrific event to force her speak her conscious? Or are all our politicians so blind that their awakening to the failure that is Bush really has finally set in? I find it hard to believe.