When the Levee Breaks...with the American People

[ignatzmouse]

The reality is that the GOP has developed a tactic to use everything and anything, no matter the circumstances, no matter the situation, as a leveraging tool to undermine and discredit their political opponents. Politics first -- the world be damned. Part of this administration's m.o. is to be slow in response to tragedy. They KNOW democrats, the media, and citizens will rise up and raise hell. They know it and they court it. They stay relatively quiet and urge "patience." Then, when the chorus reaches maximum, the actions that should have been engaged to begin with, suddenly go forward within a context of self-congratulatory patriotism. It is the identical response we saw to the tsunami. The humanitarian response goes forward only after the criticism reaches pitch. They can then claim they are the white knights being unfairly persecuted.

In other words, their plan is to play the victim of desperate liberal attacks because it reinforces the perception of a careless, rambling Left in the minds of their followers. It's a carefully plotted think tank plan. In this instance, however, the political gamesmanship is pulling at the seams and exposing the cynical and arrogant political sham for what it is. The ugly game of playing sport with people's lives is playing in American living rooms 24/7. We hear desperate attacks because the situation is desperate. Everyone who sees it, feels it desperately.

50,000 people exit big sporting events on any given night and are on their way home within an hour -- and we can't get these people out of New Orleans within a round-the-clock week? They can drop 1,500 lb. bags of sand into a breach, but they can't drop water and food to pockets of dying people? The severely inadequate National Guard presence is doubled only with shoot-to-kill military police? Not to mention, the big Bush-think response to the refinery shortage and spiraling gas prices (it's all price gouging and its been going on for months) has been one of opportunism to simply jump in and waive environmental standards.

George, you've lost your leverage. The levee has broken, and it's going to take your whole stinking cesspool with you, out of Washington and back to your corporate slums.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Who will be held responsible for the lives that should not have been

lost, both here and in Iraq. When will the term accountability be put back in Websters.... when will sanity return to the American government... when will the American population and wake up.

[ignatzmouse]

2. A simple equation

They are indeed waking up now. Beyond the bungling of Iraq, beyond the bungling of New Orleans, they see what is occurring in the Big Easy and they realize that this could be them. If they bought the propaganda before, it is now painfully obvious that the man and the administration are incapable of handling a crisis. The trust is gone because in the greatest of ironies -- the level of fear in this country exceeds the level of competency to address disaster.