"And
he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall
he be unto his brethren."
God (allegedly) Genesis 9:25
"I
need reinforcements. I need troops, man. I need 500 buses,
man. Now get off your asses and fix this. Let's do something
and let's fix the biggest goddamn crisis in the history
of this country."
Ray Nagin, New Orleans Mayor
Like
everyone else, I watched the news for nearly a week and
wondered when the government was going to actually do something.
George Bush was pre-occupied dodging Cindy Sheehan in Crawford,
Dick Cheney was on vacation and Condoleeza Rice was shopping
in New York and checking out the Broadway shows. Meanwhile,
the residents of New Orleans fended for themselves.
You
may ask how a devout Biblical scholar such as the Reverend
Bush could blow a $200 billion wad on Iraq when he can't
even spare pocket change to help out the people of New
Orleans. And as 'The Big Easy' plays host to the worst
humanitarian disaster in America's history, with estimates
of up to 10,000 dead, you may have a point. But they have
chaos, suffering and destruction already. What more could
Bush bring to the table?
To the fundamentalists in the White House (who see nothing inappropriate
in the government of a secular nation starting policy meetings with prayers)
this disaster is probably seen as a sign of the long-awaited end of days.
This biblical deluge, having mostly screwed with the black urban poor, will
also be seen as proof of Yahweh's curse on 'the sons of Ham', otherwise known
as the descendents of Canaan, the grandson of Noah, or the folks who got
sent south by an angry God to populate his least favored continent of Africa.
Sometime soon, the Churchies are convinced, another tenet of their crazy
faith will come to pass: that the dead will literally rise from their graves
(like a George Romero zombie flick) and Judgment Day will be upon us. Yahweh,
the ancient tribal deity of the wandering Israelites, now co-opted by the
neocon WASPs, will hover in a fiery throne and damn all but 144,000 of us
to the fiery pits of Hell... Damn, I almost forgot it's Cindy
Sheehan that's the crackpot.
So should I be terrified that the people we rely on to deal with major crises
in a level-headed, humanitarian and efficient manner are Old Testament obsessed
psychos who probably think the black folks had it coming and that it was
all just part of God's plan? Perhaps if I was a Bush voter in Bumfuck, Idaho,
I may draw comfort from having a president whose first response to emergency
situations is to reach for the Bible but, as a current resident of the real
world, I can not.
Bush deserves impeachment on so many grounds it seems redundant to even mention
the 'I' word. How many more Americans have to be killed on his watch? But,
of course, the defenders of the indefensible president will soon start rounding
on anyone who criticizes their chosen-one for his callous incompetence. You
know it'll come because the wronger they get, the louder they shout. "How
dare the liberals cynically manipulate this tragedy just to get at Bush" the
fuckwitted apologists for fascistic incompetence will squeal. I can already
picture Anne Coulter typing out these exact same words to fart out during
her next TV haunting and it isn't pretty. But I have only one thing to say
to any con with the balls to use this argument and that word starts with
'c' and ends in 't'.
Yes, that's right: court. That's the court the supply-side ideologues who
cut funding for the federal disaster relief agencies should be summoned to.
That's the court the wingnuts who sent the National Guard to the other side
of the world to guard Saddam's oil reserves, leaving the people of Louisiana
and Mississippi to fend for themselves, should be summoned to. That's the
court that Bush, who blatantly appointed his zero-experienced buddy to head
FEMA in return for services rendered, should be summoned to. And that's the
court the assorted incompetents running this sorry-ass administration should
be summoned to for the good of the nation.
In his defense, Bush had this to say in response to the mounting criticism
of his non-performance: "Many of our citizens are simply not getting
the help they need, especially in New Orleans, and that is unacceptable." Said
POTUS in a live address from the White House today. So who the fuck is to
blame, genius? Where is the buck supposed to stop if not with the President?
Someone remind this knuckle-dragging shyster that he's supposed to be the
Commander-in-Chief and that the lame-ass excuses don't cut it when you take
on the top job.
So is it partisan to say Bush is wrong and has let the American people down?
I don't give a rat's cock - it's just common-fucking-sense. And if the conservative
retards had a shred of empathy, compassion or plain human decency left in
their self-deluded, malignant souls, they would know that too. Conservative
people of faith: Why not try flushing your own sacred tome down the toilet
and get a clue? You cocksuckers can kiss my ass before you all go to hell
by the rules of your own play book.
But remember, people of New Orleans, Jeezuz loves you.
POST-DISASTER
BONANZA?
One
of the most depressingly inevitable consequences of the
disaster is that, sure as eggs come out of a chicken's
ass, some rich white Republicans are going to get seriously
rich off the misery and suffering of the poor and predominately
black. Corporate America calls the shots and we still have
the most 'business-friendly' president ever sitting in
the Oval Office. There will be nothing to stop the carpetbaggers
descending on the city just as soon as the waters recede.
On TBR News, there's an article that pretty much sums it all up:
