NY Times' Thomas Friedman has a great op-ed today about Osama and Katrina and how the Bush administration's radically uncompassionate conservative agenda - on taxes, stem cells, the environment and foreign treaties - has exposed them.
"Well, if 9/11 is one bookend of the Bush administration, Katrina may be the other. If 9/11 put the wind at President Bush's back, Katrina's put the wind in his face. If the Bush-Cheney team seemed to be the right guys to deal with Osama, they seem exactly the wrong guys to deal with Katrina - and all the rot and misplaced priorities it's exposed here at home.
These are people so much better at inflicting pain than feeling it, so much better at taking things apart than putting them together, so much better at defending "intelligent design" as a theology than practicing it as a policy."
We are living is a distorted America. A bloated Republican Fear Factory. Keep us in power, we will protect you. The other guy will let you die because he's a wimp. It was all guff. They had nothing to back it up. Friedman adds:
"Besides ripping away the roofs of New Orleans, Katrina ripped away the argument that we can cut taxes, properly educate our kids, compete with India and China, succeed in Iraq, keep improving the U.S. infrastructure, and take care of a catastrophic emergency - without putting ourselves totally into the debt of Beijing."
This hurricane is already at $51 Billion. We keep collecting less and less taxes from businesses and more and more from average Americans. We keep spending money in Iraq. Bush talks about sacrifice but he wants to get rid of the Estate Tax which only really effects the top1% of the richest people. Where is their sacrifice?
The one thing you can count on is Bush will not stop catering to his base so don't expect any changes in his policies. He'll protect the oil industry, he'll never hold his people accountable, and look for FEMA to get a few medals in the near future.
You can read Friedman's article here.
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