There are natural disasters and man-made disasters. There are those who look upon the aftermath of disaster and see things as they should be. We call them conservatives.
As I write this, the seeds of disaster and an aftermath of Katrina-like proportions have been and are being sown in the shadow of the nation’s capitol, by a conservative philosophy that—as a matter of principle and policy—neither prepares for or prevents disaster, nor provides relief in its aftermath And when disaster befalls those most vulnerable to its ravages, conservative philosophy declares disaster the fault of and its consequences deserved by those least able to defend themselves against either.
When disaster strikes Washington, D.C.—whether in the form of a disease outbreak, a dirty bomb, or another terrorist attack—it will be the fault of those who cannot get themselves out of harm’s way, and not the fault of conservative philosophy that makes disaster all but inevitable. Read the rest of this entry »
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is it me, or would eliminating the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine have made a difference in the Whit House too? Know what I mean?
Now the New Orleans/Katrina question is a huge one. Of course there should be a guaranteed right to return, and of course the no-bid contracts to Republican/Bush cronies should stop, but no one
asking those of the candidates who are also members of Congress what they are doing about it. Or why they’re not doing anything about it as African American Political Pundit notes.
Who is watching the store? not Congress, not the Congressional Black Caucus, not Fox News, not the American people. Now do you really understand why the troops are no coming home?
It’s all about the money folks, its all about the money.
Meanwhile, Republicans are giddy over their “pick-up” opportunity in New Orleans.
On Darfur, definitely agree with everything said re: Africa. And if we get a Democrat in office can we finally do away with the “abstinence-only” debacle we’ve been exporting to Africa, which in its own way a kind of slow genocide? And once we “stop the rapes” can we also restore funding to the women’s clinics that offer care to women who end up with fistulas as a result of multiple rapes? The funding that the Bush administration cut?
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Parker’s daycare is closed today, and I’m at home with him. So sporadic posting is the most that you’ll see here today. (I’m taking out for pizza and ice cream for lunch, and the rest of the day will probably be spent reading books and playing with his trains.) But I didn’t want to let the 1 year anniversary of Katrina go unnoticed, since I blogged about it quite a bit when it was happening. So much, in fact, that I’m not sure what more there is to say about it except this.
What happened in the aftermath of Katrina is exactly what you can expect to happen when the people running the government are wedded to an ideology that says the government shouldn’t be in the business of helping people who can’t help themselves. Barrack Obama pointed it out after the disaster, and it’s pretty much what I said peviously.
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Has it really been almost a year since Katrina hit New Orleans, and laid bare the cronyism and imcompetence of the Bush administration? It's hard to believe. I posted a lot about various aspects of the disaster that was the post-hurricane response, the best of which are here, here, here, here, here, here and here. That's my brief retrospective, but I recommend setting Tivo to record Spike Lee's HBO Documentary, When the Levees Broke. I know I will.
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