The Washington Post has two major front page articles today, which, when intertwined reveal just how completely inept, incompetent, ruthless and despicable George Bush and his administration are.
In the first piece, "Many Evacuated, but Thousands Still Waiting: White House Shifts Blame to State and Local Officials," we learn that instead of solving problems, the sociopaths at the Bush White House are now smearing state and local officials in Louisiana. They are really almost unbelievable. Using their bully pulpit not to help, but to shift blame:
Bush, who has been criticized, even by supporters, for the delayed response to the disaster, used his weekly radio address to put responsibility for the failure on lower levels of government. The magnitude of the crisis "has created tremendous problems that have strained state and local capabilities," he said. "The result is that many of our citizens simply are not getting the help they need, especially in New Orleans. And that is unacceptable."The second article, which John highlighted in his post below, is a must read. It explains why the White House is smearing and blaming (basically the only skills the Bush people have.) They totally screwed up and this time it's documented. "Storm Exposed Disarray at the Top" reveals just how incompetent and inept they are:
Despite four years and tens of billions of dollars spent preparing for the worst, the federal government was not ready when it came at daybreak on Monday, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former senior officials and outside experts.They should add the fact that the President stayed on vacation and was traveling around to California and Arizona for political events while the storm was killing people. But, what makes this practically criminal is that the Bush Administration KNEW what could happen if a major hurricane struck New Orleans:
Among the flaws they cited: Failure to take the storm seriously before it hit and trigger the government's highest level of response. Rebuffed offers of aid from the military, states and cities. An unfinished new plan meant to guide disaster response. And a slow bureaucracy that waited until late Tuesday to declare the catastrophe "an incident of national significance," the new federal term meant to set off the broadest possible relief effort.
Indeed, the warnings about New Orleans's vulnerability to post-hurricane flooding repeatedly circulated at the upper levels of the new bureaucracy, which had absorbed the old lead agency for disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, among its two dozen fiefdoms. "Beyond terrorism, this was the one event I was most concerned with always," said Joe M. Allbaugh, the former Bush campaign manager who served as his first FEMA head.And, FEMA itself says it's their job to protect us from these kinds of events.
So they were unprepared for their first homeland security test. Remember, the Department of Homeland Security is a Bush creation. They built and staffed it. They own it. But think about this. That little White House Brain Trust of Bush, Cheney, Rove and Bartlett -- who screwed over hundreds of thousands of Americans citizens last week and allowed thousands of their constituents to die -- put their heads together and their strategy is to blame the state and local folks.
George Bush is not up to the job of being President. He cannot keep Americans safe. Anyone who voted for him last November because of national security was duped. In fact, they are much less safe. A lot of Americans are dying because he is the President. Before last week, they were dying in Iraq. Now, they are dying at home.
Bush is not worthy of leading our nation.
