First of all, nobody's "raising" those questions except opportunistic yahoos on the Republican side and -- as we shall see -- career apparatchiks formerly in the employ of C-Plus Augustus, many of whom have spent the past five years trying to pretend that they weren't part of the worst presidency ever.
Oh, shut the fk up, Gomer. You want to be Joe Lieberman in duck waders, do it on your own time. The first putative Democrat quoted in the piece is a guy who represents a state [ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/12/west-virginia-poverty-inequality-election ]with five electoral votes, but with real unemployment nudging 20 percent and 91,000 people uninsured, who thought it was funny to cut a commercial where he shoots a Democratic climate-change bill...
No, actually, it's not. When you all cocked up the response to Hurricane Katrina, thousands and thousands of people died unnecessarily. When you all went out of your way to dismantle FEMA, which had been one of the crown jewels of the previous administration, and then handed the remnants over to the failed CEO of a luxury show-horse organization, thousands and thousands of people actually died.They were not inconvenienced for a spell by a botch of a website. They were really, most sincerely dead.
Nevertheless, according to the folks at Josh's place, [ http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/former-bush-officials-eagerly-compare-obamacare-rollout-to-katrina ] this is going to be the talking-point du jour for a while. DHAT opened on Morning Squint today, too. Cute little Nicolle Wallace. Remember how that darling Sarah Paulson played her in the Game Change movie? That was so adorbs. MSNBC just loves her, now that she's not lying on behalf of the worst president ever. Except that, like most of them, she's rather a ghoul.
(Here is something the darling Ms. Wallace failed to mention. At the time that people were drowning in the Ninth Ward, or suffocating to death in their attics while C-Plus Augustus twiddled his thumbs, a lot of the White House staff who might have been working the problem were off in Greece, celebrating the secure tying-up of Mark Wallace to...the former Nicolle Devenish! So the ouzo flowed while people in New Orleans were begging for water. Isn't our old friend Clio, Muse Of History -- also known by her Marvel superhero name, The Proclaimer (!) -- quite the prankster.)
Hundreds of thousands of people have died -- and are still dying in Iraq -- because your bosses lied us into a war and then screwed it up beyond all repair. And, as I may have mentioned, thousands and thousands of people died in New Orleansbecause your bosses had a fundamental contempt for the notion that government exists to protect a viable political commonwealth for us all. You didn't lose your credibility because Democrats viewed you as incompetent. You lost your credibility because you demonstrated, over and over again, a monstrous ignorance that got hundreds of thousands of people killed. If you want to compare the current situation to any of your multifarious other screw-ups, and to do so with a modicum of human decency, you might compare it to how you passed Medicare Part D with no earthly idea how we would pay for it. But that would require you actually to care about the people in New Orleans who, you know, died. You didn't care about them then. You don't care about them now. You're digging up corpses and using them as a political truncheons.Decent people should spit when you pass by.
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