“Tell you what, motherfuckers, when dead people are left to rot in the sun because of the incompetence of the federal government, when corpses are floating in the streets, when the President passively ignores the pleas of the governors of Gulf Coast states, when entire neighborhoods have been physically destroyed, when the federal government strands tens of thousands of people without food or water, when the federal government starts to blame the local governments, when the President praises the work of a failed, incompetent bureaucrat while a major city rots, then you can say that this is Barack Obama’s “Katrina.” But until this happens, good, sweet conservative bags of fuck who need so desperately to drag this president down, the Gulf of Mexico oil leak is a corporate-created disaster..”
The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Will Wreck Your Pathetic Ideology
(via ryking)
Also worth noting that the debacle of a Katrina “response” detailed in this quote was not a mistake. It was the logical extension of “Go Die in the Streets,” the mantra by which all GOP decisions were (and are) currently made.
It was only the palpable and forceful public revulsion at this reasoned choice that both mandated and resulted in the spasmodic, utterly demeaning to US self-image non-response that came after (heckuva job, Brownie). And it was only the torrent of fury to that response that finally, finally elicited something approaching competence and problem-solving from the administration.
Lemkin 