Incompetence = High Crimes

Are we not at the point where the sheer incompetence of the President amounts to an impeachable offense? Does anyone have any confidence that we will survive the next crisis with this monumentally incompetent administration? Our only hope is for the Congress to take the lead and vote articles of impeachment against Bush and Cheney and get them out of office as soon as possible. If lying about sex with a willing bimbo is a “high crime and misdemeanor”, then surely the inability to do ANYTHING to help people literally dying in the streets of New Orleans is grounds for being removed from office. But the republicans will say that Bush is doing all he can…after all he cut short his FIVE week vacation by a couple days. He returned to Washington and when the entire country was looking for leadership and hope, gave perhaps the worst speech in the history of the Presidency. And since that point has apparently done nothing. With all the resources of the federal government and the trillions of dollars at the disposal of the Homeland Security Department, to have done as little at this point is not only impeachable but is criminal. And incompetence is the best spin they can put on this. One can clearly argue that the main reason for this inaction is blatant racism. We all see that the faces on CNN in such desperate straits are those of poor, black people. Does ANYONE have any doubt that if these faces were white and wealthy (“I call you my base, heh, heh,heh”) that every Greyhound bus, plane as well as military transports would have instantly been deployed to the area to evacuate these people from this hell hole?
Those of us safely away from the devastation are hit with $4 a gallon gas by the rapacious oil companies. And what’s the response from this administration? Do they point out that the gas in the pipelines has nothing to do with any small reduction on future production and that instantly raising prices as they have is immorally taking advantage of a national tragedy? Of course not, what we get is a reaction that NOW, we can tap the strategic reserve to help Big Oil keep the gas flowing. In the minds of the Republicans, the strategic reserve is not to be used to safeguard the country but only to maximize oil companies’ profits. Congress should immediately repeal the energy bill passed last month that would give these crooks even more billions at the expense of the federal treasury.
The lesson for the rest of us is that it truly matters who we elect to lead us. Does anyone seriously believe that this suffering would be going on under a John Kerry administration? In the next election I work on, if a cynical non-voter tells me that it doesn’t matter who you vote for, (after I resist the urge to beat them senseless), I’ll have a two word response…New Orleans.