"It's Time" (another homer by Digby)

[phantom power]

(Writing in rebuttal to the idea that now is "not the time for politics")

(The New Orleans disaster) is emblematic of Republican governance. It encompasses every fuck-up they've perpetrated since they took over the entire national governament --- failure to plan, embracing only the best case scenario, lagging response, ignoring the experts, slashing funds and endless, endless happy talk that we can SEE WITH OUR OWN EYES is bullshit. (They are already saying that nobody is reporting all the "good news.")

The fact that most of these refugees (a word that I can hardly believe I'm typing) are black and poor residents who were unable to leave and were therefore, left to die, is emblematic also.

No, this is all about politics. It is about a GOP era of massive tax breaks for very rich Americans, billion dollar a week elective wars that we are losing while more and more people fall into poverty and the infrastructure of this country crumbles around our ears.

This failed experiment in free-market magical thinking can be summed up entirely by pictures of dead elderly Americans on the streets of New Orleans.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2005_08_28_digbysblog_archive.html#112560875144887715

[BillZBubb]

1. Great essay.

[Eloriel]

2. That is good. NOMINATED

It really torqued me when McClellan kept repeating that phrase today. It was so clear: Let's not discuss that now, let's wait until we've got something else to distract so that we never have to be held accountable for this either. Ptooey