THE BIG SLEAZY

THE BIG SLEAZY

There’s not much I can add to the outrage over the Bush administration’s mishandling of the Hurricane Katrina aftermath except to say it was no big surprise. They have exhibited their incompetence on a daily basis since day one. Add to that their complete lack of compassion for anyone not rich and/or white and you have a recipe for disaster.

Despite repeated warnings of impending doom, Mr. Bush ignored the recommendations of  meteorologists and other scientists that the Gulf lowlands were in extreme danger of just this kind of ecological disaster. His repeated refusal to take global warming seriously, his gutting of FEMA and putting it under Homeland Security, the staffing it with political hacks who know nothing about emergencies, all indicate ignorance at best if not malfeasance.

I think the entire Bush family should be taken from their homes by force and locked in the Superdome with no food or water or facilities for 5 days with no electricity, then taken to a Red Cross shelter and be given a tent to live in for a year. That would actually be too good for them, but I am opposed to the death penalty – even for them.

I just hope we all survive until 2008.