"Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you any more. There's no more
money to spend--you used up all of that. You can't start another war
because you used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your
term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people. Listen
to your Mom. The cupboard's bare, the credit cards maxed out. No one's
speaking to you. Mission accomplished.

"Now it's time to do what you've always done best: lose interest and
walk away. Like you did with your military service and the oil company
and the baseball team. It's time. Time to move on and try the next
fantasy job. How about cowboy or space man? Now I know what you're
saying: there's so many other things that you as President could
involve yourself in. Please don't. I know, I know. There's a lot left
to do. There's a war with Venezuela. Eliminating the sales tax on
yachts. Turning the space program over to the church. And Social
Security to Fannie Mae. Giving embryos the vote.

"But, Sir, none of that is going to happen now. Why? Because you
govern like Billy Joel drives. You've performed so poorly I'm surprised
that you haven't given yourself a medal. You're a catastrophe that walks
like a man. Herbert Hoover was a shitty president, but even he never
conceded an entire city to rising water and snakes.

"On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four
airliners, two trade centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of
New Orleans. Maybe you're just not lucky. I'm not saying you don't love
this country. I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were
on the other side.

"So, yes, God does speak to you. What he is saying is: 'Take a hint.' "

-- comedian Bill Mahr

"Brownie, your doing a heck of a job." -- US President George W. Bush to FEMA head Michael Brown.

"500 Florida airboat pilots volunteered to rescue Hurricane Katrina victims, and Florida Congressman Mark Foley contacted FEMA to offer them, but FEMA said it was unsafe and stressed that 'it's so important to be coordinated,'" -- Orlando Sentinel, September 2, 2005

"Three rescue helicopters were denied from the Air Force Reserve Command, offered by Col. Tim Tarchick of the 920the Rescue Wing, Air Force Reserve Command. FEMA told Tarchick it wasn't authorized to task military units." -- NEWSWEEK, September 12, 2005

"Red Cross food delivery was discouraged by FEMA which said, 'The Homeland Security Department has requested and continues to request that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans." -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 4, 2005

"Wal-Mart sent three trailer trucks loaded with water and FEMA officials turned them away...1,000 gallons of diesel fuel from the Coast Guard were prevented from being delivered." The New York Times, September 5, 2005

"Trent Lott wanted Bush to authorize the immediate release of 20,000 trailers sitting in Atlanta, but Lott said FEMA has refused to ship the trailers because of red tape and paperwork." -- CNN, September 6, 2005

"Offers of generators were turned away. The mayor Slidell, Louisiana, Ben Morris, said FEMA turned away generators....FEMA refused Amtrak's offer of trains to evacuate victims." -- Associated Press, September 6, 2005

"FEMA refused personnel and equipment from the City of Chicago. Days before Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, the city of Chicago told FEMA that in the event of disater, it could spare more than 100 Chicago police officers, 36 Fire Department personnel, 8 Emergency Medical experts, more than 130 staff from Chicago's Department of Public Health, 140 staff from the Department of Streets and Sanitation, dozens of trucks and two boats. 'I was shocked', Chicago Mayor Daily said. 'I was ready to provide considerably more help then they asked for -- a single tanker truck." -- Salon.com, September 7, 2005

"HUD's readiness to send emergency housing to New Orleans was thwarted by FEMA's red tape." -- Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alfonso Jackson, September 6, 2005 Cabinet Meeting

THIS IS WHY I LOVE AL GORE:

Al Gore helped airlift some 270 Katrina evacuees on two private charters from New Orleans, acting at the urging of a doctor who saved the life of the former vice president's son.

Gore criticized the Bush administration's slow response to Katrina in a speech Friday in San Francisco, but refused to be interviewed about the mercy missions he financed and flew on September 3 and 4.

However, Dr. Anderson Spickard, who is Gore's personal physician and accompanied him on the flights, said: "Gore told me he wanted to do this because like all of us he wanted to seize the opportunity to do what one guy can do, given the assets that he has."


THAT is the kind of man that should be in the White House. Not the weasely little fucker skulking around wondering how he can get away with screwing the country over even more.


YOU THINK HELP IS GETTING BETTER?
Susan: I live in Lafayette, LA and FEMA has just opened up an office 11 days after the storm. They have no computers with Internet access and no money for the thousands of evacuees here.

Our evacuees have been neglected. The first night the Cajundome Convention Center was opened for the homeless, they had no cots, bedding, or clothes for the people. Days later, a Red Cross trailer was found on the site that contained cots. Red Cross had dropped it off and not notified anyone.

"An Irate Soldier’s Open Letter Regarding George W. Bush"

One family travelled to a refugee camp and reports that its more like a detainment camp than a place to restart a new life:
"I just got back from a FEMA Detainment Camp"

KAREN HUGES: "IT'S THE LOOTING, STUPID"
Karen Hughes, "Image Czar," claims that the looting, not our government's disgraceful, inept response to the hurricane and its aftermath, will hurt America's image abroad. She states that "post-storm crime" is what the world will remember from this event! The fact that the world is watching a colossal failure in how our government has responded to this crisis and the fact that we do indeed live in "two America's," as John Edwards stated (and still states), is nothing compared to diaper theft.