Political Rant I

The hurricane that hit New Orleans and surrounding areas this week had a devastating effect on many things. These people lost more than their homes; they lost their city. Now people are stranded refugees without any place to go, gas prices have surged to $3 and $4 a gallon. What is being done?

Nothing. The President, who has been on vacation for the past month, spoke yesterday in a casual way about how this will make America stronger. As if. With the same bemused, idiotic expression on his face that not only suggests lack of intelligence, it suggests lack of understanding, he made his statement yesterday. Is that supposed to reassure people who are now homeless? It is time for some real action. But real action has never been this President's strong suit, now, has it? Only when we were pushed into a fabricated war for policital gain was action warranted.

There has been looting. There have been deaths. There have been people who were shipped out to Houston on buses. And the President can barely muster the time and energey to say he feels bad about it. He has now had more vacation time than any other President in history. He does not look a day older than when he took office and never looks as though he worked through long nights. Martin Sheen looks older at then end of his fictional Presidency than Bush does from his real one.

But this is reality. Reality has hit our country. When the attacks of September 11 happened, the person who stepped up to the challeng was Rudy Guilliani. Who will step up and help New Orleans? The state officials are doing the best that they can and are in need of help from the federal government. If things keep going the way that they are, people will not be able to drive their cars because gas prices have sky-rocketed and the President just signed an energy bill that has nothing to do with reigning in these prices.

What will happen to our country if a real leader does not emerge to help New Orleans, the surrounding area and the rest of the country through this chaos?