That is so tragic, Tchoc, about the 24-year-old woman. I hadn't heard anything of it. That's horrible. Compared to that, yes, democracy most often runs on square tires. Please don't think that I think allowing people to suffer for days, without food and water, in the hot sun or trapped heat, until some died, is better, though. The last couple days, I've kept hearing about the most deadly day in Iraq in two years, with 160 people killed. It's all sickening.
As for Bush, I'm surprized that no one seems to be highlighting the non sequitur that he leads with ~ "To the extent that the Federal government is responsible, I take responsibility for ...." ~ that leaves a very large loophole for saying, "But the Federal government was only responsible for 5% of the 95% of f..kup that occurred." Yes, it's nothing more than whitewash, his impressive follow-up.
From [my original quoting was incomplete] the woman saying he needed to fire Brown, and him asking, "Why would I do that?" She said, "For everything that went wrong, and for all that didn't go right," and he answered, "What didn't go right?" ~ to ~ "You're doing a good [great?]job, Brownie" ~ to ~ "This is not the time to place blame" [when the Feds were getting blamed] ~ to ~ "The problem was with the State and local governments" [as soon as the verbiage for the blame-game had been 'properly' constructed, it suddenly became okay and 'time'] ~ to ~ "Brown is being reassigned to Washington, to handle other national disasters that may occur" [Democrats and some knowing Republicans saying, "Yeah, right
, he's needed elsewhere.....this is the beginning of his being ousted"] ~ to ~ two days later, "Brown has resigned [those same people continuing with their, "Yeah, right
, he's 'resigned'. Uh-huh." ~ to ~ Bush saying, "For the extent that the Federal government is responsible ... " ~ to ~ [Whatever it is he's saying now .....].
There comes a time when you cut your losses, which is the
only thing that he's doing. Public relations. Attempting to get his lowest popularity rating since being President to go a few points back up. I was fooled for a tiny bit when he came on the TV and appeared to be sincere after he made his fly-by. Now, after telling the Louisiana people that they were going to be the ones to 'benefit' in the rebuilding process [i.e. get the pay to help in doing it], major corporations from states from California to Colorado and others have already signed major contracts in Washington. Fifteen [or 18?] truckers, I believe from Biloxi [but definitely from the affected area], who were out of a home, and
desperately needing work showed up to where they were supposed to be able to get some and found that all the work had already been contracted out to some of these major corps. Can anyone spell Halliburton? The segment should be available online tomorrow, and I'll try to find the transcript [unless it was 'just' the news].
Okay. Enough for now. I'm so sorry about the young, so young, woman
.
~ Lizzy
yak 
. You're definitely right that greed, power, and control are the driving forces at 'the people' 's expense