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The Washington Post – a long-standing Republican propaganda outlet – has an interesting piece enumerating the colossal failure of our lip service-oriented administration’s response to Katrina. Even Fox news must acknowledge a “weakness ” which coming from them is an atypical attempt at British-styled understatement. Finally, for the world to scoff at our administration is laid bare, the essential truth is shown: our government is dysfunctional in its pursuit of profit, grandeur and military glory; nothing else has ever mattered. To pay for a war costing trillions of dollars is to gut programs that work; Medicare, FEMA, forestry and even Social Security (if they could have), to pay their cronies – war profiteers, all.

George “W-is-for-worst” Bush has severed a political artery – finally – which almost everyone (excluding the most rabidly delusional) agrees. I. For one, have been waiting such a political event, although I mourn with the rest of our nation the loss of so many and the suffering of the survivors; yet these are the stakes of political games so blithely played out by our fearful leaders. As Georgie plays cowboy on aircraft carriers; as he frowns for the cameras on Air Force One; as he clenches his fists and says, “Bring ‘em on,” people die. Such are the stakes, and our Republican-led administration has never understood this.

As the WaPo article implies but never states, BushCo, in its infinite folly has attempted to our entire government in a megalomaniacal effort to leave the largest possible presidential legacy. George “W-is-for-Washington” Bush harbors an obsession with making his mark on history that has underscored all he has tried to achieve. He started this war because he thought a war president was a great thing to be. He tried to upend Social Security because he wanted to be seen as greater than his predecessors. The same can be said of his merging of agencies to form what may be seen as the largest debacle to date: our currently useless Department of Homeboy Scrutiny. (I’ve always enjoyed the irony of the Republicans – long-time proponents of “small government” – endorsing a plan that has grown our government into one lumbering, multi-headed behemoth.)

But the proverbial bandwagon is a fickle construct, as we are all noting. What the media thinks will sell their precious newspapers, predicated upon poll results, can revert overnight; not to reflect reality but perception as indicated by meaningless surveys. That WaPo today denounces the same people it has unfailingly upheld in the past is insignificant to the enormity of the failure to America that is our current administration. Just as quickly as they jump on, they will fall off – all to sell paper.