ANOTHER USELESS GESTURE

In an effort to shore up his flagging popularity, President Bush announced that he is taking responsibility for the government's Katrina debacle. That is an uttlerly meaningless gesture. If it had any meaning, he wouldn't need to have let Brownie go. Nor would it have any meaning had it come earlier. It is simply another expression of his contempt for the American people. He thinks that meaningless phrases and useless trips will fool the stupid American people into believing that he is concerned for the well-being of the nation and doing his job as President.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. We are not that stupid. And as for his concern for the nation, that is as phony as anything can be. Bush has a gatekeeper mentality that seeks to horde all national wealth and resources for the use of his own kind, leaving the tens of millions of others to drift in and out of poverty and pain. Sharing America's bounty is that last thing this administration will tolerate. What we have in Washington now is a purely selfish gang of thugs, robbing and pillaging the American economy for the benefit of the few at the cost and suffering of the many.