Do not forget this

While the White House is carefully planning its post-hurricane efforts to maximize the impact of George W. Bush as Lady Bountiful, don't forget one incontrovertible FACT: When it was a question of ONE woman in a persistent vegetative state, George W. Bush flew back to Washington from his vacation to sign a bill that continued the case through the courts. He cited his laughable "culture of life" in doing so.

But while New Orleans was being flooded, and THOUSANDS of people were dying, Bush remained on vacation.

Of course, Terri Schiavo was a middle-class white woman whose case had been seized upon by his Christofascist Zombie Brigade base. The people in New Orleans were largely poor, and largely black. Bush can claim all he wants to that there was no racism involved, and perhaps there wasn't -- at least not in the "I Hate Black People" sense. But in the sense of "they don't vote for me, they aren't part of my crowd, so they are unimportant", yes, that kind of racism WAS involved. The fact of the matter is that this president regards himself as president of ONLY those closely associated with him, and those who are symbols for his lunatic followers. The rest of us are expendable.

Yesterday 45 bodies were found in a New Orleans hospital and human remains were removed from the Lafon Nursing Home of the Holy Family. On Saturday, eight bodies inside the Bethany assisted living home. And doctors resorted to euthanizing patients rather than letting them die horrifying, suffocating, agonizing deaths.

And trigger-happy, well-fed Blackwater USA mercenaries are patrolling the city with M-16's, ready to shoot at will. (Note how the cited report has been removed from Blackwater's site.

It's clear as a bell that George W. Bush's "culture of life" is limited to fetuses and people who cannot speak and cannot think. In short, his "culture of life" only applies to those who support him. The rest of us are ALL expendable.