"Government is not the solution, Government is the problem." President Ronald Reagan campaigning for President in 1980
That is the reason we were not prepared, for the levee breaking, for the flooding and the abandonment of a hundred thousand poor blacks in New Orleans. That central ideology of conservative Republicans was reinforced further when Newt Gingrich took the House in 1994, and then the Senate a few years later. Voting irregularities in Florida brought in George W. Bush as president with less votes than his Democratic opponent which gave the "hate the government" crowd control of all branches of government. In 2001 when George Bush and the Republican Congress passed the first of the tax breaks for the wealthy, the director of the Corp of Engineers resigned in protest regarding the specific defunding of fixing the leeve's in New Orleans, and a few months later followed the protest resignation of the Director of FEMA for defunding that organization too.
If you watched FOX News, or listened to AM radio, or took notice of what conservatives politicians and pundits were dishing out this week, you could easily see how transparent they were in changing the subject from the abject failure of all levels of government TO the bad, horrid, lawless, looting, shooting, raping, murdering "NIGGERS".
Will they get away with it? They sure were successful earlier in the week. Gosh, everyone I talked to began with saying how awful the looting was. But after five days of literally no response, it finally looks as if the long awaited turnaround back to the middle may be upon us.
One last note on this. I have been doing too much research on Intelligent Design lately, I have so much of that crap in my head its shooting out my ass in large smelly chunks. When you find out who is funding it and who is running it, it is even more dishonest and silly than the standard old Young Earth creationism. I watched some idiot in Mississippi standing on a pile of rubble that was once his home, thanking God. Then I saw a thousand people squashed to death under a bridge in Iraq on their way to thank God. Well, if these Intelligent Design people are right, its time to put out an APB on this Designer, arrest him, try him for genocide, and nail the SOB to a tree. DAMN RIGHT!
