Quote of the Day

"The President has done the obvious, only after it was clear he couldn’t get away with the inexcusable."
-Senator John Kerry (Democrat-MA), on President Bush's statement yesterday taking "responsibility" for the federal government's failure to act in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

The President turned FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security into patronage hiring firms. Those hires - of people who had no business being there - caused this calamity.

We're talking the Department of Homeland Security, for crying out loud. I go back to my posts of the the last couple of days (scroll down a bit): George W. Bush is not the leader the United States needs at this moment in history. And there are 62,040,610 Americans I would like to talk to about that. Your vote placed a man in the White House who is so obviously ill-equipped to be there.

Al Gore and John Kerry, while not the most exciting candidates, had the gravitas for the job. And, in my opinion, America and her place in the world would be much better off today had one of them been sitting in the Oval Office.