Felt needs indeed

[TayTay]

The aftermath of this hurricane shows exactly what Sen Kerry was saying in numerous speeches this year. (And what he said all of last year and the year before that and so forth.)

Well, all the Rethug chickens have come home to roost. And Kerry was so completely right in his speeches this year. He said that the people have to make their voices known and tell their government that they were tired of being ignored and having their interests held hostage to an unfeeling and uncaring Admin that wanted more tax cuts for the rich and nothing else. Kerry talked about how important programs like the ones that established the EPA came about because the people of the United States demanded it. Kerry saw this as the only way to save the US from the Rethugs.

Well, he was so right. That is what is about to happen. I felt so bad for Kerry and all the other Dems with brains and souls and consciences who had to watch money for programs to help the poor and help the envirnoment and so forth get diverted to a war we didn't have to fight and to people who don't need any more tax cuts. Good Dems have spent their whole lives trying to make things better.

Gawd, I hope people are finally waking up and recognizing who their allies have been all along. Because the only thing that is going to save the United States are the people of the United States demanding change and action.

Felt needs indeed. I just wish it didn't take something this obvious to show America what it should have known all along.

[kerrygoddess]

1. Well said...

Thanks Tay Tay. I'm sneaking over here every so often checking in... This must be tough for JK.

[TayTay]

2. It must be awful

He is the kind of person who likes to be doing. (All that energy, he's always in motion. ADHD, we used to joke here.) And where does all that nervous energy go when people are in so much trouble?

I know in a prior hurricane he heard about a 'felt need' on the floor of the Senate, made a phone call in the Dem cloak room and had two FedEx planes on the way for supply purposes. (Went to school with the guy who founded FedEx.) I have no idea what is going on behind the scenes, both to get needed aid into the area and to start to form that mighty fist to smack these bastards down. But I know it's happening.

It's so awful to be an elected official and have to make cut after cut after cut to programs you believe in. It just so completely sucks the life out of you. In my teensy world, we had to do this to local school programs and it just is devastating. No one runs for elected office to dismantle needed programs. I just hope and pray that the chance to do something uplifting and positive happens for all the Dems, inlcuding John Kerry. It's what they actually ran for and to support. It's why they put up with being smeared by the Rethugs bastards. It's why they are still there when they could have hung it up. Because they still have to believe they can hold on and still make a difference. But it hurts the heart.

[fedupinBushcountry]

3. I was thinking about

what JK must be thinking today. I broke down twice today, first when I saw Senator Landreiu, just break down, and then the President of Jefferson Parrish. I have seen the Dems fight so hard for the people of America on the Senate floor and being voted down over and over again, by those on the other side of the aisle. The Republicans voted against our best interests in favor of lining the haves pockets. It makes me ill.

So many Americans have died under this Administration's blunders. We have to keep fighting, and I hope and pray that more Americans have woken up with this latest total lack of leadership. I'm positive we will be hearing much from JK in the days to come, and the Dems. What Bush and his cronies are doing to America is criminal and needs to be stopped.

[Island Blue]

4. I hope the Democrats in the Senate & House

are formulating some kind of game plan for when they return to Washington tomorrow. There will be a lot going on, and I'm sure the Bush Administration* will make the Supreme Court vacancies their top priority. To hell with a million homeless, hungry, thirsty, unemployed people (not to mention the dead who aren't even that lucky), we've got two Supreme Court vacancies - they MUST be filled! :sarcasm:

I think someone in this group wondered aloud the other day if maybe the administration wasn't all together unhappy about this disaster because it took some of the heat off of them for Iraq. I think there is probably some truth to that (as horrible as it is to think that). I'm sure they are also hoping that it will distract folks from Shrub's right-wing makeover of the SC.

I truly hope that the Democrats in congress will muster every ounce of strength they have and be strong in the coming weeks and months when facing off against the evil that is Republicanism. I hope they do it NOT for themselves and their own thoughts of re-election, but for the American people. All of us. I truly believe we are at a point in our history where our very future depends on the strength and resolve of the opposition party.

I know there are some like Kerry who have the fire in their belly to do the right thing - I just hope enough other Democrats have that same desire.