The Enemy Within?

POLITICAL MEMO
As White House Anxiety Grows, Bush Tries to Quell Political Crisis

By ELISABETH BUMILLERand ADAM NAGOURNEY

The White House's response to the crisis, which has been
widely seen as slow and ineffectual, could undermine
President Bush's second-term agenda.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/national/nationalspecial/04bush.html?th&emc=th

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Manifestly what is needed to reconstruct the lives, homes, and employment of those devastated in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida -- and any future hits by new hurricanes this next two months -- is a massive public works program along the lines of those instituted by FDR and the New Deal (Works Project Administration) to cope with the Depression of '29:

http://www.bartleby.com/65/wo/WorkProj.html

But notoriously George Bush has been on record as a virulent enemy of the New Deal gains since his days as a student at Harvard Business School where he went after his application to the University of Texas Law School had been rejected. This guy thinks in terms of simplicities and his whole record has been one of benefiting the well off while sabotaging programs such as Social Security which protect those in need. He has no conception whatsoever of a community of people who work together for their common welfare (a negative word in his vocabulary). His is the ethic of survival of the fittest -- Darwinian extremism to put it mildly despite his 'born again' pieties.

While the terrorists prepared 9/11, Bush hung out in Crawford. While the predicted worst of possible hurricane seasons threatened, Bush hung out in Crawford. Now he is sending in the troops to subdue the looters in New Orleans -- not the police there who publicly broke into stores to access essential food and water so that they could keep working, but rather the 'other' ones who were trying to feed their families. "Shoot on sight!" seems to be the standard Bush response to crises -- Afghanistan, Iraq, and now New Orleans?

But there is hope. Those who suffer at the gas pumps are smart enough to figure out that it is Bush and his Texas oil buddies who are skimming their paychecks.

This comment is bitter. But I expect many good Americans feel just as I do. I well remember WW2 when we all pulled together to resist foreign enemies. Now our enemies are centered in our White House! Some would call it "the enemy within."
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