Why is the White House deliberately stalling from saving the people of NO?

[shance]

Why are they so indifferent, "aloof" was a word used yesterday, even seemingly relaxed about it?

[BattyDem]

1. They don't give a shit and they don't care who knows it.

There's no profit in search and rescue ... especially when it's poor people that need to be rescued.

[Totally Committed]

2. Simple...

T H E Y

A R E

M O S T L Y

P O O R

A N D

N O N - W H I T E

TC

[dogday]

3. Like they said when protesting Cindy Sheehan

They Don't Care!!! and they don't till it is their asses up on a roof waiting for help and hoping they come before you die and wondering if you are going to die and why didn't they come? Bastards

[LisaM]

4. God, did you see that obnoxious picture of the meeting yesterday?

they were all in that dim, glowing half light, and they were all dressed in suits, and they all looked like a bunch of fricking actors. Clinton would have wearing clothes he could really work in, the room would have been full of staffers, there would have been coffee cups all over, phones, actual WORK being done.

[ellie]

5. Because the people

who are in need of help are mostly black. The Republican party is made up of a bunch of racists. There is no other explanation.

[wanpete]

6. simple...black and/or poor=expendable...

[Politicub]

7. This is giving Bush pleasure

to prolong this suffering. he gets off on it because he knows no one will call him to the carpet. He is a sick and twisted man.

But you know who else is sick and twisted? The millions of people in our country who stand by and let this unfold.

I'm beside myself today. I can't get anything done at work. There's something evil and wicked in the air.

[murray hill farm]

11. yep...and that evil and wicked something in the air...

is thick and palpable and sucking up the very oxygen...and yet...it is paraded in front of us on tv....the really "good" shots of people suffering and dying...and reporters saying..."there was nothing we could do"...."help will come...be patient"

[arwalden]

8. Very Much Like Marie Antoinette?

Here... have some:

[Justitia]

9. They are CLUELESS and INDIFFERENT -eom

[Catherine Vincent]

10. It definitely seem that way to me.

Why?

[Gary173]

12. Since the overwhelming majority

of those who are being left to sink or swim in NO are very low income citizens, and if indeed there is a great number of them who have or will die because of the absence of the American emergency response, I intend to discover how many of them will be used as "A decrease in those on the welfare rolls" for benefit of this governing mafia.

[Blue_Roses]

13. bottomline:

they are poor and black...the repubublican party is full of racists.

[Eloriel]

14. I've come to the conclusion THE DELAY IS INTENTIONAL

This came to me as a wave of "knowing" that washed over me as Michael Chertoff started to speak.

It's partly a test, partly an opportunity to see how much they can get away with and make appropriate adjustments in their planning for the future, it's an opportunity to reduce some, shall we say, welfare rolls, it's an opportunity to let things get so bad some of us are clamoring for troops to "help," and a way to desensitize Americans to federal troops being involved, and perhaps the overturn of that nasty ole Posse Commitatus law. And who know, maybe more. We know Bush likes pain and suffering, he may not be the only one. We saw what Chertoff's "they made their bed, now they can lie in it" comment.

There's no reason not to drop water.

This is intentional. We need to watch very carefully what transpires from here.