It was one of this thread's right wingers who used the word 'conspiracy' as a put down, when no one had suggested a conspiracy in any way, shape or form.

What we had suggested was bureaucratic indifference and bungling, starting where the buck stops at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and continuing all to the Congressional offices of the politicians who voted to gut FEMA and the nation's ONLY federal disaster relief agency, and give all the bucks to Bush cronies and the "war on terror".

In other words, the people of the South are now getting what they voted for: the Bush/neo-con agenda in action. They want Bush and neo-con Republicans governing the nation? OK, fine and dandy. They got the government response to this disaster: here is what you voted for and paid for in tax cuts. Deal with it.

The Malthusian echoes to this "they should damn well be grateful to us for serving them cake so generously" disaster just can't be ignored.

Keep voting Republican folks, and pray you never find yourself trying to survive in a disaster zone with no health insurance, your Social Security gutted, etc etc. Cuz this is it. This is the government you get with the sweet neo-cons.