From 9.9.05

But a few of the appropriate, well-thought out responses from the Left this week. Once again, guys, thanks. Don't offer any help or solutions or anything. Just keep yappin'.

I have no idea what they're doing. But I will tell you this: You know, God is looking down on all this, and if they are not doing everything in their power to save people, they are going to pay the price.”
- Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans

"The bystander-in-chief, of course, is George W. Bush, whose whining self-obsession perfectly embodies what America has done to itself."
– Boston Globe columnist James Carroll

“President Bush has come very late with very little,” said Rev. Jesse Jackson, describing the dire scene in New Orleans as looking like “the hull of a slave ship.”

"Kanye West said during a concert on NBC that George Bush doesn't care about black people, which I don't believe. What I do believe is that neither he nor anyone else cares enough about them. And if you're a black person in New Orleans, what else are you supposed to think? The facts are the facts."
–Don Imus, nationally syndicated radio host

"What we witnessed...was the dangerous incompetence and staggering indifference to human suffering of the president and his administration."
- New York Times columnist Bob Herbert

"It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands has no transportation to get out of town… C'mon, they're black! ... Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days?... On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster."
- Michael Moore, professional ass clown.

“I don't think anybody ever anticipated the criminal negligence of the Bush administration in this situation."
- Sean Penn, actor

"The federal government's lethal ineptitude wasn't just a consequence of Mr. Bush's personal inadequacy; it was a consequence of ideological hostility to the very idea of using government to serve the public good."
– New York Times columnist Paul Krugman

''Oh, they're stealing 20 pair of jeans or they're stealing television sets. Who cares? They're not going to go too far with it,'' she said. ``Some of the people who do that -- they're so poor they've never touched anything in their lives. Let them touch those things for once… How come it's so easy to send planes in another country to kill everyone in a second, to destroy lives? We need to be there right now to rescue the rest of the people.''
- Celine Dion, singer

Gore urged that the Bush administration be held accountable for the government's inadequate relief response, particularly "when the corpses of American citizens are floating in toxic floodwaters five days after a hurricane struck."
-Al Gore, not the President.