The Coast of the Gulf

It is a sad, sad time we live in when the government cannot respond to a crisis in its own backyard. As the mayor of New Orleans said, "I don't want to see any more goddamn press conferences." Our public officials should not be sitting on their asses, only momentarily standing up to try and fail to "cheerlead" agency heads who also screwed up big. I don't want to see any more goddamn medals awarded for ignorance that might have cost hundreds, if not thousands of lives. I want our executive branch, and hell, most of the state legislatures and governors, out on their fat asses. It's the least we could do for the people who starved to death in their attics, contracted a terminal case of chlorea, or were shot by a frightened looter. It was their poor decision-making that brought about this human disaster, not the hurricane on its own. I've had it with George Bush's imbecillic presidency, Homeland "Security", and the general lack of readiness. We have proved to ourselves that we are incapable of handling standing water. What a sad, sad time for a nation of almost three hundred million. We're being screwed; don't stand for it, you fucking idiotic NeoCon supporters.