The Deadliest Sin

[babylonsister]

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The Deadliest Sin
posted by jurassicpork


The old saying is that pride goeth before the fall but George W. Bush seems to be spending every moment of his counterfeit presidency in proving it wrong. When all is said and done, the one word used most often to describe this Ponzi Pyramid Scheme charitably referred to as an actual, democratically-elected administration will be “hubristic.”

It seems a shame to be using such a high falutin’, ten dollar word on the high falutin’, ten dollar whores who make up Bushie’s loyalists but somehow “proud” isn’t the word we’re looking for, is it? No, “hubristic” is the right word because “hubris” means “excessive or overweening pride.” There’s such a thing as being proud, like a man who can provide for his family with just a little more elbow grease or a second job being offered charity.

But this isn’t mere pride we’re talking about. This is Republican pride, aka hubris. Now, Junior can’t say afterwards when posterity begins to nibble away at his legacy that people and nations didn’t go out of their way to help him along as if he was a dyslexic child inexplicably thrust into the National Spelling Bee. And if this administration had even the most transient relationship with competency at anything other than planting with Johnny Appleseed alacrity Pat Robertson’s pod people throughout the nation and further distending the waistlines of Halliburton executives, they’d have justification for such hubris.

But Bush’s hubris (I, Shrub being a perfect anagram) is killing people, is keeping people below the poverty line. And as with anything else associated with this Alice in Wonderland government of ours, there’s no rhyme or reason to it. Let’s start with the post-Katrina Gulf coast.

Yesterday’s Washington Post said it all in its understated headline: Most Katrina Aid From Overseas Went Unclaimed. It’s one of those stories that ought to detonate the head of every right-thinking American, liberal or conservative. Did any of you know that 150 nations had offered $854,000,000 in money, oil, goods and services in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina? Want to take any bets as to how much of that nearly one billion dollars in disaster relief has actually been used?

If you guessed more than forty million, or even 5% of the proffered aid, you’re an incurable optimist.

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[blueworld]

1. Kudos & thanks for the blog (for many reasons)

No help, not even foreign help, for the brown-skinned folks in NO or Iraq or anywhere else Dubya may turn his head.

But I'd sure like to know how my taxpayer dollars were spent helping the fat white MEN on that DC phone list. Not one house or apartment but SEVERAL while the folks in NO can't even get trailers so they can go home.

But Tobias & those other "stressed-out" bazturds needed relaxing massages? "It's hard work" being a dishonest, bigoted, hypocritical compassionate conservative GOP blowhard, I guess. :sarcasm: