OUR ENTIRE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS A DISGRACE! THEY MUST ALL GO!!!

[DistressedAmerican]

As I sit in utter disbelief watching thousands die, I see on the other side of the news coverage coin politicians from both parties telling me and the rest of America that resources are being mobilized. I have heard spokesmen for Bush and Clinton himself claim that we could never have predicted this. That we had no idea how bad it was going to be until Tuesday.

That lie is the MOST OFFENSIVE thing I have EVER heard from the Federal government. I know it is a lie because, I knew it was going to be every bit this bad as soon as it blew up to a Cat 5 tracking toward the area. That my fellow DUers and Americans was SUNDAY! At that moment every resource that could possibly be needed in a "worst Case Scenario" including, food, water, rescue vehicles, medicines, and personnel should have IMMEDIATELY been called upon.

More Importantly, we needed the LOCAL LA NATIONAL GUARD. The whole concept of the guard is that they can be mobilized by the governor of each state in times of disaster or civil disturbance. They are the "quick reaction force" that is located locally and they are intended to the the "first responders" to an event like this. FIFTY PERCENT of the troops that the Governor of LA would normally have had to hold off as much death, destruction and disorder while the feds "mobilized" are in Iraq. They have with them the equipment that would also have been needed in such a crisis. WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE WAITING ON THE FEDERAL RESOURCES TO "MOBILIZE". The LA National Guard should have been holding down the fort and saving lives!

Now on the fifth day of Americans dying all over the gulf coast, the politicians in our federal government are showing up. They set right to work! DOING DAMAGE CONTROL FOR THEIR IMAGES!

I watched last night As Anderson Cooper tried to slap some sense into Sen. Landrieu. She just kept saying two things, both the officially ordered damage control. First, she says, now is not the time to ask why the aid has not arrived. They are mobilizing. There will be plenty of time for such questions later. He flipped out on that and informed her that the people asking right know were dying and their corpses littering the streets to be eaten be rats.

She went on like she had not gotten it AT ALL. Started thanking her buddies in the senate and Bush for their great efforts to START SAVING PEOPLE 4 DAYS INTO THE DISASTER. Cooper cut her off desperate to have her get it and told he that he was not interested in the slapping her congressional buddies on the back. That PEOPLE WERE DYING BY THE THOUSANDS. That it was no time to be congratulating yourselves. SHE NEVER GOT IT. Just stuck to her repugnant talking points like a pre-programmed robot.

Bush JUST SAID regarding the Federal response and mobilization that the results "ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE"!!!

DAMN RIGHT NOT ACCEPTABLE!!!!

IMPEACH BUSH!!! THROW OUT EVERYONE OF THEIR SORRY ASSES!!! THE TIME HAS COME!!! WE HAVE NO FUNCTIONING GOVERNMENT!!!

[DistressedAmerican]

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[unhappycamper]

2. A righteous mini-rant.

I am SO FUCKING ANGRY that words escape me. One thing your graphic is missing: GENOCIDE.

Because that is what's happening.

[Burried News]

3. "WE HAVE NO FUNCTIONING GOVERNMENT!!!"

And haven't for quite some time. The prime function of government is defense of it's citizens - they have failed in several major circumstances.

Worse, they multiply enemies on our behalf because they cannot rule without fear.

The complicity of the two major parties in this failure must be kept in the spotlight as well. They must be reformed dramatically - Perhaps via the judiciary - or perhaps by restructuring funding in a way that encourages the development of third parties. But the two party system as we know it is very much at the core of the problem.

[DistressedAmerican]

4. If America Does Not Wake Up And Throw Them Out This Time,

I have had it with this insane rat cage we call a country!

[DistressedAmerican]

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[RedEarth]

6. I agree....these people are totally incompentent......

[DistressedAmerican]

7. Kicker

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10. kick