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• Who Do We Attack for Katrina? Saturday Night Live had an opening sketch that sticks in my mind. In it, Bush wins the 2000 presidency and he’s commenting on the state of our nation: “The Great Lakes are on fire - even I know that’s not good.” On September 11, 2001, 2,819 died in a terrorist action on our soil. Bush responded
• You Don’t Piss Off Mayor Daley While we were living in Chicago, a ComEd tripped up and a good chunk of the Loop was without electricity in the middle of the day. People stuck in elevators, the business day ground to a halt. I have vivid memories of Mayor Daley reaming out ComEd on tv that evening. The problem was
• Federal Ineffectualness Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? If you’re trying to show the value of and need for a small government, what better way to do it than bog it down in red tape, heel-dragging, target-less finger-pointing, and ignoring the pre-existing plans. By cutting funding, acting slowly, and otherwise sabotaging success - whether in the public education system or the New Orleans recovery
• “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People”  Anyone else catch this on NBC’s Concert for Hurricane Relief? The man that said it was on camera with Michael Myers. I didn’t recognize him. Did you? UPDATE: According to PBCLiberal, it was non-NBC talking head Kayne West Video can be found at Zebrality Looks like I heard something different, the quote being reported is: “George Bush doesn’t care about black
• George Lakoff on Katrina - Failure of Moral Values In a nice follow up to my earlier There’s No Helping the NeoCons post, George Lakoff comments that Katrina was not only a natural disaster and federal failure, it was a complete failure of the Republican moral and political philosophy. (emphasis is Lakoff’s) “The [right-wing conservatives] central principle: Government has no useful role. The only common good