A decent President would resign
The Washington Post is reporting Sunday that hundreds of millions of dollars in cash aid offered by foreign governments to help New Orleans and the Gulf Coast recover from Hurricane Katrina was not accepted by the Bush Administration. Of $854 million offered, barely $40 million made it to stricken New Orleans.
But it gets worse. Greece offered two cruise ships for free to house refugees. The Bush folks rejected the offer because they wouldn't arrive before Oct. 10, 2005, and later spent $249 million leasing cruise ships from Carnival Cruise Lines. Medicines and medical supplies donated by Italy were left to rot on the docks. And on and on.
This beggars belief, and there must be firings and an investigation by the Democratic Congress of the full dimensions of this Bush fiasco. For the good of America, Bush and Cheney need to resign and let the Democrats take over and begin the long recovery. The Republicans have forfeited, perhaps permanently, any right to ask Americans to trust them to govern. If Bush and Cheney refuse to go, it is time for the Congress to remove them from office.