I swear to GOD I am going to run amok..

if I have one more earnest Republican tell me "Now isn't the time to point fingers." I actually had one person I know tell me that the government banning reporters from NOLA was 'the first positive thing that I have heard'. That there was no point in dwelling on what had happened, that we need to move forward, that none of this is George Bush's responsibility.

That noise you hear is my brain exploding.

This is the email that I sent in response....

>>I am so angry, depressed and frustrated right now...


You know, nothing matters. Does it matter that because of President Bush visiting the area a 3 billion dollar food delivery was rescheduled for the next day in the NO area? Nope. That's not his responsibility. Does it matter that gas prices are killing this country? Nope. That's not his responsibility. He isn't responsible for the poor response to Katrina, he isn't responsible for the rising poverty rate or the rising infant mortality rate, he isn't responsible for how Iraq is going, he isn't responsible for the sluggish economic recovery or the huge deficit, he isn't responsible for Abu Ghraib, he isn't responsible when the people that HE appointed do an awful job, he isn't responsible for the budget cuts that meant that the levees were not reinforced, he isn't responsible for the fact that our infrastructure received a D- from the Army Corp of Engineers, he isn't responsible for an energy bill that offers oil companies tax breaks and incentives at the exact same time that they are reaping the largest profits in history...Hey, I got a MILLION things he isn't responsible for.

So, just what the hell IS he responsible for? What the hell is he THERE for? What does he DO?

Seriously, if none of that stuff is his responsibility...what is?

Anybody?? Can you help me out with this?<<

I sent it to everybody I know, Republican and Democrat. Hopefully somebody can explain to me exactly what it is that George Bush does.

that his job isn't to be presidential but rather to distract people's attention away from the actual presidency.

See, I get quite clearly that George Bush isn't responsible for anything because he isn't actually DOING anything...but what about all those zombies that voted for him and the delusional 40% that still think he is 'doing a good job'?? Why do they think he isn't responsible for anything??

This is what inquiring minds want to know.

"The only one's who don't want to play the blame game are the ones who are guilty."

I have advocating physical violence against these schmoes for days.

It's all they understand.

It is best explained here, http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0906-21.htm in an article by Thom Hartmann. The cons have played word games and not spelled out their intentions clearly. Their agenda is showing in the wake of Katrina, and most Americans, hopefully will now be horrified. What I still don't get is where citizens fit in. The con "vision" is not one of a country or community but a commerce. Our Country is no more than real estate, we are no more than human capital.

"In a May 25, 2001 interview, Grover Norquist told National Public Radio's Mara Liasson, "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

Norquist got his wish. Democracy - and at least several thousand people, most of them Democrats, black, and poor - drowned last week in the basin of New Orleans. Our nation failed in its response, because for most of the past 25 years conservatives who don't believe in governance have run our government."

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"But the Reagan/Bush ideologues don't "believe" in government, in anything other than a military and police capacity. Government should punish, they agree, but it should never nurture, protect, or defend individuals. Nurturing and protecting, they suggest, is the more appropriate role of religious institutions, private charities, families, and - perhaps most important - corporations.

Let the corporations handle your old-age pension. Let the corporations decide how much protection we and our environment need from their toxics. Let the corporations decide what we're paid. Let the corporations decide what doctor we can see, when, and for what purpose.

This is the exact opposite of the vision for which the Founders of this nation fought and died. When Thomas Jefferson changed John Locke's "Life, liberty, and private property" to "Live, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," it was the first time in the history of the world that a newly founded nation had written the word "happiness" into its founding document. The phrase "promote the general welfare" - another revolutionary concept - first appeared in the preamble to our Constitution in 1787."