Date: 2005-08-31 07:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cargoweasel.livejournal.com
back about five or ten years ago, FEMA was the favorite conspiracy magnet for those concerned about the jack-booted Fed thugs who would round us up into concentration camps on fake emergency pretexts and take away our guns.

Of course, this was when crazed rightwingers hated and feared the federal government and shot at or blew up parts of it rather than screamed themselves hoarse supporting it. Good times, good times.

Date: 2005-08-31 07:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iridium-wolf.livejournal.com
This was in the editorial page of the Post yesterday, 8-30-05, FYI.

Date: 2005-08-31 07:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drleo.livejournal.com
Is there a single part of the government which actually benefits all people that hasn't been dismantled by this administration yet? I swear, sometimes it seems like they only care about terrorism because it's bad for business.

Date: 2005-08-31 08:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ceruleanst.livejournal.com
No, they only care about terrorism because it's good for business. Nothing would make them happier than another real terrorist attack to justify their behavior and let them stuff more tax money into their pockets; I guarantee you they pray for it everyday.

Date: 2005-08-31 08:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] athelind.livejournal.com
Remember, if you don't funnel your meager paycheck back into the pockets of the wealthy, the terrorists have already won.

Date: 2005-08-31 08:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drleo.livejournal.com
I guess you're right. That explains why they're doing such an awful, fucked up job of it.

Date: 2005-09-01 05:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] archteryx.livejournal.com
And here's one that should push your rage quotient into Pat Robertson territory: Bush has refused ALL foreign aid offers, including deliberately barring a Canadian search and rescue team at the border and refusing their home base permission to use US airspace.

That crosses the line. That's not incompetence, that's out and out malevolence. HE WANTS THOSE PEOPLE TO DIE.

Date: 2005-09-01 10:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hitchkitty.livejournal.com
And, of course, the Right is already insisting that, regardless of how much Bush has screwed over FEMA, it's Clinton's fault. El Bozo Grande referred to that article today, then demanded to know why Clinton hadn't been pumping obscene amounts of money into FEMA.

Were people not actually, y'know, dying here, I could find the predictability of these people hillarious. NOTHING that's happened on Bush's watch has EVER been his fault. September 11th? Clinton didn't take out Bin Laden. The shit economy? Clinton's fault.

The great economy we had when Clinton was in office? Bush I's doing.

Which would, of course, mean that Bush I's shit economy was actually Reagan's fault...but y'don't hear anyone on the Right impugning Saint Ron.

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