"But it is a chilling lack of empathy combined with a stunning lack of efficiency that could make this administration implode.
When the president and vice president rashly shook off our allies and our respect for international law to pursue a war built on lies, when they sanctioned torture, they shook the faith of the world in American ideals.
When they were deaf for so long to the horrific misery and cries for help of the victims in New Orleans - most of them poor and black, like those stuck at the back of the evacuation line yesterday while 700 guests and employees of the Hyatt Hotel were bused out first - they shook the faith of all Americans in American ideals. And made us ashamed.
Who are we if we can't take care of our own?"
September 3, 2005
Maureen Dowd
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Glad to see someone in the mainstream media, even if she is a bit too touchy feely for me on a lot of her writing, hold Bush's feet to the fire.
I struggle with her as well. I saw her on the Daily Show and she seems a weird egg, but this one was right on.
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