Never goddamn forget

It’s been a year since W let New Orleans drown while he was on vacation with the odd photo op tossed in. While people in New Orleans were drowning he did nothing but stuff cake into his face and fool around with a guitar given him by some suck up country singer. New Orleans drowned and he did nothing.

Never for get that. Ever. He did nothing.

This is man who has decided that he doesn’t have to follow the law with regard to wiretaps or other searches because the need of the nation is so much and as president he has the inherent power to do so. But with thousands of lives at stake he did nothing. His sycophants later said he was bound by the law which is stone bullshit. He doesn’t give a damn about the law. He did nothing. Neither did Cheney, neither did Rice. Hell not a one of them even figured it was worth making any change of plans.

He let it drown. He didn’t care. He couldn’t even begin to pretend to care until little Carl came in with the news that people thought it was horrible what was going in New Orleans and people were blaming him. The first thing they did was blame other people the mayor of New Orleans and the Gov of Louisiana. That showed fine moral character but it is what they always do. Never mind fixing anything blame someone else. Never forget that either.

Later, much later he gave a series of speeches – in the first one he waxed nostalgic about getting smashed in New Orleans and said the infamous “Brownie you’re doing a heck of a job” to the overmatched head of FEMA (not that Brownie wasn’t a fault. E-mails from the time show an obsession with good places to eat dinner – Brownie if there was ever a time to be at your damn desk eating a MRE and having a cup of coffee, now was the time. And the ice ending up Boston didn’t help much either) this jolliness was jarring note when compared to the scenes of flooding and people pulling corpses out of buildings and the mud. It painted the portrait of an out of touch narcissist with shit for brains. Accurate but it was what they had been trying to hide for so long.

Then after the damage was done and the damage they cared about (his ratings) was getting worse. He made a speech and promised the world to LA, he hugged poor people; he hugged anybody he could get near. Then he left. And forgot out it until this week. When Carl told him he had to do something else again. So he did photo ops, the little ape is very good a photo ops.

And most of the promised money has not show up, that which did has been sucked up by well connected private corporations who use a pyramid of sub contractors to steal the money that would other wise go to re-construction of New Orleans. 60% of the city is with out power, hospitals have not reopened, wreckage is still not cleared away and the new work is shoddy and cheap and will be destroyed in the next storm.

They will lie about what they have done. A just universe would turn their tongues to sand lest they lie more.

These are bastards running our country.

Never goddamn forget they let New Orleans drown.

Never.