"I've gotten my photo ops, what do I care?"

To say that the GOP and the Bush Administration are shafting those of the gulf coast is to defame the name of "shafting", to the Man born on 3rd base because God wanted him there. God has obviously decided that the gulf deserves to be fucked with -- do you really doubt he thinks that way?

Thousands of homeowners and South Mississippi's overall Katrina recovery face a do-or-die situation in Congress this week, in part because of partisan politics surrounding indicted Republican leader U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay.

Passage of a $35 billion Katrina federal relief package, Gov. Haley Barbour and other state and local leaders lament, is overdue and crucial to Mississippi's recovery. They point particularly to a requested multi-billion dollar bailout of 35,000 homeowners who didn't have flood insurance. But the spending faces stiff opposition, primarily in the House, and lack of support from the White House.

If the relief is not passed this week, before Congress breaks for Christmas, it could be put on hold indefinitely. Talk on Capitol Hill last week was House Republican leaders would delay returning to Washington until at least Jan. 31, an effort to give DeLay a chance to clear himself in court next month of a money laundering indictment so he could be reinstated as House majority leader in the new year.

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Despite promises he made after the storm, George W. Bush doesn't appear willing to add to that clout. In fact, Katrina recovery hasn't appeared to even be on his radar lately.

He hasn't returned here in about two months and has mentioned it only a handful of times, in passing, in speeches he's made. His office has said much of the relief spending Mississippi wants can wait and has insisted any additional Katrina spending be offset by cuts elsewhere, something that could spell its doom in Congress. He's appeared more focused on damage control on his falling approval ratings over the war in Iraq.

Why go somewhere he isn't fawned over?

Why now even, even White Southerners would deign to criticise him. God's own doesn't need that.