"They have M-16s and they're locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so." - Kathleen Blanco, Democratic Louisiana Governor Governor

But I want to thank the president." - Mary Landrieu, Democratic Louisiana Senator

"...you and I are not in a position to make any judgment because we weren't there." - Bill Clinton, former Democratic President

Democrats made these mean spirited and ignorant statements. The entire country is facing the plight of the people of New Orleans, coping with the dangers of Republican hell and Democratic high water. One party is proud of its viciousness while the other claims not to be vicious but proudly proclaims its willingness to shoot desperate refugees.

The degree of Democratic callousness in the New Orleans tragedy may be shocking at first, but it is actually consistent with the direction the party has taken for the past two decades. The Democrats are dying a slow political death. Their inaction and acquiescence in New Orleans is just the latest symptom presented by a terminal patient.

It is time once again for the Democratic Party to be the moral leaders of those "Old Timey" issues such and race and poverty.

It is as relevant today as it was at the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. That the poor in New Orleans did NOT have a Cadillac to escape and now the government by Executive Order is not allowing then to earn the prevailing wage.

We can not let the Republicans demonize EVEN MORE African Americans and the poor. After hearing Pat Buchanan spew "looting, raping and welfare checks" in the same sentence... I see this is where it is heading.

It gets worse.

There is only one TRUTH in this whole fiasco:

Republicans can not Keep America safe

The GOP won the 2004 presidency and the swept the COngress on the fact that they were "trigger-happy"... it is a shame that their bluster has no relevance to actual threats to the US and Americans... but only to the vested interest ie Oil

Katrina shows clearly, that this adminstration has absolutly NO INTENTION on keeping Americans safe...

Even the most ardent GOPer fluffers like Brooks and Russert can see that... why aren't the "Security Democrats" and the left-wing "military Hawks" talking about American Security???

"Batman" aka Al From and his "Robin" aka Simon Rosenberg are trying to promote any candidate that has worn a uniform since WWII...(even Republicans ie Massa). Why are they not telling the truth that:

Trigger-Happiness...does NOT equal a National Security Plan.

This is even evident to all the "Security Moms", and wingnuts who voted for Bush because 9/11 scared the shit out of them and they wanted a "Bad Motherfucker" in charge who wasn't bashful about going "Mid-evil" on some terrorists ass...

LIEberman was outraged when Dean called DHS on the use of "Security Alerts" as political... and they were.

Thousands of people have died this past week (some estimate say 10 time the amount of 9/11), 1.5 million were made homeless and a landmass the size of Great Britain (or the size of a nuclear attack) lay in ruins and the "Security Alert" never moved up from YELLOW... so what does that tell you. This adminstration has no clue on how to keep Americans safe... and really could not give a shit as illustrated in their actions on the first three days of this catatrophe.

What was the "National Security" response... "Shoot at it" and kill the story

It is the SECURITY...Stupid

So where the hell are all of those so-called "Security Dems"???? This is was the one reason he was re-elected... he told the country that he could keep the US safer than the Democrats...that is not true.

So why is not Al From and Simon Rosenberg screaming that this is a failure in keeping the US safe... why??...

The Centrists like Al From, Simon Rosenberg, Joe LIEberman, Breaux and Bull Clinton... security means one thing... funding from the military industry... keeping them in enough dough to swagger around with big guns... so they keep reenforcing the credibility of the Iraq War... all advocating that the "War on Terror" a GOP construct created in a right wing "think tank"...can be won... yeah and I got a bridge in Brooklyn I wanna sell... they just want to get rich(er) by selling the Democratic party to the military lobbyists.

The only Real "Security Dem" I have seen in the past three years... has been Dean. He warned in the primaries that Iraq was no place for the National Guard. Dean warned that we were dangerously low on first responders... He warned that great photo ops like Saddam being captured did not make America safe... but our Democratic "Military Hawks" poo poo'd him... no place for dirty hippy talk.

No Dean is not a "Military Hawk" because the definition of war is a Diplomatic FAILURE ... and two ingnorant entities have decided to slug it out instead.

So... for all those Dems wringing their hands that people don't vote for Democrats is because we don't prance around bullying people... well here is the reality...

WE ARE NOT SAFE... AND HAVE NOT BEEN SINCE 9/11

All those Military-Hawks-Security-Dems are strangely silent....