Find Someone, Anyone But Me, to Blame
So now we have the President, his jaw firm, surrounded by a dazed looking General Richard Meyers (Chairman, Joint Chiefs), grimly resolute Donald Rumsfeld (Secretary of Defense) and semi-stunned Mike Chertoff (Secretary, Homeland Security), trying to make up lost time, lost face and lost reputation for the sleaziest of reasons. Even Dick Cheney dropped in from his undisclosed location to orchestrate and lend his immoral support to this charade on the White House lawn.
It has nothing to do with people who are homeless and ravaged by a storm unknown in their lifetimes, nothing to do with making amends to those who have lost everything they ever had, even though that wasn’t much. It has to do with salvaging his second-term agenda. A second-term devoted to the same values as his first term, making the wealthy wealthier while ignoring the realities of a country deeply divided in economic as well as philosophical terms. How shallow in times of national disaster. How self-serving. This man…