Screw you New Orleans!

I think I must have repeated almost precisely the same words as in the following paragraph in today's Washington Post editorial, dozens if not hundreds of times, in conversation and here in PGR, and so have every one of Louisiana's bloggers listed in the sidebar:

ASK ANYONE in New Orleans or from New Orleans. Read the New Orleans and Baton Rouge newspapers. Listen to Louisiana politicians. All of them say the same thing: Few people will move back, and no true reconstruction will begin, until the federal government commits itself to rebuilding the federally constructed levees whose failure led to the flooding of the city in the first place. Nobody wants to live in a place that is certain to flood again and where nothing permanent can be planned.

So if The Washington Post gets it, why doesn't that shit-for-brains cheating, lying, chickenhawk monkey boy president get it?!!! Isn't there anyone in the White House who can put a friggin' teleprompter in front of that pinhead so he can stammer the words "New Orleans will never flood again!" Oh ... but I guess when Bush stood in Jackson Square, three months ago today, and spoke the words "this great city will rise again," he was uttering the equivalant of his daddie's campaign pledge on raising taxes, "Read my lips. No new taxes." I guess they'll both just "disassemble" whenever they need to in order to dupe the spineless press and the short-memoried population, and to divert attention from their own miserable leadership skills.

With that in mind, when Bush said the following in Jackson Square:

You need to know that our whole nation cares about you, and in the journey ahead you're not alone.

What he was really thinking was this:

Fuck you! Why don't you people learn how to swim!

Look at this lying asshole -- he looks like he stole cookies out of the cookie jar!



Back to the Washington Post editorial, check this out -- where'd they come up with this stupid idea?

Congress should therefore do the right thing: Drop the plan to pay for flood insurance for those who don't have it, since that will discourage others elsewhere from taking out flood insurance.

Oh, so if you lived in an area in which you weren't required to have a flood insurance policy because your home wasn't zoned as a flood area requiring insurance -- because the feds built levees to protect the city -- well then, screw you! Or if you bought your house decades ago, before flood insurance existed, screw you! Or you were just one of those cantankerous stubborn old farts who refused to give the government any more of your hard-earned life savings (come on, everyone knows one), well screw you! Or you inherited a home that was paid off and therefore never had to go through the process of applying for a mortgage which requires the purchaser to show proof of flood insurance, yeah, screw you! Or maybe you lived in the Lower Ninth Ward and owned your home by scraping together what you could afford to pay, or maybe inherited it, or lived with your own family along with your brothers' and sisters' families, all under one roof, so you could afford to buy a house, or maybe in your list of priorities, putting food on the table was just more important than paying for insurance. Yeah, well, screw you! Or, maybe just because you're an American and goddamnit, they were, after all, federal levees which we were always told could handle a fast-moving Category 3 storm -- just like Katrina (actually Katrina was more like a Category 2 when it passed by New Orleans) -- uh huh, that's right, screw you! Or maybe the federal government owes it to people who didn't have flood insurance, just because they're taxpaying American citizens, and it's the right thing to do! Yep, screw you!

Oh yeah? If that's the attitude we're going to get, well you know what, we're going to start the biggest goddamn liability suit the world has ever known against the federal government, and wait until you see the bill for pain and suffering! Let's not forget the hundreds of thousands of people still exiled from their homes, in what was the largest exodus of people from a city in the history of the United States, many of them now penniless and unemployed.

Then we're going to secede from the United States, sell the territory back to France, apply to France for assistance, share with them the oil and gas from our shores which supplies 20 percent of the nation's needs, we'll keep the $5 billion in offshore lease revenues that the feds won't give us, and we'll keep our seafood which supplies 20 percent of the American market, and we'll leave the rest of the country to freeze in the dark!

So screw all y'all chicken screwers! Keep your goddamn monkey president. He's a friggin' idiot who can barely read his teleprompter, who thinks poking sticks in bees' nests will make us safer, who's running the biggest goddamn deficit in history and passing it on to this nation's future generations, who's got us into the costliest war in history other than WWII, and whose lies aren't just inconsequential or embarrassing, but get Americans killed.

To which I'll close by repeating one of the best lines I've heard in ages: Somebody give Bush a blowjob so we can impeach him!