Reply to "Prayer for the People in New Orleans"

George Bush has really dropped the ball on this one.

He makes me want to quote Voltaire prayer-wise:

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." -- Voltaire

Fats Domino is still missing last I checked. He decided to ride it out in his house.

The Bush administration took funds for repairing levees which they knew were likely to fail in a major event and diverted the money to the war in Iraq. Where is the second line of defense? What is wrong with the US Government?
The problem we face as a nation in the US is not to control the forces of nature, the problem is a profound lack of leadership.

Dennis Hastert of Illinois believes New Orleans should be bulldozed. I don't like to pray for negative things but if our own leaders are the enemy - we don't have to pray very hard to make them look ridiculous. Dennis Hastert should be dunked like a witch to test his integrity. He should be held under water in the dunking chair at least two or three minutes to ascertain his spiritual purity.

I lived in New Orleans on Dryades Street in 1975. I have friends in Metairie and in the City. My friends Phil and Collette's neighborhood in Metairie is in a dry zone between ruptured levees. Collette's identical twin sister Colleen lives on the other side of the canal in the wet zone. I hope she got out of there. Other friends and one relative live in the wet zone and I pray for their safety.

Phil is the State Pharmacologist for the whole state of Louisiana and I'm sure he is overloaded and rising to the challenge.

I have listened to Mary Landrieu and to the New Orleans Mayor Nagin's pleas for help and complaints at the lack of response. Where are the buses? Where is the food, water and a few hundred porta potties? We can accomodate a football crowd of thirty thousand people with these things overnight. Why are things breaking down?

Racism? Hubris?

It's disgusting. You can include 98 percent of Republicans as heartless and negligent. Many of these bastards weren't even elected like the "president" in particular. The republicans in the US have tricked machines and turned people away from voting booths in key states in the last two elections. Twice Bush has taken the presidency here without being elected.

He is a usurper and an impostor. He and his party hold office only to serve themselves and their idiot's agenda of war and economic collapse.

It's pathetic to hear Bush's rhetoric and how little is delivered.

I think I'll re-iterate Voltaire's prayer, because George Bush continues to make me cynical about hypocrites like he is who talk the talk but don't walk the walk.

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." -- Voltaire

And I'll end with a Walt Kelly quote from the Pogo Comic strip: "We have met the enemy and they is us."