Now is not the time for any politician to tell me now is not the time to criticize or try to place blame for the devastating 8-29 hurricane attack on home soil. I’ve got news for them; America divided in January 2000, so nothing I say today can cause what has already happened.
Timing is everything. The willingly-ignorant have crawled out from under their rocks to view the devastation, and I plan to take advantage of this opportune time to throw a few facts their way. If I don’t catch them now, they will be in hibernation again when the truth finally comes out – like they were after the 2000 (s)election, the World Trade Center attack, the 2004 (s)election, Washington’s most recent gift to the oil companies, and Bush’s admission last week that the Iraq war really is all about oil. This is the perfect time to expose the truth, and the fact that so many are asking me to keep my mouth shut proves that. The Bush Administration was asleep at the wheel AGAIN, resulting in more deaths.
Okay, maybe that isn’t an honest assessment. I am not sure they were asleep. This might be exactly what they wanted to happen. I’ll take back my assumption and rephrase. The Bush Administration screwed us again, for reasons I don’t understand.
This is a political statement. When I speak about politicians and political decisions, it is about politics. My complaints are not partisan; I blame Democrats as much as the Republicans. There might not be enough Democrats on Capital Hill to stop this insanity, but they still have a responsibility to protect this country and this world. If their voices aren’t heard through their votes, they need to make their voices heard in other ways. They should be screaming in the streets, posing in front of television cameras, flooding newspaper offices, taking out ads in their home states, crawling under rocks until every American has heard the truth whether they want to or not.
Politicians on both sides should have shut this country down rather than allow what happened this week. If not now, when is the time to demand answers and accountability? When would be a better time to tell the sleepers what they missed while under their rocks?
There is no better time to bring up these issues, or to point fingers where they belong. There will never be a better time to pull everyone we know out from under their rocks and scream until they listen.
* Kudos to Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts for reminding us that Bush held hands with his Saudi friend recently, and today he should be holding OPECs feet to the fire instead of waiting two more weeks to ‘ask’ for relief in the gas situation. After a month of vacation, it would seem he could forgo the holiday weekend to get that done now, wouldn’t it?
Timing is everything. The willingly-ignorant have crawled out from under their rocks to view the devastation, and I plan to take advantage of this opportune time to throw a few facts their way. If I don’t catch them now, they will be in hibernation again when the truth finally comes out – like they were after the 2000 (s)election, the World Trade Center attack, the 2004 (s)election, Washington’s most recent gift to the oil companies, and Bush’s admission last week that the Iraq war really is all about oil. This is the perfect time to expose the truth, and the fact that so many are asking me to keep my mouth shut proves that. The Bush Administration was asleep at the wheel AGAIN, resulting in more deaths.
Okay, maybe that isn’t an honest assessment. I am not sure they were asleep. This might be exactly what they wanted to happen. I’ll take back my assumption and rephrase. The Bush Administration screwed us again, for reasons I don’t understand.
This is a political statement. When I speak about politicians and political decisions, it is about politics. My complaints are not partisan; I blame Democrats as much as the Republicans. There might not be enough Democrats on Capital Hill to stop this insanity, but they still have a responsibility to protect this country and this world. If their voices aren’t heard through their votes, they need to make their voices heard in other ways. They should be screaming in the streets, posing in front of television cameras, flooding newspaper offices, taking out ads in their home states, crawling under rocks until every American has heard the truth whether they want to or not.
Politicians on both sides should have shut this country down rather than allow what happened this week. If not now, when is the time to demand answers and accountability? When would be a better time to tell the sleepers what they missed while under their rocks?
- That this administration repealed the policies that would have protected the wetlands that served as a buffer?
- That this administration cut $71 million from the New Orleans Corps of Engineers’ budget (a 44% reduction) and shelved a study to determine ways to protect the region from a Category 5 hurricane?
- That Newt Gingrich led a campaign to gut the office that produced such plans as “Floods” A National Policy Concern” and “A framework for Flood Hazards Management” and the Republican right has continued in the same frame of mind?
- That this administration chooses ideology over science, and their ideology promotes death and destruction?
- That thirty-five percent of Louisiana’s National Guard and dozens of hits high-water vehicles and generators are in Iraq? That the money delegated to the levees of New Orleans was diverted in this administration’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq?
- That this hurricane was predicted, and this administration chose to wait until after it hit to send any help?
- That Bush partied a few days before responding?
- That other countries offered help before ours did?
- That Halliburton has already been given the clean-up contract, even though they’ve cheated us on the Iraq situation?
- That the “Armies of Compassion” Bush promises are so buried in their bunkers they’ll never find their way out?
There is no better time to bring up these issues, or to point fingers where they belong. There will never be a better time to pull everyone we know out from under their rocks and scream until they listen.
* Kudos to Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts for reminding us that Bush held hands with his Saudi friend recently, and today he should be holding OPECs feet to the fire instead of waiting two more weeks to ‘ask’ for relief in the gas situation. After a month of vacation, it would seem he could forgo the holiday weekend to get that done now, wouldn’t it?
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