Yes, folks, sad as the trait may be in the human species, there are always some thugs who are willing to use a human tragedy to rationalize extreme selfishness.
In this case, it's the Democrats.
After waiting an indecent interval, on day four of the tragedy the liberals have done just what they planned to do since Katrina reached category 5 status in the gulf and took aim at Biloxi -- blame it all on Bush, and, believe it or not, the war in Iraq -- for pure, fictional, partisan political purposes.
Yes, the Democrats, faced with the largest domestic natural disaster in modern times -- decided to make some hay for 2008.
So, it's all the war in Iraq's fault, folks. You thought it was the size of the relief effort, or the snipers shooting at copters and medics, but no. It's that war the liberals have never been able to make its peace with, that war the American people have already been heard on, that war that liberals living in the past still believe they can cancel, erase, and undo. That war the Democrats lost over in 2004.
For them, it couldn't be that this is the first disaster of its kind in modern history, and that the state and local officials didn't immediately take control of the massive federal resources President Bush delivered to the perimeter of the disaster area.
For liberals, it must be about Bush and the war in Iraq. It must be that Bush isn't the man Gore was. It must be that if only THEY were in charge, life would be better, Islamists would love us, gas would be cheap, looters wouldn't loot, levees would hold, toilets would flush, and evacuees would be singing Kum-ba-yah before campfires in the Superdome while young American troops, fresh back from Iraq, hold their s'mores over the embers.
It must be that they're irretrievably nuts.
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