Gordon Adams, Baltimore Sun: After Katrina fiasco, time for Bush to go

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.administration08sep08,1,1222575.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

After Katrina fiasco, time for Bush to go
By Gordon Adams
Originally published September 8, 2005

WASHINGTON - The disastrous federal response to Katrina exposes a record of incompetence, misjudgment and ideological blinders that should lead to serious doubts that the Bush administration should be allowed to continue in office.

When taxpayers have raised, borrowed and spent $40 billion to $50 billion a year for the past four years for homeland security but the officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency cannot find their own hands in broad daylight for four days while New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast swelter, drown and die, it is time for them to go.

When funding for water works and levees in the gulf region is repeatedly cut by an administration that seems determined to undermine the public responsibility for infrastructure in America, despite clear warnings that the infrastructure could not survive a major storm, it seems clear someone is playing politics with the public trust.

When rescue and medical squads are sitting in Manassas and elsewhere in northern Virginia and foreign assistance waits at airports because the government can't figure out how to insure the workers, how to use the assistance or which jurisdiction should be in charge, it is time for the administration to leave town.

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1. "Leave town" is an apt phrase.

I hope the complaints never stop. I hope they reach a fever pitch, until the man is hounded from his office. There should be protesters, stationed outside the White House, 24/7. They should work in shifts and chant, all night long. "How many have you killed today, Bush?".

GO, Bush. Get out. Leave.
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The spirits of the thousands of people who died needlessly in the floorecently departed hover over Bush. They float above him, before they make their way to the spirit world.

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2. Agreed n/t