Republicans, whose motto should be "Pass the Buck and Blame the Victims," frequently respond to Liberals who the criticize the President's policies and performance by asking, "Why are you so mad?" "Take a few deep breaths and relax," is the advice they offer. Well I have only two words to say to these conservatives, WAKE UP!

And if I sound angry, it's because I am. I'm damn angry.

The President continued his vacation for three whole days after hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. It was more important for the President to fly off to Arizona to share a bite of birthday cake in a photo op with John McCain, and then fly further away from the Gulf Coast where people were dying from neglect, to deliver a speech in San Diego in which he compared his war with Iraq with WWII! Only on Wednesday, did it occur to the President, the Commander in Chief to cut his vacation short and return to Washington DC to make an attempt to appear to be taking this disaster seriously. And even in the face of all this detestation, Bush could not resist the urge to make light of the situation, While thousands were dead all around him, he made a pathetic attempt to boost the public morale by telling them that Trent Lott had lost one of his homes but when that home was rebuilt the President was looking forward to sitting on the front porch. Not even a thought or care about the tens of thousands of poor who lost everything in this disaster and will be lucky if they can just find a place to live and get any kind of job. Does this make you mad? It makes me furious!

If the President had really been concerned with coping with a disaster of this magnitude, should he not have appointed an experienced person to head FEMA, instead of a fellow underachiever whose previous job was coordinating Arabian Horse shows (a job from which he was apparently fired). This makes me angry.

Does the fact that the President tried to hoodwink the American people by saying no one could have predicted such a disaster when weeks ago I watched a NOVA episode that predicted exactly what did happen based upon information that was widely known. Or the fact that the President did not give the Army Corps of Engineers the money they were so desperately pleading for to repair the levees and upgrade the pumps? But then to hear the head of FEMA and the head of homeland security agency openly admit they did not know there were people in the Superdome who were literally dying of thirst and hunger when the whole world knew this and could see it in real time on Television really makes me angry. Or that they could be so colossally insensitive and/or ignorant of the thousands of persons who were dying in hospitals for lack of water, medicine, or oxygen. This is way beyond incompetence. This is criminal neglect.

Bush and Cheney can declare war on a country using a variety of lame excuses; they were responsible for 9/11, they had weapons of mass destruction, they were pursuing enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon, we needed to facilitate a regime change, etc., etc., etc. But do my conservative friends have a clue? No. They just nod their heads enthusiastically in agreement with everything the President says. They play back all the Republican talking points without understanding a word they are saying. They put those colorful ribbons on their expensive SUVs proclaiming their love of country and support for the troops. (As if we Liberals do not support our troops or love our country! As if we Liberals do not feel pain in our heart for every victim of this needless war?) But do they encourage their kids to enlist to help in this war in which they so fervently believe and support? Of course they do not. Do they encourage their kids to enlist so that the military personnel who are serving on their second and third tours of duty can come home and be reunited with their families? Of course they do not. But they tell me with a straight face and an indulgent smile, no need to, the troops are so happy with the military, they're re-enlisting in records numbers! Have I died and gone to hell?

The Republicans openly destroy our environment and endanger the population with air and water pollution, open our national parks to all kinds of environment destroying off road vehicles (not to mention removing any reference to the time period when most canyons and land formations were created if the time span is greater than 6,000 years). They push for opening the Alaskan wilderness to oil exploration. And when I express my indignation, my conservative friends smile patronizingly and say, we need oil so that we have gasoline for our cars to get to work. for our [6 MPG] motor homes and our Hummers and Range Rovers. They tell me, as if they were talking to a child, that it will cost too much for the oil and energy companies to curb their emissions, it will cost too much for the auto industry to develop more fuel efficient automobiles, and the science is just not there that proves the existence of global warming. (And don't get me started on Intelligent Design! If there was such a thing as Intelligent Design, god would not have created conservatives).

But what is the real source of my anger? I am angry beyond words at how insensitive and uninformed these so-called compassionate conservatives are. How un-Christian these faith and values-based Christians are. I spent half a day carefully responding to one conservative on a variety of topics using only the most main stream media for support: The London Times, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post. The response was that these are not fair and balanced publications but far left of center Liberal Media publications that tell us Liberals only what we want to hear. (As if FOX News and the vast Sinclair Network/monopoly of stations are not the equivalent of a state-owned media?)

If we really had a Liberal Media in this country, and damn it, I wish we had, they would question and challenge this administration 24 hours a day, the way they did Bill Clinton with Whitewater and eventually with Monica Lewinsky. The difference between Bill Clinton and George W. Bush is a blow job vs a blown job. What Clinton did with Monica Lewinsky was dumb. Really dumb. Because, had he kept his zipper locked, Al Gore would have been president and every bit of Liberal legislation enacted by Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Johnson would still be in place. But what Bush and his band of rapacious Republicans has done to this country is criminal. And I don't mind telling you, it enflames me.

What Bill Clinton did, hurt him, it hurt his family, it hurt Monica Lewinsky and it certainly hurt the Democratic party. But nobody died as a result of his lack of self control. No country was destroyed. And no gargantuan magnet created to spawn anti-American terrorists by the tens of thousands.

Bill Clinton would have been on the case before Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. He would not have waited three days to take charge. Bill Clinton would have been in the White House working 24 hours a day to make sure that the victims of the hurricane received immediate care and the states received every bit of support we could offer. Clinton would not have commended his chief of FEMA for doing a "great job" if that chief had claimed that the people in the city were told to evacuate and because they did not it was their own fault! (Rush Limbaugh, when informed that the some of the people could not evacuate because they did not own an automobile, quipped, well why didn't they buy a car?--and they tell us that Liberals are out of touch). If there was a screw up in his administration, Clinton would not have looked for a scapegoat. Clinton would not have passed the buck to save his ass. Clinton, or any real leader would have accepted responsibility like a man and made things right. Does the fact that the President and his White House could not or would not head the cries for help make me angry? Do you have to ask?!

But try bringing these things up to these conservatives and they just smile at you condescendingly and ask, why are you so mad? To which I can only respond, WHY ARE YOU SO GOD DAMN STUPID? WHY ARE YOU SO GOD DAMN INDIFFERENT? Am I mad. You better believe I am mad. I think it is time we all got mad.