Sorry, Guest G----------you're the one who comes across as pathetic (and not exactly a careful reader). The reference to the 2004 election comes in large part from the Wall St Journal (check my first posting on this thread).

To anybody with powers of observation-- ( it's too bad that doesn't seem to include you) --it is painfully obvious that the federal response to the disaster of 2004 and that of 2005 was starkly different---and the hugely different political situations, of Florida in 2004 and Louisiana in 2005 is the cause.

As I have said elsewhere, I'm convinced that if the disaster had happened in Louisiana, not Florida, but in 2004, the federal response, even with a Democratic governor and Democratic mayor, would have been much more prompt (though probably not quite so massive as in Florida) After all, poor folks, rich folks, black folks, white folks all vote--and Bush could possibly have used their gratitude in the fall. But in 2005 it's no longer a burning need---so it can easily not make it onto Bush's radar for quite a while.

Above all else, he is a political animal.

So people died.

And it's despicable.