Tragic Advantage?

From the New York Times:

Mr. Bush's response to the storm came under withering attack Monday from the Democratic ticket he defeated last November - Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts and John Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina.
In a speech at Brown University, Mr. Kerry referred to the White House as the "Katrina administration." Asserting that the storm "stripped away any image of competence and exposed to all the true heart and nature of this administration," he said, "The truth is that for four and a half years, real life choices have been replaced by ideological agenda, substance replaced by spin, governance second place always to politics."

Republican officials accused Democrats of trying to take political advantage of a tragedy.

Yeah well we wouldn't want that! That kind of political advantage is reserved for the Republicans and their President, who since the tragedy of 9/11 have fanned flames of fear, incited jingoism, perverted patriotism, and used the excuse of worldwide terrorism to promote a conservative idealogical agenda.

Stoking the desperation of citizens longing for leadership, Bush in the aftermath of 9/11 has invoked the 'war on terrorism' to justify pay-offs to the wealthy, cut-backs to the rest of us, and as a blind for every dangerous failure and misguided program of this disastrous administration.

Taking political advantage of the 9/11 tragedy is why Bush is still president. We're stuck with him and the enormous cost, in lives and dollars, that his agenda has incurred. We get to complain about it, loudly. Maybe now more people will listen.