What happened in New Orleans, Mississippi and Alabama after Hurricane Katrina went through was unimaginable. Millions of people were affected and the rest of the Country must endure. A natural disaster on a scope never seen before in the USA hit like a ton of bricks. So now, where are we? We're in the middle of preparing for an election in '06 and '08. How do we do that? By blaming someone, some group for why there was so much devastation. UNBELIEVABLE!

The lack of leadership in New Orleans has proved that from the Mayor, to "The Guv" (an ego ridden woman who was more concerned with reminding the media that only The Governor can sign off on forcible removal of people from their homes), probably weren't the best leaders for a situation like this. In fact, they probably would've had a problem getting two children to settle an argument over who’s turn it was to play with the Lincoln Logs. This is not something a rational person can debate.

Not being a Republican and not being a Dumocrat means you can sit in the middle and throw stones at both sides for being stupid. Much of the stupidity comes in the small mindedness of some of our citizens who latch onto these lunatics’ rants. The rest comes from those who think that not much of anything could've been done to save a city that was already doomed. But since the lunatic left has opened the door in this "blame game", let's take a walk through it, shall we? (I wish the right wing whackos would say something stupid so I could write about it). Maybe next week?

While there are many issues I have with right wing fanatics, and some of Bush's policies, this won't be one of them. If anything, the President should've told these bumbling Clouseauesque clowns that the Feds were taking over whether "The Guv" and Mayor Egghead liked it or not. By the time the local pols begged for help it was AFTER the damage. But that would've been perceived as Big Brother overstepping it's bounds and borderline legal, granted it might have saved thousands of lives. Amazing isn't it? Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Reading all the spin, stupidity and hatred for why things didn’t work right by what appears to be those who actually DIDN'T DO THEIR JOBS is repulsive. It's the ultimate scapegoat game. We just got hit with the worst storm to ever hit this country. IT’S A NATURAL DISASTER, THINGS HAPPEN. CHAOS BREAKS OUT and HOW THE LOCAL LEADERSHIP REACTS IS WHAT COUNTS. How PEOPLE react under times of great stress is not predictable. Unfortunately, leadership that gives itself big pay raises in the middle of the night, leadership that makes civil service employees wait years for contracts and raises, leadership that sends out men and women to fight fires and crime, leadership that fails it's citizens by not expecting much of them, leadership that doles out crumbs to their PEASANTS who continue to elect them KING, was not qualified to lead ants into an ant hill. Then, to cover their ineptness, they drew attention to it all by attacking a President who has many faults. In this case, he wasn’t one of them. It appears now that the only thing New Orleans dodged was ADEQUATE LEADERSHIP.

Taking a page from Nancy Pelosi's, Harry Reid's and other loonie's handbook, I'll colorfully adjectivialize (is that even a word?) those racists, bigots and incompetent people who dropped the ball, created a new level of divide between the races, and did it all from cushy offices and hotels rather than the scene of disaster so they can look good to their constituents come next election.

Mayor Egghead, who chose not to LEAD. He chose not to follow New Orleans’ EVAC plan. He maybe a nice guy and all, but he had a DUTY to follow protocol as so laid out by the EVAC plan that taxpayers paid millions of dollars for. If a few days notice about a storm isn't enough for them to implement their OWN plans in advance then they need to step down. They're not qualified. While leaders may have been afraid of the price to move and follow their own plan, look at the cost now. While the destruction may not have been avoidable, the indecisive leadership (and lack of) was. And now, after all this, an astronomical amount of people were put at risk because that elected leadership which had specific DUTIES to their citizens didn't follow their own rules. For whatever reasons, they dropped the ball, they panicked, they were not prepared. It's no fault of mine, yours, the Federal Government’s, lack of money, lack of troops or lack of Klingon ships ready to rescue them, it was their LEADERSHIP in control that deteriorated and led to a major disaster in such a short period of time. It was also unforeseen circumstances, but then that was why their was a plan to EVACUATE days before a storm caught them with their pants down.