No More Mr. Nice Guy!

Drowned in the bathtub

Today, on the second anniversary of Katrina, we learn about Queen of Mean Leona Helmsley leaving $12 million to her poodle. Meanwhile, America's Chernobyl - an entire region written off by George Bush Junior and his puppetmasters, because it is poor and black - continues to sink into terminal decay and abandonment.

Despite Karl Rove being appointed as Katrina Recovery Czar, basically nothing has been done to help ordinary people. Gee, what went wrong? I guess Grover Norquist got his wish. Heckuva job, Turdblossom!

But of course it's only the little people who get hung out to dry. Casinos and developers of luxury condos are making out like bandits thanks to federal largesse. Hey, you gotta get your priorities straight - Trent Lott's beachfront mansion ain't gonna rebuild itself.

As for those who suffered through the storm, lost everything, and endured days of killing heat trapped in attics, up to their necks in raw sewage and toxic waste while they waited for help - well, that worked out very well for them, so let's not waste our beautiful minds on them. Let's go shoe shopping and catch a musical!

Two years later, Katrina - along with the cluster-cheney in Iraq - stands as a monument to the Junior regime's incredible arrogance, incompetence, corruption, cronyism, criminality, and total disdain for those they swore an oath to protect. This is what you get when you let a gang of extreme-right, fundy- and millionaire-pandering criminal traitors seize the reins of power, and plunder and loot the treasury to allow themselves and their cronies to wallow in bloated excess while thousands are still forced to live in unimaginably squalid and toxic conditions.

Drowning in the bathtub is too good for these utterly, unspeakably corrupt and loathsome lumps of slime.